Ann Marie Cody

Astronomer

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Education

PhD, Astronomy, California Institute of Technology	2011
MA, Astronomy, California Institute of Technology	2007
MPhil, Physics, University of Cambridge	2004
AM, Astronomy, Harvard University	2003
AB, magna cum laude with highest honors in Astronomy, Harvard University	2003

Research Positions

NASA K2 Mission Research Support Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center. Production and dissemination of high level photometric data products for the K2 Mission. supervisor: Dr. Geert Barentsen	2017-present
NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellow, NASA Ames Research Center. Production of photometry for the K2 mission and analysis of variability in nearby young star clusters advisor: Dr. Steve Howell	2014-2017
Postdoc, IPAC/Caltech. The Coordinated Synoptic Investigation of NGC 2264: High precision multi-wavelength photometry of variable young stars and brown dwarfs advisor: Dr. John Stauffer	2012-2014
PhD thesis, Caltech. Investigation of the properties of young brown dwarfs and low-mass stars using precision time-series photometry and spectroscopic follow-up advisor: Prof. Lynne Hillenbrand	2006-2011
Research on the structure of ice and gas giant planets, Caltech GPS Department advisor: Prof. David Stevenson	2005-2006
MPhil student and Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy; asteroseismology of stars with metal-rich convection zones advisor: Prof. Douglas Gough	2003-2004
Anglo-Australian Observatory summer student; analysis of dwarf galaxy spectra advisor: Dr. Terry Bridges	2003
Summer student, ASTRON, Dwingeloo Netherlands; analysis of interferometric radio data on high-redshift galaxies advisor: Dr. Robert Braun	2002
NSF REU summer student, University of Hawaii; measurement of stellar abundances in globular clusters from high-resolution spectra advisor: Prof. Anne Boesgaard	2001
Undergraduate researcher at Harvard University: Investigation of x-ray sources in globular clusters and theoretical models of stars with planets advisors: Prof. Jonathan Grindlay, Prof. Dimitar Sasselov	1999-2003

Academic Honors & Awards

Best poster award, Cool Stars XVIII meeting (2014)

Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize for a dissertation talk at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (2011)

Best poster award, Cool Stars XV meeting (2008, 2014)

Philanthropic Education Organization Scholar Award: $10,000 research grant (2007-8)

Virginia Gilloon Fellowship, Caltech (2004-5)

Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for "the most outstanding imaginative work or piece of research [by a Harvard undergraduate] in any field" (2004)

Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding undergraduate thesis research (2004)

Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship for one year of study at the University of Cambridge, UK (2003-4)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, honorable mention (2003)

Leo Goldberg prize for best senior thesis in the Harvard Astronomy Department (2003)

John Harvard Scholarship for academic achievement (1999-2000; 2002-3)

Leo Goldberg prize for best junior thesis in the Harvard Astronomy Department (2001)

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (2001)

Telescope Time Awarded

CHARA Array (CLIMB), 1.6 nights	PI
Gemini South Telescope (DSSI), 30 hours	PI
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope (IRAC), 33 hours (p12113)	PI
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope (IRAC), 10 hours (p10172)	PI
NASA K2 (Kepler Telescope), Campaign 4 (14-K2GO1_2-0032), 9, and 13	PI, co-I
NASA Hubble Space Telescope (WFC3), 35 orbits (GO-11610)	PI
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope (IRAC), 24 hours (p60169)	PI
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope (IRAC), 35 hours (p90154, p90098)	co-I
Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars ("MOST") telescope, 25 days	co-I*
Gemini South telescope (DSSI), 30 hours	co-I*
Keck 10m telescopes (HIRES, NIRSPEC, DEIMOS), 11 nights	co-I*
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope network, 24.75 days	co-I*
Palomar 200" telescope (DBSP, LFC), 13 nights	PI
Palomar robotic 60" telescope, 59 half-nights	PI
CTIO 1.0m telescope, 36 nights	PI
NOAO/WIYN telescope (HYDRA), 6 nights	PI, co-I
*I prepared these proposals but the PI was required to be a faculty member.

