CV

• Education
• Positions
• Awards and Honors
• Teaching and Outreach
• Professional Societies and Service
• Grant History
• Observing Experience
• Publications:
  • Refereed Articles
  • Non-refereed Articles
  • Selected Talks
  • Selected Presentations
  • Popular Press
  • Circular Bulletins

Education

2003-2008: Ph.D. Astrophysics (June 2009, defended July 2008)
                      California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
                      Advisor: Professor Charles C. Steidel
                      Thesis Title: "The Kiloparsec-Scale Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies"

1999-2003: B.A. Astronomy-Physics, Summa Cum Laude, Minor Mathematics
                   University of Virginia
                   Advisor: Professor Steven R. Majewski
                   Thesis Title: "Modeling the Tidal Tails of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy"

Positions

2014-present: Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
2011-2014: Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics (University of Toronto)
2008-2011: Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
2003-2008: Graduate Research Student, Caltech
2003: Summer Research Assistant, University of Virginia (Advisor: Dr. Steven Majewski)
2002: Summer Research Assistant, University of Virginia (Advisor: Dr. Steven Majewski)
2001: Summer Research Assistant, Northern Arizona University (Advisor: Dr. Kathleen DeGioia Eastwood)
2000: Summer Research Assistant, MIT Haystack Observatory (Advisor: Dr. Colin Lonsdale)

Awards and Honors

2011: Dunlap Fellowship
2008: Hubble Fellowship
2003: Holloway Fellowship, Caltech
2003: D. Nelson Limber Prize, University of Virginia
2003: Small Research Fellowship, University of Virginia
2002: Phi Beta Kappa
1999: Echols Scholar, University of Virginia

Teaching and Outreach

2013-2014: Supervised research by UofT undergraduate J. Checlair.
2013: Supervised summer research by undergraduates R. Cloutier, P. Tan, A. Sowinski (Dunlap Summer Students).
2012: Supervised summer research by undergraduate M. Tsybulska (Dunlap Summer Student).
2012: University of Toronto public lecture: "Ribbon in the Sky: Our Milky Way Galaxy from Antiquity to the Modern Day".
2012: Invited speaker, North York Astronomical Association.
2011: Journey through the Universe educational outreach program (Hilo, HI), Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) representative.
2010: UCLA "Exploring Your Universe" Outreach Day.
2010: Invited speaker, Ventura County Astronomical Society.
2010: Supervised summer research by UCLA undergraduate S. Nagy Nagy et al. 2011.
2006-2007: Co-advised (with C. Steidel) senior thesis research by a Caltech undergraduate.
2005: Teaching Assistant, Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies (CALTECH, graduate level)
2005: Teaching Assistant, Galaxies and Cosmology (CALTECH, undergraduate level)
2004, 2005: Teaching Assistant, Astronomical Measurements and Instrumentation (CALTECH, graduate level)
2002-2003: Public Night Telescope Operator (UVA, McCormick Observatory)

Professional Societies and Service

2012: Graduate Admissions Committee (Univ. of Toronto)
2011-present: Observing strategy, simulations, and pipeline development lead for MaNGA (SDSS-IV) IFU survey
2011: Panelist: Giant Magellan Telescope integral field spectrograph (GMTIFS) CoDR
2009: Developed OSIRIS (infrared IFU) data simulation package for Keck Observatory
2008-present: Referee for the Astrophysical Journal, MNRAS, Astronomy & Astrophysics
2008-present: Science team member: Thirty Meter Telescope, Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)
2007: Science Advisor: Keck next-generation adaptive optics program
2004-present: Member of the American Astronomical Society

Grant and Proposal History

Observing Experience

• SDSS-IV/MaNGA Lead Data Scientist
• ~ 1500 nights from 2014-2020

• 1.5m (CSPEC): 4 nights
• Blanco 4m (MOSAIC): 6 nights

• duPont 100'': 5 nights

• 31'': 2 nights

• 200'' (LFC): 1 night
• 200'' (WIRC): 16 nights

• Keck I (LRIS): 3 nights
• Keck II (NIRC2): 1 night
• Keck II (NIRSPEC): 11 nights
• Keck II (OSIRIS): 26 nights

Publications (ADS)

