“Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.” - Josh Billings

Kyle C. Augustson

JILA - University of Colorado at Boulder

Curriculum Vitae

Kyle C. Augustson

 

Text Box: Contact Information

 

Email:

               Kyle.Augustson@colorado.edu

 

Office Phone:

               303-492-0837

 

Address:

                JILA

                University of Colorado

                440 UCB

                Boulder, CO 80309-0440

 

 

Text Box: Education

 

University of Colorado at Boulder

       July 2006 to the Present

       Pursuing a Ph.D. in the Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department

       3.9/4.0 GPA

 

Oregon State University

September 2002 – June 2006

B.S. in each Physics, Computational Physics, and Mathematics

3.8/4.0 GPA (A is 4.0 points, no A+)

 

 Before College:

 

       South Eugene High School
        Graduated June 2002

        A.P. Scholar

        CAM – Arts and Literature

 

       University of Oregon

         September 2001 – June 2002

        Advanced Mathematics and Physics courses

        4.03/4.0 GPA (A+ is 4.33 points)

 

       Lane Community College

        June 2000 – September 2000

        Chemistry and Art

        4.33/4.0 GPA (A+ is 4.33 points)

 

Text Box: Research Pursuits

Graduate Research  - Stellar Interiors, Magnetohydrodynamcs

 

Undergraduate Research – Cosmology Fall 2005 – Spring 2006

 

Undergraduate Research – Fluid Flow in Porous and Permeable Media with Dr. M. Peszynska supported by NSF grant #0511190 and a DOE grant - Summer 2005 – Winter 2006

 

Undergraduate Senior Thesis – Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations.  Thesis Advisor – Dr. R. Landau, Spring 2005

 

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Research Fellowship -Summer 2003

 

· Construction of the primary silicon detector lattice for GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope).

 

· Programming data analysis tools

 

Programming analysis tools for non-linear optical phenomenon

 

Text Box: Honors & Awards

 

Harry Goheen Excellence in Mathematics Scholarship – Spring 2005

 

Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and U.S. Department of Energy Research fellowship – Summer 2003

 

Oregon State University Department of Physics Academic Achievement Scholarship – Spring 2003

 

Oregon State University Diversity Achievement Scholarship – Fall 2002

 

Congressional Artistic Merit Award – Spring 2002

 

Laurel Community Education Scholarship – Fall 2001

 

Text Box: Publications

 

Coauthor:

A First Course in Scientific Computing:
Symbolic, Graphical, and Numeric Problem Solving Using Maple, Java, Mathematica, and Fortran

http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7916.html

 

Text Box: Academic Employment History

 

University of Colorado at Boulder

       Research Assistant for Dr. Juri Toomre, JILA

                      July 2006 to the Present

 

Oregon State University

Teaching Assistant for Prof. Sally Haerer, Department of Physics

                 September 2005 - June 2006

 

Research Position with Dr. Malgorzata Peszynska, Department of Mathematics

                 June 2005 - June 2006

 

Programmer and Editor for Dr. Rubin Landau, Department of Physics

                 March 2004 – September 2005

 

Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) – transcribed physics and math textbooks and notes for the visually impaired.

January 2004 – June 2006

 

Text Box: References

 

Juri Toomre

      JILA

      University of Colorado at Boulder

      440 UCB

      Boulder, CO 80303-0440

       Tel: (303) 492 7854

 

Massimo Fiorucci

Dipartimento di Fisica

Universita di Perugia

Via Pascoli 06100 Perugia, Italy

Tel: +39 0755947221

Email: massimo.fiorucci@pg.infn.it

 

Oksana Ostroverkova

Department of Physics

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR 97331-6507

Tel: (541) 737 1679

Email: oksana@physics.orst.edu

 

Rubin Landau

Department of Physics

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR 97331-6507

Tel: (541) 737 1683

Email: rubin@physics.oregonstate.edu

 

Malgorzata Peszynska

Department of Mathematics

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR 97331-4605

Tel: (541) 737 9847

Email: mpesz@math.oregonstate.edu

 

Sally Haerer
Department of Physics

Oregon State University

Corvallis, OR 97331-6507

Tel: (541) 737 4631