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Wayne Roberge
Sun, 2010-06-13 02:05 — roberw
Name:
Wayne Roberge
Title:
Professor
Department
Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
School
Science
Center
New York Center for Astrobiology
Website:
http://www.rpi.edu/~roberw
Bio
Current interests: evolution of ices in the interstellar medium and solar nebula;
computer simulations of multifluid, magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) shock waves;
analytic and numerical methods for multifluid MHD; physics of interstellar dust.
Funding history: NASA, NSF, NIST, Semiconductor Research Corp. and others.
Details
Funding Agency
NASA
Keywords
magnetohydodynamics
interstellar matter
astrobiology
Education
BA valedictorian, Williams College, in physics and astronomy PhD, Harvard University, in theoretical astrophysics