Professional Affiliations and Service

Member, American Astronomical Society

Past member, graduate admissions committee, Caltech astronomy department

Referee, Astrophysical Journal

Referee, Astronomy & Astrophysics

Scientific reviewer, NASA K2 Guest Observer Program and NASA Exoplanet Research Program

Scientific reviewer, Spitzer Space Telescope observing program

Conference organizer, Dwarf Stars and Clusters with K2 workshop

Co-founder, Caltech astronomy career discussion forum

Participant, Caltech and IPAC astronomy outreach groups

Teaching Experience

Mentor to two NASA student interns	2015-present
Co-mentor with T. Barclay for a NASA Academy summer student	2015
Co-mentor with L. Hillenbrand for two undergraduate summer research students	2009-10
Gave three lectures for Caltech astronomy course Ay 218, Precision Photometry	2009
Teaching assistant for Caltech astronomy course Ay 1 Gave two lectures in Ay 101	2007-8
Teaching assistant for Caltech astronomy courses Ay 101, Physics of Stars (undergrad); Ay 1 Gave three lectures in Ay 101	2006-7
Teaching assistant for Caltech courses Astronomy 123, Structure & Evolution of Stars (graduate); Ay 105, Optical Astronomy Instrumentation Lab (advanced undergrad); Ay 1, The Evolving Universe (undergrad)	2005-6
Mathematics tutor at the high school, SAT, and college levels	1997-2002

