Assistant College

Brandon

Bartell

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Education

University

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

Chapel Hill, NC

Masters

of Astrophysics May

2013

Concentration:

Numerical Hydrodynamics, Computer Modeling of High-Velocity Gas

Clouds

Relevant

Coursework:

Classical

Mechanics

Electrodynamics

Galactic

Dynamics

Quantum

Mechanics

Stellar

Structure

Numerical

Methods

Statistical

Mechanics

High

Energy Astrophysics

Physics

Education

Union

College, Schenectady,

NY

Bachelor

of Science in Physics with minors in Mathematics and Philosophy June

2010

Honor's

Thesis: Wavenumber Spectral Analysis from Free-Surface MHD

Experiments

Overall

GPA: 3.93;

4 time Dean s List; Presidential Scholar

Computer

Skills: Microsoft

Office including Excel, Java, C, IDL (Interactive Data Language),

Python, Linux, Mathematica, Matlab

Professional

Experience

UNC-Chapel

Hill, Research

AssistantSummer

2011-Present

Researched

evolution of high-velocity gas, gravitationally constrained by a dark

matter halo using numerical hydrodynamic simulations and

parallelized computing in C with analysis done in IDL.

UNC-Chapel

Hill, Teaching

Assistant Fall

2010-Fall 2011

Taught

introductory mechanics laboratory, introductory astronomy laboratory,

and introductory astronomy recitation.

Princeton

Plasma Physics Laboratory, National

Undergraduate Fellow Spring

2009-Fall 2009

Researched

turbulent free-surface waves in a liquid metal with externally

applied magnetic field. Supervised experiment and wrote data analysis

routines in Python.

Union

College, Research

Assistant Spring

2008 - Fall 2008

Researched

phase transitions by modeling ordinary and high-density percolation

models on a variety of geometric lattices with multiple processors

running IDL instances in parallel.

Union

College, Research

Assistant Spring

2007 - Fall 2007

Researched

concentration of mercury in predatory fish using the physics

department s 2.2 MeV tandem particle accelerator. Implemented the

method of Particle Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) spectroscopy.

Activities

Stand-Up

Comic, 2011-Present

Physics

Tutor, 2008-Present

Resident

Advisor,

RA

Fall

2008 Spring 2010

Society

of Physics Students,

vice-presidentFall 2008 Fall

2009

Union

College Gatekeepers, tour

guide Fall 2007

Spring 2010

Middle

States Re-accreditation Steering Committee, student

representative

Summer 2008 2010

Union

College Writing Center, tutor

Fall 2008 Spring 2010

Sigma

Phi Society, sports

chair, music chair, rush chair Winter

2007 Spring 2010

Awards

Sigma

Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, inductee

May 2010

Milton

Hymes Sternfeld Prize in Philosophy, recipient

May2010

Sigma

Pi Sigma Honor Society, inductee

May 2009

Phi

Beta Kappa Honor Society, inductee

May 2009

James

Henry Turnbull Prize in Physics,recipient May

2008

Union

College Presidential Scholar,

recipient September

2006

Dean s

List, 4 time

recipient 2006/2007-2009/2010

Publications

Bartell,

B. (2010). Reconciling Retributivism with Consequentialism.

Ephemeris,

10, 1-16.

Presentations

A Survey of Mathematical

Optimization for Scientific Programming,

Chapel Hill, NC; 09/12

Modeling

Radiative Transfer in Molecular Clouds with Monte-Carlo Methods,

Chapel Hill; 11/11

Wavenumber

and Frequency Spectral Analysis from Free-Surface MHD Experiments,

Atlanta, GA; 10/09

Ordinary

and High Density Percolation Modeling with Monte Carlo Methods,

Schenectady, NY; 09/09

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