Ji-hoon Kim ASTROPHYSICIST at University of California Santa Cruz
 
 
 
 
 
Biography and Publications  CurriCulum ViTae (click here for a PDF version)   JI-HOON KIM Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California at Santa Cruz 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, 1(650)714-2879 http://www.jihoonkim.org me@jihoonkim.org mornkr@ucolick.org EDUCATION 2011- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California at Santa Cruz 2005-2011 Ph.D., Department of Physics, Stanford University 1998-2002 B.Sc., School of Physics, summa cum laude, Seoul National University FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2011- UC Santa Cruz IMPS Fellow (Interstellar+galactic Medium Program of Studies) 2005-2009 William R. and Sara Hart Kimball Stanford Graduate Fellow 2002 Graduated with an honor from Seoul National University Alumni Association 2000-2002 Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies Fellow 1998-2001 Seoul National University Undergraduate Scholarship, 6 times 1998 Honor for Excellence among students entering College of Natural Science, SNU REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES 6) Kim, J. -H., Wise, J. H, & Abel, T., “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes. II: Mergers and Triggered Star Formation”, ApJ to be submitted (2013) 5) Kim, J. -H., Krumholz, M. R., Wise, J. H., Turk, M. J., Goldbaum, N. J., & Abel, T., “Dwarf Galaxies with Ionizing Radiation Feedback. II: Spatially-resolved Star Formation Relations”, ApJ submitted (2012), astro-ph:1210.6988 [arXiv] [NASA-ADS] [Local/high-resolution] 4) Kim, J. -H., Krumholz, M. R., Wise, J. H., Turk, M. J., Goldbaum, N. J., & Abel, T., “Dwarf Galaxies with Ionizing Radiation Feedback. I: Escape of Ionizing Photons”, ApJ submitted (2012), astro-ph:1210.3361 [arXiv] [NASA-ADS] [Local/high-resolution] [KIPAC Highlights Article] 3) Kim, J. -H., & Lee, J., “How Does the Surface Density and Size of Disk Galaxies Measured in Hydrodynamic Simulations Correlate with the Halo Spin Parameter?”, MNRAS in press (2013), astro-ph:1210.8321 [arXiv] [NASA-ADS] [Local/high-resolution] 2) Kim, J. -H., Wise, J. H., Alvarez, M. A., & Abel, T., “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes. I: Feedback-regulated Star Formation and Black Hole Growth”, ApJ 738 (2011) 54 [arXiv] [NASA-ADS] [Local/high-resolution] 1) Kim, J. -H., Wise, J. H., & Abel, T., “Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Star Formation and Hot Gas Outflow”, ApJ 694 (2009) L123 [arXiv] [NASA-ADS] [Local/high-resolution] [KIPAC Computing Article] OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS 4) Kaehler, R., Abel, T., & Kim, J. -H., “Visualization of a High-resolution Galaxy Formation Simulation”, SuperComputing ’11 Scientific Visualization, Seattle, WA, November 2011 [Viz by R. Kaehler] 3) Kim, J. -H., “Galaxy Formation and Mergers with Stars and Massive Black Holes”, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, May 2011 [Stanford Library] [Google Books] [Local] 2) Kim, J. -H., Wise, J. H., & Abel, T., “Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Star Formation and Hot Gas Outflow”, American Physical Society April Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2009 [NASA-ADS] 1) Kim, J. -H., Wise, J. H., & Abel, T., “Galaxy Evolution on Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, First Stars III Conference, AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 990 (2008) pp.429, Santa Fe, NM, July 2007 [NASA-ADS] [Local] [FirstStar III Poster] RESEARCH INTERESTS - Coordinator, AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project [link] - New!! - Galaxy Formation and Evolution on High-resolution AMR - Radiative/Thermal/Mechanical Feedback from Supermassive Black Holes - Radiative/Thermal/Mechanical Feedback from Star-forming Molecular Clouds - Growth of Supermassive Black Holes via Gas Inflow or Mergers, Triggered Star Formation RESEARCH EXPERIENCES 2011- Research Assistant, U. of California at Santa Cruz (Mentor: Prof. Mark Krumholz) - Modeling radiative feedback of molecular clouds in galaxy formation - Simulating quasar feedback by massive black holes - Co-PI on NSF XSEDE “Star Formation in Galaxies: From Recipes to Real Physics” (on Stampede/Ranger@TACC, Pleiades@NASA, Kraken@NICS) 2006-2011 Research Assistant, KIPAC/Stanford University (Advisor: Prof. Tom Abel) - Simulating galaxy formation and mergers with AMR - Modeling the formation and feedback of molecular clouds - Modeling the accretion and feedback of massive black holes 2006 Research Assistant, KIPAC/Stanford University (Advisor: Prof. Sarah Church) - Building data pipelines in QUAD collaboration 2005 Research Assistant, KIPAC/Stanford University (Advisor: Prof. Elliot Bloom) - Time