Mario Juric - Curriculum Vitae

Time of last modification : December 15, 2001.
Location of this document : http://alumni.fizika.org/~majuric/cv.html

Personal information

Name and surname:	Mario Juric
Date of birth:	9th Feb. 1979
Address:	Nova cesta 142/1, HR-10000, Zagreb, Croatia
Telephone:	++385 1 3095 649 ++385 98 736 550
E-mail:	majuric@astro.hr
Website:	http://alumni.fizika.org/~majuric
Marital status	Single
Citizenship:	Croatian
Native language:	Croatian

Education

Elementary school:	Julije Klovic, Zagreb, Croatia (1985-1993)
Highschool:	XV. Gimnazija, Zagreb, Croatia (1993-1997)
University:	University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics (1997-)
Current status:	Undergraduate student of physics (theoretical physics and astrophysics), senior year
GPA:	4.94 (on 1 to 5 scale)

Languages

Fluent in English, both in oral and written form. Studied English for 10 years
Limited knowledge of Latin. Studied Latin for 6 years

Computer skills

Fluent in C/C++, FORTRAN and Java
Administering and developing for Oracle8i (3 years) and MySQL (2 years)
Practical knowledge of IRAF, Mathematica 4.0 and SuperMongo
Knowledge of and experience with VRML 2.0
UNIX (Linux) and Windows NT/2000 administration

Achievements/Awards

1st place in national astronomy contests in 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996.
The City of Zagreb Scholarship Award: 1996-2001
1st place in 1994-1995 ACSL (American Computer Science League) contests (intermediate-5 division)
1st team place in 1995 ACSL finals (Cypress Creek High, Houston, TX, USA), as a member of XV. Gimnazija's 5-member team (intermediate-5 division)
Awarded, together with Korado Korlevic of Visnjan Observatory, the 1999 Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comet Korlevic-Juric (P/1999 DN3).
In 1999 awarded the University of Zagreb Rector's Award for work on asteroid observation strategies at Visnjan Observatory entitled "Visnjan Observing Strategy - a new method for scheduling and optimization of astrometric observations of asteroids"
In 2000 awarded the University of Zagreb Best Physics Student award for academic year 1999/2000
In November 2000 elected to a two-year term as the student body representative in the faculty council

Work

Member of the Editorial Board of the Croatian astronomical magazine Bolid (1994-1996)
Founder and coordinator (1995-1997) of Virtual Reality Application and Development Group (VR ADG). VRADG was mainly involved in exploring the uses of VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) version 1.0, and cooperated on development of VRML 2.0 (now ISO-IEC 14772-11997 standard). VRADG was supported by CARNet (Croatian Academic and Research Network) throughout it's existence.
Attended Visnjan School of Astronomy from 1993 to 1996 as a student, 1997 and subsequent years as an instructor
Worked on the Visnjan Observatory's "Visnjan Automatic Telescope" project (1996-1997)
Have been a part of joint Visnjan Observatory/ICSC-World Laboratory program "Education of students in basic sciences" (code T-1 A/I), first as a student, then as an instructor
Designed and implemented an automated asteroid detection and measurement system at the Visnjan Observatory (1998).
Authored the RINGS software package, VOID and VOID 2 databases for efficient automated acquisition, processing and storing of asteroid information.
With Korado Korlevic, a discoverer of comet 'Korlevic-Juric' (P/1999 DN3), and over a thousand of other asteroids.
Currently working on V2 Web , a web based system for 3D visualization and data mining of asteroid information. Also developing 3Xplorer, a general query/3D visualization tool for point source catalogues (2000-...)
Project leader of AccessGrid Teleconferencing Sessions between the University of Zagreb, Physics department and Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky (2001)
Project leader of STUDNet project - physics student computer network at the Physics department, University of Zagreb (2001)
Spent 30 days in September, 2001 with SDSS team at Princeton, working on identifying SDSS moving objects (2001)

Conferences

3rd Science Meeting of the Croatian Physical Society, Zagreb, Croatia, December 5-7, 2001.
Asteroids 2001, Palermo, Italy, June 11-15, 2001.
2nd Meeting for GAIA photometry, Asiago Observatory, Italy, October 8, 2000
CARNet Users Conference 2000, Zagreb, Croatia, September 24-26, 2000
Asteroids, Comets, Meteors, Cornell University, July 26-30, 1999.
The Brijuni Conference '98 - End of century state of science, Brijuni, Croatia, September 7-11, 1998
MIPRO'96, Rijeka, Croatia, May 20-25, 1996

Publications

Vucic R. et. al, VirtualMIOC - Applied VRML Technology, Proceedings of MIPRO'96, Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems, Rijeka, Croatia, 1996
Korlevic K., and Juric M., Visnjan Observatory NEO Followup , poster presentation, IAU Asteroids-Comets-Meteors Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1999
Juric M., and Korlevic K., Visnjan Observatory Image Database 2 , Proceedings of CUC 2000 Conference, Zagreb, 2000
Korlevic K., and Juric M,, Visnjan Observatory Asteroids Followup Program 1995-2000, Asteroids 2001 Conference, Palermo, 2001
Juric M., et al., Comparison of Asteroids Observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with a Catalog of Known Asteroids, submitted to AJ
Published a number of measurements in the Minor Planet Center's MPEC circulars

Additional information

Visnjan observatory:	http://www.astro.hr
V2 Web:	http://void.astro.hr
3xplorer (experimental)	http://void.astro.hr/3xplorer
CARNet VRML (VRADG website):	http://pubwww.srce.hr/vrml
STUDNet	http://fizika.org