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Curriculum Vitæ

Bertrand Goldman

Born the 24th of February, 1971

Department of Astronomy

New Mexico State University

P.O. Box 30001, Dept 4500

Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

Phone: 

work: 

+1 (505) 646-2566

home:

+1 (505) 521-1321

Fax: work: +1 (505) 646-1602

Email:

bgoldman@nmsu.edu

Ph.D. in Astrophysics

1988–'90

Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles (Maths, Physics, Chemistry), Lycée Hoche, Versailles

1990–'95

École Normale Supérieure (É.N.S.), Paris:

1990–'92

Licence and Maîtrise de Physique, U.Paris VI

1992

D.É.A. (Master) in Epistemology and History of Science, U.Paris VII Thesis on the Science of Weights in the XIIIth Century in the Latin World, directed by Pr.Rashed

1992–'93

D.É.A. of Theoretical Physics, É.N.S.-U.Paris VI, Thesis at L.P.N.H.E., Paris on LEP II g-g simulations, directed by F.Kapusta, CNRS

1993–'94

Proctor Fellowship at Princeton University, U.S.A., Department of History of Sciences, on Medieval Latin Physics, supervised by Pr. Mahoney, Princeton University, and Pr. Claggett, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton

1994–'97 1998–'01

Ph.D. in Astrophysics, D.A.P.NI.A./S.P.P., Saclay-U.Paris VI, on the Wide Field Proper Motion Survey for Brown and White Dwarfs in the Galactic Halo, directed by É.Aubourg (C.É.A.'s Fellowship)

1997–'98

National Cooperation Service: Collaboration U.Chile-E.S.O.-D.A.P.N.I.A., in Santiago de Chile, on the Search for White Dwarfs in the Solar Neighbourhood, with Pr. M.-T. Ruiz, U.Chile

2001-'03 Post-doc at New Mexico State University with Mark Marley (NASA/Ames)

Conferences Attended

1995 March

Rencontres de Moriond-Astrophysics on Dark Matter

1996 January

2nd International Workshop on Microlensing, Orsay, France

1996 March

Saas-Fee Course on AGN, Switzerland

1997 March

2nd International Conference on Brown Dwarfs and Extra-Solar Planets, Tenerife, Spain

2001 August Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, 12th Cambridge Workshop, Boulder, U.S.A.

Talks given

1996 December

Science with the Eros II Set-up for the Wide-Field Conference at Meudon Observatory, France

1997 February

the Eros II Project at Cambridge Observatory, U.K.

1997 December

Recherche de naines blanches du Halo , 7mes Journées Jeunes Chercheurs at Bénodet, Brittany

1998 February

Search for Halo White Dwarfs and Microlensing Search for Dark Matter at the 2nd Dark Matter Conference, Santa Monica, U.S.A.

1998 August

Search for high proper motion halo stars , the 3rd Mt.Stromlo Symposium: Bright stars and the Galactic Halo, Camberra

1998 December

EROS II High Proper Motion Search , Texas Symposium, Paris (poster)

1999 January

Proper Motion Search with EROS II , AAS #193, Texas (poster)

1999 March

EROS 2 Proper Motion Search for Brown Dwarfs , VLT Opening Symposium, Antofagasta, Chile (poster)

1999 September

EROS 2 Proper Motion Survey, TauP, France (poster)

2000 March

EROS 2 proper motion search for Halo White Dwarfs, XXth astrophysical Moriond Meeting (talk)

2001 June Where's the matter?, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille's Third International Conference, Marseille, France (poster)
2002 May Brown dwarfs, IAU 211 (poster, proceedings)
2002 June AAS 200 (poster)
2002 December Texas in Florence, Italy (poster)

Refered publications

Observational Limits on Machos in the Galactic Halo, Renault et al, A&A, 1997, 324 L69 (ADS, astro-ph/9612102)

AGAPEROS: Searches for microlensing in the LMC with Pixel Method , Melchior et al, Part I, 1999, A&AS 134 377 (ADS, astro-ph/9712236), Part II, A&A, 1998, 339 658 (ADS, astro-ph/9804321)

The microlensing searches for Galactic dark matter, B. Goldman, 1998, Physics Reports 307 107–115 (ADS)

Microlensing towards the SMC. Eros II first year survey, Palanque-Delabrouille et al, 1998, A&A 332 L1 (ADS, astro-ph/9710194)

