Publications on Pubmed

BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE; Celebrating 26 Years of Increasing Diversity in STEM - SEO hosted a celebration including alumni, current students, faculty and staff on September 26, 2018 in the Seven Hills Conference Center at SF State. Professor Bayliss was honored for starting the MS/PhD Bridges program at SF State 26 years ago. A good time was had by all.

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.” The Astrophysical Journal, 869. arXiv:1810.06588.

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.