Rok Roškar

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Astronomy
University of Washington
Box 351580
Seattle, WA 98195

 

Email: roskar at astro dot washington dot edu

Web: My meager homepage

Education:

August 2004 - Present: Graduate Program, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington
June 2006: M.S. Astronomy - University of Washington
May 2003: B.A. Physics; Jewish, Islamic, and Near-Eastern Studies, Summa Cum Laude, Washington University in St. Louis

Research and Work Experience:

2006 - 2008

Predoctoral Research Associate, N-Body Shop, University of Washington

  • Simulations of galactic disk formation and evolution with Victor Debattista and Tom Quinn

  • Supermassive black hole merger simulations with Tom Quinn, Lucio Mayer, and Stelios Kazantzidis
2004 - 2006

Research Assistant, University of Washington

Simulations of dark matter halos

2003-2004 Environmental Agency of Republic of Slovenia - Meteorological Center
Development of data control software using wavelet algorithms
Database maintenance
2001-2003 Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Physics
Undergraduate research assistant for Dr. James Buckley
Development of photometry software; design of an imaging polarimeter for
use in gamma-ray burst optical counterpart studies
Summer 2001 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Research assistant for Dr. John Huchra
Maintenance of galaxy redshift catalogs
Development of software for visualization of galaxy data
2000-2001 Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Physics
Undergraduate research assistant for the TIGER balloon experiment
Testing and inspection of electronics/photo-multiplier tubes

Refereed Publications (ADS link):

Talks & Conferences:

  • Learning about Galaxy Formation from the Outer Disk, IAU Symposium 254, "The Galaxy Disk in a Cosmological Context," Copenhagen, June 2008 (poster contribution) link to proceedings
  • Learning about Galaxy Evolution from the Outer Regions of Disks, Galaxy Evolution Discussion Group, Oxford University, March 2008 (talk)
  • Formation and Evolution of Disk Outskirts, Astro Debata, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, February 2008 (talk)
  • Galactic Disk Breaks, "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks," Rome, October 2007 (poster contribution)
  • Disk Breaks in N-body/SPH Simulations, "A New Zeal for Old Galaxies," Rotorua, New Zealand, March 2007 (poster contribution)
  • Disk Breaks in N-body/SPH Simulations, Centre for Astrophysics Research Discussions, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, September 2007 (talk)
  • Characterizing Disk Truncations with N-body Simulations, American Astronomical Society meeting, January 2007 (poster contribution)

 

Teaching Experience:

Fall 2004 University of Washington teaching assistant for astronomy 101
Winter 2004 - Spring 2005 University of Washington teaching assistant for astronomy 150 - the planets
Spring 2008 valign="top">Teaching assistant for Astronomy 480 - Introduction to Data Analysis

 

Grants, Awards, Scholarships and Membership:

1999 - 2006 Scholarship of republic of Slovenia for promising students (Zoisova stipendija)
2003 Nominated and accepted into the Sigma Xi scientific honorary
2003 Washington University - Senior prize for outstanding performance in physics by a graduating senior
2001 Washington University - Robert N. Varney prize for outstanding performance in introductory physics
2000-2003 Washington University Arts and Sciences Scholar
2000-2003 Society of physics students - Washington University chapter
2006 $104,000 U.W. Student Technology Fee grant for the purchase of a small supercomputer dedicated for student research (Co-author)
2006 $5000 Sigma-Xi "Grants-in-aid of Research" grant to purchase wiring and network equipment required for the supercomputer funded by the UW STF (Co-author)
2007 $70,0000 U.W. Student Technology Fee grant for the purchase of a data analysis and visualization server
2008 $39,432.89 U.W. Student Technology Fee grant for purchasing ~35 new desktops for the astronomy graduate and undergraduate students as an upgrade to our distributed computing network