Pavel Machalek
PhD Candidate
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

pavel (at) jhu (dot) edu

Skype username: ivanmladek

Welcome to my homepage.
I am currently a PhD Astronomy student at the Johns Hopkins University.

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Research experience
• 2003 Space Telescope Science Institute Summer Intern, Baltimore, MD Supervisor: Kenneth Sembach
• Investigating column densities of highly ionized galactic gas towards selected disk supergiants.


• 2004 - 2006 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Supervisor: Ron Allen
• Investigating mission specifications for the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) PDF Report here
• Investigating the physics of the Radio Emission associated with the large Galactic dust cloud Lynds 1204 PDF Report here


• 2006- Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD Supervisor: Kailash Sahu
• Investiating the distance to binary stars in the Galactic bulge SWEEPS press release



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Conferences and Presentations

• August 2002 Talk - Space Telescope Science Institute Summer Intern Presentation
• May 2005 Conference Attendee- STScI May Symposium, Baltimore, MD: A Decade of Extrasolar Planets around Normal Stars
• June 2005 Poster - 206th AAS Meeting in Minneapolis, MN Synthesis Imaging Detection Limits with SIM
• July 2005 Conference Attendee- Michelson Summer Workshop: Discovering New Worlds Through Astrometry
• January 2006 Poster - 207th AAS Meeting in Washington, DC Radio Continuum emission from Lynd's Dark Cloud L1204
• April 2006 Talk - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD: Microlensing Detection of Extra-solar Planets



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Classwork Literature Reviews

• Active Galactic Nuclei class, Prof. Krolik: Disk-driven Outflows in AGNs: Observations and Models (PDF)
• Active Galactic Nuclei class, Prof. Krolik: Cloud model of the Broad Line Region (BLR) of AGNs (PDF)
• Stellar Evolution Class, Prof. Wyse: The Morphology of the Horizontal Branch of Resolved Stellar Populations (PDF)
• Interstellar Medium and Fluid Dynamics Class, Prof. Neufeld: Organic Molecules in Comets and Meteorites and life on Earth (PDF)

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Personal
Travelling in India (in Czech)
Political Thinking Blog
Hubble Cuddle video installation photos
Burning Man 2007
Photos from the Potapsco Valley State park trip, 2007
Photos from the Dolly Sods Trip, 2007
Galapagos, Ecuador, 2007
Catskills,NY, 2008