Hannah Jang-Condell

Work Address:
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
5241 Broad Branch Road, NW
Washington, DC 20015
(202) 478-8813

Research Interests: planet formation theory, protoplanetary disk models, extrasolar planets, astrobiology

Educational Background

PhD in Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 2004 June
Thesis: "Shedding Some Light on Planet Formation: Temperature Perturbations Caused By Stellar Illumination Near an Embedded Protoplanet and Their Effects on Planet Formation Processes." Advisor: Prof. Dimitar D. Sasselov

AM in Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1999 June

SB in Physics with Biology minor,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. 1997 February

Research Experience

Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. 2004-present
Carnegie Fellow

Harvard University, Research Assistant in the Astronomy Department. 2000-2004
Studies of disk-protoplanet interactions with Prof. Sasselov.

Harvard University, Research Assistant in the Astronomy Department. 1997-2000
Research Exam: ``First Structure Formation: A Simulation of Small Scale Structure at High Redshift,'' with Prof. Lars E. Hernquist.

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK with Dr. Jean-Jacques Moreau. 1997
Software development for the Systems Management Department.

MIT, Undergraduate Thesis in Physics. 1996-1997
``Cluster Size Distribution and Entropy of an Infinite Range Random Ferromagnet,'' with Prof. Yaneer Bar-Yam (Boston University Physics) and Prof. Michel Baranger (MIT Physics).

MIT, UROP with Dr. Shalev Gilad, MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science. 1994 Fall
Assembly of drift chambers for use in particle detectors at CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility) in Virginia.

MIT, UROP with Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab. 1994 Summer
Construction, testing, and programming of the Programmable LEGO Brick prototype.

Teaching Experience

Attended ``Teaching Astronomy for the First Time: A Teaching 2003 January
Excellence Workshop for Graduate Students and Post-Docs,'' led by Steve Pompea (NOAO) and Tim Slater (Univ. of Arizona) at the 201st AAS Meeting

Attended ``Scientists Teaching Science,'' course taught by Prof. Phil Sadler, 2002 Fall
Director, Science Education Dept., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Grader for ``The Physics of the Interstellar Medium'' at Harvard, 2001 Fall
a required graduate Astronomy course, taught by Prof. Alyssa Goodman.

Section leader for ``Astronomy 1'' at Harvard, an introductory astronomy 1999 Spring
course for non-majors, taught by Profs. Jim Moran & Simon Steel. Section leader.

Section leader for ``Matter in the Universe'' at Harvard, an introductory 1998 Spring
astronomy course in the Core Curriculum, taught by Prof. Robert Kirshner.

Tutor for the Experimental Study Group (ESG) at MIT. 1995-1996
Taught classes of 2-4 students in Electricity and Magnetism (8.02) and Multivariable Calculus (18.02). Director: Dr. Holly Sweet

Counselor at PROMYS (Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists), 1994, 1995
an NSF-funded intensive high school summer program teaching number theory.
Director: Prof. Glenn Stevens, Boston University, Dept. of Mathematics

Teaching Assistant for 6.270, a student-run class and competition 1995 January
in LEGO robotics during MIT's Independent Activities Period

Awards

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow 1997-2000

Robert C. Byrd Scholar 1993-1997

National Merit Scholar 1993

Professional Affiliations

American Astronomical Society 1998-present

Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy 2006-2009

Talks and Colloquia

Naval Research Laboratory, RIOS Astronomy Pizza Lunch Talk, June 16, 2006. "Observing Planets in Circumstellar Disks"

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department, Special Seminar, April 28, 2006.

NASA Goddard Extrasolar Planets Club, March 2, 2006.

