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1 Paul C. Duffell Contact Astronomy Department 501 Campbell Hall #3411 Berkeley, CA Research Experience University of California, Berkeley Theoretical Astrophysics Center Prize Postdoctoral Fellow August Present Berkeley, CA Education New York University New York, NY Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics Advisor: Prof. Andrew MacFadyen September July 2014 Columbia University New York, NY Physics Department Advisor: Prof. Amber Miller September August 2008 New York University New York, NY Ph.D., Physics, May 2014 GPA: 3.97/4.00 Concentration: Computational Hydrodynamics and MHD Thesis Title: Moving Mesh Astrophysics Thesis Advisor: Andrew MacFadyen University of Washington Degree: B.S. in Physics Dates: Fall Spring 2001 Seattle, WA Fellowships and Awards Gordon and Betty Moore Fellow, 2017-Present Berkeley TAC Fellow, NYU Outstanding Teaching Award, 2013 Dean s Dissertation Fellow, Mark Leslie Fellow, James Arthur Fellow, Dean s Science Advisory Board Fellow, 2010 MacCracken Fellow, Supercomputing Allocations NASA High-end Computing SMD , 2,457,602 processor-hours ( SBUs) on Pleiades at NAS, estimated full cost value $90,000, November 1, 2014 October 31,
2 Journal Articles Submitted or in Press 1. On the Deceleration and Spreading of Relativistic Jets II: Observational Signatures Laskar, T. and P. Duffell 2. On the Deceleration and Spreading of Relativistic Jets I: Jet Dynamics and T. Laskar 3. A GRB and Broad-lined Type Ic Supernova from a Single Central Engine Barnes, J. L., P. Duffell and 5 colleagues 4. Interaction of a Supernova with a Circumstellar Disk McDowell, A. T., P. Duffell and D. Kasen 5. Models of Bright Nickel-Free Supernovae from Stripped Massive Stars with Circumstellar Shells Kleiser, I., P. Duffell and D. Kasen Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA): Convective Boundaries, Chemical Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions Paxton, B. and 13 colleagues 7. Modeling of Mixing from Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities in Core Collapse Supernovae Ejecta and L. Bildsten Published Journal Articles 1. Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Interacting Supernovae: Implications for Synchrotron Magnetic Fields and D. Kasen The Astrophysical Journal, 842, 18 (2017) 2. DISCO: A 3D Moving-mesh Magnetohydrodynamics Code Designed for the Study of Astrophysical Disks The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 226, 2 (2016) 3. A transition in circumbinary accretion discs at a binary mass ratio of 1:25 D Orazio, D. J., and 4 colleagues Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 459, 2379 (2016) 4. A One-Dimensional Model for Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Supernova Remnants The Astrophysical Journal, 821, 76 (2016) 5. A Narrow Short-duration GRB Jet from a Wide Central Engine, E. Quataert, and A. I. MacFadyen The Astrophysical Journal, 813, 64 (2015) 6. Eccentric Jupiters via Disk-Planet Interactions and E. Chiang The Astrophysical Journal, 812, 94 (2015) 7. A reduced orbital period for the supermassive black hole binary candidate in the quasar PG ? 2
3 D Orazio, D. J., and 4 colleagues Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 452, 2540 (2015) 8. Producing Magnetar Magnetic Fields in the Merger of Binary Neutron Stars Giacomazzo, B., and 4 colleagues The Astrophysical Journal, 809, 39 (2015) 9. A Simple Analytical Model for Gaps in Protoplanetary Disks The Astrophysical Journal, 807, L11 (2015) 10. From Engine to Afterglow: Collapsars Naturally Produce Top-heavy Jets and Early-time Plateaus in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows The Astrophysical Journal, 806, 205 (2015) 11. Halting Migration: Numerical Calculations of Corotation Torques in the Weakly Nonlinear Regime The Astrophysical Journal, 806, 182 (2015) 12. High-frequency Voronoi noise reduced by smoothed-mesh motion Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449, 2718 (2015) 13. Shallow Cavities in Multiple-planet Systems and R. Dong The Astrophysical Journal, 802, 42 (2015) 14. Binary black hole accretion during inspiral and merger Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447, L80 (2015) 15. Characteristic signatures in the thermal emission from accreting binary black holes Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446, L36 (2015) 16. Balancing the Load: A Voronoi Based Scheme for Parallel Computations Steinberg, E., A. Yalinewich, R. Sari, and