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1 Philip Chang Contact Information Education Department of Physics University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Phone: (414) PO Box Milwaukee, WI University of California Santa Barbara, Physics Ph.D 2005 University of California Santa Barbara, Physics M.S Harvard University, Physics B.A Positions Held University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Assistant Professor of Physics 9/ present Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics 9/2009-8/2011 Postdoctoral Researcher Univ. of California, Berkeley 9/2005-7/2009 Miller Research Fellow and TAC Fellow Univ. of California, Santa Barbara 9/2000-9/2005 Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant New Associate Programmer Analyst, Internet Division 7/1998-9/2000 Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Awards Students Supervised NSF Early Career Award 2013 CITA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2009 Theoretical Astrophysics Center Fellowship 2008 Miller Institute for Basic Research Fellowship 2005 B. A. Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University 1998 Adam Lewis 5/2010-9/2010 Jet Propagation and the Entrainment of Cold Clouds Chenchong Zhu (with Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk) 9/ present Simulations of white dwarf mergers (w. James Wadsley). Heidi White (with Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk) 9/ present Detonation of white dwarf merger remnants. Lorne Forsythe and Christopher Storms 10/2011-5/2012 Eccentric Disks Around Supermassive Black Hole Binaries. Nicholas Tillman 10/2011-5/2012 The Disruption of Molecular Clouds by Interstellar Shock Waves Daniel Murray Disk Winds in X-ray Binaries 09/ present References 1 of 5
2 Activities Co-organizer of the CITA seminar series 9/2009-present Organizer of the CITA astro-ph discussion 9/2009-present Weekly lunchtime discussion of recent papers of interest in astrophysics. Co-organizer of Berkeley astro-ph discussion 7/2006-9/2007 Bi-weekly lunchtime discussion of recent papers of interest in astrophysics. Organizer of astronomy reading group 3/ /2006 Bi-monthly reading group which discussed the Galactic Center and galaxy clusters. References Prof. Lars Bildsten, UC Santa Barbara Prof. Norm Murray, CITA Prof. Phil Arras, Univ of Virginia Prof. Chris Thompson, CITA Prof. Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley Prof. Lam Hui, Columbia Univ. Prof. Kristen Menou, Columbia Univ. Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk, Univ of Toronto 2 of 5
3 Philip Chang Refereed Variability in the Thermal Emission from Accreting Neutron Star Transients Publications E. F. Brown, L. Bildsten, & P. Chang, 2002, Ap. J., 574, 920. Diffusive Nuclear Burning in Neutron Star Envelopes P. Chang & L. Bildsten, 2003, Ap. J., 585, 464. Atomic Spectral Features during Thermonuclear Flashes on Neutron Stars L. Bildsten, P. Chang, & F. Paerels, 2003, Ap. J., 591, 29. Evolution of Young Neutron Star Envelopes P. Chang & L. Bildsten, 2004, Ap. J., 605, 830. Magnetar Spin-Down, Hyperenergetic Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts T. Thompson, P. Chang & E. Quataert, 2004, Ap. J., 611, 380 Hydrogen Burning on Magnetar Surfaces P. Chang, P. Arras, & L. Bildsten, 2004, Ap. J., 616, L147 Formation of Resonant Atomic Lines during Thermonuclear Flashes on Neutron Stars P. Chang, L. Bildsten, & I. Wasserman, 2005, Ap. J., 629, 998 Rotational Broadening of Atomic Spectral Features from Neutron Stars P. Chang, S. Morsink, L. Bildsten, & I. Wasserman, 2006, Ap. J., 636, L117 Magnetic hydrogen atmosphere models and the neutron star RX J W. C. G. Ho, D. L. Kaplan, P. Chang, M. van Adelsberg, A. Y. Potekhin, 2007, MNRAS, 375, 821 From Thin to Thick: The Impact of X-Ray Irradiation on Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei P. Chang, E. Quataert, & N. Murray, 2007, Ap. J., 662, 94. The Origin of the Young Stars in the Nucleus of M31 