Kate's Thesis Summary

Postscript format of Kate's CV

Curriculum vitae of Kate Yu Ling Su

November 2000

Personal Information

Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

Valparaiso University

Valparaiso, IN 46383

Tel: 219-464-6853

FAX: 219-464-5489

E-mail: ysu@iras.ucalgary.ca or kate.su@valpo.edu

Education

PhD, University of Calgary, August 2000

Msc, National Central University, Taiwan, June 1995

Bachelor, National Central University, Taiwan, June 1993

Scholarships & Awards

Scholarships and Awards	From	To	Name and Location of Institute
Graduate Assistant Teaching	96/09	97/04	Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, U. of C
Tuition Scholarship	96/09	97/04	Graduate Affairs Committee, U. of C
Dean's Special Fee Remission Scholarship	96/09	97/04	Faculty of Graduate Studies, U. of C
Graduate Assistantship-Research	97/09	99/04	Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, U. of C
Graduate Travel Grant $700.00	98/08	98/08	Faculty of Graduate Studies, U. of C
Graduate Assistantship-Teaching	98/09	98/12	Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, U. of C
Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship	99/05	00/09	Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Foundation

Employment History

Job Title	Name of Employer	From	To	Location	Job duties
Post-doctoral Researcher	Bruce Hrivnak, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Valparaiso Univ.	10/00	Present	Valparaiso Indiana, USA	The main duties are follow-up spectroscopic observations of Proto-Planetary Nebulae with the Steward 2.3m Telescope, data processing and analysis.
Research Assistant	Sun Kwok, Dept. of Phys. & Astro., U. of Calgary	05/97	04/99	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	The main duties were astronomical data processing and data analysis on the Hubble Space Telescope observations.
Teaching Assistant	Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, U. of C.	09/96	04/97	Calgary, Alberta, Canada	Teaching 1^st-year Mechanics and Physics Lab.
Research Assistant	Wen Ping Chen, National Science Council	09/95	07/96	Chung-Li, Taiwan, R.O.C.	The responsibilities of the job were to assist astronomical observations, data processing and analysis, and the routine maintenance of lab equipment, including computing facilities.
Summer Student	JoAnn Eder Arecibo Observatory	06/95	08/95	Arecibo, Purto Rico	I was working on the VLA data of a pair of suspected interacting galaxies.
Research Assistant	Wen Ping Chen, National Science Council	02/93	05/95	Chung-Li, Taiwan, R.O.C.	The main duties were astronomical data processing and analysis on ground-base CCD observations.

Publication

publication list
pre-print

Profile

Skills of Computer Software:

Knowledge of Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF) packages: STSDAS/XRAY/DAOPHOT
Knowledge of Unix/Sun OS systems
Knowledge of Linux operating system and installations of all astronomical packages
Knowledge of Interative Data Language (IDL) programming
Knowledge of FORTRAN programming and numerical simulation
Knowledge of Windows' software: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Photoshop, Mathcad

Knowledge of Astronomical Data Reduction and Analysis:

Familiar with the astronomical data reduction process:

Optical CCD and near-infrared imaging data reduction, especially on HST/WFPC2, HST/NICMOS data
X-ray data reduction, especially on ROSAT X-ray data
Radio data reduction package: AIPS, especially on processing VLA radio synthesized data

Knowledge of Astronomical Archival Data Search, Reduction and Analysis:

Familiar with astronomical data archive:

HST and ROSAT

Experiences on Ground-base Telescope Observations:

2-m telescope in Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Xing-Long, China
1.56-m telescope in Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China
2.3-m telescope in the Stward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona

Experiences on Hubble Space Telescope Observations:

Cycle 6/1997, WFPC2 (CCD), Program ID# 6565

Imaging of Proto-Planetary Nebulae

Data have been processed, analyzed and published in several papers.

Cycle 7/1998, NICMOS (IR Array), Program ID# 7840

Near-IR Imaging and Polarimetry of Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebulae

Data have been processed and analyzed completely. Paper is under preparation.

Cycle8/1999, WFPC2 (CCD), Program ID# 8210

HST Imaging of Bipolar Proto-Planetary Nebulae and Circumstellar Arcs

Data have been processed and will be presented in the American Astronomical Society #195 meeting.

Cycle8/1999, WFPC2 (CCD), Program ID# 8037

Morphology of High Radio Surface Brightness Planetary Nebulae

Program has been scheduled and will be executed late 1999 and early 2000.

Professional Experiences:

Summer Schools, Conferences Attended, Institutions Visited

The 4th NRAO Synthesis Imaging Summer School, 1995 in Socorro, MX, U.S.A.
Arecibo Observatory Summer school program, June to August 1995.

Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, 1997 in Univeristy of Alberta, Edmonment, Canada

Contribution: poster

Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, U.S.A. in 1997 July

Purpose: Learning HST data reduction on WFPC2 data

IAU Symposium 191: Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars, 1998 Aug. in Montpellier, France

Contribution: two posters

American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting # 193, 1999 Jan. in Austin, TX, U.S.A

Contribution: two posters

Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA, U.S.A. in 1999 Feb.

Purpose: advanced data analysis on HST/NICMOS data

Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Purpose: invited talk

Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae II: From Origins to Microstructures, MIT, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., in 1999 Aug.

Contribution: one poster and one oral presentation

American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting # 195, 2000 Jan. in Atlanta, GA, U.S.A

Contribution: one poster

American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting # 197, 2001 Jan. in San Diego, CA, U.S.A

Contribution: two posters