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L. Jonathan Dursi

CITA, University of Toronto
60 St. George St., Toronto, ON; M5S 3H8
+1 (416) 978-8496
ljdursi@cita.utoronto.ca

Research Interests

Galaxy clusters, protoplanetary disks, Type Ia supernovae, and compact objects. Computational astrophysics methods generally; computational hydrodynamics, MHD, novel algorithms, and large-scale computing.

Citizenship

Canada, USA.

Current Position

Senior Research Associate, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto.

Previous Positions

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Aug 2004-Sept 2007
• Research Associate, ASC FLASH Center, The University of Chicago, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Jan 2004-Aug 2004.
• Visitor, Max-Plank Institut für Astrophysik, Apr 2001.
• Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory, Math and Computer Science Division, Sept 2000-Aug 2004
• Visitor, Sandia National Laboratories, Combustion Research Facility, Summer 2000.
• Visitor, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ISCR, Summer 1998.

Education

• Ph.D., The University of Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Jan 2004.
  Thesis: Astrophysical flame stability, R. Rosner.
• M.Sc., Queen's University, Astrophysics, Sept 1996.
  Thesis: Role of Initial Conditions on the Shapes of Galactic Dark Haloes, L. Widrow.
• B.Sc., St. Mary's University, Physics & Math, May 1994.
  Thesis: Oblique Magnetic Fields in Cosmic-Ray Mediated MHD Shocks, D. Clarke.

Teaching Experience

Supervising of Students

• With N. Ivanova: undergraduate summer student A. Ingle, summer 2008.
• with N. Murray: Ph.D. student L. Mudryk, 2005-7.
• Undergraduate students D. Doucette, C. Hiratsuka, summer 2005.
• Undergraduate student K. Robinson, summer 2003.
• With M. Zingale, undergraduate student J. ZuHone, summer 2001.

Teaching

• Week long Summer School on Parallel Computing for Astrophysics: with J. Sievers, created curriculum and taught. Held at UofT, Jul 2008.
• Taught AST222, “Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy”, Jan-Apr 2008; invited to teach it again Jan-Apr 2009.
• Astronomy minicourse, Scientific Computing: with J. Sievers, created curriculumn and taught. UofT, Jan 2008.
• Created curriculum and taught science course `Search for Life in the Universe', School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan-May 2004.

TAing

• Introduction to Programming in Java, Jan-Mar 2002.
• Project development in C, Sept-Dec 2001.
• Introduction to Programming in C, Jul-Aug 2001.
• Led lab section for Introductory Astronomy course, Sep 1997-Apr 1998.
• Led lab section for Introductory Physics course, Sep 1994-May 1995.

Awards

• Jeffrey L. Bishop Fellowship in Dynamics, CITA, June 2006.
• University of Chicago Astronomy Department D. McMinn Award for Teaching outside of the University, May 2001.
• Gordon Bell Award in High Performance Computing, Special Category, Nov 2000.
• Krell Institute Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, Sept 1999 - Sept 2003.
• Queen's University Reinhardt Fellowship, Sept 1995 - Sept 1996.
• Government of Canada NSERC Graduate Fellowship, Sept 1994 - Sept 1996.
• Government of Canada Canada Scholarship, Sept 1990 - May 1994.

Grants

• Collaborator on the Supernova Science SciDAC grant 2006

Service

• Referee, Computing in Science and Engineering, 2008-
• Co-chair, organizing commitee, Parallel Computing for Astrophysics Summer School
• Member, Compute/Calcul Canada TECC Benchmark Working Group, 2007 -
• CITA Computer Committee 2007-
• CITA Web Committee 2006-
• CITA PDF Selection Committee, 2006-7
• NSF Review Panelist
• Referee, The Astrophysical Journal, 2004-
• Referee, IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2007-
• Referee, Canadian Journal of Physics, 2007-

Publication List

My publication list is availble in HTML or as a PDF document