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==Tohline's Research-Related Travels== ===International=== <ol> <li type="A">Canada <ol> <li type="1">Vancouver University, Vancouver, BC; attended the 170<sup>th</sup> AAS meeting (June 1987)</li> <li>EA Sports, Vancouver, BC; visited this company while focused on CCT's development of a Digital Media Arts & Engineering program at LSU</li> <li>CITA = Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA; presented an astronomy colloquium while visiting a Toronto-based IBM software development company <li>Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia; presented a colloquium, at the invitation of Saint Mary's undergraduate physics majors (David Guenther, primary faculty contact)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Wales <ol> <li type="1">University of Wales, College of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales; by invitation, spent ~10 days interacting with astronomy faculty (~1987)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">England <ol> <li type="1">The Royal Society of London, London, England; by invitation, presented a talk titled "Star Formation in the Early Universe" (1979)</li> <li>Cambridge University, Cambridge, England; interacted one-on-one with a number of astronomy faculty during the couple of days that immediately proceeded the "Royal Society" meeting in London</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">France <ol> <li type="1">Marie and Louis Pasteur University, Besançon, France; attended IAU Symposium No. 100 (1982) where I presented a "poster paper" titled, ''Stabilizing a Cold Disk with a <math>1/r</math> Force Law''</li> <li>Paris, France; attended a symposium on astrophysical disks</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A" start="E">Germany <ol> <li type="1">Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics [Albert Einstein Institute], Potsdam, Germany; spent several days interacting primarily with Ed Seidel and Gab Allen</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Japan <ol> <li type="1">Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; by invitation, spent ~ 10 days interacting with astronomers, especially, Izumi Hachisu (~ 1988)</li> <li>Olympic City, Tokyo, Japan; attended and participated in a ''Numerical Astrophysics'' conference</li> <li>Internet2 Conference, Yokohama, Japan; (~ 2000)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">The Netherlands <ol> <li type="1">Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands; by invitation, spent ~ one week attending an astronomy conference at Leiden Observatory</li> </ol> </li> </ol> ===Domestic=== <ol> <li type="A">Washington (state) <ol> <li type="1">The LIGO Hanford Observatory near Richland, WA; while serving on LIGO's Program Advisory Council. (~ 2 trips)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Oregon <ol> <li>Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; interacted with Walter Rudd, chair of computer science (a former LSU faculty member) and Cherri Pancake, a co-organizer of the IBM-funded "SUPER!" conferences</li> <li>University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; interacted primarily with Jimmy Imamura.</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">California <ol> <li>California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA (sabbatical, Spring, 2000; Anneila Sargent and Kip Thorne, co-sponsors)<li> <li>UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA & NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA; earned 1978 PhD in Astronomy (Peter Bodenheimer & David Black, dissertation co-advisors)</li> <li>UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA; KITP = Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (~ 3 weeks)</li> <li>UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; IPAM = Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (~ 10-days, spring 2005)<li> <li>UCSD, San Diego, CA; SDSC = San Diego Supercomputing Center (large NSF-related allocation of computing resources)</li> <li>UCB, Berkeley, CA; attended 182<sup>nd</sup> AAS meeting (June 1993)</li> <li>Yosemite Valley, CA; attended 21<sup>st</sup> DDA meeting (April, 2000)</li> <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL], Pasadena, CA; interviewed with Geoffrey Fox for a position in his research group (~1988)</li> <li>Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; attended a small conference on 3D visualization (~1985)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Nevada <ol> <li>Las Vegas, NV; attended 163<sup>rd</sup> AAS meeting (January 1984)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Arizona <ol> <li>KPNO = Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ; served for 3 years on observing proposal referee committee (dates ???)</li> <li>Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ; attended 28<sup>th</sup> DDA meeting (April 1997) </ol> </li> <li type="A">New Mexico <ol> <li>LANL, Los Alamos, NM; employed 1980-1982 as postdoctoral researcher in Group T-6 (Art Cox, advisor)</li> <li>University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; attended 157<sup>th</sup> AAS meeting (January 1981); AAS council member, Dan Weedman, invited me as guest</li> <li>Very Large Array, Socorro, NM; invited to present colloquium (don't remember date, but likely ~ 1981)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Colorado <ol> <li>Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO; invited twice (summers of 1981 and 2000) to participate in multi-week sessions on Star Formation</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Utah <ol> <li>University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute (sabbatical, Spring, 2010; Claudio T. Silva and Christopher Johnson, co-sponsors)</li> <li>Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; to further collaboration with David Neilsen and Eric Hirschman (several visits over several years)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Texas <ol> <li>University of Texas, Austin, TX; invited by astronomers (at least) twice to present a colloquium</li> <li>University of Texas, Austin, TX; attended the "Texas Relativity Symposium" at least once</li> <li>Texas A&M - Kingsville, Kingsville, TX; attended 25<sup>th</sup> DDA meeting (May 1994)</li> <li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Imaging Zebra Imaging], Austin, TX; round-trip by car w/ Joe Giaime riding along (see [https://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/tohline/rmode/zebraimaging/index.html guiding research])</li> <li>Trinity University, San Antonio, TX; presented colloquium as part of the AAS's outreach program</li> <li>Lunar and Planetary Insitute (LPI), Houston, TX; participated (at least twice) in review of NASA program proposals</li> <li>Rice University, Houston, TX; along with a handful of LSU graduate students, participated in a modest-sized conference</li> <li>McDonald Observatory, Fort Davis, TX; in the early 1970s under the guidance of John Williams (Centenary professor) and along with a few other