Refereed Articles

47. Sanchez, S.F., et al. 2016, RevMxAA accepted, arXiv:1602.01830
    "Pipe3D, a pipeline to analyse integral field spectroscopy data: II. Analysis sequence and CALIFA dataproducts"


46. Yan, R., Tremonti, C., Bershady, M.A., Law, D.R., et al. 2016, AJ, 151, 8.
    "SDSS-IV/MaNGA: Spectrophotometric Calibration Technique"


45. Law, D.R., Shapley, A.E., Checlair, J., & Steidel, C.C. 2015, ApJ, 808, 160.
    "Physical Properties of a Pilot Sample of Spectroscopic Close Pair Galaxies at z ~ 2"


44. Law, D.R., et al. 2015, AJ, 150, 19.
    "Observing Strategy for the SDSS-IV/MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey"


43. Belfiore, F., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 867.
    "P-MaNGA: Emission Lines Properties - Gas Ionisation and Chemical Abundances from Prototype Observations"


42. Wilkinson, D.M., et al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 328.
    "P-MaNGA: full spectral fitting and stellar population maps from prototype observations"


41. Li, Cheng, et al. 2015, ApJ, 804, 125.
    "P-MaNGA: Gradients in Recent Star Formation Histories as Diagnostics for Galaxy Growth and Death"


40. Sohn, Sangmo Tony, et al.. 2015, ApJ, 803, 56.
    "Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motions along the Sagittarius Stream: I. Observations and Results for Stars in Four Fields"


39. Drory, N., et al. 2015, AJ, 149, 77.
    "The MaNGA Integral Field Unit Fiber Feed System for the Sloan 2.5 m Telescope"


38. Bundy, Kevin, Bershady, Matthew A., Law, David R., et al. 2015, ApJ, 798, 7.
    "Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory"


37. Erb, D.K., et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 33.
    "The Ly-alpha Profiles of Faint Galaxies at z~2-3 with Systemic Redshifts from Keck-MOSFIRE"


36. Majewski, S.R., et al. 2013, ApJ, 777, 13.
    "Discovery of a Dynamical Cold Point in the Heart of the Sagittarius dSph Galaxy with Observations from the APOGEE Project"


35. Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Shapley, A.E., Nagy, S.R., Reddy, N.A., & Erb, D.K. 2012, ApJ, 759, 29.
    "An HST/WFC3-IR Morphological Survey of Galaxies at z=1.5-3.6: II. The Relation between Morphology and Gas-Phase Kinematics"


34. Law, D.R., Shapley, A.E., Steidel, C.C., Reddy, N.A., Christensen, C.R., & Erb, D.K. 2012, Nature, July 19 2012.
    "High Velocity Dispersion in a Rare Grand Design Spiral Galaxy at Redshift z=2.18"


33. Frinchaboy, P.M., Majewski, S.R., Munoz, R.R., Law, D.R., Lokas, E.L., Kunkel, W.E., Patterson, R.J., & Johnston, K.V. 2012, ApJ, 756, 74
    "A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: VII. Kinematics of the Main Body of the Sagittarius dSph"


32. Reddy, N.A., Pettini, M., Steidel, C.C., Shapley, A.E., Erb, D.K., & Law, D.R. 2012, ApJ, 754, 25.
    "The Characteristic Star Formation Histories of Galaxies at Redshifts z ~ 2-7"


31. Rudie, G.C., Steidel, C.C., Trainor, R.F., Rakic, O., Bogosavljevic, M., Pettini, M., Reddy, N., Shapley, A.E., Erb, D.K., Law, D.R. 2012, ApJ, 750, 67.
    "The Gaseous Environment of High-z Galaxies: Precision Measurements of Neutral Hydrogen in the Circumgalactic Medium of z ~ 2-3 Galaxies in the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey"


30. Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Shapley, A.E., Nagy, S.R., Reddy, N.A., & Erb, D.K. 2012, ApJ, 745, 85.
    "An HST/WFC3-IR Morphological Survey of Galaxies at z=1.5-3.6: I. Survey Description and Morphological Properties of Star Forming Galaxies"


29. Carlin, J.L, Majewski, S.R., Casetti-Dinescu, D.I., Law, D.R., Girard, T.M., & Patterson, R.J. 2012, ApJ, 744, 25.
    "Kinematics of Stars Along the Sagittarius Trailing Tidal Tail and the Constraints they Provide on the Local Standard of Rest"


