CURRICULUM VITAE

DR. MARYAM MODJAZ

UC Berkeley, Astronomy Department		Tel: (510) 642-1280
601 Campbell Hall		Fax: (510) 642- 3411
Berkeley, CA, USA		e-mail: mmodjaz@astro.berkeley.edu
URL: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~mmodjaz/

EMPLOYMENT

2007$-$2010	MILLER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
	UC Berkeley

EDUCATION

2001$-$2007	HARVARD UNIVERSITY
	Ph.D., Astronomy (June 2007)
	Ph.D. Thesis: Varied Deaths of Massive Stars: Properties of Nearby
	Type IIb, Ib and Ic Supernovae
	Advisor: Prof. Robert P. Kirshner
	A.M., Astronomy (2003)
1996$-$2000	UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
	B.A., Astrophysics (2000)
	Honors Thesis: The Peculiar Type Ia Supernova 1998de in NGC 252
	Advisor: Prof. Alexei V. Filippenko

HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

Dec 2007	Grand Poster Prize at IAU Symposium 250: ``Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines''
2007	UC Berkeley: Miller Institute Research Fellowship
2007	Fireman Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Astronomy, Harvard University
2006	Harvard Graduate Student Council Conference Award
2006	AAS International Travel Grant
2002, 2003, 2005	Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University
2002$-$2003	NRAO Student Grant
2000	Dorothea Klumpke Roberts Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Astronomy, UC Berkeley
2000	Commencement Speech, Physics & Astronomy Department, UC Berkeley
2000	High Honors, UC Berkeley
1997$-$2000	Golden Key National Honor Society
1996 & 1999	UC Berkeley Dean's Honor List

TEACHING & MENTORING

2002$-$2006	Mentor, Harvard College Science Mentors Program
2004, 2005	Session Leader, Teaching Fellows Conference, Bok Center for Teaching
2005 Fall	Teaching Fellow, Science A47 - `Cosmic Connections''
2002 & 2003 Spring	Teaching Fellow, Science A35 - ``Matter and the Universe''
2000 Fall	Teaching Fellow, AY 10, UC Berkeley - ``General Astronomy''

MEMBERSHIP:	American Astronomical Society (AAS)
	``Astronomische Gesellschaft'' of Germany

RESEARCH INTERESTS:	Observations of Stripped-Envelope Core-Collapse Supernovae
	SN-GRB connection
	Environments of SN and GRBs

OBSERVING EXPERIENCE

• Gemini-N Observatory, 8-m Telescope (PI; Band 1): ``Revealing the Heart of the Explosion: Nebular-Phase Spectroscopy of Type I Supernovae''

• Gemini-N Observatory, 8-m Telescope (PI; DTT): ``Optical and NIR Spectroscopy of SN 2006jc: the Nature of its CSM and Constraints on its Progenitor''

• Gemini-N Observatory, 8-m Telescope (PI; Band 1): ``Late-time Spectroscopy of SN 2006aj Associated with GRB 060218''

• Gemini-N Observatory, 8-m Telescope (PI; Band 1): ``Late-time Spectroscopy of Nearby Type Ib/c Supernovae''

• Magellan 6.5-m Telescope & MMT 6.5-m Telescope (18 nights/2004-2007): ``Late-time Spectroscopy of Nearby Supernovae''

• PAIRITEL 1.3m IR telescope and FLWO 1.2m telescope

• Greenbank 100m-Telescope (PI 24 hrs/2003): ``Probing the Magnetic Field on Sub-Parsec Scales in the Accretion Disk of NGC 4258''

• Very Large Array (13 hrs/ 2001): ``VLA Polarimetry of the Masers in NGC 4258 - The Magnetic Field Revisited''

• Submillimeter Array (2 weeks/2003): ``Commissioning of Polarimetry Capabilities - First Fringes at 690GHz''

• Shane 3m-Telescope, Lick Observatory (5 nights/2000-2001): ``Spectroscopy of Supernovae''

• Service observing: Hectospec/MMT, FLWO 1.5m

PUBLICATIONS

Refereed journals

1. M. Modjaz, et al (2009), ``From Shock Breakout to Peak and Beyond: Extensive Panchromatic Observations of the Aspherical Type Ib Supernova 2008D associated with Swift X-ray Transient 080109'', 2009, ApJ, 702, 226

2. D. Kocevski, A.  West, & M. Modjaz (2009), ``Modeling The GRB Host Galaxy Mass Distribution: Are GRBs Unbiased Tracers of Star Formation?", 2009, ApJ, 702, 377

3. M. Modjaz, et al. (2008), ``Double-peaked Oxygen Lines Are not Rare in Nebular Spectra of Core-Collapse Supernovae'', 2008, ApJL, 687, L9

