Hubble Fellow at University of Maryland

        Welcome to my homepage. I am a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland from August 2011  working with Prof. Chris Reynolds. I’ve graduated with a PhD from Harvard University, Astronomy Department in 5 years.

 

        My thesis advisor was Prof. Ramesh Narayan. I’m interested  in plasma physics, magneto hydrodynamics, general relativistic dynamical and radiative modeling of accretion onto compact objects: in LLAGNs and jets; in tidal disruptions of white dwarfs; in mergers of black holes.

 

For thesis, I was working on Sgr A* dynamic and radiative modeling. I’ve devised a novel techniques to estimate Sgr A* spin + came up with a conduction-based model for the outer-to-inner flow connection.

        You can find my CV, also Papers, Presentations & Notes

on the Academic page.  My hobbies and activities, everything informal and fun goes to the Personal page. Thank you for your visit .

 

      My Mathematica 8 presentation contains many examples

of astrophysical computations and useful visualizations.

         Contact me:

E-mail:    roman@astro.umd.edu

Phone: 617-285-6960 (leave a voicemail)

                                              Latest  updates

 14 Dec 11   3-rd version of Sgr A* spin paper

 13 Oct 11   Paper on tidal disruptions submitted, dissertation and public talk uploaded,

                   panelist for NASA ATP, reviewer for ApJ, photos updated

   8 Jun 11   Faraday conversion paper accepted, 2-nd version of Sgr A* spin paper

   9 Feb 11  CV updated: Hubble Fellowship, 3-d author paper, interests

   4 Nov 10  CV updated: one more paper + AAS dissertation award, runner-up

 26 Aug 10  Accepted  version of paper on GR polarized radiative transfer

 28 Jul 10  CV reworked,  submitted version of paper on GR polarized radiative transfer and submitted version of paper on constraining Sgr A* accretion flow uploaded

 3 May 10  Accepted  version of paper on X-rays from conductive flow onto Sgr A*

 1 Mar 10  Probing Strong Gravity...” 2010  & AAS 215 presentations and movies uploaded

17 Dec 09  GC Workshop 2009 presentations and papers uploaded

29 Aug 09  Resume updated: NASA Fellowship, refereeing, GC Workshop 2009 presentations

26 Jan 09  Accepted  version of paper on unmagnetized  isotropic dispersion

30 Nov 08  Paper on unmagnetized  isotropic dispersion is submitted to Physics of  Plasmas

  1 Sep 08  Accepted version  of paper on propagation effects in thermal plasma

19 Jun 08  Paper on propagation thermal effects is submitted to ApJ

  3 Jun 08  Paper on propagation thermal effects (draft), CV updated

16 Apr 08  Presentation on Dynamo

18 Mar08  Plasma physics added  to interests

21 Feb 08  Revised  version of my first article at Harvard

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