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Anna Lorraine Rosen
Ph.D. Candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
Anna Lorraine Rosen
Email: alrosen (at) ucsc.edu
Education
M.S., Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California Santa Cruz 2012
B.A., Physics & Astrophysics (double major), University of California Berkeley 2009
Awards
6. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program 2011-present
5. Daniel Edward Wark Memorial Scholarship (UC Berkeley Astrophysics Department) 2009
4. NASA Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) Scholarship 2007
3. Alexander Frolich Award for excellence of achievement in Physics 2007
2. JPLUS Award for excellence of achievement in Physics 2007
1. Thomas McCutcheon Award for excellence of achievement in Mathematics 2006
Successful Grants/Proposals
Total of grants obtained as principal investigator: $174,000
PI, Chandra Theory, Cycle 16 2014
Title: "To Leak or Not to Leak: Where are the missing X-ray photons from Massive Star Clusters?"
PI, Hubble Archival, Cycle 21 2013
Title: "Simulating the Birth of Massive Star Clusters: Is Destruction Inevitable?"
Advising Experience
1. Evan Carter (undergraduate at UCSC): "Mapping the Core Mass Function from Realistic Star
Cluster Formation Simulations", Co-advisor: Mark Krumholz, 2014-Present
Service Experience
Undergraduate Student Mentor, UCSC Women in Physics Group 2013-Present
Graduate Student Mentor, UCSC Astronomy & Astrophysics Department 2012-2013
Astronomy Graduate Student Representative, UCSC Graduate Student Association 2012-2013
Organizer, "Applying to the NSF GRFP Workshop", UCSC Astronomy & Astrophysics Department 2012, 2013
Teaching Experience
Instructor and Activity Designer, ISEE Professional Development Program 2011
Teaching Assistant, "Astronomy 2: Overview of the Universe", UCSC 2010
Grader, "Astronomy C161: Relativistic Astrophysics & Cosmology", UC Berkeley 2010
Undergrad Student Instructor, "Astronomy C10: Introduction to Astronomy", UC Berkeley 2009
Publications
2. "Gone with the Wind: Where is the Missing Stellar Wind Energy from Massive Star Clusters?", Rosen, A. L., Lopez, L. A., Krumholz, M. R., & Ramirez-Ruiz, E. 2014, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 442, 2701
1. "What Sets the Initial Rotation Rates of Massive Stars?", Rosen, A. L., Krumholz, M. R., & Ramirez-Ruiz, E. 2012, The Astrophysical Journal, 748, 97
Scientific Presentations/Seminars (3 invited)
9. Invited Talk, Formation of Massive Star Clusters Workshop; Prague, Czech Republic 2014
8. Invited Talk, Chemical Evolution Workshop, DARK Copenhagen, Denmark 2014
7. Talk, Summer FLASH, UCSC 2014
6. Talk, Olympian Symposium on Star Formation, Paralia Katerini's, 2014
Mount Olympus, Greece 2014
5. Invited Talk, Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Seminar, UCSC 2014
4. Talk, XXVIIIth IAU General Assembly, JD 2: Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe, 2012
Beijing, China
3. Talk, Friday Lunch Astrophysics Seminar Hour (FLASH), UCSC 2012
2. Poster, Four Decades of Research on Massive Stars: A Scientific Meeting in Honour of 2011
Anthony F.J. Moffatt, Montreal, Canada
1. Poster, 215th American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2009
Public Outreach & Service Presentations
5. WISE Astronomy Education Outreach Presentation, Seaside High School 2014
4. Panelist, STEM Diversity Professional Development Workshop Series, UCSC 2014
3. Astrobites author, www.astrobites.com 2011-2013
2. Women in Science & Engineering (WISE) Education Outreach Presentation, 2011
Santa Cruz High School
1. Panelist and Astronomy Activity Demonstrator, Girl Scouts STEM Career Event, NASA AMES 2011
IN PROGRESS
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