Vikram Dwarkadas's Home Page

Hello, and welcome to my NEW home page (still under construction so some of the links may not work). I am a Senior Research Associate in the Dept of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Univ of Chicago. Before this I was a Research Scientist at the Bartol Research Institute at the Univ of Delaware . And prior to that I was at the Research Center for Theoretical Astrophysics (RCfTA) , in the School of Physics at the Univ of Sydney, working with Dr. Lewis Ball.

I had organized a workshop at the RCfTA on Supernova Remnants, Pulsars and the ISM . The proceedings of the workshop are available here.


I have started a group to enable easy discussions of all matters concerning supernova remnants. If any of you are interested in any aspect of supernova remnants, please feel free to join by entering your email in the space below.

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Education

  • B.Tech - 1990 - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • MA - 1994 - Univ of VA , C'ville (Advisor: Prof. Steve Balbus)
  • PhD - Jan 1997 - Univ of VA, C'ville (Advisor: Prof. Roger Chevalier)

    Employment History

  • Post Doc - Aug 1996 to Oct 1998 - Univ of WA, Seattle
  • Postdoctoral fellow - Nov 1998 - Jan 2001 - RCfTA, Sydney
  • Research Associate III - Feb 2001 - Sep 2002, Bartol Research Institute
  • Research Scientist - Oct 2002 - Oct 2005, Univ of Chicago
  • Senior Research Associate - Nov 2005 onwards, Univ of Chicago
    Research:

    My research work covers supernovae, supernova remnants, planetary and other wind-blown nebulae, and computational astrophysics. I've also worked on galactic dynamics. To view any of my publications, or see some of my simulations, click here.


    Validation

    Some personal stuff

    Here's a link to some photos

    Check out the account of our trip to Mt Rainier and Mt St Helens (for a conference in 2003) written bu my wife Noella

    And here's another one written by Noella of a trip to Seattle and the Olympic Mountains (for a conference in 2004)

    Also check out the account of our first trip to Yellowstone (May 29-Jun 2 1997)

    A few Chicago Links


    vikram_at_oddjob.uchicago.edu