P. Chang, R. Murray-Clay, E. Chiang, & E. Quataert, 2007, Ap. J., 668, 236. Long Term Evolution of Magnetic Turbulence in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks: Electron-Positron Plasmas P. Chang, A. Spitkovsky, & J. Arons, 2008, Ap. J., 674, 378. Convection in Type 1a Progenitors A. Piro & P. Chang, 2008, Ap. J., 678, Gas Shepherding by an Infalling Satellite P. Chang, 2008, Ap. J., 684, 236 The Effectiveness of the Kozai Mechanism in the Galactic Centre P. Chang, 2009, MNRAS, 393, 224 The Migration of Star Clusters in Nuclear Rings G. Van der Ven & P. Chang, 2009, Ap. J., 697, 619 Shock Breakout from Type 1a Supernova A. L. Piro, P. Chang, & N. Weinberg, 2010, ApJ, 708, 598 Buoyancy Instabilities in Degenerate, Collisional, Magnetized Plasmas P. Chang & E. Quataert, 2010, MNRAS, 403, 246 The Electromagnetic Precursor to Binary Black Hole Mergers P. Chang, L. E. Strubbe, K. Menou, & E. Quataert, 2010, MNRAS, 407, 2007 On the Stability of Dust-laden Protoplanetary Vortices 3 of 5
4 P. Chang & J. Oishi, 2010, ApJ, 721, 1593 Sub-Chandrasekhar White Dwarf Mergers as the Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae M. H. van Kerkwijk, P. Chang, & Stephen Justham, ApJL, 722, 157 Diffusive Nuclear Burning of Helium on Young Neutron Stars P. Chang, P. Arras, & L. Bildsten, 2010, ApJ, 723, 719 Stellar Structure and Tests of Modified Gravity P. Chang & L. Hui, 2011, ApJ, 732, 25 Warm Saturns: On the Nature of Rings of Extrasolar Planets that Reside Inside the Ice Line H. E. Schlichting & P. Chang, 2011, ApJ, 734, 117 Dark Subhaloes and Disturbances in Extended HI Discs P. Chang & S. Chakrabarti, 2011, MNRAS, 416, 618 Finding Dwarf Galaxies from Their Tidal Imprints S. Chakrabarti, F. Bigiel, P. Chang, & L. Blitz, 2011, ApJ, 743, 35 Star Formation in Massive Clusters via Bondi Accretion N. Murray & P. Chang 2012, ApJ, 746, 75 The Cosmological Impact of Luminous TeV Blazars I: Implications of Plasma Instabilities for the Intergalactic Magnetic Field and Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background A. Broderick, P. Chang, & C. Pfrommer 2012, ApJ, 752, 22 The Cosmological Impact of Luminous TeV Blazars II: Rewriting the Thermal History of the Intergalactic Medium P. Chang, A. Broderick, & C. Pfrommer 2012, ApJ, 752, 23 The Cosmological Impact of Luminous TeV Blazars III: Implications for Galaxy Clusters and the Formation of Dwarf Galaxies C. Pfrommer, P. Chang, & A. Broderick 2012, ApJ, 752, 24 A Parameter-Space Study of Carbon-Oxygen White Dwarf Mergers C. Zhu, P. Chang, M. van Kerkwijk, & J. Wadsley, 2013, accepted to ApJ Works in Preparation On the Nonlinear Saturation of Dilute Beam Instabilities by Induced Scattering P. Chang, A. Broderick, G. Vasil, C. Pfrommer, E. Puchwein, V. Springel 2013 The Physics of Ultrarelativistic Beam Instabilities: Linear Theory P. Chang, A. Broderick, G. Vasil, C. Pfrommer, E. Puchwein, V. Springel 2013 Star Formation in Massive Clusters via Bondi Accretion II E. Lee, P. Chang, & N. Murray, 2013 Conference Diffusive Nuclear Burning in Neutron Star Envelopes Proceedings P. Chang & L. Bildsten, 2003, in ASP Conf. Ser., Radio Pulsars, ed. M. Bailes, D. J. Nice, & S. E. Thorsett (proceedings of August 2002 meeting in Crete) Long Term Evolution of Magnetic Turbulence in Relativistic Collisionless Shocks P. Chang, A. Spitkovsky, & J. Arons, 2008, contributed talk at the workshop: High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO), Dublin, September of 5
5 Grants 2012, The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars (PI) NSF Early Career 456 K for awarded. 2012, The Physics of White Dwarf Mergers and Detonations: A Path to Type Ia Supernova (PI) NASA ROSES-2012 Astrophysics Theory Program 254 K for awarded. 2012, The Plasma Physics of TeV Blazars (PI) NASA ROSES 2011: Fermi Cycle 5 grant, 49 K for awarded. 2012, The Plasma Physics and Cosmological Impact of TeV Blazars (PI) UWM Research Grant Initiative K for awarded 5 of 5
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