correlation study between GRBs and SNe Ic in Fermi/GLAST collaboration 2001 Experimental Assistant, Nano-Opto-Electronics Lab (Advisor: Prof. Heon-su Jeon) TEACHING EXPERIENCES 2009 Teaching Assistant, 1 quarter, Stanford Univ., Black Holes 2008 Course Grader, 1 quarter, Stanford Univ., Introduction to Astrophysics 2007 Teaching Assistant, 1 quarter, Stanford Univ., Modern Physics Lab 2007 Teaching Assistant, 1 quarter, Stanford Univ., Mechanics OUTREACH AND OTHER EXPERIENCES 2012 Organizer/Coordinator of the AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project and its Starting Workshop at UC Santa Cruz [link] - New!! 2010 Provided a movie data of cosmological galaxy mergers and structure formation for the SLAC booth in the SuperComputing conference (SC2010), New Orleans, LA 2010 Provided a movie data of cosmological galaxy mergers for the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, NY in the program of “The Big Bang” [viz by R. Kaehler] [SLAC-Today] 2007-2011 KIPAC Visualization Laboratory Presenter [link] [SLAC-Today] [SLAC-Today-2] 2007-2009 SLAC Kids’ Day, Volunteer 2002-2004 Lieutenant, Company Commander & Battalion Staff Officer, the R.O.K. Army COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIENCES - Program experience: Enzo, Gadget, VisIt, PartiView, HEALpix, CMBFast, etc. -  Language experience: C, Fortran, IDL, Python, Java Applet, Visual Basic, Pascal, etc. - Varia: Jacques, Mathematica, Matlab, Maple, HTML, etc. SELECTED TALKS AND SEMINARS - Cosmology Seminar, Stanford University, “Rethinking Galaxy Simulations in High-resolution Era”, 05/20/2013 [link] - Santa Cruz Galaxy Formation Workshop+Starting Workshop for High-resolution Galaxy Simulation Comparison Project, UC Santa Cruz, “Galaxy Formation with Radiating Molecular Cloud Particles”, 08/17/2012 [link] - Workshop for Korean Young Cosmologists, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, “High-resolution Galaxy Formation with Massive Black Holes and Radiating Star Clusters”, 06/25/2012 [link] - SLAC Association for Student Seminars, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 05/11/2011 [link] - KIPAC Tea Talk, Stanford University, “Galaxy Formation and Mergers with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes”, 04/08/2011 [link] - Friday Lunchtime Astrophysics Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, “Towards An Unabridged Understanding of The Coevolution of Galaxies and MBHs: What Have Simulators Tried? What Makes It So Hard?”, 12/10/2010 [link] - Computational Astrophysics Group Seminar, University of Chicago, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution”, 12/03/2010 - Computational Cosmology and Galaxy Formation Seminar, Princeton University, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution”, 11/15/2010 [link] - Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminar, UC Berkeley, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution”, 10/25/2010 [link] [slides] - Cosmoclub Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution”, 10/18/2010 [link] - Friday Astro Lunch, UC Santa Barbara, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution”, 10/15/2010 [link] - Astronomy Tea Talk, Caltech, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes: Towards An Unabridged Understanding of Their Coevolution”, 10/11/2010 [link] - LCA Group Seminar, UC San Diego, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes”, 09/30/2010 - Santa Cruz Galaxy Formation Workshop, UC Santa Cruz, “Galaxy Formation with Self-consistently Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes”, 08/17/2010 [link] - HIPACC Summer School on Galaxy Formation, UC-HIPACC, “Galaxy Formation using Enzo with Properly Modeled Stars and Massive Black Holes”, 07/28/2010 [link] - Santa Cruz Galaxy Formation Workshop, UC Santa Cruz, “Galaxy Mergers and Evolution with Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, 08/19/2009 [link] - Cosmology In Northern California Meeting (CINC09), UC Santa Cruz, “Galaxy Mergers and Evolution with Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, 05/15/2009 [link] - American Physical Society April Meeting, Session G8 - Plasma Astrophysics of Clusters of Galaxies, Denver, “Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive Mesh Refinement: Star Formation and Hot Gas Outflow”, 05/03/2009 [link] - JILA Astrophysics Lunch Talk, CU Boulder, “Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, 05/01/2009 [link] [slides] - Bay Area Star Formation Workshop, Stanford University, “Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, 11/14/2008 [link] - KIPAC Tea Talk, Stanford University, “Galaxy Mergers with Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, 11/07/2008 [link] - KIPAC Tea Talk, Stanford University, “Simulating