Charles Forbes Gammie

Charles Forbes Gammie he/him/his

Ikenberry Chair

(217) 333-8646

gammie@illinois.edu

235 Loomis Laboratory

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Education

Ph.D., Astrophysics, Princeton University, 1992

Biography

Professor Charles Gammie received his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1987 from Yale University and his Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton in 1992. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia from 1992-1994, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1994-1998. He joined the faculties of physics and astronomy at Illinois in January 1999.

Professor Gammie's research involves black holes, star and planet formation, and accretion physics. He is a leader in the computer simulation of astrophysical plasmas, particularly studies of hot plasmas accreting onto black holes. He was named a University Scholar and a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar in 2007.

Research Areas

Astrophysics / Relativity / Cosmology

Selected Articles in Journals

Gammie, C.F., Noble, S., & Leung, P.K., “Numerical Models of Black Hole Accretion Flows,” Comp. Phys. Comm., 177: 250–253, Jul. 2007.
Johnson, B., & Gammie, C.F., “Linear Theory of Thin, Radially Stratified Disks,” Astrophys. J., 626: 978–990, June 2005.
McKinney, J.C., & Gammie, C.F., “A Measurement of the Hydromagnetic Luminosity of a Kerr Black Hole,” Astrophys. J., 611: 977–995, August 2004.
Gammie, C.F., “The Magnetorotational Instability in the Kerr Metric,” Astrophys. J., 614: 309–313, October 2004.
Watson, W.D., Wiebe, D.S., McKinney, J.C., & Gammie, C.F., “Anisotropy of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and the Polarized Spectra of OH Masers,” Astrophys. J., 604: 707–716, April 2004.
Gammie, C.F., Shapiro, S.L., & McKinney, J.C., “Black Hole Spin Evolution,” Astrophys. J., 602: 312–319, February 2004.

Research Honors

University Scholar, University of Illinois (Sept. 2007 - Aug. 2010)
Center for Advanced Study Beckman Fellowship (2001, 2002, 2003)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists And Engineers (PECASE) (July 2002)
National Science Foundation CAREER Award for Outstanding Research/Teaching (2001-2006)
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Faculty Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001-2002)