Joel E. Tohline
Alumni ProfessorDepartment of Physics & Astronomy
Louisiana State University
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A Fellow of the
AAAS, Tohline has authored
a hundred articles
in scientific journals and proceedings on problems related to complex
fluid flows in astrophysical systems.
His expertise in utilizing high-performance
computers to accurately simulate the processes by which stars form and to
simulate catastrophic events that will give rise to bursts of
gravitational radiation is recognized worldwide.
Fifteen students
have completed their doctoral dissertation research under his direction
and he has been a lead investigator on grants that have brought
over nine million dollars
in federal and state funding to LSU.
Tohline earned a B.S. in Physics from Centenary College of Louisiana in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1978. Before joining the LSU faculty in 1982, Tohline held a J. Willard Gibbs Instructorship in the Astronomy Department at Yale University and a postdoctoral fellowship in Group T-6 at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has served as a member of the Publications Board of the American Astronomical Society, as a member of the Applications Strategy Council of Internet2, on the Program Advisory Council of LIGO, as Chairman of LSU's Department of Physics & Astronomy, and as Interim Director of LSU's Center for Applied Information Technology and Learning (now the Center for Computation & Technology). Presently, Tohline serves as a member of the Advisory Council (MPSAC) for the Directorate of Mathematical & Physical Sciences of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and he serves as co-editor of the Vizualization Corner for Computing in Science and Engineering [AIP portal, IEEE portal], a magazine published jointly by the American Institute of Physics and the IEEE Computer Society. |