Galaxies on Adaptive Mesh Refinement”, 04/24/2007 If any question, please send me an e-mail at: me@jihoonkim.orghttp://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/CV.pdfhttp://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/CV.pdfhttp://www.jihoonkim.orgmailto:me@jihoonkim.orgmailto:mornkr@ucolick.org?subject=http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6988http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:1210.6988http://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/RTF2_draft.pdfhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3361http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:1210.3361http://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/RTF_draft.pdfhttp://kipac.stanford.edu/kipac/tidbits2012/?GMChttp://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8321http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:1210.8321http://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/LSB_draft.pdfhttp://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4007http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:1106.4007http://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/GF_draft.pdfhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0902.3001http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?arXiv:0902.3001http://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/GM_draft.pdfhttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/~tabel/CD/KCD/Theory/Entries/2009/6/15_Fireworks_in_the_Sky__Galaxy_Collisions.htmlhttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/~kaehler/homepage/visualizations//galaxies.htmlhttp://purl.stanford.edu/sn485xn1518http://books.google.com/books?id=6g5kohFBOBQChttp://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/jihoonkim-thesis.pdfhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009APS..APR.G8009Khttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AIPC..990..429Khttp://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/Proceedings_083107.pdfhttp://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/Poster_071507.pdfhttp://www.agorasimulations.orghttp://www.agorasimulations.orghttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/~kaehler/homepage/visualizations//galaxies.htmlhttps://news.slac.stanford.edu/features/turning-data-wild-rides-through-dark-domeshttp://kipac-prod.stanford.edu:/collab/research/ac/viz/vizlabshows/http://today.slac.stanford.edu/a/2008/05-19.htmhttp://today.slac.stanford.edu/feature/2008/kipac-vislab.asphttp://kipac.stanford.edu/collab/seminars/cosmology/2013/cosmology_may20http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/GalaxyWorkshop2012.htmlhttp://cosmology.kasi.re.kr/WKYC2012/WKYC.htmlhttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/slac/sass/http://kipac.stanford.edu/collab/seminars/teatalks/Summer11/040811/http://www.astro.ucsc.edu/fall_2010_flashhttp://www.princeton.edu/astro/news-events/http://astro.berkeley.edu/tac/seminars.htmlhttp://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/UCB_102510.pdfhttp://research.pbsci.ucsc.edu/astro/calendar/http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~astrogroup/events.htmlhttp://www.astro.caltech.edu/~npk/tea/index_tea.phphttp://hipacc.ucsc.edu/GalaxyWorkshop2010.htmlhttp://hipacc.ucsc.edu/html/2010SummerSchool.htmlhttp://www.ucolick.org/~dutton/SCGF09/SCGF_program.htmlhttp://sirius.ucsc.edu/users/serena/CINC09/program.htmlhttp://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR09/SessionIndex2/?SessionEventID=102058http://rocinante.colorado.edu/~seminar/http://www.ucolick.org/~mornkr/webpics/JILA%20Lunch%20050109.pdfhttp://kipac.stanford.edu/collab/seminars/star-formation-mini-workshophttp://kipac.stanford.edu/collab/seminars/teatalks/08Fall/2008117mailto:me@jihoonkim.org?subject=shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12shapeimage_2_link_13shapeimage_2_link_14shapeimage_2_link_15shapeimage_2_link_16shapeimage_2_link_17shapeimage_2_link_18shapeimage_2_link_19shapeimage_2_link_20shapeimage_2_link_21shapeimage_2_link_22shapeimage_2_link_23shapeimage_2_link_24shapeimage_2_link_25shapeimage_2_link_26shapeimage_2_link_27shapeimage_2_link_28shapeimage_2_link_29shapeimage_2_link_30shapeimage_2_link_31shapeimage_2_link_32shapeimage_2_link_33shapeimage_2_link_34shapeimage_2_link_35shapeimage_2_link_36shapeimage_2_link_37shapeimage_2_link_38shapeimage_2_link_39shapeimage_2_link_40shapeimage_2_link_41shapeimage_2_link_42shapeimage_2_link_43shapeimage_2_link_44shapeimage_2_link_45shapeimage_2_link_46shapeimage_2_link_47shapeimage_2_link_48shapeimage_2_link_49shapeimage_2_link_50shapeimage_2_link_51shapeimage_2_link_52shapeimage_2_link_53shapeimage_2_link_54shapeimage_2_link_55shapeimage_2_link_56shapeimage_2_link_57shapeimage_2_link_58