Christina River Institute

Mark V. Hurwitz

2778 Summit Drive

Burlingame, CA 94010

Home Phone (650) 548-9412

Work Phone (510) 642-1579

Email markh@ssl.berkeley.edu

EDUCATION

Rice University

B.A. cum laude, Physics, May 1982

Sigma Pi Sigma; College Master’s Award for Service

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D., Astronomy, May 1990

NASA Graduate Student Fellowship; Uhl Award

J.D. (Boalt Hall) with Certificate in Law and Technology, May 2000

California Law Review; Berkeley Technology Law Journal

SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS

Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley:

Senior Fellow and Associate Research Astronomer 1993 - Present

Serve as Principal Investigator (P.I.) or Co-Investigator (Co-I.) for NASA-supported research programs. Supervise postdoctoral scientists, technicians, engineers, and students. Publish results of research in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Support research group through peer-reviewed proposals. Current primary programs and program-specific duties:

P.I., Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrograph. Develop a new satellite-borne extreme ultraviolet spectrograph for NASA’s University-class explorer program. Funding for FY 99 - 03: Approx. $15 M.

P.I., Silicon Diffraction Gratings for Ultraviolet Applications. Fabricate diffraction gratings via interferometric lithography on Silicon wafers followed by anisotropic wet etching. Funding for FY 98 - 00: $270 K.

P.I., ORFEUS Project Distribute reduced scientific data from spectrograph to worldwide community of guest investigators. Funding for FY 96 - 98: $650 K.

Assistant Research Astronomer 1990 - 1993

Served as Project Scientist, P.I., or Co-I for NASA-supported research programs.

Project Scientist and P.I., Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrograph (ORFEUS) Project. ORFEUS is an astronomical spectrograph flown aboard space shuttle Columbia in 1996 and Discovery in 1993. Designed spectrograph using custom optical raytracing software, supervised team of mechanical and electrical engineers and technicians during fabrication of instrument, aligned and calibrated instrument in vacuum tank facility, led 12-person flight operations team at Kennedy Space Center, managed budget, schedule, and logistics throughout project.

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, presented in November 1997 by the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Old Executive Office Building, Washington D.C.

American Astronomical Society

International Astronomical Union

NASA Sounding Rocket Working Group 1997 - 2000

COMMUNITY

Larkin Street Youth Center, San Francisco, California

Board of Directors 1993 - 1996

Volunteer 1988 - 1993

Mark V. Hurwitz’ Publications: July 1998 - October 2001

Peer-Reviewed Publications in Astrophysics

Timothy P. Sasseen, Mark V. Hurwitz, William Van Dyke Dixon, and Sabine Airieau, A New Measurement of the Average Far Ultraviolet Extinction Curve, to appear in Ap. J., astro-ph/0109454 (2001).

William Van Dyke Dixon, Jean Dupuis, and Mark V. Hurwitz, Final Calibration of the Berkeley Extreme and Far-Ultraviolet Spectrometer on the ORFEUS-SPAS I and II Missions, to appear in P.A.S.P., astro-ph/0109310 (2001).

William Van Dyke Dixon, Shauna Sallmen, Mark V. Hurwitz, and Richard Lieu, Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Detections of Diffuse Galactic O VI Emission Toward the Coma and Virgo Clusters Ap. J. v. 552L, 69 (2001).

William Van Dyke Dixon, Shauna Sallmen, Mark V. Hurwitz, and Richard Lieu, Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Limits on Far-Ultraviolet Emission from Warm Gas in Clusters of Galaxies , Ap. J. v. 550L, 25 (2001).

Dae-Hee Lee, Kyoung-Wook Min, William Van Dyke Dixon, Mark V. Hurwitz, Kwang-Sun Ryu, Kwang-Il Seon, and Jerry Edelstein, Observations of Molecular Hydrogen in the Carina Nebula, Ap. J. v. 545, 885 (2000).

Kwang-Sun Ryu, William Van Dyke Dixon, Mark V. Hurwitz, Kwang-Il Seon, Kyoung-Wook Min, and Jerry Edelstein, ORFEUS II Echelle Observations of Molecular Hydrogen in the Galactic Halo, Ap. J. v. 529, 251 (2000).

Mark V. Hurwitz, Far-Ultraviolet Fluorescence of Molecular Hydrogen in IC 63, Ap. J. v. 500L, 67 (1998).

Mark V. Hurwitz et al., ORFEUS-II Far-Ultraviolet Observations of 3C 273: Interstellar and Intergalactic Absorption Lines, Ap. J. v. 500L, 61 (1998).

David H. Cohen, Mark V. Hurwitz, Joseph P. Cassinelli, and Stuart Bowyer, ORFEUS-SPAS -II Extreme-Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of e CMa (B2 II), Ap. J. v. 500L, 51 (1998).

Jean Dupuis, Stephane Vennes, Pierre Chayer, Mark V. Hurwitz, and Stuart Bowyer, Properties of the Hot DA White Dwarf HZ43 Based on Far-Ultraviolet ORFEUS-SPAS -II Observations, Ap. J. v. 500L, 51 (1998).

Stephane Vennes, Jean Dupuis, Pierre Chayer, Elisha P. Polomski, William Van Dyke Dixon, and Mark V. Hurwitz, The Complete Spectral Energy Distribution and the Atmospheric Properties of the Helium-Rich White Dwarf MCT 0501-289, Ap. J. v. 500L, 41 (1998).

William Van Dyke Dixon and Mark V. Hurwitz, ORFEUS-SPAS II Observations of the Ultraviolet-Bright Star Barnard 29 in M13, Ap. J. v. 500L, 29 (1998).

Immo Appenzeller et al., ORFEUS-II Far-Ultraviolet Observations of 3C 273: The Intrinsic Spectrum, Ap. J. v. 500L, 9 (1998).

Mark V. Hurwitz et al., Far-Ultraviolet Performance of the Berkeley Spectrograph During the ORFEUS-SPAS II Mission, Ap. J. v. 500L, 1 (1998).

William Van Dyke Dixon, Mark V. Hurwitz, and Stuart Boywer, ORFEUS-I Observations of Molecular Hydrogen in the Galactic Disk, Ap. J. v. 492, 569 (1998).

Other Publications in Astrophysics

Approximately eight papers appearing in conference proceedings and similar volumes during the specified time period..

Peer-Reviewed Legal Publications

Mark V. Hurwitz, YBM Magnex v. International Trade Commission, 14 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 191, 207 (1999).

Mark V. Hurwitz, Quantum "Encryption," Proc. 10th Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy 303 (2000) (among top 3 student publications).