E-mail: blee
astro.utoronto.ca
Curriculum
Vitae
Brian
L. Lee
| Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics | Date of Birth: August 12, 1978 |
| University of Toronto |
E-mail: blee |
| 60 Saint George St., Room 1403 | |
| Toronto, ON M5S 3H8 | Tel.: +1-416-978-2609 |
| CANADA | Fax: +1-416-946-7287 |
| Citizenship: Canadian |
EDUCATION:
| 2001-present | Ph. D. in Astronomy, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Supervisor: Prof. Howard K. C. Yee | |
| Thesis title: A Photometric Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Southern Open Clusters | |
| 1996-2001 | B. Sc. Honours in Physics and Astronomy (co-op, with distinction), University of Victoria, Canada |
| Supervisor: Prof. I.
Sharf |
|
| Honours project title: Optics design for the University of Victoria Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Testbed |
Academic Awards:
| 2005-2006 | Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology |
| 2004-2006 | Walter C. Sumner Memorial Fellowship |
| 2003-2005 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council PGS-B Scholarship |
| 2001-2003 | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council PGS-A Scholarship |
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
| 2001-present | My Ph. D. research is a survey of eight open clusters for transiting close-in extrasolar planets. It involves high precision (better than 1% rms scatter) optical relative photometry of images from a grand total of about half a year’s allocation of 1-m telescope time, a search for variables within the light curves, and spectroscopic follow-ups of interesting candidate variables. |
| 2002 | My M. Sc. level research project, incorporated into my five-year Ph. D. program, was an investigation into the utility of the shapelet basis function decomposition as a tool for galaxy analysis, supervised by Prof. Roberto Abraham. |
| 2001 | For my undergraduate honours project in spring 2001, I used Code V to design a multi-conjugate adaptive optics laboratory testbed, which I was hired to continue working on for the summer of 2001. |
| 2000 | As a summer student at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, I was supervised by Prof. Norm Murray in using an n-body code to simulate the effects of giant planet migration in the early solar system. |
| 1999 | For my second undergraduate co-operative education work term at the TRIUMF cyclotron, Univ. of British Columbia, I assisted Dr. John Behr in calibrations of detectors for a neutral atom trap, and in measuring radioactive decays of excited Kr and Rb. |
| 1998 | For my first undergraduate co-operative education work term at the TRIUMF cyclotron, Univ. of British Columbia, I constructed and tested two prototype drift chambers for Dr. Andy Miller. |
Computing Skills:
Languages: C, Fortran-77, Java. Platforms: Linux, Windows. Markup: LaTeX, some HTML.
Analysis
Tools: IRAF, SuperMongo, IDL, PPP (H. Yee’s photometry package),
DAOPHOT, awk, Bourne shell scripts, and other UNIX tools.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Teaching:
| 2005-2006 | Teaching assistant, AST325/326 (specialist undergraduate astronomy observational lab course). Duties include lab section instruction, assignment coordination and grading. Supervisor: Prof. S. Mochnacki. |
| 2001-2005 | Teaching assistant, various courses, including AST221 and AST222 (specialist undergraduate courses on stars and galaxies), AST101 and AST201 (general science elective courses for arts students), AST121 (astronomy survey course for science students), and AST251 (astronomy and astrobiology course for science students). Duties included leading tutorials, some substitute lecturing and setting of questions on assignments and exams, and grading. Various supervisors including Profs. Y. Wu, J. Dubinski, R. Abraham, and C. Clement. |
Administrative:
| 2004-2005 | President, Graduate Astronomy Students Association, Dept. of Astronomy, U. Toronto. I communicated with the departmental faculty and administration on behalf of graduate students, collating concerns and requests and broaching them diplomatically, led organization of departmental social events, and oversaw our participation in our larger, umbrella unions. |
| 2002-2003 | Treasurer, Graduate Astronomy Students Association, Dept. of Astronomy, U. Toronto. I oversaw the finances of the association, including a change of bank. |
| 2000 |
House Manager, Campus Co-op. I oversaw day-to-day maintenance of a student residence, and designed and led a major landscaping revitalization of the local cluster of residences. |
PUBLICATIONS:
Refereed publications:
von
Braun, K., Lee, B. L., Seager, S., Yee, H. K. C.,
Mallén-Ornelas, Gabriela, & Gladders, M. D. 2005, PASP,
117, 141
Trinczek,
M., Gorelov, A., Melconian, D., Alford, W. P., Asgeirsson, D.,
Ashery, D., Behr, J. A., Bricault, P. G., D'Auria, J. M., Deutsch,
J., Dilling, J., Dombsky, M., Dubé, P., Eaton, S., Fingler,
J., Giesen, U., Gu, S., Häusser, O., Jackson, K. P., Lee, B.,
Schmid, J. H., Stocki, T. J., Swanson, T. B., & Wong, W. 2003,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 012501
Submitted
publications:
Folatelli,
G., Contreras, C., Phillips, M. M., Woosley, S. E., Blinnikov, S.,
Morrell, N., Suntzeff, N. B., Lee, B. L., Hamuy, M., Gonzalez,
S., Krzeminski, W., Roth, M., Li, W., Filippenko, A. V., Freedman, W.
