Jennifer Hoffman
Jennifer Hoffman | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Known for | Polarimetry |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley University of Denver |
Jennifer Hoffman is an American astrophysicist and associate professor at the University of Denver. She studies the circumstellar material around stars.
Early life and education[edit]
In 1994 Hoffman graduated from University of California, Berkeley, having spent a year at University of Göttingen. Hoffman earned her PhD in 2002. She worked with Kenneth Nordsieck on Locating Mass Loss: Numerical Modeling of Circumstellar Material in Binary Systems.[1]
Research and career[edit]
In 2003 Hoffman was appointed a National Science Foundation Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.[2] Here she compiled the Women in Astronomy Resource Page.[3] She became more involved in activities to promote diversity in physics and astronomy, working with Meg Urry on the American Astronomical Society Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.[4][5][6] She worked with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on modelling supernova ejecta.[6]
At the University of Denver she leads on the HPOL spectropolarimeter.[7] She was the Editor of the 2013 book, "Stellar Polimetry: From Birth to Death (AIP Conference Proceedings/Astronomy and Astrophysics)".[8] In 2015 she was part of the Mintaka observing campaign.[9][10] Hoffman's research group use three dimensional Monte Carlo radiative transfer to model the interaction of circumstellar material with the light of stars and supernovae.
References[edit]
- ^ Fullard, Andrew G.; Hoffman, Jennifer L.; DeKlotz, Sophia; Luchtan, Daniel Azancot; Cooper, Kevin; Nordsieck, Kenneth H. (2018-05-21). "Spectropolarimetry of the WR + O Binary WR42". arXiv:1805.08109.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Jennifer L. Hoffman | NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows". aapf-fellows.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ "Women in Astronomy Resource Page". grammai.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ "Jennifer L. Hoffman: Women in Astronomy". www.grammai.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, Jessica (2014-03-03). "Women In Astronomy: The 2013 CSWA Demographics Survey: Portrait of a Generation of Women in Astronomy". Women In Astronomy. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ a b "Portrait of a Decade: Results from the 2003 CSWA Survey of Women in Astronomy". cswa.aas.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ "Astronomers breathe new life into venerable instrument". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ Stellar polarimetry : from birth to death : Madison, WI, USA, 27-30 June 2011. Hoffman, Jennifer L., Bjorkman, J. E., Whitney, Barbara, 1960-. Melville, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics. 2012. ISBN 9780735410121. OCLC 793013824.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Mohon, Lee (2015-11-12). "More Than Meets the Eye: Delta Orionis in Orion's Belt". NASA. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ "Alert Notice 474: Multiwavelength campaign on delta Ori (Mintaka) | aavso.org". www.aavso.org. Retrieved 2018-06-02.