Charles F. Gammie
professor of Physics and of Astronomy AND
john bardeen faculty scholar
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 most recently at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He joined the faculties of physics and astronomy at Illinois in January 1999.
Professor Gammie's research involves magnetohydrodynamics, star formation, and accretion physics. He is a leader in the computer simulation of astrophysical plasmas, the formation of interstellar clouds, and the collapse of dense clouds to form stars. He is also carrying out calculations of disk accretion onto black holes in general relativity. He was named an NCSA Faculty Fellow in 2001 and a John Bardeen Faculty Scholar by the College of Engineering in 2005.
Research Area: Theoretical astrophysics, magnetohydrodynamics, star formation and accretion physics, theory of star and planet formation, galactic structure, astrophysical fluid dynamics, and computational astrophysics
Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Group
Selected Publications
Johnson, BM and Gammie, CF. Linear theory of thin, radially stratified disks. Astrophys. J. 626, 978-990 (2005).
Gammie, CF. The magnetorotational instability in the Kerr metric. Astrophys. J. 614, 309-313 (2004).
McKinney, JC and Gammie, CF. A measurement of the electromagnetic luminosity of a Kerr black hole. Astrophys. J. 611, 977-995 (2004).
Watson, WD, Wiebe, DS, McKinney, JC, and Gammie, CF. Anisotropy of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and the polarized spectra of OH masers. Astrophys. J. 604, 707-716 (2004).
Gammie, CF, Shapiro, SL, and McKinney, JC. Black hole spin evolution. Astrophys. J. 602, 312-319 (2004).
Gammie, CF and JC McKinney. Numerical models of black hole accretion flows. Proc. of the APCTP Winter School on Black Hole Astrophysics 2004; "Magnetohydrodynamic processes around Black Holes and their Observational Evidences. Pohang, South Korea, Jan. 13-16, 2004. J. Korean Phys. Soc. 45, 1767-1774 (2004).
Honors and Awards
- University Scholar, 2007
- John Bardeen Faculty Scholar, 2006
- Beckman Fellow, University of Illinois Center for Advanced Study, 2002–03
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2002
- Faculy Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 2001
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2001
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