Stephen Murray - Astronomy and Astrophysics - University of ...

INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE
Stephen D. Murray
Adjunct Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Formation of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies and the structure and evolution of the interstellar medium in young
galaxies
ACADEMIC HISTORY
1989 Ph.D., Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
1985 M.S., Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
1983 B.S., Physics, summa cum laude, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
POSITIONS HELD
1996- Physicist Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2003- Adjunct Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Calif., Santa Cruz
1996- Adjunct Instructor Las Positas College, Livermore, CA
1992-96 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley
1991-92 NATO Fellow Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK
1989-91 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2006 Co-Investigator on proposals submitted and to be submitted to DOE SciDAC and NASA ATP programs
2002-06 Co-Investigator, NASA Astrophysical Theory Grant
1991-92 NATO Fellowship
1988-89 NASA Graduate Student Researchers Fellowship
1987 Santa Cruz Nonlinear Science Center Graduate Fellowship
1984-87 NSF Graduate Fellowship
1983-84 University of California Regents Fellowship
AWARDS
2006 Award for Outstanding Efforts in Support of RRW/CA
2001 High Energy Density Physics Award of Excellence, LLNL
2000-01 Defense & Nuclear Technologies Achievement Awards (4), LLNL
1998-99 Weapons Recognition of Excellence Awards (2), LLNL
1987 Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Scholarship
1983 Outstanding Physics Major, Washington State University
1982-83 Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma Chapter of Washington Scholarship
RECENT PUBLICATIONS (selected)
“Collective Gas Accretion by Globular Clusters and Nucleated Dwarf Galaxies, and the Formation of the Arches and
Quintuplet Clusters,’’ Lin, D. N. C., & Murray, S. D., ApJ, in press, 2007.
“Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Shock Interactions with Radiative Clouds,” Fragile, P. C., Anninos, P., Gustafson,
K., & Murray, S. D. 2005, ApJ, 619, 327, 2005.
“Ejection of Supernova-Enriched Gas from Dwarf Disk Galaxies,” Fragile, P. C., Murray, S. D., & Lin, D. N. C. , ApJ, 617,
1077, 2004.
“Energy Dissipation in Multi-Phase Infalling Clouds in Galactic Haloes,” Murray, S. D., & Lin, D. N. C., ApJ, 615, 586,
2004.
“Radiative Shock-Induced Collapse of Intergalactic Clouds,” Fragile, P. C., Murray, S. D., Anninos, P., & van Breugel, W.,
ApJ, 604, 74, 2004.
“Star Formation and Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies,” Dong, S., Lin, D. N. C., & Murray, S. D., ApJ, 596, 930, 2003.

“Roche Lobe Overflow from Dwarf Stellar Systems,” Murray, S. D., Dong, S., & Lin, D. N. C., ApJ, 593, 301, 2003.
“COSMOS: A Radiation-Chemo-Hydrodynamics Code for Astrophysical Problems,” Anninos, P., Fragile, P. C., & Murray,
S. D., ApJ, 147, 177, 2003.
“Supernova Enrichment of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies,” Fragile, P. C., Murray, S. D., Anninos, P., & Lin, D. N. C., ApJ,
590, 778, 2003.
“Spreadsheet-Based Exercises for Introductory Laboratories,” Elliott, A. B., Murray, S. D., & Ward, R. A., The Physics
Teacher, 41, 18, 2003.
“On the Two-phase Structure of Protogalactic Clouds,'' Lin, D. N. C, & Murray, S. D., ApJ, 540, 170, 2000.
INVITED TALKS
“Star Formation in Dwarf Stellar Systems,” Murray, S. D., Fragile, P. C., Dong, S., Lin, D. N. C., & Anninos, P., presented
at the APS, NW section meeting, May 30, 2003.
“Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies,” D. N. C. Lin, & S. D. Murray 1994, in the Proceedings of the ESO/OHP Workshop on
Dwarf Galaxies, ed. G. Meylan, & P. Pugniel.
“The Formation of the Galactic Globular Clusters,” S. D. Murray & D. N. C. Lin 1993, in The Globular Cluster--Galaxy
Connection, eds. G. H. Smith & J. P. Brodie (San Francisco: Astron. Soc. Pac.), p. 738.
“Star Formation in Globular Clusters and Dwarf Galaxies, and Implications for the Early Evolution of Galaxies,” D. N. C.
Lin & S. D. Murray 1991, in The Formation and Evolution of Star Clusters, 102nd meeting of the ASP, ed. K. Janes (San
Francisco: Astron. Soc. Pac.), p.55.