Tom Quinn (astrophysicist)

Tom Quinn
CitizenshipUnited States of America
Alma materLehigh University Princeton University
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy, Astrophysics, Computational Astrophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Websitehttp://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/faculty/trq/

Tom Quinn is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle.[1] He is the leader of the N-Body Shop, a faculty member of the astrobiology program at UW,[2] and an affiliate member at the eScience Institute. He assisted in generating the cosmological simulation code called ChaNGA.[3]

Early life and education

Quinn received his B.S. degree in engineering physics from Lehigh University,[4] and went on to receive his Ph.D. in Astrophysics in 1986 from Princeton University.[2] He started working at the University of Washington in 1993.[2]

Work

Quinn is the leader of the N-Body Shop, where their work is centered on n-body simulations. His research within that group is focused on simulating the structures of the universe and analyzing the structure formation that takes place. He is also interested in planet formation, solar and galactic dynamics.[1] He is a faculty member of the astrobiology program at UW,[5] where his research interests include exoplanet detection and planetary formation and evolution.[5] Additionally, Quinn is an affiliate of the eScience Institute at UW.[6]

Quinn and others at the University of Illinois, generated a computer code called CHArm++ N-body GrAvity, or ChaNGA, which allows scientists to simulate the universe and study cosmology. ChaNGA was designed to be scalable and uses the Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) technique.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Tom Quinn's Home Page". www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  2. ^ a b c "Quinn, Tom – Department of Astronomy". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  3. ^ a b Menon, Harshitha (2015). "Adaptive Techniques for Clustered N-Body Cosmological Simulations". Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology. 2: 1. arXiv:1409.1929. Bibcode:2015ComAC...2....1M. doi:10.1186/s40668-015-0007-9. S2CID 10415395.
  4. ^ "Faculty Friday: Tom Quinn | The Whole U". www.washington.edu. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  5. ^ a b "Faculty | Astrobiology". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2017-04-12.
  6. ^ "Tom Quinn". eScience Institute. Retrieved 2017-04-12.