MERAC Astrophysics prize for Justin Read
Thursday 21 March 2013
Justin Read has been awarded the European Astronomical Society’s MERAC 2013 prize for his high-impact research in computational astrophysics and cosmology.
The 2013 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher in the category of “New Technologies “ is awarded to Justin Read for his research in computational astrophysics and cosmology by developing a new method, SPH-S, substantially improving the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics technique used, in particular, to model gas accretion in galaxy formation.
The citation reads: “The MERAC Prize is awarded for his major achievements in the area of computational astrophysics. He has been able to improve substantially one of the two major computational methods adopted to model hydrodynamics in astrophysics, namely smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). Since numerical simulations have become an essential part of astrophysics and cosmology over the past decade, often driving the interpretation of astronomical data, the impact of his work in the field is of primary importance, and will be even more so in the future. The method developed by Justin Read, called SPH-S, overcomes two related long-standing problems of standard SPH, namely its inability to resolve mixing in fluids and capture instabilities at fluid interfaces.
The MERAC awardees are invited to give a plenary lecture at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) to be held in Turku, Finland on 8–13 July 2013.
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