P. Duffell The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 216, 14 (2015) 17. The Migration of Gap-opening Planets is Not Locked to Viscous Disk Evolution, and 4 colleagues The Astrophysical Journal, 792, L10 (2014) 18. Shock Corrugation by Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Jets The Astrophysical Journal, 791, L1 (2014) 19. Binary Black Hole Accretion from a Circumbinary Disk: Gas Dynamics inside the Central Cavity The Astrophysical Journal, 783, 134 (2014) 20. The Fate of Fallback Matter around Newly Born Compact Objects Perna, R., P. Duffell, M. Cantiello, and A. I. MacFadyen The Astrophysical Journal, 781, 119 (2014) 21. A Boosted Fireball Model for Structured Relativistic Jets The Astrophysical Journal, 776, L9 (2013) 3
4 22. Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in a Relativistic Fireball on a Moving Computational Grid The Astrophysical Journal, 775, 87 (2013) 23. Gap Opening by Extremely Low-mass Planets in a Viscous Disk The Astrophysical Journal, 769, 41 (2013) 24. Global Calculations of Density Waves and Gap Formation in Protoplanetary Disks Using a Moving Mesh The Astrophysical Journal, 755, 7 (2012) 25. TESS: A Relativistic Hydrodynamics Code on a Moving Voronoi Mesh The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 197, 15 (2011) Invited Talks and Conference Proceedings Invited Talk: California Institute of Technology, TAPIR Seminar, October 2017 Invited Talk: Harvard Center for Astrophysics, ITC Colloquium, October 2017 Invited Talk: University of Illinois, Astrophysics, Gravitation and Cosmology Seminar, September 2017 Invited Talk: Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Conference on Phenomena, Physics, and Puzzles Of Massive Stars and their Explosive Outcomes, March 2016 Invited Talk: University of California, Santa Cruz, FLASH Seminar, May 2015 Invited Talk: New York University, CCPP Astrophysics Seminar, March 2015 Invited Talk: California Institute of Technology, TAPIR Seminar, February 2015 Invited Talk: Stony Brook University, Astronomy Seminar, April 2014 Invited Talk, Princeton University, Astrophysics Seminar, December 2013 Contributed Talk: American Astronomical Society Meeting, Abstracts #223, 223, # (2014) Contributed Talk: 26th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, December 2013 Invited Talk: University of Colorado, Boulder, CASA Astrophysics Lunch Seminar, October 2013 Invited Talk: University of California, Berkeley, TAC Astrophysics Seminar, August 2013 Invited Talk: American Museum of Natural History, AMNH Astrophysics Department Seminar, May 2011 Invited Talk: Harvard Center for Astrophysics, ITC Seminar, March 2011 Computer skills Thorough expertise in the C programming language. Broad knowledge of Linux, Unix, and MacOS development environments. Considerable experience developing and deploying software on distributed memory (Beowulf-style) Linux clusters including NASA s petaflop SGI cluster, Pleiades. Experience coding and running parallel simulations on 10,000+ cores. Fluent with the Message Passing Interface (MPI). Experience with developing parallel algorithms for data mapping and communication. Familiar with HDF5 operations for hardware-intensive data transfers. Working knowledge of GPU multi-threaded programming and the CUDA programming language. Working knowledge of commercial software such as Mathematica, Matlab, and IDL. Experience with scientific data visualization by programming directly with the OpenGL C API. Experience with additional science API s include the FFTW interface, Intel s Math Kernel Library, LAPACK, the GNU Science Library, and the mesh generation packages Triangle, Qhull and TetGen. 4
5 Teaching experience Designed, organized and instructed a week-long summer course: How to Write a Hydro Code UC Berkeley, June 2016 (also planned for June 2018) Teaching assistant for the following courses at New York University: Electricity and Magnetism for advanced undergraduate students Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2012 Electricity and Magnetism for graduate students Spring 2010, Spring 2013 General Relativity for advanced undergraduate students Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2014 Fluid Dynamics Spring 2014 Computational Physics Fall 2013 Physics III (Waves, Optics, Thermodynamics) Fall 2010 Mathematical Methods in Physics Spring 2011 General Physics (Physics for non-majors, typically pre-med) Fall 2008, Spring
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