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Nicole Lemaster

Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Scalable Computing R&D Department
Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA

Lemaster (at) princeton (dot) edu

Education

Ph.D., Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 2008
B.S., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004 (with highest honors)

Publications (click my name at the top of the page for ADS listing)

Lemaster & Stone, "Dissipation and Heating in Supersonic Hydrodynamic and MHD Turbulence", 2009, ApJ 691, 1092.
Parrish, Stone, & Lemaster, "The Magnetothermal Instability in the Intracluster Medium", 2008, ApJ 688, 905.
Lemaster & Stone, "Density Probability Distribution Functions in Supersonic Hydrodynamic and MHD Turbulence", 2008, ApJ 682, L97.
Lemaster, Stone, & Gardiner, "Effect of the Coriolis Force on the Hydrodynamics of Colliding Wind Binaries", 2007, ApJ 662, 582.
Figueiredo et al., "The Optical Design of the Background Emission Anisotropy Scanning Telescope (BEAST)", 2005, ApJS 158, 118.
Kangas et al., "A 31 Pixel Flared 100-GHz High-Gain Scalar Corrugated Non-bonded Platelet Antenna Array", 2005, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Vol. 4, p.245-248.

Conference Proceedings

Lemaster & Stone, "Dissipation and Heating in Supersonic MHD Turbulence", 2008, RevMxAA.
Lemaster & Stone, "Dissipation and Heating in Supersonic MHD Turbulence", 2007, AAS poster.
Villa et al., "Characterization of the BEAST Optics at Millimeter Wavelengths", 2003, ESA Proceedings, WPP-212, p.413.

Previous Research Topics

Regulation of star formation by MHD turbulence in molecular clouds (Ph.D. thesis), with Jim Stone (Princeton)
The effect of the Coriolis force on colliding stellar winds, with Jim Stone (Princeton)
Microlensing signatures of planetesimal disks, with Scott Tremaine (Princeton/IAS)
Extracting L and T dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, with Jill Knapp (Princeton)
Design and fabrication of mm and sub-mm wavelength metal mesh filters, with the Lubin group (UCSB)
Design and fabrication of 90GHz corrugated feedhorn array, with the Lubin group (UCSB)
Debugging the simulation of the BEAST optics, with Phil Lubin (UCSB)

Research Talks, Course Lectures, etc.

10/2008	The Regulatory Effect of Supersonic MHD Turbulence on Star Formation	Thesis Colloquium, Princeton Univ.
10/2008	The Regulatory Effect of Supersonic MHD Turbulence on Star Formation	Thesis Defense, Princeton Univ.
6/2008	Dissipation and Heating in Supersonic MHD Turbulence	Interview Talk, Sandia National Labs, NM
5/2008	Dissipation and Heating in Supersonic MHD Turbulence	Interview Talk, Sandia National Labs, CA
1/2008	Dissipation and Heating in Supersonic MHD Turbulence	MFU II Conference Talk, Cozumel, Mx
10/2007	The Magnetorotational Instability	Princeton AST 541 Lecture
2/2007	Geometrical Optics	Princeton AST 542 Lecture
11/2006	The Study of Galaxy Formation by Numerical Simulation	Princeton AST 541 Lecture
5/2006	Evolution of the Morphology-Density Relation	Princeton AST 522 Lecture
3/2006	Read and Dead: Near-IR Selection	Princeton AST 542 Lecture
10/2005	Black Hole Entropy	Princeton AST 541 Lecture
2/2005	Information Theory	Princeton AST 542 Lecture
11/2004	Primordial Nucleosynthesis	Princeton AST 541 Lecture
6/2004	Design and Fabrication of mm and sub-mm Wavelength Metal Mesh Filters	UG Senior Thesis, UCSB Physics Dept.
5/2004	Design and Fabrication of mm and sub-mm Wavelength Metal Mesh Filters	Spring UCSB RISE Program Talk
5/2004	Design and Fabrication of mm and sub-mm Wavelength Metal Mesh Filters	UCSB UG Research Symposium Poster
3/2004	Design and Fabrication of mm and sub-mm Wavelength Metal Mesh Filters	Winter UCSB RISE Program Talk
11/2003	Design and Fabrication of mm and sub-mm Wavelength Metal Mesh Filters	Fall UCSB RISE Program Talk
8/2002	Design and Fabrication of a Corrugated 90-Ghz Platelet Horn Array	Summer UCSB RISE Program Talk

Last updated February 20, 2009