John M Blondin curriculum vitaE
Professional Experience
North Carolina State University
Department of Physics
Head 2012 - present
Director of Undergraduate Programs
2007 - 2011
Professor 2002 - present
Assoc. Professor 1997 - 2002
Assist. Professor 1993 - 1997
University of North Carolina - CH
Research Assoc., 1991 - 1992
University of Virginia
Research Assoc., 1989 - 1991
Goddard Space Flight Center
NAS/NRC Postdoc, 1987 - 1989
University of Chicago
Ph.D. 1987 (Arieh Konigl, Advisor)
M.S. 1984
University of Wisconsin
B.A. 1982
Honors / Awards
2010 NCSU Alumni Distinguished
Undergraduate Professor
2009 APS Fellow
2000 NCSU Alumni Outstanding Teacher
1997 NSF CAREER Award
1996 Cottrell Scholar
1995 Sigma Xi Faculty Research
Professional Affiliations
Dr. Blondin has been computing the cosmos for over 20 years, using everything from a laptop to supercomputers. He began his experience in high-performance computing with the opening of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and continues to take advantage of the largest machines currently available, including Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center with 63,000 processor cores and Jaguar at the National Center for Computational Sciences with 224,000 processor cores. His research includes interacting binary stars, accretion disks around black holes, supernova remnants, and the origin of supernova explosions. He co-authored the hydrodynamics code VH-1, which is widely used in the astrophysics community. At NC State he has introduced students to the world of computational astrophysics research, mentoring over 75 undergraduate research projects.
Select Publications
Pulsar Spins from an Instability in the Accretion Shock of Supernovae
Blondin & Mezzacappa 2007, Nature, 445, 58
Dynamics Of FE-NI Bubbles In Young Supernova Remnants
Blondin, Borkowski & Reynolds 2001, ApJ, 557, 782
Tidally-Driven Transport in Accretion Disks in Close Binary Systems
Blondin 2000, New Astronomy, 5, 53
Formation of the Circumstellar Shell Surrounding SN 1987A
Blondin & Lundqvist 1993, ApJ, 405, 337
Is the 1.5 msec Pulsar a Young Neutron Star?
Blondin & Freese 1986, Nature, 323, 786
Publications from undergraduate research
Revisiting the Flip-Flop Instability of Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion
BLondin & pope 2009, Apj, 700, 95
Linear Growth of Spiral SASI Modes in Core-Collapse Supernovae
Blondin & Shaw 2007, ApJ, 656, 366
Stability of Standing Accretion Shocks, With an Eye Toward SNe
Blondin, Mezzacappa & DeMarino 2003, ApJ, 584, 971
Pulsar Wind Nebulae in Evolved Supernova Remnants
Blondin, Chevalier & Frierson 2001, ApJ, 563, 806
Instability of Isothermal Stellar Wind Bowshocks
Blondin & Koewer 1998, NewA, 3, 571
Tidal Mass Transfer in Elliptical-Orbit Binary Stars
Layton, Blondin & Owen 1998, NewA, 3, 111
Evolution of Cold Shock-Bounded Slabs
Blondin & Marks 1996, NewA, 1, 235
Numerical Analysis of the Dynamic Stability of Radiative Shocks
Strickland & Blondin 1995, ApJ, 449, 727
Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Mass Transfer in Algol
Blondin, Richards & Malinowski 1995, ApJ, 445, 939