4. M. Modjaz (2008), L. Kewley, R. P. Kirshner, K. Z. Stanek, P. Challis, P. M. Garnavich, J. E. Greene, & J. L. Prieto, ``Measured Metallicities at the Sites of Local Broad-Lined Type Ic Supernovae and Implications for the SN-GRB Connection'', 2008, AJ, 135, 1136

5. W. M. Wood-Vasey, A. S. Friedman, J. S. Bloom, M. Hicken, M. Modjaz, R. P. Kirshner, D. L. Starr, C. H. Blake, E. E. Falco, A. H. Szentgyorgyi, P. Challis, S. Blondin, & A. Rest, "Type Ia Supernovae are Good Standard Candles in the Near Infrared: Evidence from PAIRITEL", 2007, ApJ, submitted (arXiv:0711.2068)

6. L. Dessart et al. (incl. M. Modjaz), ``Using Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis to Determine the Properties and Distances of Type II-Plateau Supernovae: SNe 2005cs and 2006bp'', 2008, ApJ, in press

7. D. Kocevski, M. Modjaz, J. S. Bloom, R. Foley, D. Starr, C. H. Blake, E. E. Falco, N. R. Butler, M. Skrutskie, & A. Szentgyorgyi, ``Multicolor Infrared Observations of SN 2006aj, the Supernova Associated with XRF 060218 - Paper I'', 2007, ApJ, 663, 1180

8. P. J. Brown et al. (incl. M. Modjaz), ``Early Ultraviolet, Optical and X-Ray Observations of the Type IIP SN 2005cs in M51 with Swift'', 2007, ApJ, 659, 1488

9. H. Hao et al. (incl. M. Modjaz), ``Strongly Variable z=1.48 MgII and FeII Absorption in the Spectra of z=4.05 GRB 060206'', 2007, ApJ, 659, L99

10. K. Z. Stanek, O. Y. Gnedin, J. F. Beacom, A. P. Gould, J. A. Johnson, J. A. Kollmeier, M. Modjaz, M. H. Pinsonneault, R. Pogge, & D. H. Weinberg, ``Protecting Life in the Milky Way: Metals Keep the GRBs Away'', 2007, Acta Astronomica, 56, 333

11. M. Modjaz et al., ``Early-Time Photometry and Spectroscopy of the Fast Evolving SN 2006aj Associated with GRB 060218'', 2006, ApJ, 645, L21

12. N. Tominaga et al (incl. M. Modjaz), ``The Unique Type Ib Supernova 2005bf: A WN Star Explosion Model for Peculiar Light Curves and Spectra'', 2005, ApJ, 633, L97

13. M. Modjaz, J. M. Moran, P. T. Kondratko, & L. J. Greenhill, ``Probing the Magnetic Field at Subparsec Radii in the Accretion Disk of NGC 4258'', 2005, ApJ, 626, 104

14. B. M. Peterson et al. (incl. M. Modjaz)``Steps toward Determination of the Size and Structure of the Broad-Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei. XVI. A 13 Year Study of Spectral Variability in NGC 5548'', 2002, ApJ, 581, 197

15. W. Li, A. V. Filippenko, S. D. Van Dyk, J. Hu, Y. Qiu, Yulei, M. Modjaz, & D. C. Leonard, ``A Hubble Space Telescope Snapshot Survey of Nearby Supernovae'', 2002, PASP, 114, 404

16. M. Modjaz, W. Li, A. V. Filippenko, J. Y. King, D. C. Leonard, T. Matheson, R. R. Treffers, Richard R. & A. G. Riess, ``The Subluminous Type Ia Supernova 1998de in NGC 252'', 2001, PASP, 113, 308

17. W. Li et al. (incl. M. Modjaz), ``The Unique Type Ia Supernova 2000cx in NGC 524'', 2001, PASP 113, 1178

18. S. Jha et al. (incl. M. Modjaz), ``The Type Ia Supernova 1998bu in M96 and the Hubble Constant'', 1999, ApJS, 125, 73

Conference Proceedings & Contributions

1. ``Comprehensive and Extensive CfA Observations of Type Ib and Ic Supernovae'', M. Modjaz 2007, Proceedings of the Meeting ``Compact Objects and Their Explosive Origins'', 2006, Cefalu, Sicily, Italy, AIP Confernece Proceedings, 924, 285

2. ``Optical Spectra of Type Ia, Ib/c Supernovae'', M. Modjaz, R.P. Kirshner, P. Challis, M. Hicken, & T. Matheson 2005, BAAS, 206, 51.06

3. ``Probing the Magnetic Field at Sub-Parsec Radii in the Accretion Disk of NGC 4258'', M. Modjaz, J. M. Moran, P. T. Kondratko, & L. J. Greenhill 2005, ``Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context'', Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference edited by A. Merloni, S. Nayakshin, R. A. Sunyaev (Berlin, Aug 2005), p. 296

