CITA People

Faculty and Research Associates in Residence
September 2010 - August 2011 [changes this year]

• Norman Murray, Professor, Ph.D. Berkeley (1986), Director

• J. Richard Bond, Professor, Ph.D. Caltech (1979)
• Peter Martin, Professor, Ph.D. Cambridge (1972)
• Ue-Li Pen, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Princeton (1995)
• Harald Pfeiffer, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Cornell (2003)
• Christopher Thompson, Professor, Ph.D. Princeton (1988)

Senior Research Associates:

• Avery Broderick, Ph.D. Caltech (2004)
• Neal Dalal, Ph.D. U.C. San Diego (2002)
• Brice Menard, Ph.D. Max-Planck Institut (2002)
• Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes, Ph.D. Paris-XI and Laval (1999)
• Michael Nolta, Ph.D. Princeton (2002)
• Jonathan Sievers, Ph.D. Caltech (2003)

Research Associates:

• Marcelo Alvarez, Ph.D. Texas (2006)
• Kevin Blagrave Ph.D. Toronto (2006)
• Matthew Browning, Ph.D. Colorado (2005)
• Kipp Cannon, Ph.D. Alberta
• Tzu-Ching Chang, Ph.D. Columbia (2003)
• Phil Chang, Ph.D. UC Berkeley (2005)
• Jens Chluba, Ph.D. Max Planck Institute (2005)
• Shane Davis, Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara (2006)
• Adrienne Erickcek, Ph.D. Caltech (2009)
• Amir Hajian, Ph.D. IUCCA (2005)
• Abdul Mroue, Ph.D. Cornell (2009)
• Robyn Levine, Ph.D. Colorado (2008)
• Carlos Palenzuela, Ph.D. Universitat de les Illes Balears (2008)
• Richard Shaw, Ph.D. Cambridge (2010)
• Rajat Thomas, Ph.D. Kapteyn (2009)
• Geoff Vasil, Ph.D. Colorado (2007)

Staff:

• Nina Duras, Business Officer
• Jason Chong, CITA Computing Manager
• Candace Duong, Administrative Assistant

Students:

Students working on Ph.D. theses with CITA faculty were

• N. Battaglia (DAA; advisor Bond)
• J. Braden (Physics; advisor Bond/Poppitz)
• B. Croll (DAA; advisor Murray/Jayawardhana)
• M. Farhang (DAA; advisor Bond/Netterfield)
• D. Goncalves (DAA; advisor Martin)
• J. Harnois (Physics; advisor Pen)
• E. Harper-Clark (DAA; advisor Murray)
• I. MacDonald (DAA; advisor Pfeiffer)
• K. Masui (Physics; advisor Pen)
• S. Ossokine (DAA; advisor Pfeiffer)
• G. Paciga (DAA; advisor Pen)
• B. Pang (Physics; advisor Pen)
• S. Prodan (Physics; advisor Murray)
• A. Rivera-Ingraham (DAA; advisor Martin)
• A. Roy (DAA; advisor Martin)
• M. Russo (Physics; advisor Bond/Pen)
• N. Tacik (DAA; advisor Pfeiffer)
• J. Emberson (DAA; advisor Pen)

CITA also hosts predoctoral fellows from outside institutions, who included

• S. Valdez-Alvarado (University of Guanajuato)
• H. Yu (Beijing Normal University)
• E. Saury (IAS, France)
• K. Allaf-Akbari (Princeton)

Last but not least, CITA maintains a vigorous summer research program for Canadian undergraduate students. The students are supported both by NSERC awards and by faculty grants. The students working at CITA in the summer of 2011 were

• L. Calin (University of Toronto)
• L. Esteves (University of Guelph)
• E. Lee (University of Toronto)
• F. Li (University of Toronto)
• J. Long (University of Toronto)
• Y. Meng (University of Toronto)
• D. Vaidya (Indian Institute of Information Technology)
• H. White (University of Toronto)