Conference Presentations & Talks

Poster presentation, "K2 Peers into the Lagoon" K2 Science Conference, Moffett Field CA, June 2017
NASA astronomy seminar, "K2'S Young Suns: Stellar Rotation in Open Clusters" NASA Ames Research Center, April 2017
Workshop presentation, "GPI and TESS Synergies" GPI team workshop, Stanford University, March 2017
Contributed talk, "The Youngest Planets and their Host Stars" Bay Area Exoplanet Meeting, Moffett Field CA, March 2017
Conference talk, "Dipper Star Demographics" Leiden, Netherlands, September 2016
Invited colloquium, "The Youngest Planets and their Host Stars" SETI talk series, Mountain View CA, Sep 2016
Conference talk, "K2 Observations of Open Clusters" Cool Stars XIX, Uppsala, Sweden, June 2016
Seminar, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star: How the Kepler Space Telescope is Revealing the Birthplace of Planets" Ames Early Career forum, Moffett Field CA, January 2016
Invited talk, "K2 Observations of Young Star Clusters" K2 Science Conference, Santa Barbara CA, November 2015
Invited talk, "Multiwavelength Variability Surveys: Reaping the Stellar Harvest" Analysis and Systems (ADASS) XXV, Sydney Australia, October 2015
Invited colloquium, "The Youngest Planets and their Host Star" Australia National University, Canberra, Australia October 2015
Invited colloquium, "The Youngest Planets and their Host Star" University of Western Washington, Bellingham WA, October 2015
Invited talk, "Flickering Young Stars: Clues to Star and Planet Formation" IAU 314: Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun, Atlanta GA, May 2015
Contributed talk, "Flickering Young Stars: Clues to Star and Planet Formation" Star and Planet Formation in the Southwest I conference, Tucson, AZ, March 2015
Department seminar, "Flickering Young Stars: Clues to Star and Planet Formation," Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division, November 2014
Contributed talk, "Dynamic Young Stars and their Disks: a Temporal View with CoRoT and Spitzer," The Space Photometry Revolution, Toulouse France, July 2014
Contributed talk, "Photometric Manifestations of Accretion," Cool Stars XVIII, Flagstaff, June 2014
Poster presentation, "The Coordinated Synoptic Investigation of NGC 2264," Cool Stars XVIII, Flagstaff, June 2014
Invited colloquium, "Dynamic Young Stars and their Disks: a Temporal View" University of Hawaii at Manoa, March 2014
Invited talk, "Spitzer and Variable Young Stars: Shining a Spotlight on Circumstellar Disks," AAS meeting, Washington D.C., Jan. 2014
Contributed talk, "YSOVAR: Probing mid-infrared Variability in Orion and Beyond," Orion Nebula Cluster as a Paradigm of Star Formation, Workshop, Baltimore MD, October 2013
Invited talk, "Spitzer and the Variable Young Stars: Shining a Spotlight on Circumstellar Disks, " 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, September 2013
Contributed talk, "CSI 2264: The Hard Evidence on Wild Young Stars," Greater IPAC Science Symposium, Pasadena, May 2013
Department seminar, "Dynamic Young Stars and their Disks: A Temporal View," UC Boulder, February 2013
Invited colloquium, "Dynamic Young Stars and their Disks: A Temporal View," UC Santa Cruz Astronomy Colloqium, February 2013
Contributed talk, "The Coordinated Synoptic Investigation of NGC 2264," Cool Stars 17 conference, Barcelona Spain, July 2012
Invited talk, "The Coordinated Synoptic Investigation of NGC 2264," Spitzer Users Panel, May 2012
Invited talk, "A temporal view of young stars," Caltech Time Domain Forum, March 2012
Contributed talk, "A high precision, high cadence view of photometric variability in young stars," Greater IPAC Science Symposium, Pasadena, March 2012
Invited colloquium, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star: High-precision Photometry Sheds Light On Young Stars and Brown Dwarfs", California State University, LA, March 2012
Contributed talk [thesis], "The Search For Pulsation In Young Low-mass Stars And Brown Dwarfs: A High-precision Photometric Census Of Variability At 3-5 Myr," AAS meeting, Seattle, Jan. 2011
Poster presentation, "High-cadence photometric monitoring from the ground and space: shedding new light on young stars," Cool Stars XVI, Seattle, Aug. 2010
Contributed talk, "Precision Photometric Monitoring of Young Low-mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs: Shedding Light on Rotation, Pulsation, and the Star-disk Connection," AAS meeting, Washington D.C., Jan. 2010
Department seminars, "Precision photometric monitoring of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: shedding light on rotation, pulsation, and the star-disk connection," Star & planet formation seminars at ESO Garching; Max Planck Institute Heidelberg; ISDC Geneva; ETH Zurich, Sept. 2009
Invited talk, "A search for pulsation in young brown dwarfs and low-mass stars," ESA-CONSTELLATION workshop on the formation of brown dwarfs, Noordwijk Netherlands, Sept. 2009
Poster presentation, "Low-amplitude Variability in Very-low-mass Sigma Orionis Cluster Members: Variability and Rotation at 3 Myr ," AAS meeting, Pasadena, June 2009
Contributed talk, "Pulsation powered by deuterium burning in brown dwarfs and very-low-mass stars," Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation conference, Santa Fe, May 2009
Poster presentation, "A Search for Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs," AAS meeting, Jan. 2009
Poster presentation, "Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs: Constraints on Very Low Mass Cluster Members ," Ages of Stars conference, Baltimore, Sept. 2008
Contributed talk, "Searching for Pulsation in Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars ," Cool Stars XV, St. Andrews Scotland, July 2008
Contributed talk, "The Search for Pulsating Young Brown Dwarfs with P60", Palomar Science Meeting, Caltech, June 2008
Contributed talk, "Searching for pulsation in very low mass stars and brown dwarfs ," Unsolved Problems in Stellar Physics conference, Cambridge UK, July 2007
Contributed talk, "Pulsations in Young Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars," 24th Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics, Jan. 2007
Poster presentation, "Constraints on the Moment of Inertia of Jupiter via Interior Models," 2006 Division of Planetary Sciences meeting, Pasadena, CA (A. Cody & D. Stevenson)
Poster presentation, "Constraining the Gravitational Energies of Uranus and Neptune from Interior Models: Implications for Formation," 2005 Division of Planetary Sciences meeting, Cambridge, UK (A. Cody & D. Stevenson)
Invited talk, "Constraining the origin of high metallicity in planet host stars," Infrared Processing and Analysis Center seminar, Pasadena, CA, April 2005
Contributed talk, "Constraining the origin of high metallicity in planet host stars," From Disks to Planets conference, Pasadena, CA, March 2005
Contributed talk, "Seismology of Stars with Polluted Convection Zones," CoRoT Workshop on Close-in Exoplanets: the star-planet connection, Orsay, France, May 2004
Poster presentation, "Seismic Signatures of Pollution in Stellar Convection Zones," UK National Astronomy Meeting, Milton Keynes, UK, April 2004 (A. Cody)
Invited talk, "Polluted Stellar Evolution: Implications for Planet Accretion," University of Melbourne Astrophysics Seminar, Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 2003
Poster presentation, "Self-Consistent Polluted Stellar Evolution Models," Scientific Frontiers in Research on Extrasolar Planets conference, Washington, D.C., June 2002 (A. Cody)
Poster presentation, "The Chemical Composition of the Globular Cluster M71 from Keck/HIRES Spectra of Turn-Off Stars," 197th American Astronomy Society meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 2002 (A. Boesgaard, A. Cody, C. Deliyannis & J. King)
Poster Presentation, "Physical Parameters of the Parent Star and its Transiting Planet HD209458b," 24th meeting of the International Astronomical Union, Manchester UK, Aug. 2000 (D. Sasselov & A. Cody)