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brandon james swift
 
 
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http://sps.berkeley.edu/~bswift/

education
  • University of California, Berkeley:   B.A., Physics & Astrophysics, Dec. 2004 (unofficial transcript)
  • Antelope Valley College:   5 terms, Fall 1998 - Summer 2000 (non-degree seeking)
  • Quartz Hill High School, graduated May 2000


research activities
Sp. 2001 -
    Su. 2005		 Undergraduate Research Assistant Lick Observatory Supernova Search,
Prof. Alexei V. Filippenko, Dr. Weidong Li, UC Berkeley
Su. 2004 Undergraduate Research Assistant Prof. David W. Koerner, Northern AZ Univ. (c2d Spitzer Legacy Team)
Su. 2003 National Science Foundation REU Student Prof. David W. Koerner, Northern AZ Univ. (c2d Spitzer Legacy Team)

teaching experiences
Fa. 2004 Teaching Assistant Astronomy 10: Introduction to General Astronomy
Prof. Alexei V. Filippenko, UC Berkeley
Fa. 2003 Teaching Assistant Astronomy 10: Introduction to General Astronomy
Prof. Alexei V. Filippenko, UC Berkeley
Fa. 2003 Student Instructor/ co-coordinator Physics 198: Undergraduate Seminar on Current Research in Physics, UC Berkeley
Fa. 2001 -
    Fa. 2002		 Astronomy Tutor The Astronomy Learning Center (TALC) for Astronomy 10

other positions
Fa. 2002 -
    Sp. 2005		 President/VP/Webmaster Berkeley Society of Physics Students
Fa. 2002 Course Grader Astronomy 10: Introduction to General Astronomy
Prof. Gibor Basri, UC Berkeley
Sp. 2005 Course Grader Astronomy 162: Planetary Astrophysics
Prof. Eugene Chiang, UC Berkeley


publications
  • Foley, R.J., Papenkova, M.S., Swift, B.J., Filippenko, A.V., Li, W.D., Mazzali, P.A., Chornock, R., Leonard, D.C., Van Dyk, S.D. 2003, Optical Photometry and Spectroscopy of the SN 1998bw-like Type Ic Supernova 2002ap, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), 115, 1220

  • 40+ International Astronomical Union Circulars announcing the discovery or spectral observation of supernovae (30 discoveries as of 2004/02/11)


organizations
  • Society of Physics Students
  • Sigma Pi Sigma
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • American Astronomical Society


selected course papers

website design

computer skills
  • Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac
  • IDL, IRAF, C++, python, Java, bash
  • LaTeX, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL




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