Cornell University
Department of Astronomy
516 Space Sciences
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: 607-255-9020
Email: deneva [AT] astro.cornell.edu
Web: http://astro.cornell.edu/~deneva
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• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• Ph.D. in Astronomy, expected graduation: 2009.
  M.S. in Astronomy, September 2006.
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• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
• B.A. in Astronomy and Computer Science, May 2003.

Pulsar searching and timing, periodicity and single pulse search algorithms, pulsars near the Galactic Center, neutron star populations, pulsar-black hole binary models.

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Graduate Research Assistant, 2004-present (Advisor: Jim Cordes)
• The Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey (PALFA): radio observation, data processing, software development, database access web tool development.
• Rotating Radio Transient (RRAT) statistics, detectability and population modelling.
• Galactic Center pulsar survey with the Green Bank Telescope.
• Arecibo 327 MHz drift search for high-latitude pulsars.
• Binary pulsar acceleration search and single pulse search algorithms.
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• Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, PR
Research Assistant, Summer 2002 (Advisor: Paulo Freire)
• Determination of binary pulsar orbital parameters based on a new time-independent method.
• Pulsar searching and timing techniques.
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• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Research Assistant, 2000-2003 (Advisor: James Lombardi)
• Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of neutron star collisions and mergers.
• LIGO gravitational wave signal template generation.
• SPH simulations of blue straggler formation and interior.
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• Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Research Assistant, Summer 2001 (Advisor: Kathryn Johnston)
• Spheroidal galaxy modelling.
• Investigation of dwarf spheroidal galaxy properties and dark matter halo structure.

• Arecibo Telescope: PALFA survey observing (>100 hours), 327 MHz drift mode (>10 hours), Single-Dish Summer School
• Green Bank Telescope: X-band and C-band Galactic Center pulsar survey (>100 hours)
• Very Large Array: Interferometry Summer School

• National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2007)
NAIC/Arecibo Observatory
• Graduate School Conference Travel Grant (2006)
Cornell University
• 2nd prize, National Virtual Observatory Summer School software development competition (2005)
National Virtual Observatory
• Lucy Kellogg English Prize for excellence in Physics (2003)
Vassar College
• Phi Beta Kappa (2003-present)
• Sigma Xi, Associate Member (2003-present)

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2004-Spring 2005
• Writing in the Majors: teaching lectures, grading essays, advising students; completed the training course for teaching writing classes from the John S. Knight Institude for Writing in the Disciplines.
• Our Solar System: teaching labs and sections, advising students, grading homeworks and exams.

• C/C++, FORTRAN, MATLAB
• PHP, HTML, csh
• Linux, Unix, Windows
• Fluent spoken and written English, Bulgarian; fair Spanish, Russian

• Refereed
• Lorimer, D. R., Stairs, I. H., Freire, P. C., Cordes, J. M., Camilo, F., Faulkner, A. J., Lyne, A. G., Nice, D. J., Ransom, S. M., Arzoumanian, Z., Manchester, R. N., Champion, D. J., van Leeuwen, J., Mclaughlin, M. A., Ramachandran, R., Hessels, J. W., Vlemmings, W., Deshpande, A. A., Bhat, N. D., Chatterjee, S., Han, J. L., Gaensler, B. M., Kasian, L., Deneva, J. S., Reid, B., Lazio, T. J., Kaspi, V. M., Crawford, F., Lommen, A. N., Backer, D. C., Kramer, M., Stappers, B. W., Hobbs, G. B., Possenti, A., D’Amico, N., Burgay, M. Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA. II. The Young, Highly Relativistic Binary Pulsar J1906+0746, 2006, ApJ, 640, 428
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• Cordes, J. M., Freire, P. C. C., Lorimer, D. R., Camilo, F., Champion, D. J., Nice, D. J., Ramachandran, R., Hessels, J. W. T., Vlemmings, W., van Leeuwen, J., Ransom, S. M., Bhat, N. D. R., Arzoumanian, Z., McLaughlin, M. A., Kaspi, V. M., Kasian, L., Deneva, J. S., Reid, B., Chatterjee, S., Han, J. L., Backer, D. C., Stairs, I. H., Deshpande, A. A., Faucher-Gigure, C.-A. Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA. I. Survey Strategy and First Discoveries, 2006, ApJ, 637, 446
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• Lombardi, J. C., Thrall, A. P., Deneva, J. S., Fleming, S. W., Grabowski, P. E. Modelling Collision Products of Triple-Star Mergers, 2003, MNRAS, 345, 762
  
• Proceedings
• Deneva, J. S. Pulsar surveys present and future: The Arecibo pulsar-ALFA survey and projected SKA survey, 2006, Max Planck Institute Report 291, 52
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• Arms, W. Y., Aya, S., Calimlim, M., Cordes, J. M., Deneva, J. S., Dmitriev, P., Gehrke, J., Gibbons, L., Jones, C. D., Kuznetsov, V., Lifka, D., Riedewald, M., Riley, D., Ryd, A., Sharp, G. J. Three Case Studies of Large-Scale Data Flows, 2006, Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Workflow and Data Flow for Scientific Applications
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• Calimlim, M., Cordes, J. M., Demers, A. J., Deneva, J. S., Gehrke, J., Kifer, D., Riedewald, M., Shanmugasundaram, J. A Vision for PetaByte Data Management and Analysis Services for the Arecibo Telescope, 2004, IEEE Data Eng. Bulletin, 27, 12
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• Deneva, J. S. Determining the Orbital Parameters of Binary Pulsars: Elliptical Systems, 2002, Proc. of the KNAC Research Symposium
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• Deneva, J. S. Spherical Galaxy Models with Light and Dark Matter Halos, 2001, Proc. of the KNAC Research Symposium
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• Deneva, J. S. Fatal Attraction: Modelling Binary Neutron Stars, 2000, Proc. of the KNAC Research Symposium
  
• Posters
• Deneva, J. S., Cordes, J. M., Lazio, T. J., Bhat, R., Chatterjee, S., Ransom, S. M., Bower, G., Vlemmings, W., Demorest, P., Backer, D. C. First Results from a Galactic Center Search for Pulsars and Transients:A Rotating Radio Transient Candidate, 2007, AAS 209, 15908D
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• Lazio, J., Deneva, J. S., Bower, G. C., Cordes, J. M., Hyman, Scott D., Backer, D. C., Bhat, R., Chatterjee, S., Demorest, P., Ransom, S. M., Vlemmings, W. Radio pulsars and transients in the Galactic center, 2006, JPhCS, 54, 110
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• Deneva, J. S., Cordes, J.M. Assessment of Pulsar and Rotating Radio Transient Detection Rates for the Arecibo Pulsar-ALFA Survey, 2006, AAS 208, 0406D
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• Deneva, J. S., Shannon, R. M. The Pulsar ALFA Survey and an NVO-Enabled Search for Pulsar Jets and Bowshocks, 2005, AAS 207, 18701D