28. Siegel, M.H., Majewski, S.R., Law, D.R., et al. 2011, ApJ, 743, 20.
    "The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters XI: The Three-Dimensional Orientation of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and its Globular Clusters"


27. Nagy, S.R., Law, D.R., Shapley, A.E., & Steidel, C.C. 2011, ApJL, 735, 19.
    "The Mass-Radius Relation for Star-Forming Galaxies at z~1.5-3.0"
    *Student publication*


26. Gonçalves, T.S., Basu-Zych, A., Overzier, R., Martin, D.C., Law, D.R., Schiminovich, D., Wyder, T.K., Mallery, R., Rich, R.M., & Heckman, T.H. 2010, ApJ, 724, 1373.
    "The Kinematics of Ionized Gas in Lyman-Break Analogs at z ~ 0.2"


25. Lokas, E.L., Kazantzidis, S., Majewski, S.R., Law, D.R., Mayer, L., & Frinchaboy, P.M. 2010, ApJ, 725, 1516.
    "The Inner Structure and Kinematics of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy as a Product of Tidal Stirring"


24. Barton, E.J., et al. 2010, SPIE, 7735, 185.
    "The Infrared Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) for TMT: The Science Case"


23. Erb, D.K., Pettini, M., Shapley, A.E., Steidel, C.C., Law, D.R., and Reddy, N.A. 2010, ApJ, 719, 1168.
    "Physical Conditions in a Young, Unreddened, Low Metallicity Galaxy at High Redshift"


22. Law, D.R. and Majewski, S.R. 2010b, ApJ, 718, 1128.
    "Assessing the Milky Way Satellites Associated with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy"


21. Law, D.R. and Majewski, S.R. 2010a, ApJ, 714, 229.
    "The Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: a Model for Evolution in a Triaxial Milky Way Halo."


20. Law, D.R., Majewski, S.R., and Johnston, K.V. 2009, ApJL, 703, 67.
    "Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream."


19. Law, D. R., Steidel, C.C., Erb, D.K., Larkin, J.E., Pettini, M., Shapley, A.E., and Wright, S.A. 2009, ApJ, 697, 2057.
    "The Kiloparsec-Scale Kinematics of High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies."


18. Basu-Zych, A., Gonçalves, T., Overzier, R., Law, D.R., Schiminovich, D., Heckman, T., Martin, C., Wyder, T., and O'Dowd, M. 2009, ApJ, 699, 118.
    "An OSIRIS Study of the Gas Kinematics in a Sample of UV-Selected Galaxies: Evidence of `Hot and Bothered' Starbursts in the Local Universe."


17. Geha, M., Willman, B., Simon, J.D., Strigari, L.E., Kirby, E., Law, D.R., and Strader, J. 2009, ApJ, 692, 1464.
    "The Least Luminous Galaxy: Spectroscopy of the Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy Segue I"


16. Wright, S.A., Larkin, J.E., Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Shapley, A.E., and Erb, D.K. 2009, ApJ, 699, 421.
    "Dynamics of Galactic Disks and Mergers at z~1.6: Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy with Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics"


15. Chou, M., Majewski, S.R., Cunha, K., Smith, V.V., Patterson, R.J., Martinez-Delgado, D., Law, D.R., Crane, J.D., Munoz, R.R., Lopez, R. G., Geisler, D., and Skrutskie, M.F. 2007, ApJ, 670, 346.
    "A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: Variation of the Metallicity Distribution Function Along the Sagittarius Tidal Stream."


14. Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Erb, D.K., Larkin, J.E., Pettini, M., Shapley, A.E., and Wright, S.A. 2007, ApJ, 669, 929
    "Integral Field Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Star Forming Galaxies with Laser Guided Adaptive Optics: Evidence for Dispersion-Dominated Kinematics."


13. Peter, A.H.G., Shapley, A.E., Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Erb, D.K., Reddy, N.A., and Pettini, M. 2007, ApJ, 668, 23.
    "Morphologies of Galaxies in and around a Protocluster at z=2.300"


12. Pettini, M., Steidel, C.C., Adelberger, K.L., Dickinson, M., Erb, D.K., Giavalisco, M., Law, D.R., Reddy, N.A., & Shapley, A.E. 2007, NCimB, 122, 1043.
    "Lyman break galaxies: A ten-year perspective"


11. Wright, S.A., Larkin, J.E., Barczys, M., Erb, D.K., Iserlohe, C., Krabbe, A., Law, D.R., McElwain, M.W., Quirrenbach, A., Steidel, C.C., and Weiss, J. 2007, ApJ, 658, 78.
    "Integral Field Spectroscopy of a Candidate Disk Galaxy at z~1.5 using Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics."


10. Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Erb, D.K., Pettini, M., Reddy, N.A., Shapley, A.E., Adelberger, K.L., and Simenc, D.J. 2007, ApJ, 656, 1.
    "The Physical Nature of Rest-UV Galaxy Morphology during the Peak Epoch of Galaxy Formation."


9. Casetti-Dinescu, D.I., Majewski, S.R., Girard, T.M., Carlin, J.L., van Altena, W.F., Patterson, R.J., and Law, D.R. 2006, AJ, 132, 2082.
   "A Deep Proper-Motion Survey in Kapteyn Selected Areas: I. Survey Description and First Results for Stars in the Tidal Tail of Sagittarius and in the Monoceros Ring."


8. Majewski, S.R., Law, D.R., Polak, A.A., and Patterson, R.J. 2006, ApJL, 637, 25.
   "Measuring Fundamental Galactic Parameters with Stellar Tidal Streams and SIM PlanetQuest."


7. Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., and Erb, D.K. 2006, AJ, 131, 70.
   "Predictions and Strategies for Integral-Field Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Galaxies."


6. Law, D.R., Johnston, K.V., and Majewski, S.R. 2005, ApJ, 619, 807.
   "A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: IV. Modeling the Sagittarius Tidal Tails."


5. Johnston, K.V., Law, D.R., and Majewski, S.R. 2005, ApJ, 619, 800.
   "A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: III. Constraints on the Flattening of the Galactic Halo."


4. Majewski, S.R., Kunkel, W.E., Law, D.R., Patterson, R.J., Polak, A.A., Rocha-Pinto, H.J., Crane, J.D., Frinchaboy, P.M, Hummels, C.B., Johnston, K.V., Rhee, J., Skrutskie, M.F. and Weinberg, M.D. 2004, AJ, 128, 245.
   "A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: II. Swope Telescope Spectroscopy of M Giant Stars in the Dynamically Cold Sagittarius Tidal Stream."


3. Crane, J.D., Majewski, S.R., Rocha-Pinto, H.J., Frinchaboy, P.M., Skrutskie, M.F., and Law, D.R. 2003, ApJL, 594, 119.
   "Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars: Spectroscopy of Stars in the Galactic Anticenter Stellar Structure."


2. Law, D.R., Majewski, S.R., Skrutskie, M.F., Carpenter, J., and Ayub, H.F. 2003, AJ, 126, 1871.
   "2MASS Studies of Differential Reddening Across Three Massive Globular Clusters."


1. Law, D.R., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., and Moore, K.L. 2002, ApJ, 565, 1239.
   "Empirical Bounds for the Ionizing Fluxes of Wolf-Rayet Stars."

Selected Non-refereed Articles

• Law, D.R., Wright, S.A., Ellis, R.S., Erb, D.K., Nesvadba, N., Steidel, C.C., and Swinbank, M. 2009:
  "Kinematics and Formation Mechanisms of High-Redshift Galaxies": article submitted to the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey.


• Wright, S.A., Law, D.R., Ellis, R.S., Erb, D.K., Larkin, J.E., Lu, J.R., and Steidel, C.C. 2009:
  "Tracing the Evolution and Distribution of Metallicity in the Early Universe": article submitted to the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey.

Selected Talks

• November 5, 2012. Colloquium speaker, Rochester Institute of Technology:
  "Early Growth of Galaxies"


• October 12, 2012. Colloquium speaker, University of Toronto:
  "Early Growth of Galaxies"


• September 13, 2012. Invited review, "Galaxy Surveys using Integral Field Spectroscopy" conference: Potsdam, Germany:
  "Early Growth of Galaxies"


• July 2, 2012. Invited speaker, "Galaxies: Insight Out" workshop: Leiden, Netherlands:
  "Kinematic Structure of a Rare z=2.18 Grand Design Spiral Galaxy"


• Nov 23, 2011. Invited speaker, University of Waterloo:
  "Rest-Frame Optical Imaging of z ~ 2-3 Star-Forming Galaxies with HST/WFC3"


• May 17, 2010. Invited speaker, "Galaxies in the Distant Universe":
  "The Physical Structure of Galaxies at z ~ 2 - 3."