EROS 2 intensive observation of the caustic crossing of microlensing event MACHO SMC-98-1, Afonso et al, 1998, A&A 337 L17 (ADS)

EROS and MACHO Combined Limits on Planetary Mass Dark Matter in the Galactic Halo, Afonso et al, 1998, ApJ 499 L9 (ADS, astro-ph/9803082)

Microlensing towards the Small Magellanic Cloud EROS 2 two-year analysis, Afonso et al, 1999, A&A 344 L63 (ADS, astro-ph/9812173)

A slope variation in the period-luminosity relation for short period SMC Cepheids, Bauer et al, 1999, A&A 348 175 (ADS, astro-ph/9807094)

EROS 2 proper motion survey: A brown dwarf and an L dwarf companion to LHS102, Goldman et al, 1999, A&A 351 L5-9 (ADS, astro-ph/9905162)

Spectrocopic charaterization of ultracool dwarfs, Martín, Delfosse, Goldman et al, AJ, 1999 118 2466 (ADS)

An effective temperature scale for Late M and L dwarfs, from Resonance Absorption Lines of Cs I and Rb I, Basri et al, ApJ, 2000 538 363 (ADS)

Observation of microlensing towards the galactic spiral arms. EROS II. 2 year survey, Derue et al, 1999, A&A 351 87 (ADS)

Combined Analysis of the Binary Lens Caustic-crossing Event MACHO 98-SMC-1, Afonso et al, 2000, ApJ 532 340 (ADS)

Not enough stellar mass Machos in the Galactic halo, Lasserre et al, A&A, 2000 355 L39, (ADS, astro-ph/0002253)

Type Ia supernova rate at z ~ 0.1, Hardin et al, A&A, 2000 362 419 (ADS, astro-ph/0006424)

Observation of microlensing toward the galactic spiral arms. EROS II 3 year survey, Derue et al, 2001, A&A 373 126 (ADS)

Photometric constraints on microlens spectroscopy of EROS-BLG-2000-5, Afonso et al, 2001, A&A 378 1014 (ADS)

Blue irregular variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud from EROS2: Herbig Ae/Be or classical Be stars?, Beaulieu et al, 2001, A&A 380 168 (ADS)

EROS 2 proper motion survey: Constraints on the halo white dwarfs, Goldman et al, 2002, A&A, 389 L69 (ADS).

Astronomical Observational Runs

1991 September

one week at the 2m of Observatoire du Pic du Midi, Pyrénées: Pr.Y.Mellier's Gravitational lensing arclets detection program

1994-'99

5 months (total) on the 40cm GPO and 1m Marly Telescopes at La Silla, Chile: EROS year-long observing programs for the detection of Microlensing events, SNe and High Proper Motion Stars

1998 January

one week at 0.9m and 4m Blanco Telescopes at Cerro Tololo, Chile: Pr. M.-T. Ruiz's White Dwarfs photometric & spectroscopic follow-up

1998 May

two nights at the E.S.O. 3.6m, La Silla, Chile: EROS Supernova low-resolution spectrometric follow-up

1999 January

two night at the E.S.O.--Danish 1.54m, La Silla, Chile: EROS Supernova U,B,V,R,i photometric follow-up

2000 October

two nights at the ESO's 3.6m: spectroscopic follow-up of EROS high proper motion candidates

2001–'03 multipe runs on Apache Point Observatory's 3.5m
2001 November six nights at Kitt Peak National Observatory on the 2.1m using SQIID for brown dwarf variability
2002 April seven nights at Kitt Peak National Observatory on the 2.1m using SQIID for CLOUDS

Languages

French, English (written, spoken), Spanish (spoken), German (written).

Salary history

1990–'95

École Normale Supérieure

103 kFF/yr or ~US$ 18,500 /yr
(plus employer's social security and retirement contributions)

1995–'99

C.É.A.

120 kFF/yr or ~US$ 21,000 /yr
(plus employee's social security and retirement contributions)

2001–'03 N.M.S.U. US$ 36,000 /yr (tax free, plus employee's benefits)

Health

To observe three weeks in La Silla, Chile (2.400m), my former institute, C.É.A., requires a high altitude test at 4.000m, which I passed.


B.Goldman, Sunday, January 5, 2003.

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