American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, Astrophysics Seminar, February 17, 2006. "Signatures of Core Formation: Planet Shadows in Circumstellar Disks" (abstract)

Northwestern University, Astrophysics Seminar, March 29, 2005. "Illuminating Ideas in Planet Formation: Shadowing and Illumination in Protoplanetary Disks" (abstract)

Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Department Seminar, February 23, 2005. "Illuminating Ideas on Planet Formation: Effects of Stellar Irradiation on Protoplanetary Disks"

Harvard University, May 14, 2004. (Thesis colloquium) "Shedding Some Light on Planet Formation: Radiative Transfer in Protoplanetary Disks and Consequences for Planet Formation"

Princeton University, Wunch talk, October 15, 2003. "Shedding Some Light on Planet Formation: Radiative Transfer on Disks with Embedded Protoplanets" (abstract)

Conferences and Workshops

2007 American Astronomical Society, 209th Meeting, January 6-10, 2007, Seattle, WA.
Contributed talk: "Modeling Scattered Light Images from a Planet-Forming Disk"
(#110.05 Jang-Condell, H. & Boss, A. P.)

Astrobiology Science Conference 2006 (AbSciCon), March 26-30, 2006, Washington, DC.
Contributed talk: "Planet Shadows in Disks as Signatures of Core Formation"
Symposium Co-convener: "Exploring Planets Around Other Stars"

American Astronomical Society, 207th Meeting, January 8-12, 2006, Washington, DC.
Contributed talk: "Observable Signatures of Core Formation"
(#166.05 Jang-Condell, H.)

Protostars and Planets V, October 24-28, 2005, Waikoloa Village, HI.
Poster: "Observational Signatures of Planets in Protoplanetary Disks."

Gordon Research Conference: Origins of Solar Systems, June 26-July 1, 2005, Connecticut College, New London, CT.

FORWARD to Professorship Workshop, May 18-20, 2005, Washington, DC.

NASA Astrobiology Institute Biennial Meeting, April 10-14, 2005, Boulder, CO.
Contributed talk: "Effects of Shadowing and Illumination on Planet Formation."

From Disks to Planets, March 7-10, 2005, Pasadena, CA.
Contributed talk: "How Shadowing and Illumination in Disks Affect Planet Formation."

Planet Formation and Detection, February 6-12, 2005, Aspen, CO.
Contributed talk: "How Shadowing and Illumination in Disks Affect Planet Formation." ppt pdf

Chondrites and the Protoplanetary Disk, November 8-11, 2004, Kaua`i, HI.

Astrophysics of Planetary Systems, May 17-20, 2004, Cambridge, MA.

American Astronomical Society, 203rd Meeting, January 4-8, 2004, Atlanta, GA.
Dissertation talk: "Radiative Transfer in the Vicinity of a Protoplanet"
(#123.03 Jang-Condell, H. & Sasselov, D.)

The Search for Other Worlds, October 13-14 2003, College Park, MD.
Poster: Jang-Condell, H. & Sasselov, D. D. "Radiative Transfer in the Vicinity of a Protoplanet," (AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 713, pp. 127-130 [2004]. (abstract))

Gordon Research Conference: Origins of Solar Systems, July 6-11, 2003, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

American Astronomical Society, 201st Meeting, January 5-9, 2003, Seattle, WA.
Poster: "A Model of a Passive Accretion Disk Perturbed by a Protoplanet"
(#46.17 Jang-Condell, H. & Sasselov, D.)

31st Saas-Fee Advanced Course on Brown Dwarfs and Planets, April 2-7, 2001, Grimentz, Switzerland.

The First Generation of Cosmic Structures, May 15-18, 2000, Cambridge, MA.
Poster: Jang-Condell, H. & Hernquist, L. "First Structure Formation: A Simulation of Small-Scale Structure at High Redshift,"

The First Stars (MPA/ESO Workshop), August 4-6, 1999, Garching, Germany.

Computing Our Universe, June 21-July 14, 1999, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Four-week summer school on computational cosmology.

Miscellaneous

Computer Skills: C, Fortran, Java; Unix, MPI; IDL, SM, Mathematica

Foreign Languages: Spanish, French, Korean