Faculty: Jon Bjorkman
Director, Ritter Planetarium
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
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Ph.D, 1992, University of Wisconsin-Madison;
M.S., University of Colorado;
B.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Research and Teaching Interests
His research focuses on the theory of outflows from rapidly rotating massive stars, circumstellar disks and radiation transfer.
areas of expertise
- NLTE Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Simulations
- Hydrodynamics of stellar winds and circumstellar disks
- Circumstellar Polarization
View Dr. Bjorkman's NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) page for bibliography.