Bridges to the Future; Celebrating 26 Years of Increasing Diversity in STEM

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DATE AND TIME

Wed, September 26, 2018

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM PDT

Interview in S.F. Examiner on the Great American Solar Eclipse on Monday, August 21, 2017.

Live coverage of Great American Solar Eclipse on KTVU (Ch. 2 Oakland), Monday, August 21, 2017.  I was the in-studio scientist during the morning show "The 9" talking about the eclipse as it occurred.

1. Barranco, J.A., Pei, S., Marcus, P.S., 2018, “Zombie Vortex Instability. III. Persistence with Nonuniform Stratification and Radiative Damping.” Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.

Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Astronomy, 08/2018-present

Physics & Astronomy Major Advisor, 08/2010 - present; Undergraduate Coordinator for Major Advising, 08/2015 - present

Provost Search Committee, 08/2017 - 05/2018

Administrative Review Committee for Dean of Faculty Affairs, 01/2016 - 05/2016

Chair, Search Committee for Asst./Assoc. Professor of Physics/Astronomy Education Research, 08/2015-05/2016

College of Science & Engineering Dean Search Committee, 08/2014 - 05/2015

My field of research is computational astrophysical & geophysical fluid dynamics; that is, I study the motion of fluids on the scale of planets, stars, and nebulae.  Such flows tend to be highly nonlinear, chaotic and turbulent, and so practical solutions require supercomputer simulations.  Here at SFSU, we have a small cluster called SF-STAR (Supercomputer Facility for Space & Terrestrial Advanced Research).  I co-direct this facility with Professor Andisheh Mahdavi.

Fall 2018:

Physics 330: Analytic Mechanics -- Syllabus

Spring 2018:

Physics 440/740: Computational Physics -- Syllabus

Classes taught previously:

Astronomy 400/700: Stellar Astrophysics -- Syllabus from Fall 2017

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification