Jamie Lombardi (Vassar College)

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• Jamie Lombardi (Vassar College)
• 2004 Undergraduate Summer Research Institute
  projects
• Rich Bi 06 Smoothed Particle
  Magnetohydrodynamics
• Developed a working 1D code (with 3D fields)
• Fully 3D code is under development
• Plan to study distribution and effects of
  magnetic fields in stellar collisions
• Matt Rosenfeld 07 TYCHO Stellar Evolution
• Developed good models for population II stars,
  to be used to initiate SPH collision simulations
  with and without magnetic fields
• Enhanced a web interface to TYCHO, so anyone can
  generate stellar models simply
• Zach Proulx 07 Collisions with Red Giants
• Enhanced SPH code to allow for point mass red
  giant core
• Performed set of red giant main sequence
  collisions, varying the relative velocity and
  impact parameter
• Both the red giant envelope and main sequence
  star are modeled with an SPH fluid
• Our collision products can be stellar evolved
  and compared to observed stellar exotica