SHORT RESUME OF PATRICK GODON

Work Experience and Research:

• May 2000 - now Research Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Villanova University (PA). Working on Cataclysmic Variable Systems, with Professor Edward M. Sion.
• Nov 1997 - May 2000 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Space Telescope Science Institute: numerical simulations of accretion disks and planetary atmosphere (with M. Livio).
• Jan 1995 - Oct 1997: Postdoctoral research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: numerical simulations of accretion disks, boundary layers, Astrophysical Jets (with D.L. Meier).
• Dec 1993 - Dec 1994: Unformal postdoc at the Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem (A. Dekel) and postdoc at Oranima (N. Soker) working on boundary layers, accretion discs and clusters cooling flows.

Education:

• PhD, Physics, Nov 1993 Technion, under the supervision of Professor Giora Shaviv: "Investigation of the Boundary Layer Problem by the Spectral Method".
• MS, Physics, Feb 1989 Technion, under the supervision of Professors Giora Shaviv and Josef Ashkenazi: The Equations of State of a H-He mixture in WD conditions by the LMTO (Linear Muffin-Tin Orbital) Method.
• BS, Physics, Jun 1986 Technion

Numerical Skills: Computational Fluid Dynamics. I have developed and used a Fourier-Chebyshev spectral method to solve partial differential equations on computers (mainly in Computational Fluid Dynamics) in 1D and 2D. I have developed a Multigrid method for finite difference solvers (using the full approximation storage) in 1D, 2D and 3D for multivariables problems.

Computer Skills: Programming with FORTRAN (including PGPLOT); Parallel coding using MPI (Message-Passing Interface); Graphics and animations with XV, MPEG-commands, Movieconvert; Work experience on Work Stations (UNIX on Sun, IBM Risk, Silicon Graphics) and Personal Computers (DOS and Windows); Work experience on Supercomputers (CalTech/JPL Cray YMP2E/232) and Massively Parallel Machines (CalTech/JPL Convex SPP2000).

Selected Publications:

• Vortices in Protoplanetayr Disks, Godon, P., Livio, M. 1998, ApJ, 523, 350.
• On the Hydrodynamic Stability of Thin Keplerian Discs, Godon, P., Livio, M. 1998, ApJ, 521, 319,
• Non-axisymmetric hydrodynamic instability and subcritical transition to turbulence in thin Keplerian disks, Godon, P. 1998, ApJ,502, 382.
• Amplification of magnetic fields in the centre of cluster cooling flows, Godon, P., Soker, N., White, R. E. III, 1998, AJ, 116, 37.
• A magnetic switch that determines the speed of Astrophysical Jets, Meier, D.L., Edgington, S., Godon, P., Payne, D.G., Lind, K.R., 1997, Nature, 388, 350.
• Spiral shocks in accretion discs, Godon, P., Livio, M., Lubow, S., 1998, MNRAS, 295, L11.
• Advection in accretion disks boundary layers, Godon, P., 1997, ApJ, 483, 882.
• Numerical modeling of tidal effects in polytropic accretion disks, Godon, P., 1997, ApJ, 480, 329.