• April 20, 2010. Colloquium speaker, UC Irvine:
  "Galactic Archaeology with the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream."


• Dec 4, 2009. Colloquium speaker, New York University:
  "Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from the Sgr Stellar Stream."


• May 5, 2009. Colloquium speaker, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics:
  "Kiloparsec-Scale Kinematics in High Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies."


• Mar 10, 2009. STSCI: Hubble Fellows Symposium:
  "Kiloparsec-Scale Kinematics in High Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies."


• Mar 12, 2008. IPAC lunch talk:
  "The Structure and Kinematics of High-Redshift Galaxies."


• Jan 10, 2008. AAS Meeting:
  "Integral-Field Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Star Forming Galaxies with Laser-Guided Adaptive Optics."


• Jul 24, 2007. TMT Science Meeting:
  "TMT: Science Goals and Design Requirements for IFU Studies of High-Redshift Galaxies."


• April 18, 2007. UC San Diego Colloquium:
  "Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Star-Forming Galaxies in the Early Universe."


• September 15, 2006. Keck Science Meeting:
  "OSIRIS observations of star-forming galaxies at z=2-3"


• Summer 2003. ING-IAC Joint Conference: Satellites and Tidal Streams (ASPC 327, 239)
  "Modeling the Tidal Tails of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy."

Selected Presentations

• Law, D.R., Majewski, S.R., and Johnston, K.V. 2010. AAS Meeting 215
  "Evidence for a Triaxial Milky Way Dark Matter Halo from the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream."


• Law, D.R. 2006. IAU 26th General Assembly.
  "The Physical Nature of Rest-UV Galaxy Morphology during the Peak Epoch of Galaxy Formation."


• Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Erb, D.K., and Simenc, D. 2005. UCSC Conference: 'Nearly Normal Galaxies in a LCDM Universe.'
  "Dynamics of High Redshift Galaxies from Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy"


• Law, D.R., Steidel, C.C., Erb, D.K., and Reddy, N.A. 2005. AAS Meeting 205
  "A Strategy Guide for Integral-Field Spectroscopy of z ~ 2 Galaxies."


• Hummels, C.B., Johnston, K.V., Majewski, S.R., and Law, D.R. 2005. AAS Meeting 205
  "Observing Dynamical Friction using the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy's Tidal Streams."


• Pakzad, S.L., Majewski, S.R., Frinchaboy, P.M., Hummels, C.B., Ivezic, Z., Johnston, K.V., Law, D.R., Patterson, R.J., Prada, F., and Skrutskie, M.F. 2005. AAS Meeting 205
  "Tidal Streams in the Outer Galactic Halo: Pieces of a 500-degree Long Trailing Sagittarius Tidal Tail?"


• Law, D.R., DeGioia-Eastwood, K., and Moore, K.L. 2002. AAS Meeting 199
  "Empirical Bounds for the Ionizing Fluxes of Wolf-Rayet Stars."


• Lonsdale, C.J., Cappallo, R.J., Doeleman, S.S., and Law, D.R. 2000. AAS Meeting 197
  "Simulations and Algorithms for Future Radio Astronomy Arrays."

Popular Press

• July 2012: BBC News, Scientific American, Time Magazine, Sky & Telescope, Los Angeles Times, CBS News
• January 2010: BBC News, New Scientist, Sky & Telescope, NPR: Morning Edition
• Sky and Telescope: July 2005, p 17.
• CNN: September 2003
• Ciel et Espace (French popular astronomy magazine): August 2003, p. 13

Circular Bulletins

• Cenko, S.B., Fox, D.B., Kulkarni, S.R., Reddy, N., Erb, D., Law, D. and Steidel, C. 2005, GRB Circular Service
  "GRB 050520: P200 observations."


• Ticha, J., Tichy, M., Jelinek, P., Kornos, L., Koleny, P., Smalley, K., Balam, D. D., Weissman, P., Lowry, S., Desroches, L., Grimstad, T. R., Law, D. R., Dyvig, R., Spahr, T. B. 2001, Minor Planet Center Electronic Circ.
  "2001 MT18."