I expect to be able to support one additional student beginning in September 2019, with applications due Dec 15/2018 in the process described at the above web site. If you are interested in planetary astronomy, it would be useful to drop me a line indicating your interest; please understand that the entrance to the program is a competitive process across all specialties in the department.
My research covers a wide array of topics which share the common theme of understanding the origin and evolution of planetary systems. Students could be involved in either theoretical or observational research topics, including topics such as:
1. Large-scale numerical studies of planetary dynamics
-- A. Planet formation, especially late stages, both in our Solar System and exoplanetary systems.
-- B. Celestial mechanics, orbital stability
-- C. Dynamics of small bodies (meteoroids, asteroids, comets) in our S.S. and exoplanetary
-- D. Impact history of planetary surfaces in the Solar System
-- E. Exobiology : Interplanetary transfer of bacteria in meteorites
2. Observational studies of small bodies of our solar system.
-- A. The satellites systems of the giant planets
-- B. The Kuiper Belt (the
Canada France
Ecliptic Plane Survey ) and the
OSSOS project.
-- C. Main belt asteroids
You can find a link to my full ADS list at the bottom of my main web page (follow the last link on this page and then then last link on my home page).
Left :
In the UBC planetary sciences laboratory
of the Physics and Astronomy department, with
postdoctoral research fellow Lynne Allen, looking
at images of a newly-discovered moon of Jupiter.
Left:
A close-up of some of the
LeVerrier beowulf cluster,
built by Aspen Systems, Inc.
The cluster consists of 76 Opteron
2.2 GHz 64-bit CPUs, and 25
dual quad-core Intel em64t CPUs.
LeVerrier is optimised for very CPU-instensive
calculations.
Also visible are one of the cluster's
multi-Terabytes RAID arrays (120 TB total),
used for the storage and processing of the imaging
data from the
Canada France Ecliptic Plane survey
and OSSOS survey.
The cluster runs a Linux operating system
and uses torque-PBS as a scheduler.
The cluster has been in continuous more than
95% of the time
since its installaion in August 2003.
Users interested in
using LeVerrier may contact Gladman.
UBC Astronomy Graduate Home Page
if you are browsing the faculty pages.
Brett Gladman's home page
for information on how to contact me.