Citizenship: U.S.A.

Education:

• [1994 - 1997] Professor and Chairman, Department of Physics & Astronomy, LSU
• [1990 - present] Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, LSU
• [1986 - 1990] Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, LSU
• [1982 - 1986] Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, LSU
• [1980 - 1982] Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Group T-6
• [1978 - 1980] J. Willard Gibbs Instructor, Astronomy Department, Yale University

Professional Society Memberships:

• International Astronomical Union
• American Astronomical Society
• IEEE Computer Society
• Division on Dynamical Astronomy/AAS
• Sigma Pi Sigma

Overview of Teaching & Research Activities:

Complete Publication List:

Selected Publications:

1. Durisen, R. H. and J. E. Tohline. (1985). in Protostars and Planets. II, ed. D. C. Black and M. S. Matthews (Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press), pp. 534-575. "Fission of Rapidly Rotating Fluid Systems."

2. Williams, H. A. and J. E. Tohline. (1987). The Astrophysical Journal, 315, 594. "Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Instability of Rotating Polytropes."

3. Williams, H. A. and J. E. Tohline. (1988). The Astrophysical Journal, 334, 449-464. "Circumstellar Ring Formation in Rapidly Rotating Protostars."

4. Tohline, J. E. and I. Hachisu. (1990). The Astrophysical Journal, 361, 394-407. "The Breakup of Self-Gravitating Rings, Tori, and Thick Accretion Disks."

5. Woodward, J. W., J. E. Tohline, and I. Hachisu. (1994). The Astrophysical Journal, 420,247-267. "The Stability of Thick, Self-Gravitating Disks in Protostellar Systems."

6. Dani, S., J. E. Tohline, W. N. Waggenspack, Jr., and D. E. Thompson. (1994). Computers & Graphics, 18, no. 3, 363-372. "Parallel Rendering of Curvilinear Volume Data."

7. Christodoulou, D. M., D. Kazanas, I. Shlosman, and J. E. Tohline. (1995). The Astrophysical Journal, 446, 500-509. "Phase-Transition Theory of Instabilities. III. The Third-Harmonic Bifurcation on the Jacobi Sequence and the Fission Problem."

8. Andalib, S. W., J.E. Tohline, & D.M. Christodoulou. (1997). The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 108, 471-487. "A Survey of the Principal Modes of Nonaxisymmetric Instability in Self-Gravitating Accretion-Disk Models."

9. Cohl, H. S., X.-H. Sun, and J.E.Tohline. (1997). Proceedings of the 8th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 1997. (Click here for a Postscript version of this paper.) "Parallel Implementation of a Data-Transpose Technique for the Solution of Poisson's Equation in Cylindrical Coordinates."

10. New, K. C. B. and J. E. Tohline, (1997). The Astrophysical Journal, 490, 311-327. "The Relative Stability Against Merger of Close, Compact Binaries."