Curriculum Vitae: David R. Law Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics 50 St George St. Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada http://www.di.utoronto.ca/∼drlaw Last updated September 28 2013

[email protected] Tel: (416) 946-5435 Fax: (416) 946-7287

Citizenship: USA and United Kingdom dual national

I. Education: 2003-2009:

Ph.D. Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology Defended July 2008 Advisor: Professor Charles C. Steidel “The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies”

1999-2003:

B.A. Astronomy-Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Minor Mathematics, University of Virginia Advisor: Professor Steven R. Majewski “Modeling the Tidal Tails of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy”

II. Research Interests: Galactic structure and dynamics, internal properties and relation to stellar populations Integral-field spectroscopy and adaptive optics Evolution of galaxies in the young universe (z ∼ 2) The Milky Way, Local Group, and stellar tidal streams

III. Positions: 2011-present: 2008-2011: 2003-2008:

Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics (University of Toronto) Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA Graduate research student, Caltech (Advisor: Dr. Charles C. Steidel)

IV. Awards and Honors: 2011: 2008: 2004: 2003: 2003:

Dunlap Fellowship Hubble Fellowship Holloway Fellowship, Caltech D. Nelson Limber Prize, University of Virginia Small Research Fellowship, University of Virginia

V. Publications: Lead Author on 13 Refereed Publications (ApJ, ApJL, AJ, Nature) Co-author on 23 Additional Refereed Publications See publication list

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VI. Professional Service: 2011-present: Lead Data Scientist and Executive Committee member for MaNGA (SDSS-IV) IFU survey Leading development of data reduction and analysis software, delivery of survey science products Managing contributions from international team and overseeing software project postdoctoral hires 2013: HST Cycle 21 review panel member 2012: Graduate Admissions Committee (University of Toronto) 2012, 2013: Local Organizing Committee: Dunlap Institute Instrumentation Summer School 2011: External examiner, A. Green PhD Thesis (Swinburne University) 2011: Review Panelist: Giant Magellan Telescope integral field spectrograph (GMTIFS) CoDR 2011: Member: NSF Review Panel 2010-2011: Postdoctoral representative to UCLA faculty 2009: Developed OSIRIS (infrared IFU) data simulation package for Keck Observatory 2008-present: Referee for the journals AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, A&A, Nature 2008-present: Science team member: Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) 2007: Science Advisor: Keck next-generation adaptive optics program 2004-present: Member of the American Astronomical Society

VII. Teaching and Mentorship: 2013: 2013: 2012-2013: 2012: 2010-2011: 2006-2007: 2005: 2005: 2004,2005:

Supervised undergraduate research by Ryan Cloutier, Arthur Sowinski, and Paul Tan UofT Summer Undergraduate Lecture Series guest lecturer: Dark Matter (Dunlap Undergrad Summer Students) Supervised research by UofT undergraduate Jade Checlair Supervised research by Maryna Tsybulska (Dunlap Undergrad Summer Student) Supervised research by UCLA undergraduate Sarah R. Nagy (Nagy et al. 2011) Co-advised (with C. Steidel) senior thesis research by Caltech undergraduate David Simenc Teaching Assistant, Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies, Caltech (graduate level) Teaching Assistant, Galaxies and Cosmology, Caltech Teaching Assistant, Astronomical Measurements and Instrumentation, Caltech (graduate level)

VIII. Outreach: 2012: 2012: 2012: 2012: 2011: 2010: 2010: 2002-2003:

Toronto Public Library lecture Evolution of Galaxies Over Cosmic Time University of Toronto public lecture Ribbon in the Sky: Our Milky Way Galaxy from Antiquity to the Modern Day University of Toronto Science Rendezvous lecture Telescopes Past, Present, and Future Invited speaker, North York Astronomical Association Classroom educator and TMT representative, “Journey through the Universe” (Hilo, HI). Speaker, UCLA “Exploring Your Universe” Outreach Day Our Corner of the Cosmos: The Local Group of Galaxies Invited speaker, Ventura County Astronomical Society Tidal Streams in the Milky Way Public Night Telescope Operator, McCormick Observatory

