Me at Catalina Island!
Hi, my name is James Guillochon, and I'm an astronomy graduate student at UC Santa Cruz. I'm primarily interested in numerical astrophysics simulations, and my latest project is the tidal disruption of solar-type stars by supermassive black holes with Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz. Other regular collaborators include Stephan Rosswog, Marius Dan, Daniel Kasen, and Luke Roberts.

Before coming to UCSC, I was an undergraduate at UC Irvine, where I worked with James Bullock on an N-body tree-code for galactic dynamics simulations. I then worked at HRL Laboratories, where I developed algorithms for distributed sensor networks.

Curriculum Vitae (PDF | DOC)
Contact E-mail: jfg(at)ucolick.org

Publications

J. Guillochon, E. Ramirez-Ruiz, Three-Dimensional Simulations of Tidally Disrupted Solar-Type Stars. Submitted to ApJL. 2008. astro-ph:0811.1370.
(PDF | PS | Movies and Other Supporting Materials)

Talks

UC Santa Cruz FLASH, 4/24/2009, Tidal Disruption of Solar-Type Stars by Supermassive Black Holes: Tidal Shock Breakout
(PDF | Keynote)

United States Patents

D. Khosla, J. Guillochon, Sparse Sampling Planner for Sensor Resource Management. Pending, Application 20080250875.

D. Khosla, J. Guillochon, H. Choe, Information Processing System for Classifying and/or Tracking an Object. Pending, Application 20080255911.

Conference Proceedings

D. Khosla, J. Guillochon, Distributed Sensor Resource Management and Planning. Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 6567, 65670B. 2007.
(PDF)

D. Khosla, J. Guillochon, H. Choe, Distributed Fusion and Tracking in Netted Sensor Systems. Expected to appear in Proc. SPIE. 2007.
(PDF)

M. Rudary, D. Khosla, J. Guillochon, P. A. Dow, B. J. Blyth, A Sparse Sampling Planner for Sensor Resource Management. Proc. SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 6235, 62350A. 2006.
(PDF)

J. Guillochon, J. Bullock, Galactic Simulation Using a Barnes-Hut N-Body Algorithm. UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium. 2005.
(PDF | Tidal Forces Movie | Tidal Forces KE Side View Movie)

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