David J. Jeffery

PLACE AND DATE OF BIRTH:

Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada; 1958

ADDRESS:

Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4002

Email: jeffery@physics.unlv.edu, Office Tel: 702-895-4050, Departmental Tel: (702) 895-3563, Departmental FAX: (702) 895-0804, Homepage: http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~jeffery/jeffery.html

RESEARCH AREAS:

Theoretical Astrophysics, Supernovae, Radiative Transfer

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

Canadian Astronomical Society / Soci\'et\'e Canadienne d'Astronomie (CASCA)

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Physics, McMaster University, 1988

M.Sc., Physics, McMaster University, 1983

B.Sc., Physics, McMaster University, 1981

PROFESSIONL EXPERIENCE:

1998aug--1999may, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Nevada, Las~Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

1996oct--1998jul, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A.

1995aug--1996aug, Visiting Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Department of Physics \&~Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.

1994apr--1995jun Fellow (Becario) of the Spanish Ministerio de Educaci\'on y Ciencia, Dept. d'Astonomia i Meteorologia, Facultat de F\'\isica, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

1993sep--1994apr, Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics \&~Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

1993feb--1993jun, Lecturer on Astronomy, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1991jun--1993aug, Research Associate, Harvard College Observatory (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1991jan--1991may, Visiting Instructor, Department of Physics \&~Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

1990oct--1990dec, Visiting Researcher, Department of Physics \&~Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

1988sep--1989jul, Visiting Researcher, Institut f\"ur Astronomie und Astrophysik Der Universit\"at M\"unchen, Munich, Germany

1988jan--1990jun, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics \&~Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.

1980may--1980aug, NSERC Summer Student, Department of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

1979sep--1987apr, Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

PUBLICATIONS:

D.J.~Jeffery, P.S.~Krsti\'c, W.~Liu, D.R.~Schultz, \&~P.C.~Stancil, ``Atomic and Molecular Physics and Data Activities for Astrophysics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,'' in Proceedings of the NASA Laboratory Space Science Workshop, 1998, in press

D.J.~Jeffery, ``A Grey Radiative Transfer Procedure for $\gamma$-ray Transfer in Supernovae,'' 1998, preprint

D.J.~Jeffery, ``A Grey $\gamma$-ray Transfer Procedure for Supernovae,'' in Proceedings of the Second Oak Ridge Symposium on Atomic \&~Nuclear Astrophysics, ed.~A.~Mezzacappa (Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing), 1998, in press, astro-ph/9802229

D.R.~Schultz, P.S.~Krsti\'c, F.M.~Ownby, F.W.~Meyer, C.C.~Havener, M.E.~Bannister, W.~Liu, D.J.~Jeffery, \&~P.C.~Stancil, ``The ORNL Controlled Fusion Atomic Data Center,'' in NIST Special Publication, Proceedings of the International Conference on Atomic and Molecular Data and their Applications, 1998, in press

W.~Liu, D.J.~Jeffery, \&~D.R.~Schultz, ``Ionization of Type~Ia Supernovae: Electron Impact, Photon Impact, or Charge Transfer?,'' Astrophysical Journal, 1998, 494, 812--815

W.~Liu, D.J.~Jeffery, D.R.~Schultz, P.~Quinet, J.~Shaw, \&~M.S.~Pindzola, ``Emission from Cobalt in Type~Ia Supernovae,'' Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 1997, 489, L141--143

W.~Liu, D.J.~Jeffery, \&~D.R.~Schultz, ``Nebular Spectra of the Unusual Type~Ia Supernova~1991T,'' Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 1997, 486, L35--L38

W.~Liu, D.J.~Jeffery, \&~D.R.~Schultz, ``Nebular Spectra of Type~Ia Supernovae,'' Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 1997, 483, L107-L110

D.J. Jeffery, ``An Expansion Opacity Formalism for the Sobolev Method,'' Astronomy and Astrophysics, 299, 770--790 (1995).

D.J. Jeffery, ``The Sobolev Optical Depth for Time-Dependent Relativistic Systems,'' Astrophysical Journal, 440, 810--814, (1995).

D.J. Jeffery, R.P. Kirshner, P.M. Challis, C.S.J. Pun, A.V. Filippenko, T. Matheson, D. Branch, R.A. Chevalier, C. Fransson, N. Panagia, R.V. Wagoner, J.C. Wheeler, and A. Clocchiatti, ``An HST Ultraviolet Spectrum of SN 1993J,'' Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 421, L27--L30 (1994).

P. Ruiz-Lapuente, D.J. Jeffery, P.M. Challis, A.V. Filippenko, R.P. Kirshner, L.C. Ho, B.P. Schmidt, F. Sanchez, and R. Canal, ``A Possible Low-Mass Type Ia Supernova,'' Nature, 365, 728--730 (1993).

P. Ruiz-Lapuente, D.J. Jeffery, P.M. Challis, and R. Canal, ``Subluminous SNIa: Scenarios and Models,'' in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics (Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany), ed. W. Hillebrandt and E. Mueller (Garching: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik), p. 12--17 (1993).

