Curriculum Vitae

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Education
2000-2006	: PhD in Astronomy, Columbia University (New York, NY, USA)
1998-2000	: MS in Astronomy, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
1993-1997	: BS in Astronomy, Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea)
	- Exchange student, University of California at Santa Cruz (1996)
1990-1992	: Eun-Kwang Girls' High School
1987-1989	: Seo-Cho Middle School
1981-1986	: Seo-Iee Primary School
Research Interests
Galaxy formation and evolution
Cluster environmental effects
Radio/sub-mm astronomy
Publications
Refereed	: "Low Surface Brightness Galaxies and the Tully-Fisher Relation"
	Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., O'Neil, K., & Bothun, G. D. 2002, AJ, 123, 2387
	"Stellar Kinematics of Boxy Bulges: Large-Scale Bars and Inner Disks"
	Chung, A., & Bureau, M. 2004, AJ, 127, 3192
	"Discovery of counter-rotating gas in the galaxies NGC 1596 and 3203    and the incidence of gas counter-rotation in S0 galaxies"
	Bureau, M. & Chung, A. 2006, MNRAS, 366, 182
	"Origin of the Counter-Rotating Gas in NGC 1596"
	Chung, A., Koribalski, B., Bureau, M., & van Gorkom, J. H. 2006, MNRAS, in press
Non-Refereed	: "Peanut-Shaped Structures in Edge-On Galaxies"
	Bureau, M., Athanassoula, E., Chung, A., & Aronica, G. 2004,
	in Penetrating Bars Through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes
	a New Note, eds. D. L. Block, I. Puerari, K. C. Freeman, R. Gross, & E. K. Block
	(Springer: Dordrecht), 139
	"A High Resolution HI Study of Selected Virgo Galaxies:   Preliminary Results on Gas Morphology & Extra-Planar Gas"
	Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., & Vollmer, B. 2005,
	in Extra-Planar Gas, eds. R. Braun, ASP Conf Series, vol. 331, pp. 275-280
Posters	: IAU 197 (1999), "OTF CO Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major Cluster"   Chung, A., Rhee, M.-H., Verheijen, M., Yun, M. S., & Byun, Y. I.
	KAS/KSSS 1999 Annual meeting (1999), "CO Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the UMa Cluster:   preliminary results" Chung, A., Rhee, M.-H., Verheijen, M., Yun, M. S., & Byun, Y. I.
	IAU 205 (2000), "CO Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major Cluster: An Atlas"   Rhee, M.-H., Chung, A., Verheijen, M., et al.
	AAS 199 (2002), "Graduate Students as Professional Educators in Undergraduate   Astronomy Laboratories" Noel-Storr, J., Chung, A., and 11 coauthors
	AAS 201 (2003), "The Stellar Kinematics of Spiral Galaxies with a B/PS Bulge"   Chung, A. & Bureau, M.
	Extra-Planar Gas (2004), "A High Resolution HI study of Selected Virgo Cluster Galaxies"   Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., & Vollmer, B.
	A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the LSS (2005),   "An Uni-Chromatic View of Virgo Spirals and the SSS",   Chung, A., van Gorkom, J. H., Kenney, J. D. P., Crowl, H., Vollmer, B., Schiminovich, D.