L., Madore, B. F., Persson, S. E., Murphy, D., Boissier, S., Galaz,
G., Gonzalez, L., McCarthy, P. J., McWilliam, A., & Pych, W. 2005,
submitted to ApJ, astro-ph/0509731
Berger,
E., Price, P. A., Cenko, S. B., Gal-Yam, A., Soderberg, A. M.,
Kasliwal, M., Leonard, D. C., Cameron, P. B., Frail, D. A., Kulkarni,
S. R., Murphy, D. C., Krzeminski, W., Piran, T., Lee, B. L.,
Roth, K. C., Moon, D.-S., Fox, D. B., Harrison, F. A., Persson, S.
E., Schmidt, B. P., Penprase, B. E., Rich, J., Peterson, B. A., &
Cowie, L. L. 2005, submitted to Nature, astro-ph/0508115
Conference
proceedings:
Lee,
B. L., von Braun, K., Mallén-Ornelas, G., Yee, H. K. C.,
Seager, S., & Gladders, M. D. 2004, in AIP Conf. Ser. 713, The
Search for Other Worlds, ed. S. S. Holt & D. Deming (Melville:
AIP), 177
von
Braun, K., Lee, B. L., Mallén-Ornelas, G., Yee, H. K.
C., Seager, S., & Gladders, M. D. 2004, in AIP Conf. Ser. 713,
The Search for Other Worlds, ed. S. S. Holt & D. Deming
(Melville: AIP), 181
Lee,
B. L., Yee, H. K. C., Mallén-Ornelas, G., & Seager, S.
2003, in ASP Conf. Ser. 294, Scientific Frontiers in Research on
Extrasolar Planets, ed. D. Deming & S. Seager (San Francisco:
ASP), 413
Sharf, I., Bell, K., Crampton, D., Fitzsimmons, J., Herriot, G., Jolissaint, L., Lee, B., Richardson, H., van der Kamp, D., & Veran, J.-P. 2002, in ESO Conf. Proc. 38, Beyond Conventional Adaptive Optics, ed. E. Vernet, R. Ragazzoni, S. Esposito, & N. Hubin (Garching: ESO), 383
In preparation:
Lee,
B. L., von Braun, K., Yee, H.K.C., Seager, S.,
Mallén-Ornelas,
G., and Gladders, M. D. 2005, EXPLORE/OC II: Planet Transit and
Variable Star Search in the Southern Galactic Open Cluster NGC
6208, in preparation to be submitted Dec. 2005
Lee, B. L., von Braun, K., Yee, H.K.C., Seager, S., Mallén-Ornelas, G., and Gladders, M. D. 2006, EXPLORE/OC IV: Planet Transit
and Variable Star Search in the Southern Galactic
Open Clusters NGC 5316 and NGC 6253, in preparation to be
submitted Apr. 2006
Lee, B. L., von Braun, K., Yee, H.K.C., Seager, S., Mallén-Ornelas, G., and Gladders, M. D. 2005, EXPLORE/OC VI: Planet Transit and Variable Star Search in the Southern Galactic Open Cluster NGC 6134, in preparation to be submitted Apr. 2006