Erin Wells Bonning - Department of Astronomy, Yale University

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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
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PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
Yale University
◦ Guest Lecturer, Galaxies and Cosmology (undergraduate non-majors),
“Gravitational waves and binary black holes,” Spring 2010, Fall 2011
◦ Guest Lecturer, Gravity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (undergraduate
physics and astronomy majors), “Observations of supermassive black holes,”
Spring 2010
◦ Guest Lecturer, High Energy Astrophysics (graduate students), “Blazars
and astrophysical jets,” Fall 2009
Southwestern University
◦ Instructor, Physics Lab. Introductory physics laboratory for science majors,
Fall 2007.
University of Texas at Austin
◦ Assistant Instructor, Introductory Physical Science I: Mechanics and Heat.
Taught integrated laboratory and lecture based class oriented towards education
majors, 2000–2001
◦ Teaching Assistant, Laboratory for Physics 303K (Engineering Physics I).
Supervised and graded lab work in mechanics, heat, and wave phenomena,
1999–2000
◦ Guest Lecturer, Galaxies, Quasars, & The Universe (undergraduate nonmajors).
Lectured on “Relativity and Black Holes” for classes of over 100
students. Led review sessions in general relativity, Spring 2004 & Fall 2007.
− “Locating the blazar emission site with Fermi variability,” Fermi Cycle 4, PI
M. Georganopoulos
− “Fermi pointed observations and multiwavelength coverage of the quasars
3C 279 and 4C 21.35 during exceptional γ ray flares,” Fermi Cycle 4, PI
M. Errando
− “Measuring AGN black hole masses in the Chandra Deep Fields,” Chandra
Cycle 12, PI M. Urry
− “An X-ray Survey of Stripe 82,” XMM-Newton AO-10, PI M. Urry
− “A Systematic Chandra Survey of AGN in Major Mergers – How many Binary
AGN are out there?” Chandra Cycle 12, PI K. Schawinski
− “SMARTS photometry of bright Fermi blazars,” Fermi Cycle 3, PI C. Bailyn
− “Measuring the high energy emission of millisecond X-ray pulsars in outburst,”
INTEGRAL AO-7, AO-6, AO-5, AO-4, PI M. Falanga
− Referee for Astrophysical Journal, ApJ Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, MNRAS Letters, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y
Astrofísica.
− Proposal Review Panelist for NASA Astrophysics Theory Program, Fermi
Guest Investigator program, Chandra, HST, and Swift.
− Organizer of Yale Department of Astronomy/YCAA Seminar (2009-present)
and journal club (2008-2009).
− Organizer of one-day conference “New England Regional Quasar and AGN
Meeting,” May 2011.