4. ``Magnetic Fields in the Accretion Disks of AGN: NGC 4258'' , M. Modjaz, J. M. Moran, P. T. Kondratko, & L. J. Greenhill 2005, ``Future Directions in High Resolution Astronomy: The 10th Anniversary of the VLBA'' ASP Conf. Proceedings edited by J. Romney and M. Reid. (San Francisco, Nov 2005), p. 192

5. ``High-Quality Optical Light Curves of Supernovae with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope'', M. Modjaz, W. D. Li, A. V. Filippenko, & R. R. Treffers, 2000, BAAS, p. 196

6. ``The Lick Observatory Supernova Search with the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope'' A. V. Filippenko, W. D. Li, R. R. Treffers, M. Modjaz 2001, ``Small Telescope Astronomy on Global Scales'' ASP Conf. Proceedings edited by B. Paczynski, W. Chen, & C. Lemme (San Francisco, Apr 2000), p. 121

Papers in preparation

• ``Optical and NIR Light Curves and Spectra of 30 Type Ib and Ic Supernovae'', M. Modjaz, R. P. Kirshner, S. Blondin, P. Challis, & M. Hicken

Circulars

• 70 First-authored IAUCs (International Astronomical Union Circulars)
• 26 First-authored CBETs (Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams)
• 3 Second-authored GCN Circulars (Gamma-Ray Burst Coordinates Network)

SELECTED SCIENTIFIC TALKS

1. Astronomy Colloquium, UC Berkeley, December 2009

2. Astronomy Colloquium, Columbia University, October 2009

3. Invited Review Talk, Bash Symposium, U of Texas, Austin, October 2009

4. Invited Review Talk, "Stellar Deaths and Supernovae" , KITP Santa Barbara, August 2009

5. Astronomy Colloquium, University of Toronto, November 2008

6. Astronomy Colloquium, Carnegie Institute, October 2008

7. Astronomy Seminar, UC Irvine, October 2008

8. Astronomy Colloquium, San Francisco State University, October 2008

9. Invited Review Talk, 1st California Postdoc Symposium, UC Santa Cruz, August 2008

10. ``Elucidating the Supernova-GRB Connection: Metallicities and Host Galaxy Properties'', Colloquium, Space Telescope Science Institute, April 2008

11. ``Elucidating the Supernova-GRB Connection: Metallicities and Host Galaxy Properties'', Colloquium, Heidelberg University, Germany, March 2008

12. ``The SN-GRB Connection from the SN Perspective'', Colloquium, University of Hawaii, IfA, Hawaii, February 2008

13. ``Metallicities at the Sites of Nearby SN Ic and Implications for the SN-GRB Connection'', Prize Talk, IAU Symposium 250: Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, Hawaii, December 2007

14. ``Supernovae: Violent Deaths of Massive Stars'', Colloquium, Sonoma State University, November 2007

15. ``The SN-GRB Connection from the SN Perspective'', Colloquium, Berkeley Spaces Sciences Lab, November 2007

16. ``Varied Deaths of Massive Stars: Properties of Nearby SN IIb,Ib and SN Ic'', PhD Colloquium, CfA, May 2007

17. ``The SN-GRB Connection: Environments and Metallicities'', Research Forum, CfA, April 2007

18. ``The SN-GRB Connection: Environments and Metallicities'', ITC Talk, CfA, April 2007

19. ``Properties of SN Ib/c'', Invited talk, 20 Years of SN1987A and GRBs, Aspen, February 2007

20. ``Observations of SN Ib/c and the SN-GRB Connection'', MPA Seminar Talk, Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, December 2006

21. ``The GRB-SN Connection from the SN Perspective'', KIPAC Tea Talk, Standford/KIPAC SLAC, October 2006

22. ``Varied Deaths of Massive Stars: Properties of SN Ib/c'', Theoretical Astrophysics Center Talk, UC Berkeley, October 2006

23. ``CfA Optical Observations of Type Ib/c Supernovae'', Compact Objects and Their Explosive Origins, Cefalu, Italy, June 2006

24. ``Spectra of Type Ia, Ib/c Supernovae'', American Astronomical Society Meeting, Minneapolis, June 2005

25. ``Probing the Magnetic Field at Sub-Parsec Radii in the Accretion Disk of NGC 4258'', Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context, Garching, Germany, July 2004

26. ``Lick Observatory Supernova Search'', Optical & IR Lunch Talk, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, January 2001

REFERENCES

Prof. Robert P. Kirshner		Prof. Jim M. Moran
Harvard University		Harvard University
Department of Astronomy		Department of Astronomy
60 Garden St., MS 19		60 Garden St., MS 42
Cambridge, MA 02138		Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617) 495-7519		Tel: (617) 495-7477
email: rkirshner@cfa.harvard.edu		email: jmoran@cfa.harvard.edu
Prof. Kris Stanek
The Ohio State University
Department of Astronomy
40 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-1173
Tel: (614) 292-1773
email: kstanek@astronomy.ohio-state.edu