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Rick Wagner

Course Title: Computational Science—The Computer as a Tool
Department: Physics, University of California, San Diego
Email: rwagner@physics.ucsd.edu

Education

October 2006-Current
Pursuing Ph.D. in Computational Astrophysics
Specialization: Scientific Data Management and Large-Scale Analysis
University of California, San Diego

January 2005-October 2006
M.S., Physics
University of California, San Diego

January 2003-December 2004
B.S., Physics, summa cum laude
University of California, San Diego

January 2002-December 2002
A.A., Transfer Studies
San Diego Mesa College

Experience

Summer 2007
Academic Connections Instructor, University of California, San Diego Extension
An Introduction to Scientific Computing, Summer 2007

Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego Mechanics (Lower Division), Winter 2005
Computational Physics II (Quantum Monte Carlo and Partial Differential Equations), Spring 2005
Mathematical and Computational Physics, Fall 2005
Mechanics (Upper Division), Winter 2006

February 1999 - Present
System Administrator, Sterling Corporation, CA

Honors/Affiliations/Publications

Wagner, R., Norman, M. L.
Theory SkyNode, To appear in The National Virtual Observatory: Tools and Techniques for Astronomy Research, ASP Conference Series, 2008

Hallman, E. J., O'Shea, B. W., Burns, J. O., Norman, M. L., Harkness, R., Wagner, R., The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project: I. Confusion and the WHIM in Upcoming Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Surveys, Accepted to ApJ, 2007

Kritsuk, A. G., Norman, M. L., Padoan, P., Wagner, R., The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 665, Issue 1, pp. 416-431.

Hallman, E. J., O'Shea, B. W., Norman, M. L., Wagner, R., Burns, J. O. AMR Simulations of the Cosmological Light Cone: SZE Surveys of the Synthetic Universe To appear in proceedings of Heating vs. Cooling in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies, MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference, 2006

Kritsuk, A. G., Wagner, R., Norman, M. L., Padoan, P. High Resolution Simulations of Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds ASP Conference Series 359 (2006) 84-90

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