Chris Purcell

Postdoc Research Assoc.

Physics & Astronomy Dept.

401E Allen Hall

3941 O’Hara St.

Univ. of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh PA, 15260

cpurcell@pitt.edu

Research - simulation of galaxy formation/stability/disruption; analytic

                 formulation of ΛCDM structure and self-interaction; connecting

                 Local Group observation to precision cosmological models

Education - B.S. Physics, magna cum laude,                                

                 M.S. Physics & Astronomy,                                     

                 Ph.D. Physics & Astronomy,                      

Teaching -  Physics 20A: Introduction to Astronomy                

                 Physics 52B: Circuits Lab                                     

                 Physics 3LC: Basic Physics Laboratory                 

                 >100 hours of astronomy outreach to

                 local communities and schools                              

UC-Irvine

Heated Disc Stars in the Stellar Halo

Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine), James S. Bullock (UC Irvine),

Stelios Kazantzidis (Ohio State): 2010, MNRAS, 404, 1711

The Dark Disk of the Milky Way

Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock, Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine): 2009, ApJ, 703, 2775

The Destruction of Thin Stellar Disks via

Cosmologically Common Satellite Accretion Events

Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine), Stelios Kazantzidis (Ohio State),

James S. Bullock (UC Irvine): 2009, ApJ, 694, L98

The Metallicity of Diffuse Intrahalo Light

Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock (UC Irvine),

Andrew R. Zentner (Univ. of Pittsburgh): 2008, MNRAS, 391, 550

Shredded Galaxies as the Source of

Diffuse Intrahalo Light On Varying Scales

Chris W. Purcell, James S. Bullock (UC Irvine),

Andrew R. Zentner (KICP, Univ. of Chicago): 2007, ApJ, 666, 20

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Mergers and Disk Survival in ΛCDM

James S. Bullock, Kyle R. Stewart, Chris W. Purcell (UC Irvine):

2009, IAU Symposium, 254, 85

The Assembly of Galaxy Clusters

Joel C. Berrier, Kyle R. Stewart, James S. Bullock,

Chris W. Purcell, Elizabeth J. Barton (UC Irvine),

Risa H. Wechsler (Stanford): 2009, ApJ, 690, 1292

Stellar Populations across the NGC 4244 Truncated Galactic Disk

R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, D. Radburn-Smith, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown,

J.S. Bullock, S. Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson,

16. P.Goudfrooij, S. Holfeltz, Holwerda, B. W., C. Purcell, Sick, J.,
    

D. Zucker: 2007, ApJ, 667, L49

GHOSTS: The Resolved Stellar Outskirts of Massive Disk Galaxies

R.S. de Jong, A.C. Seth, E.F. Bell, T.M. Brown, J.S. Bullock,

19. S.Courteau, J.J. Dalcanton, H.C. Ferguson, P. Goudfrooij,
    

19. S.Holfeltz, C. Purcell, D. Radburn-Smith, D. Zucker:
    

2007, IAU Symposium, 241, 503

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May 2010: Ph.D. Thesis Defense at UCI: watch now!

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