Curriculum Vitae for MERCEDES T. RICHARDS
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Curriculum Vitae for MERCEDES T. RICHARDS Work Address: Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802-6305 Telephone: (814) 865-0150 (office); (814) 863-3399 (fax) E-mail address: [email protected] Web address: http://www.astro.psu.edu/~mrichards Education Ph.D., 1986, Astronomy, University of Toronto M.Sc., 1979, Astronomy, York University B.Sc., 1977, Physics, University of the West Indies Graduate Awards: University of the West Indies Graduate Scholarship, 1977-1979; York University Scholarship, 1977-1979; University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship, 1979-1981; Frank Hogg Fellowship, 1981-1982; C. A. Chant Fellowship, 1982-1983; Carl Reinhardt Fellowship, 1981-1986. Academic Positions 2003 – : Assistant Head, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University 2002 – : Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University 2000 – 2001: Visiting Scientist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 1999 – 2002: Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia 1993 – 1999: Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia 1987 – 1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia 1986 – 1987: Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1979 – 1985: Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, Canada 1977 – 1979: Research/Teaching Assistant, Centre for Research in Earth & Space Science, York University Academic Service Positions 2007 – 2010: Nominating Committee, American Astronomical Society 2006 – 2012: Organizing Committee, IAU Commission 42 (Division V, Binary Stars) 2004 – now : Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturer, American Astronomical Society 2002 – now : Board of Advisors, Caribbean Institute of Astronomy (CARINA), University of the West Indies 1997 – 2001: Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy, American Astronomical Society Main Research Interests Multiwavelength spectroscopy of Algols and RS CVn binaries; Magnetic activity in cool stars; Hydrodynamic simulations of interacting binaries; Doppler tomography of interacting binaries Memberships American Astronomical Society (since 1982), Astronomical Society of the Pacific (since 1992), Association for Women in Science (since 1981), International Astronomical Union (Division V, Commission 42: Close Binary Stars; since 1992), Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society (since 2005) 2 PUBLICATIONS Refereed Articles and Conference Proceedings 1. Davis, M. T., Weller, W. W., & Jeffers, S. 1978, "Spectrophotometry of Nova Cygni 1975," Eighth Annual Symposium on Experimental Space Science, York University, Toronto, p. 17 2. Richards, M. T., Mochnacki, S. W., & Bolton, C. T. 1988,"Nonsimultaneous Multicolor Light-Curve Analysis of Algol (! Persei)," Astron. J., 96, 326 – 336 3. Richards, M. T., Bolton, C. T., & Mochnacki, S. W. 1989,"A New Model for Algol (! Persei)," Space Sci. Rev., 50, 358 4. Richards, M. T. 1989, "Starspot Activity in Algol," in Sixth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ed. G. Wallerstein, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 9 (San Francisco: ASP), 221 – 223 5. Richards, M. T. 1990, "The RS Canum Venaticorum Characteristics of the Infrared Light Curves of Algol," Astrophys. J., 350, 372 – 385 6. Richards, M. T. 1992, "Magnetic Activity in Algol-type Binaries," in Seventh Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ed. M. Giampapa and J. Bookbinder, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 26 (San Francisco: ASP), 367 – 369 7. Richards, M. T. 1992, "Consequences of the Star-Stream Interaction in Algol," Astrophys. J., 387, 329 – 339 8. Richards, M. T. 1993, "Circumstellar Material in Algol: A Study of the Balmer Line Profiles," Astrophys. J. Suppl., 86, 255 – 291 9. Richards, M. T., & Albright, G. E. 1993, "Evidence of Magnetic Activity in Short-period Algol Binaries," Astrophys. J. Suppl., 88, 199 – 204 10. Albright, G. E., & Richards, M. T. 1993, "Circumstellar Material in TX Ursae Majoris," Astrophys. J., 414, 830 – 845 11. Richards, M. T., & Albright, G. E. 1994, "Facilities for Infrared Photometry and Spectroscopy of Short- period Algols," in Optical Astronomy From The Earth and Moon, ed. D. M. Pyper and R. J. Angione, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 55 (San Francisco: ASP), 251 – 254 12. Richards, M. T., & Albright, G. E. 1994, "Full-orbit Spectroscopy of Nine Short-period Algols," in Interacting Binary Stars, ed. A. W. Shafter, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 56 (San Francisco: ASP), 393 – 396 13. Albright, G. E., & Richards, M. T. 1994, "Evidence of Mass Transfer in TX UMa," in Interacting Binary Stars, ed. A. W. Shafter, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 56 (San Francisco: ASP), 360 – 363 14. Richards, M., Jones, R., Swain, M., Mattson, C., & Albright, G. 