Professional Experience:

Aug 2006 to present, Research Scientist/ Scientific Application Consultant, High Performance Computing, LSU

Jul 2005 to Jul 2006, Postdoc, Department of Physics & Astronomy , LSU

Jan to Jun 2005, Postdoc, Center for Computation & Technology, LSU

1999 to Dec 2004, Teaching and Research assistant of Department of Physics & Astronomy, LSU

1995 to 1999, System Engineer, Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering (BISSE), China

Others: refereed for General Relativity and Gravitation.

Education:

2004, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Ph.D.

2004, Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Master of System Science.

2001, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Master of Science.

1991-1995, Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, P.R.China, Bachelor of Science.

Research interests

I am interested in computational Astrophysics and numerical simulation, especially in computational fluid dynamics. As large scale computing becomes more popular, my current work mostly involves parallel programming, data analysis and 3D visualization. These tools have been used to study astrophysical systems such as neutron stars, supernovae core collapse, and the formation of close binary stars.

In my earlier days, I devoted a lot of efforts on computational orbital dynamics of man-made satellites at BISSE.

Recently, I did some analytical work on stellar structure.

In future ...

There is link to my research page. My CV and research statement

Refereed Publications

Astrophysics:

S. Ou, J. Ji, L. Liu, X. Peng, 2007, Simulations of Disk-Planet Interaction: Baroclinic Generation of Vortensity and Nonaxisymmetric Rossby-Wave Instabilities, The Astrophysical Journal, 667, 1220.

S. Ou, J. E. Tohline, P. Motl, 2006, Further Evidence for an Elliptical Instability in Rotating Fluid Bars and Ellipsoidal Stars, ApJ, 665, 1074

S. Ou, J. E. Tohline, 2006, Unexpected dynamical instabilities in differentially rotating neutron stars, ApJ, 651, 1068 .

S. Ou, 2005, An Approximate Solver for Riemann and Riemann-Like Ellipsoidal Configurations, ApJ, 639, 549

C. D. Ott, S. Ou, J. E. Tohline, A. Burrows, 2005, One-armed Spiral Instability in a Slowly Rotating, Post-Bounce Supernova Core, ApJ Letter, 625, L119.

S. Ou, J. E. Tohline, L. Lindblom, 2004, Nonlinear Development of the Secular Bar-mode Instability in Rotating Neutron Stars, ApJ, 617, 490.
Computing:

E. Ceyhan, P. Basuchowdhuri, T. Judeh, S. Ou, B. Estrade, and T. Kosar, Towards a Faster and Improved ADCIRC (ADvanced Multi-Dimensional CIRCulation) Model, to appear in Journal of Coastal Research, 2007.

Abstracts and Talks

S. Ou, J. E. Tohline, Hydrodynamic Instability in core collapse supernovae and differentially rotating neutrons stars, 2005, 47th Annual Meeting of the DPP, APS.

J. E. Tohline, I. Park, S. Ou, 2005, Constructing Models of Contact Binaries and Rapidly Rotating Ellipsoids, AAS, 207, 1309

S. Ou, Can a rotating football be stationary: Implication from Riemann S-type ellipsoids, 2005, 15th Midwest Relativity Meeting.

S. Ou, J. E. Tohline, L. Lindblom, Nonlinear Development of the Secular Bar-mode Instability in Rotating Neutron Stars, 2004, HEAD meeting.

Professional Training

Workshop on Effective Use of Multi-core Technology, 2007, Champaign, NCSA, U. of Illinois

Graduate summer school on computational relativistic hydrodynamics, 2003, Vancouver, U. of British Columbia.

Linux Cluster Workshop, 2001, Champaign, NCSA, U. of Illinois

International Computational Physics course on molecular dynamics, 2001, Delft University of Netherland

Contact

sou1@lsu.edu

Some Links:

Victoria's online home

Shangli Ou

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Center for Computation & Technology