SCAC Members

Advisory Committee
Faculty and Research Staff PostDocs
Grads Close Collaborators

Advisory Committee

UCSD
  • George M. Fuller - Professor of Physics. Working on theoretical astrophysics, principally in the field of nuclear and particle astrophysics.
Sandia
  • Alan Kerstein - Technical Staff. Working on Reacting Flow Research
LLNL
Notre Dame
UCSD
  • Mike Norman - Professor of Physics. Working on Computational astrophysics and cosmology; numerical algorithm and code development, especially for problems in astrophysical fluid dynamics (gas dynamics, MHD, radiation hydrodynamics, etc.); supercomputing.

Faculty and Research Staff

UCSC
  • Stan Woosley - Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, PI of SciDAC grant. Working on presupernova evolution, nucleosynthesis, and models for Type Ia supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and x-ray bursts.


  • Gary Glatzmaier - Professor of Earth Sciences. Director, Center for the Origin and Dynamical Evolution of Planets (CODEP). Working on develpment and augmentations to his 3D, MHD anelastic hydrodynamics code to study stellar evolution, nuclear runaways,and stellar rotation and magnetic fields.


  • Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz - Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Berkeley
LBNL
  • John Bell - Development and analysis of numerical methods for partial differential equations arising in science and engineering. General topics in scientific computing, computational physics, and fluid dynamics.


  • Saul Perlmutter


  • Ann Almgren - Low Mach number modeling of Type Ia Supernovae. And more generally, adaptive projection methods for incompressible and low Mach number flows.


  • Greg Aldering


  • Peter Nugent - Staff Scientist.


  • Michael Lijewski - Programmer. Working on modelling of Type 1a Supernovae.

LLNL
  • Rob Hoffman - Staff member N-Division, LLNL Working on nucleosynthesis calculations and standardization of nuclear reaction rates for machine usage. Also on studies of the r- and s-process.


  • Jason Pruet


  • Louis Howell - Staff member. Working on radiation transport.


  • Jay Salmonson - Physicist, AX-Division, LLNL. Working on relativistic hydrodynamics, especially for gamma-ray burst models.
LANL
  • Alex Heger - Staff Member in the Thereotical Astrophysics Group (T-6), LANL. Working on presupernova evolution, nucleosynthesis, Pop III stars, pair instability supernovae, and stellar evolution including rotation, and X-ray bursts.


  • Peter Möller - Staff Member in the Theoretical Nuclear Physics Group (T-16). Working on nuclear mass models, deformed nuclei, fission barriers for r-process, weak nuclear rates.
Arizona
  • Adam Burrows - Professor of Astronomy, Steward Observatory. Overall organizational responsibility for activities at Arizona. Working on approaches to neutrino transport and hydrodynamics for core collapse supernovae.

  • Ivan Hubeny - Senior Research Scientist

  • Luc Dessart

Stanford
SUNYSB
  • Mike Zingale - Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. co-author Univ Chicago FLASH code. Working on turbulent combustion, Type Ia supernovae, x-ray bursts and low Mach number code development.

JHU

PostDocs

UCSC
LBNL
LANL
  • Sanjib Gupta - Postdoc, joint Theoretical Nuclear Physics Group (T-16) and Theoretical Astrophysics Group (T-6), LANL. Working on neutron star crust, nuclear physics, weak reaction rates, X-ray bursts, X-rau superbursts.

Stanford

Grads

UCSC

Close Collaborators

IAS
  • Andrew MacFadyen - Former UCSC postdoc. Working on multidimensional models for gamma-ray burst central engines.
CITA