Kaisa E. Young

Education -
2000 - present  University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy Department
                               NASA Graduate Student Research Fellow
                               Graduate Research Assistant
                               Teaching Assistant

1996 - 2000  University of Missouri - Columbia
                         B.S. in Physics, Minor in Mathematics

Publications -
All publications prior to January 2003 are under the name Kaisa E. Mueller.

Papers -
Evans II, N. J., Allen, L. E., Blake, G. A., Boogert, A. C. A., Bourke, T., Harvey, P. M., Kessler, J. E., Koerner, D. W.,
             Lee, C. W., Mundy, L. G., Myers, P. C., Padgett, D. L., Pontoppidan, K., Sargent, A. I., Stapelfelt, K. R.,
             van Dishoeck, E. F., Young, C. H., Young, K. E. 2003, From Molecular Cores to Planet-Forming Disks:
             A SIRTF Legacy Program, PASP, 115, 965.
Mueller, K. E. & Graham, J. A. Young Stars Associated with the Reflection Nebula NGC 2626. 2000, PASP, 112, 1426.
Mueller, K. E., Shirley, Y. L., Evans II, N. J., & Jacobson, H. R. The Physical Conditions for Massive Star Formation:
            Dust Continuum Maps and Modeling. 2002, ApJS, 143, 469.
Shirley, Y. L., Evans II, N. J., Young, K. E., Knez, C. K., & Jaffe, D. T. A CS J=5-4 Mapping Survey Towards High
             Mass Star Forming Cores Associated with Water Masers. 2003, ApJS, 149, 375.
Young, K. E., Evans II, N. J., Glenn, J., Enoch, M. and the Bolocam team, Bolocam Dust Continuum Observations of
             Ophiuchus. 2005, in preparation
Young, K. E., Harvey, P. M., Brooke, T. Y., Chapman, N., Kauffmann, J., Bertoldi, F., Lai, S.-P., Alcala, J., Bourke, T.,
            Spiesman, W., Allen, L. E., Blake, G. A., Evans II, N. J, Koerner, D. W., Mundy, L. G., Myers, P. C., Padgett, D. L.,
            Salinas, A., Sargent, A. I., Staplefledt, K. R., Teuben, P., van Dishoeck, E. F., Wahhaj, Z. The Spitzer c2d Survey
            of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds. I. Chamaeleon II Observed with MIPS. 2005, ApJ, submitted
Young, K. E., Lee, J.-E., Evans II, N. J., Goldsmith, P. F., Doty, S. D. Probing Pre-Protostellar Cores with Formaldehyde.
            2004, ApJ, 614, 252

Conference Proceedings and Posters -
Enoch, M. L., Sargent, A. I., Golwala, S., Glenn, J., Evans II, N. J., Young, K. E. Low Mass Star Formation in Perseus:
             Large Field Mapping at 1 mm with Bolocam. 2003, AAS Meeting 203, #98.06.
Evans II, N. J., Shirley, Y. L., Mueller, K. E., Knez, C. Early Phases and Initial Conditions for Massive Star Formation.
             2002, in Hot Star Workshop III: The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Birth, ed. P. A. Crowther, ASP conf. series,
             267, 17.
Knez, C., Shirley, Y. L., Evans II, N. J., Mueller, K. E., & Jaffe, D. T. A CSJ=7-6 Mapping Survey Towards High Mass
            Star Forming Cores Associated with Water Masers. 2002, in Hot Star Workshop III: The Earliest Phases of
            Massive Star Birth, ed. P. A. Crowther, ASP conf. series, 267, 375.
Lee, J. E., Young, C. H., Shirley, Y. L., Mueller, K. E., & Evans II, N. J. Dust and Molecular Emission from the S235
            Star Forming Region. 2002, in Hot Star Workshop III: The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Birth, ed. P. A.
            Crowther, ASP conf. series, 267, 377.
Mueller, K. E., Shirley Y. L., Evans II, N. J., & Jacobson, H. R. Dust Continuum Observations of Massive Star Forming
            Regions. 2002, in Hot Star Workshop III: The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Birth, ed. P. A. Crowther, ASP
            conf. series, 267, 395.
Mueller, K. E., Shirley Y. L., Evans II, N. J., & Jacobson, H. R. The Physical Conditions for Massive Star Formation:
            Dust Continuum Maps and Modeling, 2002, AAS Meeting 200, #71.02, Bull. of the AAS, 34, 760.
Shirley, Y. L., Evans II, N. J., Mueller, K. E., Knez, C., & Jaffe, D. T. A CSJ=5-4 Mapping Survey Towards High Mass
            Star Forming Cores Associated with Water Masers. 2002, in Hot Star Workshop III: The Earliest Phases of
            Massive Star Birth, ed. P. A. Crowther, ASP conf. series, 267, 417.     
Shirley, Y. L., Mueller, K. E., Young, C. H., & Evans II, N. J. Submillimeter Dust Continuum Studies of Low and High
             Mass Star Formation. 2003, in Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum, eds. J. De Buizer &
             N. S. van derBliek, ASP conf. series, 287, 298.
Young, K. E., Lee, J.-E., Evans II, N. J., Goldsmith, P. F., Doty, S. D. Probing Pre-Protostellar Cores with Formaldehyde.
             2004, AAS Meeting 204, #61.16, Bull. of the AAS, 36, 775.

Research Experience -
Aug 2000 -  Aug 2002    Graduate Research Assistant
Aug 2002 - present         NASA Graduate Student Research Fellow                      
                                     University of Texas at Austin  
                                     Advisor: Neal J. Evans II
                                     Probing the physical conditions of star formation through the dust continuum and formaldehyde.

Jun 1999 - Aug 1999     Summer Research Intern
                                    Carnegie Institution of Washington  
                                    Advisor: John A. Graham
                                    Young stars associated with the reflection nebula NGC 2626.

Aug 1998 - May 1999   Hughes Undergraduate Research Intern
                                    Arts and Science Undergraduate Research Intern
                                    University of Missouri - Columbia
                                    Advisor: Paul Miceli
                                    Sensing the change in magnetic fields around superconductors.

Honors -
NASA Graduate Student Research Fellow, 2002 - present
David Bruton, Jr. Fellow, 2002-2003
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2001
Graduated from University of Missouri summa cum laude and with physics departmental honors, 2000
Member of Phi Beta Kappa, 2000
Member of Phi Kappa Phi, 1999
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, 1999
National Merit Scholar, 1996