Professor Michael J. Thompson

	School of Mathematics and Statistics

Vorocube by Bathsheba Grossman

Michael Thompson

Professor of Applied Mathematics and Solar Physics

Head of School of Mathematics and Statistics

Affiliate Scientist, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR

Address

School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sheffield
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield, S3 7RH
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 (0)114 222 3880
+44 (0)114 222 3809 (FAX)

E-mail

michael.thompson[at]sheffield.ac.uk

Research

Helioseismology and asteroseismology
Solar physics
(external link to current solar images)
Inverse problems
Stellar structure and evolution
Astrophysical fluid dynamics

HELAS European Network

Publications

Books

An Introduction to Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Imperial College Press)
Stellar Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (Cambridge University Press)
Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram (Springer)

Current postdoctoral research associates and Ph.D. students

Kara Burke
Pedro Gonzalez Morales
Daniel Reese

Some former postdoctoral research associates and Ph.D. students

Sarbani Basu
Thierry Corbard
Irene Gonzalez Hernandez
Rachel Howe
Steve Hughes
Urmila Mitra-Kraev
Jesper Munk Jensen
Mario Monteiro
Chris Nicholas
Frank Pijpers
Paul Rajaguru
Sergiy Shelyag
Sergey Zharkov

Teaching

MAS202 Advanced Calculus
SOM360 Group Project
PAS5051 Probability & Probability Distributions

Last updated 31 October 2009 by M J Thompson