1994, "Doppler Tomography of Accretion Regions in Algols," in Proceedings of Circumstellar Matter, An International Conference in Celebration of the Centenary of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, ed. G. Watt., p. 97 15. Richards, M. T., Albright, G. E., Bowles, L. M. 1995, "Doppler Tomography of the Gas Stream in Short- period Algol Binaries," Astrophys. J. Letters, 438, L103 – L106 16. Albright, G. E., & Richards, M. T. 1995, "The Transient Accretion Disk in the Algol-type Binary U Sagittae," Astrophys. J., 441, 806 – 820 17. Blondin, J. M., Richards, M. T., & Malinkowski, M. 1995, "Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Mass Transfer in Algol," Astrophys. J., 445, 939 – 946 2 3 18. Richards, M. T. 1995, "The Structure of Accretion Regions in Algols," in Proceedings of the XXI Day of Scientific Lectures and 17th Annual Meeting of the National Society of Black Physicists, Rutgers University, New Jersey, p. 40 19. Richards, M. T., Albright, G. E., & Bowles, L. M. 1995, "Doppler Tomography of Accretion Regions in Algols," Astrophys. Space Sci., 224, 547 – 548 20. Albright, G. E., & Richards, M. T. 1995, "Circumstellar Matter in Direct Impact Algol Systems," Astrophys. Space Sci., 224, 415 – 416 21. Richards, M. T., Jones, R. D., & Swain, M. A. 1996, "Doppler Tomography and S-wave Analysis of Circumstellar Gas in ! Persei," Astrophys. J., 459, 249 – 258, and color Plate 3 22. Albright, G. E., & Richards, M. T. 1996, "Doppler Tomography of Accretion Disks in Algol Binaries," Astrophys. J. Letters, 459, L99 – 102, and color Plate L14 23. Richards, M. T., & Albright, G. E. 1996, "Doppler Tomography of Chromospheres and Accretion Regions in Algol Binaries," in Stellar Surface Structure, ed. K. Strassmeier and J. Linsky (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 493 – 500 24. Ratliff, M. A., & Richards, M. T. 1997, "Hydrodynamical Simulations of H" Emission in Algol binaries," in Accretion Phenomena and Related Outflows, ed. D. Wickramasinghe, G. Bicknell & L. Ferrario, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 121 (San Francisco: ASP), 785 – 786 25. Richards, M. T., & Ratliff, M. A. 1998, "Hydrodynamic Simulations of H" Emission in Algol Binaries," Astrophys. J., 493, 326 – 341 and color Plate 11 26. Koubsky, P., Richards, M. T., & Simon, V. 1998, "Circumstellar Matter in the Interacting Binary CX Draconis," in Proceedings of the 20th Stellar Conference of the Czech and Slovak Astronomical Institutes, Brno, Czech Republic, eds. J. Dusek and M. Zejda, 64 – 72 27. Koubsky, P., Harmanec, P., Bozic, H., Percy, J. R., Ziznovsky, J., Huang, L., Richards, M. T., Hadrava, P., & Simon, V. 1998, "Spectroscopy and Photometry of the Interacting Binary CX Draconis - Evidence for Circumstellar Matter," Hvar Observatory Bull., 22, 17 – 34 28. Richards, M. T., Waltman, E. B., Foster, R. S., & Ghigo, F. 1998, "Flaring Activity Cycles in ! Per and HR 1099 from a 2GHz and 8GHz Radio Survey," in Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. R.A. Donahue & J.A. Bookbinder, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 154 (San Francisco: ASP), 1546 – 1550 29. Richards, M. T., & Russell, S. 1998, "Dependence of Radio Flaring Activity on Orbital Phase in Archival Observations of Algol-type and RS CVn Binaries," in Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. R.A. Donahue & J.A. Bookbinder, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 154 (San Francisco: ASP), 1551 – 1559 30. Richards, M. T., & Rosolowsky, E. W. 1998, "Doppler Tomography of Ultraviolet Spectra of HR 1099," in Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, eds. R.A. Donahue & J.A. Bookbinder, ASP Conf. Ser., Vol. 154 (San Francisco: ASP), 2038 – 2041 31. Kempner, J. C., & Richards, M. T. 1999, "Analysis of the Si IV Ultraviolet Spectra of U Sagittae," Astrophys. J., 512, 345 – 350 32. Richards, M. T., & Albright, G. E. 1999, "Morphologies of H" Accretion Regions in Algol Binaries," Astrophys. J. Suppl., 123, 537 – 626 3 4 33. Richards, M. T., Koubsky, P., Simon, V., Peters, G. J., Hirata, R., Skoda, P., & Masuda, S. 2000, "A Multiwavelength Study of Spectral Variations in the CX Draconis Binary," Astrophys. J., 531, 1003 – 1027 34. Richards, M. T. 2000, "The Journey to Algol," Mercury, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 34 – 40 35. Richards, M. T. 2000, "The Status of the Algols," Reports on Astronomy - Transactions of the International Astronomical Union, Vol. XXIVA (Triennial Report of Commission 42, page 9), ed. J. Andersen, (Provo, Astron. Soc. Pacific), ISBN 1-58381-035-8 36. Richards, M. T. 2001, "Doppler Tomography of Eclipsing and Non-eclipsing Algols," Astrotomography: Indirect Imaging Methods in Observational Astronomy, Springer Lecture Notes in Physics Series, Vol. 573, H.M.J. Boffin, D. Steeghs, & J. Cuypers (eds.), pp. 276 – 300 (Invited Review) 37. Richards, M. T. 2001, "The Journey to Algol," Powerweb: