Jakob Bak Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA Tel: (740) 593-1701. Fax: (740) 593-0433. E-mail: bak@jeans.phy.ohiou.edu. URL: http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~bak/. Work Permissions: EU and USA Education * Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, March 2000 Dissertation: Retrograde Minor Mergers and Counter Rotating Cores * Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Bachelors of Arts in Physics and Economics (double major), May 1993 Work Experience Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA 1995-present Research Assistant Simulated the formation of counter rotating cores in galaxies * Determined that satellite accretion is unlikely to form counter rotating cores * Wrote and ran original research code on single and multiprocessor supercomputers. * Developed extensive analytical tools now in use by other researchers Calculated the 3D shape distribution of elliptical galaxies * Determined that elliptical galaxies are rarely triaxial * Implemented Monte Carlo integration methods to determine elliptical galaxy shapes * Developed an iterative Bayesian statistical method to combine likelihood distributions Published multiple papers in both refereed and non-refereed papers (list available) Presented research at conferences worldwide (list available) 1994-1995 Teaching Assistant Taught undergraduate physics laboratory classes ranging in size from 10-15 students Graded homework for graduate level physics course Royce Investment Group Inc., Woodbury, NY, USA 1993-1994 Registered Representative, Extensive training in securities trading Assisted in bringing two companies public Selected Publications (complete publication list available) Bak, J. & Statler, T. S. 2000, " The Intrinsic Shape Distribution of a Sample of Elliptical Galaxies ", Accepted by Astronomical Journal for publication in July 2000. Bak, Jakob 1999, "Counter Rotating Cores Formed by Sinking Satellite Galaxies " in Galaxy Dynamics, D. R. Merritt, M. Valluri, and J. A. Sellwood, eds. (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific). Bak, J., Statler, T. S. 1997, " The Distribution of Elliptical Galaxy Shapes" in The Second Stromlo Symposium: The nature of Elliptical Galaxies, M. Arnaboldi, G. S. Da Costa, and P. Saha, eds. (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific). Skills Computer: Programming (Fortran and C/++), Parallel Computing (HPF and MPI), Unix, Linux, HTML, Java, Shell script, General office software (MS Word, Excel, etc) Financial: Working knowledge of Equities Trading, and some knowledge of Derivatives Pricing Theory and Portfolio Management Languages: Fluent in English and Danish, some French Professional Memberships Sigma Xi AAS (American astronomical Society) -Awarded stipend to present research at 1999 Division of Dynamical Astronomy meeting