D.J. Jeffery, ``The Relativistic Sobolev Method Applied to Homologously Expanding Atmospheres,'' Astrophysical Journal, 415, 734--749 (1993).

R.P. Kirshner, D.J. Jeffery, B. Leibundgut, P.M. Challis, G. Sonneborn, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzeff, R.C. Smith, P.F. Winkler, C. Winge, M. Hamuy, D.A. Hunter, K.C. Roth, J.C. Blades, D. Branch, R.A. Chevalier, C. Fransson, N. Panagia, R.V. Wagoner, J.C. Wheeler, and R.P. Harkness, ``SN 1992A: Ultraviolet and Optical Studies Based on HST , IUE , and CTIO Observations,'' Astrophysical Journal, 415, 589--615 (1993).

B.P. Schmidt, R.P. Kirshner, R. Schild, B. Leibundgut, D.J. Jeffery, S. Willner, R. Peletier, A.I. Zabludoff, M.M. Phillips, N.B. Suntzeff, M. Hamuy, L.A. Wells, R.C. Smith, J.A. Baldwin, W.G. Weller, M. Navarette, L. Gonzalez, A.V. Filippenko, J.C. Shields, C.C. Steidel, S. Perlmutter, C. Pennypacker, C.K. Smith, A.C. Porter, T.A. Boroson, R. Stathakis, R. Cannon, J. Peters, E. Horine, K.C. Freeman, D.S. Womble, R.P.S. Stone, L.A. Marschall, A.C. Phillips, A. Saha, and H.E. Bond, ``Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of SN~1990E in NGC~1035: Observational Constraints for Models of Type II Supernovae,'' Astronomical Journal, 105, 2236--2250 (1993).

D.J. Jeffery, B. Leibundgut, R.P. Kirshner, S. Benetti, D. Branch, and G. Sonneborn, ``Analysis of the Photospheric Epoch Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae SN 1990N and SN 1991T,'' Astrophysical Journal, 397, 304--328 (1992).

D.J. Jeffery, ``Catalog of SN 1987A Polarimetry Corrected for Interstellar Polarization,'' Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 77, 405--415 (1991).

D.J. Jeffery, D. Branch, A.V. Filippenko, and K. Nomoto, ``The Near Maximum-Light Spectrum of the Type Ic Supernova 1987M,'' Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 377, L89--L92 (1991).

D.J. Jeffery, ``Analysis of SN 1987A Polarimetry,'' Astrophysical Journal, 375, 264--287 (1991).

D.J. Jeffery, ``Analysis of SN 1987A Polarimetry,'' in ESO/EIPC Workshop: SN 1987A and other Supernovae, ed. I.J. Danziger and K. Kjaer (Garching: European Sourthern Observatory), p. 257--263 (1991).

D. Branch, A.W.A. Pauldrach, J. Puls, D.J. Jeffery, and R.P. Kudritzki, ``NLTE Modeling of a Type Ia Supernova at Maximum Light,'' in ESO/EIPC Workshop: SN 1987A and other Supernovae, ed. I.J. Danziger and K. Kjaer (Garching: European Sourthern Observatory), p. 437--445 (1991).

D.J. Jeffery, and D. Branch, ``Analysis of Supernova Spectra'' in Jerusalem Winter School for Theoretical Physics, Vol. 6, Supernovae, ed. J.C. Wheeler, T. Piran, and S. Weinberg (Singapore: World Scientific), p. 149--247 (1990).

D.J. Jeffery, ``The Sobolev-P Method. III. The Sobolev-P Method Generalized for Three-Dimensional Systems,'' Astrophysical Journal, 352, 267--278 (1990).

D.J. Jeffery, ``The Sobolev-P Method: A Generalization of the Sobolev Method for the Treatment of the Polarization State of Radiation and the Polarizing Effect of Resonance Line Scattering,'' Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 71, 951--981 (1989).

D.J. Jeffery, ``Astronomer's Sonnet,'' Irish Astronomical Journal, 19, 88 (1989).

D. Branch, W. Drucker, and D.J. Jeffery, ``Differences Among Expansion Velocities of Type I Supernovae,'' Astrophysical Journal (Letters), 330, L117--L118 (1988).

D.J. Jeffery, ``Supernova Polarization Spectra Calculated Using the Sobolev-H Method,'' Ph.D. Thesis, McMaster University (1988).

D.J. Jeffery, ``The Polarization Spectrum of Supernova 1987a Interpreted in Terms of Shape Asymmetry,'' Nature, 329, 419--421 (1987).

D.J. Jeffery and P.G. Sutherland, ``Deflagration of White Dwarfs as a Model for Type I Supernovae,'' Astrophysics and Space Science, 109, 277--285 (1985).

D.J. Jeffery, `` Deflagrating White Dwarf Models for Type I Supernovae,'' M.Sc. Thesis, McMaster University (1983).

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