Centenary College undergraduates, participated in a multi-night astronomy training session using McDonald's 36-inch reflector</li> <li>UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX; traveled with computer-science graduate student, Richard Muffoletto, to Dallas to interact with a medical group developing digital holographic techniques (~2004)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Missouri <ol> <li>University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; invited twice to present an astronomy colloquium</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Minnesota <ol> <li>University of Minnesota Twin Cities, St. Paul, MN; (large, multi-year NSF-related allocation of computing resources on the Cray 2)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Mississippi <ol> <li>Stennis Space Center, Stennis, MS; large, multi-year allocation of computing resources at the DoD's Major Shared Resource Center</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Tennessee <ol> <li>Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; in the early 1970s along with a few other Centenary College undergraduates, attended an ~ week-long astronomy training session taught by Arnold Heiser</li> <li>Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, TN; in the early 1970s along with a few other Centenary College undergraduates, attended a week-long educational/training session</li> <li>University of Memphis, Memphis, TN; presented a colloquim</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Kentucky <ol> <li>University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; in 1980, interviewed for open faculty position (Frank O'Quinn principal contact) but was not hired <li>University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; participated in a multi-day review of Kentucky's Dept. of Physics & Astronomy (Isaac Shlosman principal contact)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Illinois <ol> <li>University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; one-on-one research interactions with Richard Miller and with Norman Lebovitz</li> <li>ANL = Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL; develop proposal in support of anticipated hiring of Vashishta and Kalia</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Indiana <ol> <li>Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; numerous trips in the context of extensive research interactions with, principally, Richard Durisen</li> <li>Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; interviewed for the leadership of a newly created interdisciplinary program at IU</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Michigan <ol> <li>Michigan State University, Lansing, MI; presented a colloquium in MSU's Department of Physics & Astronomy (interacted primarily with Horace Smith & Jeff Kuhn)</li> <li>Oakland University, Rochester, MI; attended a LIGO-related conference organized by Beverly Berger</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Ohio <ol> <li>Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH; participated in a multi-day review of the Bowling Green Dept. of Physics & Astronomy (John Laird principal contact)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Georgia <ol> <li>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; co-organizer of an Internet2 conference</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Virginia <ol> <li>National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA; at the invitation of Mort Roberts, spent summer of 1984 conducting research at NRAO</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">West Virginia <ol> <li>NRAO's Green Bank Observatory, Green Bank, WV; attended a conference on millisecond pulsars</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Washington D.C. and vicinity <ol> <li>National Science Foundation [NSF], Alexandria, VA; numerous times, participated in reviews and ranking of research proposals (mostly for NSF's Astronomy Division</li> <li>NSF (cont.); served as a member of the ''Advisory Council for the Directorate of Mathematical & Physical Sciences''</li> <li>NSF (cont.); served as chair of the ''Committee of Visitors of the Astronomy Division''</li> <li>Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; research interactions with, primarily, Vera Rubin and Alan Boss</li> <li>U.S. Department of Energy [DOE], Washington, D.C.; participated in a panel whose task was to review proposals for large allocations of supercomputing time on DOE facilities </ol> </li> <li type="A">Maryland <ol> <li>American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD; served as co-editor of the Visualization Corner for ''Computing in Science and Engineering'' (a magazine published jointly by the American Institute of Physics and the IEEE Computer Society)</li> <li>University of Maryland, College Park, MD; attended 156<sup>th</sup> AAS meeting (June 1980)</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Princeton <ol> <li>Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; at the invitation of Jerry Ostriker, attended and spoke at a "Tuesday lunch" seminar</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Pennsylvania <ol> <li>Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; interviewed for a vacant astronomy faculty position (~1980)</li> <li>Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; attended numerous conferences focused on the interface between relativity and astronomy</li> <li>Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; presented an astronomy colloquium while interacting primarily with Joan Centrella</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">New York <ol> <li>IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; presented colloquium and interviewed for a postdoctoral research position (1978)</li> <li>Columbia University, New York, NY; during my two years at Yale, I took AmTrak from New Haven into Manhattan and interacted with faculty (principally, Leon Lucy & Kevin Prendergast) in Columbia's astronomy department</li> <li>NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies [GISS], New York, NY; through the sponsorship of Richard Stothers, gained access to the GISS computing resources during my two-year appointment at Yale</li> <li>Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; multiple visits in the context of our allocations of supercomputing time at the CTC = Cornell Theory Center</li> </ol> </li> <li type="A">Connecticut <ol> <li>Yale University, New Haven, CT; for two years, held a ''J. Willard Gibbs Instructorship'' in the Astronomy Department at Yale (1978 - 1980)</li> <li>Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; presented an astronomy colloquium </ol> </li> <li type="A">Massachusetts <ol> <li>University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; participated in a Star Formation conference</li> <li>Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; attended 154<sup>th</sup> AAS meeting (June 1979)</li> </ol> </li> </ol> {{ SGFfooter }}
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