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IX. Grant and Proposal History: 2012: W.M. Keck Observatory (NIRSPEC), CoI 1 night, The Dynamics of Merging Pairs at z ∼ 2 − 3 2011: MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO); resolved spectroscopy for 10,000 local galaxies. Component of SDSS-IV survey running from 2014-2020 (PI: Kevin Bundy) Lead Data Scientist and Executive Committee member. 2011: W.M. Keck Observatory (OSIRIS), CoI 3 nights, Mapping the Dynamical Properties of a Rare Spiral Galaxy at z = 2.18 2011: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 19 (ACS), CoI 16 orbits, GO-12564 Proper Motions along the Sagittarius Stream: Constraining Milky Way Parameters and Dark Halo Shape 2011: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 19 (WFC3/GRISM), CoI 30 orbits, GO-12471 The Bottom of the Iceberg: Faint z 2 Galaxies and the Enrichment of the IGM 2010: Gemini Observatory (NIFS), CoI 45 hours, USA lead scientist on international collaboration Resolving the Kinematics of High-Redshift Galaxy Assembly 2009-2010: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 17 (WFC3/IR), PI 42 orbits, GO-11694, allocation ∼ $150, 000 Mapping the Interaction between High-Redshift Galaxies and the Intergalactic Environment 2009-2010: Hubble Space Telescope: Cycle 17 (WFC3/UVIS), CoI 30 orbits, GO-11638, allocation ∼ $120, 000 Illuminating the HI Structure of a Proto-cluster Region at z = 2.84 2009: W.M. Keck Observatory (NIRC2), CoI 1 night, Optical Morphologies of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ∼ 2 2008-2009: W.M. Keck Observatory (OSIRIS), CoI 5 nights, Mapping Star Formation in Faint QSO Host Galaxies at z ∼ 2 2005-2008: W.M. Keck Observatory (OSIRIS), CoI 17 nights, Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Star-Forming Galaxies at z ∼ 2

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X. Observational and Technical Experience [nights]: Over 70 nights experience with optical and near-IR imaging, IFU and long-slit spectroscopy, and laser-assisted adaptive optics. Keck Obervatory (Keck I/II: NIRC2[1], OSIRIS/LGSAO[26], NIRSPEC[11], LRIS[3]) Palomar Obervatory (200” Hale: WIRC[16], LFC[1]) Cerro Tololo Interamerican Obervatory (4m Blanco, 1.5m: CSPEC[4], MOSAIC[6]) Las Campanas Observatory (100” duPont[5]) Hubble Space Telescope (ACS, WFPC2, WFC3) Apache Point Observatory (SDSS 2.5m; MaNGA optical IFU) Experience with multiple major programming languages and computational N-body simulations: C, C++, FORTRAN, IDL, IRAF, HTML

XI. Selected Recent Talks: Colloquium Speaker at University of Washington: November 2013 Early Growth of Galaxies Colloquium Speaker at Queens University: October 2013 Early Growth of Galaxies Review Speaker at MaNGA Critical Design Review: Tokyo, Japan, May 2013 MaNGA Observing Strategy, MaNGA Software Development Colloquium Speaker at Rochester Institute of Technology: November 2012 Early Growth of Galaxies Colloquium Speaker at University of Toronto: October 2012 Early Growth of Galaxies Invited Review Lecture at “Galaxy Surveys using Integral Field Spectroscopy”: Potsdam, Germany, Sep. 2012 Early Growth of Galaxies Invited Speaker at “Galaxies: Insight Out” workshop: Leiden, Netherlands, July 2012 Kinematic Structure of a Rare z = 2.18 Grand Design Spiral Galaxy Invited Speaker at University of Waterloo: Ontario, Canada, 2011 Rest-Frame Optical Imaging of z ∼ 2-3 Star-Forming Galaxies with HST/WFC3 Invited Speaker at “Galaxies in the Distant Universe” conference: Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, 2010 The Physical Structure of Galaxies at z ∼ 2 − 3 Colloquium Speaker at UC Irvine: Irvine, CA, 2010 Galactic Archaeology with the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream Colloquium Speaker at New York University: New York, 2009 Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo Colloquium Speaker at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics: Victoria BC, 2009 Kiloparsec-Scale Kinematics in High Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies Colloquium Speaker at the University of California: San Diego, 2007 Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Early Universe Invited talk at “Science in the Era of TMT” workshop: Irvine, CA, 2007 TMT: Science Goals and Design Requirements for IFU Studies of High Redshift Galaxies

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XII. Selected Media Coverage: BBC News, “First spiral galaxy in early Universe stuns astronomers”, July 19 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18891760 Scientific American, “Primordial Pinwheel: Astronomers Spot Oldest Prominent Spiral Galaxy Yet”, July 19 2012 (online), October 2012 p20 (print) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=grand-design-spiral-bx442 Time Magazine, “Found: The Prettiest Baby Galaxy Ever”, July 20 2012 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2119961,00.html BBC News, “Dark matter ‘beach ball’ unveiled”, Jan 6 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8444038.stm New Scientist, “Milky Way’s dark matter ‘turned on its side’ ”, Jan 6 2010 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18344 Sky & Telescope, “Dark Matter and Dark Energy Update”, January 9 2010 http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/81035932.html National Public Radio: Morning Edition, “Astronomers Map Dark Matter ‘Beach Ball’ ”, Jan 7 2010 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122290475 Sky and Telescope, “Meet the Milky Way’s Newfound Neighbors”, July 2005, p. 17 CNN News, “Sagittarius being eaten by Milky Way”, Sep 25 2003

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