Experiences
Research	: Virgo, A Laboratory for Studying Galaxy Evolution (PhD Thesis project)
	with J. H. van Gorkom, D. Schiminovich (Columbia University) J. Kenney, H. Crowl (Yale University), B. Vollmer (Strasbourg Observatory)
	CO On-The-Fly Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major Cluster
	with M. Verheijen (Kapteyn Institute), M.-H. Rhee (Yonsei University), M. S. Yun (UMass)
	A z=0 Calibration of CO Tully-Fisher Relation
	with M. Verheijen (Kapteyn Institute), M.-H. Rhee (Yonsei University), M. S. Yun (UMass), H. R. Kim (TRAO)
	Stellar Kinematics of Edge-on Spiral Galaxies with B/PS bulges with M. Bureau (Oxford)
	A Study of Gas-Star Counter-Rotating Disks
	with B. Koribalski (ATNF), M. Bureau (Oxford), J. H. van Gorkom (Columbia University)
	Low Surface Brightness Galaxies and the Tully-Fisher Relation
	with J. H. van Gorkom (Columbia University), K. O'Neil (GBT), G. Bothun (UOregon)
	Searching for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (optical survey)
	with J. H. van Gorkom (Columbia University), K. O'Neil (GBT), G. Bothun (UOregon)
Observations	: TRAO 14m "CO Observations of UMa Spirals" (Dec98-Feb99)
	NRAO 12m (now ARO 12m) "CO On-The-Fly Mapping of UMa Spirals" (Jun99, Mar00)
	NRAO 12m (now ARO 12m) "CO Line Obs. of Perseus-Pisces Spirals" (Oct99, Mar00)
	FCRAO 14m "CO On-The-Fly Mapping of Virgo Spirals" (Feb01)
	ATCA "HI Synthesis Imaging of NGC 1596 field" (Oct03)
	MDM 2.4m "H-alpha & R-band Imaging of UMa Spirals" (Feb04)
Talks	:"HI and CO Observations of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major group"    - AIP Extragalactic Science Club Talk, Potsdam, Germany (June 2003)
	"Stellar Kinematics of Edge-on Spirals with B/PS Bulges"    - Kapteyn Insitute, Groningen, the Netherlands (June 2003)
	"Stellar Kinematics of Edge-on Spirals with B/PS Bulges"    - Yonsei Univ. Astronomy Colloquium Talk, Seoul, Korea (December 2003)
	"A Study of Star-Gas Counter-Rotating Disks"    - NRAO AOC Pizza Lunch Talk, Socorro, NM, USA (April 2004)
	"The Origin of Counter-Rotating Gas in NGC 1596"    - Kapteyn Institue, Wednesday Lunch Talk, Groningen, the Netherlands (June 2004)
	"Virgo, A Laboratory for Studying Galaxy Evolution" (Thesis Talk)    - AAS 207, Washington DC, USA (January 2006)
	"Virgo, A Laboratory for Studying Galaxy Evolution"    - ASTRON, Dwingloo, the Netherlands (January 2006)
Conferences	: IAU 197 Astrochemistry, August 1999, Cheju, Korea [poster]
	KAS/KSSS 1999 Annual Meeting [poster]
	AAS 198, June 2001, Pasadena, CA, USA
	Vera Rubin Symposium, January 2002, Washington DC, USA
	AAS 201, January 2003, Seattle, WA, USA [poster]
	Extra-Planar Gas, June 2004, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands [poster]
	AAS 207, January 2006, Washington, DC, USA (Thesis talk)
Educational	: EAP (Education Abroad Program) at UC Santa Cruz (Fall, 1996), attended 3 courses
	- Galaxies, Cosmology & High Energy Astrophysics (taught by Dennis Zaritsky)
	- Mathematical Methods in Physics (taught by Onuttom Narayan)
	- Overview of Physics (various lecturers)
	EIGHTH Synthesis Imaging Summer School (18-25 June 2002, Socorro, NM, USA)
	Advanced Lectures on A Pan-Chromatic View of Clusters of Galaxies and the LSS
	(Jun27-Jul8 2005, Puebla, Mexico)
Teaching	: "Exploring of the Universe" at Yonsei Univ., Spring 1998 (Teaching Assistant)
	"Overview of the Universe" at Yonsei Univ., Fall 1998 (Teaching Assistant)
	"General Astronomy & Lab I" at Yonse Univ., Spring 1999 (Teaching Assistant)
	"Overview of the Universe at Yonsei Univ., Fall 1999 (Teaching Assistant)
	"Earth, Moon, and Planets" at Columbia Univ., Fall 2001 (Lab Instructor)
	"Beyond the Solar System" at Columbia Univ., Spring 2002 (Lab Instructor)
	"Summer of Stars" at Biosphere2 (AZ), Summer 2002 (Visiting TA)
	"Earth, Moon, and Planets" at Columbia Univ., Fall 2002 (Lab Instructor)
Etc	: Assistant staff - IAU 197 Astrochemistry (1999)
	Research Assistant - Korean Radio Frequency Allocation Committee (1999-2000)
	Designed various astronomy related websites    - Web Master, Department of Astronomy, Yonsei University (1998)    - General Astronomy & Lab I (1999, Yonsei University)    - Overview of the Universe (1999, Yonsei University)    - AstroLab (Fall 2001, Columbia University)    - AstroLab (Spring 2002, Columbia University)    - Department of Astronomy, Columbia University
Awards & Scholarships
1994-1995	: Yonsei Undergraduate Scholarship
Fall 1997	: Yonsei Undergraduate Scholarship
1998-1999	: Yonsei Teaching Assistantship
2000-Current	: Columbia Full Faculty Fellowship
2005	: First Prize in the First NRAO/AUI Image Contest
Computer Backgrounds
OS	: UNIX, LINUX, MAC, WINDOWS
Languages	: FORTRAN, LATEX, HTML (comfortable), C (basic level)
Astronomical Softwares
	: AIPS (Astronomical Image Processing System)
	GIPSY (Gronigen Image Processing SYstem)
	IRAF (Image Reduction and Analysis Facility)
	MIRIAD (Multichannel Image Reconstruction, Image Analysis and Display)
	GILDAS (Grenoble Image and Line Data Analysis Software)
	KARMA (a package for signal and image processing applications)
	SPA (or SPECTRA)
	SM (Super Mongo)
	IDL (basic level)
Detailed Academic Backgrounds (astronomy related only)
BS (1993-1997, Major : Astronomy, Minor : Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea) Math Physics Astronomy Calculus & Analytic Geometry I, II General Physics & Expt I, II General Astronomy & Lab I, II Advanced Calculus I, II Mechanics I, II Numerical Analy in Astronomy I, II   Modern Physics Spherical Astronomy   Mathematical Physics I Astrophysics   Mathematical Physics II (UCSC) Celestial Mechanics I, II   Electricity & Magnetism I, II Space Science   Thermal & Statistical Physics I Photometric Observations   Quantum Mechanics I, II Spectroscopy & Laboratory   Overview of Physics (UCSC) Intro to Stellar Atmospheres     Intro to Stellar Structure & Evolution     Galaxies, Cosmology & Astrophys (UCSC)     Observational Techniques MS (1998 - 2000, Field of Astronomy, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea) Engineering Physics Astronomy Space Guidance, Navi. & Control Statistical Mechanics Galactic Structure I Linear Control Systems   Stellar Interiors I     Stellar Evolution/Populations     Observational Techniques I     Astronomical Seminar I, II     Directed Research I, II Master Thesis on "CO Mapping of Spiral Galaxies in the Ursa Major Cluster" (Advisor: M.-H. Rhee) PhD Candidate (2000 -, Field of Astronomy, Columbia University, NY, USA) Classes Research Radiative Processes 1st year project - LSB galaxies: Extreme TF Deviators (with Jacqueline H. van Gorkom) Computational Astrophysics 2nd year project - Stellar kinematics of Edge-on's with B/PS Bulges (with Martin Bureau) Galaxies/Stars (Advanced) Follow-up's & Etc.   - CO/H-alpha mapping of Ursa Major Spirals   - The Origin of Gas-Star Counter-Rotations   - Searching for Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (optical survey) Physics of ISM and ICM Observational Astronomy Observational Cosmology (audit) Galaxy formation (audit) PhD Thesis on "Virgo, A Laboratory of Studying Galaxy Evolution" (Advisor: Jacqueline H. van Gorkom)