August 24, 1999
Mr Karlis BERZINS CURRICULUM VITAE
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Ventspils Internatiolnal Radio Astronomy Center (VIRAC)
Akademijas laukums 1, Riga, LV-1050, LATVIA
phone : (+371) 722 8321 e-mail : kberzins@acad.latnet.lv
fax : (+371) 782 1153 URL : http://www.lanet.lv/~kberzins
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Date and place of birth: July 12, 1973 Riga
Nationality: Latvian
PID: 120773-10110
Spouse: Vita BERZINA
EDUCATION:
* University of Latvia, Department of Physics and Mathematics,
Ph.D. studies in cosmology (since 1998);
* University of Copenhagen, M.Sc. degree in astronomy (1995-1998)
* University of Latvia, Department of Physics and Mathematics,
M.Sc. degree in Physics (1997-1998);
* University of Latvia, Department of Physics and Mathematics
(majoring in theoretical physics and astronomy), First Honor
Bachelor diploma (1991-1997);
* University of Wales, College of Cardiff, Department of Physics
and Astronomy (majoring in astrophysics) (winter 1994);
* Riga Technical University, Faculty of Engineerbuildings (majoring
in geodesy) (1991-1993);
* Riga Secondary School No 1 (1988-1991);
* Riga Secondary School No 6 (1980-1988).
ACADEMICAL ACTIVITIES:
* IAU Colloquium No. 174 on "Small Galaxy Groups" presenting a poster
(June 13-18, 1999, Turku);
* Visit of the Osservatorio di Astrofisico di Catania by financial support
of Consorzio Nazionale per l'Astronomia e l'Astrofisica;
* The second physics seminar in honor of F. Pianca, giving a talk
(Dec 28, 1998, Riga);
* Teaching Cosmology at the University of Latvia, Department of
Physics and Mathematics for M.Sc. program "Physics and technologies
for sustainable development" (1998);
* Giving a colloquium on "Studies of Substructure of Clusters of
Galaxies: Methodology" at the University of Copenhagen (Aug 26,
1998, Copenhagen);
* VIRAC Scientific Advisory Council, the Second meeting, giving
a talk (Jun 15-16, 1998, Riga, Ventspils and Irbene);
* Physics seminar in honor of F. Pianca, giving a talk (Dec 30, 1997,
Riga);
* IX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics "Astrophysics
with Large Databases in the Internet Age", giving a talk and
presenting a poster (Nov 1997, Tenerife);
* Giving a seminar on "Clusters of Galaxies: Their Evolution,
Structure and Dynamics" at the University of Latvia (June 1997);
* Cosmic Microwave Background workshop (May 1997, Copenhagen);
* Giving a talk on "Substructure of Clusters of Galaxies" at the
University of Copenhagen (February 1997);
* Nordic - Baltic graduate student meeting on Extragalactic Astronomy,
giving a talk (January 1997, Seili, Finland);
* NATO ASI School "Generation of Large Scale Cosmological Structures",
giving a talk (November 1996, Erice, Italy);
* Giving a seminar on "Microwave Background Radiation and Structure
Formation" at the University of Latvia (June 1996);
* Nordic Symposium on Galaxy Evolution, presenting a poster (June 1996,
Copenhagen);
* Research Course "Optical Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow" (June 1996,
Hven, Sweden);
* Relativistic Astrophysics Conference (January 1996, Copenhagen);
* Nordic and Baltic Summer School on Cosmology (summer 1995, Tartu, Estonia);
* Research projects on Large Scale Structure of the Universe at VIRAC
(since 1995).
PUBLICATIONS AND POSTERS:
* Berzins K "Isolated Galaxy Triplets in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey"
(poster at IAU Colloquium No. 174 on Small Galaxy Groups, to appear in proceedings);
* Bervalds E. and Berzins K "Energetical properties of the topological
invariants of real space", Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical
Sciences, 1998 N6;
* "Substructure of Clusters of Galaxies: Methodology", Master Thesis
at the University of Latvia and the University of Copenhagen (1998);
* "The Non-parametric Method in Detection of Multimodality of Datasets",
poster at IX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics (1997);
* "Substructure in Clusters of Galaxies" in M.Hanski (ed.), Proceedings of
the Nordic-Baltic graduate student meeting on extragalactic astronomy,
Seili, Finland, 27.-29.1.1997, Tuorla Observatory Reports, 179, 5-8 (1997);
* "The Substructure in Clusters of Galaxies" in D.N.Schramm &
P.Galeotti (eds.), Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure,
Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 283-288 (1997);
* "The Substructure in the Galaxy Cluster A119", poster at Nordic
Symposium on Galaxy Evolution (1996);
* Popular-scientific articles in "Zvaigznota Debess" ("Starry Sky") and
"Astronomiskaja Kalendara" ("Astronomical Calendar") in Latvian.
SPECIAL AWARDS:
* New scientist award of the Latvian Academy of Science (1999);
* Awarded PhD Grant of the Latvian Concil of Science (1998);
* First Honor Bachelor Diploma in theoretical physics at the University
of Latvia (1997).
* Awarded two stipendiums of Danish Rectors' Conference for studies at
Astronomical Observatory, Niels Bohr Institute, the University of
Copenhagen for years 1995/1996 and1996/1997.
ACTIVITIES:
* Twelve years folk and ball dance lessons, competitions;
* Member of the Latvian Astronomical Society (since 1986),
board member (since 1999);
* Member of the Baltic International Educational Center "Cooperation for
Peace" (since its foundation in 1991-1995), board member (1991-1994);
* Member of the fraternity Lacuania (since 1992);
* Organizing Astronomical Olympiads for pupils and Annual Star Parties
of Latvia;
* Sky Shows at Astronomical Tower of the University of Latvia.
EMPLOYMENT:
* Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center, (since 1997);
* The Radioastrophysics Observatory of Latvian Academy of Sciences (1996);
* YMCA Summer Camp Whittle, P.O. Box 70, Fawnskin, CA 92333, USA
(summers 1993, 1994, 1995);
* Laboratory assistant at the Astronomical Observatory of the
University of Latvia (1991-1995).
LANGUAGES: Latvian, Russian, English
FUTURE PLANS:
To work on Ph.D. Thesis "Substructure and Dynamics of Clusters of Galaxies:
Statistical Analysis".
In near future:
* To take part in Nordic-Baltic Research Course in Applied Astrophysical
Photometry, Aug-Sept 1999, Lithuania