Charles Forbes Gammie

Professor

Ph.D., Astrophysics, Princeton Univ., 1992

Professor Charles Gammie received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1987 from Yale University and his Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton in 1992. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia from 1992-1994, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He joined the faculties of physics and astronomy at Illinois in January 1999.

Professor Gammie's research involves magnetohydrodynamics, star formation, and accretion physics. He is a leader in the computer simulation of astrophysical plasmas, the formation of interstellar clouds, and the collapse of dense clouds to form stars. He is also carrying out calculations of disk accretion onto black holes in general relativity. He was named an NCSA Faculty Fellow in 2001 and a John Bardeen Faculty Scholar by the College of Engineering in 2005.

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Honors and awards:

• University Scholar, University of Illinois, Sept. 2007 — Aug. 2010
• Center for Advanced Study Beckman Fellowship, 2001, 2002, 2003
• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists And Engineers (PECASE), 2002
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award for Outstanding Research/Teaching, 2001-2006
• NCSA Faculty Fellowship, 2001

Selected Publications:

• Gammie, C. F., Noble, S., and Leung, P. K. Numerical models of black hole accretion flows. Computer Physics Communications, 177:1-2, 250-253 (Jul. 2007)
• B. M. Johnson and C. F. Gammie. Linear theory of thin, radially stratified disks. Astrophys. J. 626, 978-990 (2005).
• C. F. Gammie. The magnetorotational instability in the Kerr metric. Astrophys. J. 614, 309-313 (2004).
• J. C. McKinney and C. F. Gammie. A measurement of the electromagnetic luminosity of a Kerr black hole. Astrophys. J. 611, 977-995 (2004).
• W. D. Watson, D. S. Wiebe, J. C. McKinney, and C. F. Gammie. Anisotropy of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the polarized spectra of OH masers. Astrophys. J. 604, 707-716 (2004).
• C. F. Gammie, S. L. Shapiro, and J. C. McKinney. Black hole spin evolution. Astrophys. J. 602, 312-319 (2004).