Vayujeet Gokhale
Temporary Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Truman State University
Kirksville, Mo - 63501
(660) 785 - 4411
gokhale@truman.edu

 

Present Employment: 

August 2007 - Present :- Temporary Assistant Professor of Physics, Dept of physics, Truman State University.

Education: 

August 2000 - May '07 :- PhD candidate in Astronomy, Dept of physics and Astronomy, LSU.

December 1998 - August 2000 :- PhD candidate in Astronomy, University of Bombay , NRL/BARC.

July 1996 - July 1998 :- MSc. (Nuclear Physics), Dept. of Physics, University of Bombay (Mumbai).

July 1993 - June 1996 :- BSc. (Physics), University of Bombay (Mumbai)

Awards and Fellowships: 

1998 Godbole Award for Nuclear physics, University of Bombay (Mumbai).

2000-2004 Board of Regents Fellowship, The Graduate School, Louisiana State University.

Research Interests: 

  • Accretion disks
  • Evolution of compact binary systems
  • Gravitational Wave templates
  • Circumbinary disks
  • Habitable planets

    Computer Skills: 

  • Programming in Mathematica, Fortran 77 and IDL.
  • IRAF and related astronomy packages.

    Conferences and Schools attended: 

    Winter 2006: AAS meeting No. 208, Seattle, Washington.

    Winter 2005: AAS meeting No. 207, Washington DC.

    Summer 1997: Astronomy Summer School, Indian Institute of Sciences. Bangalore, India (Contact: DCV Mallik).

    Winter 1997: High Energy Winter School, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Ooty, India.

    Teaching and Outreach Experience: 

  • August 2000 - December 2006 :- Physics labs (Contact: Jim Giammanco) and Astronomy labs (Contact: Amy Campbell),
    Astronomy labs for Astronomy majors (Contact: Rob Hynes).

  • "Open Nights at the Landolt Observatory", Nicholson Hall, LSU.

  • "Advanced User" at Highland Road Park Observatory (HRPO), Baton Rouge, La.

  • "Public nights at HRPO", Baton Rouge, La.

    • Publications and Conference proceedings

    1. Gokhale, V. M., Peng, X.M., & Frank, J. 2005, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 207.
    2. Peng, X., Gokhale, V.M., Frank, J., D'Souza, M. C. R., & Tohline, J. E. 2004, American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts, 205.
    3. Gokhale, V., Bhattacharyya, S., Rannot, R. C., Dumora, D., Procureur, J., Tickoo, A. K. & Bhat, C. L. 2001, Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C, 24, 675
    4. Gokhale, V., Rannot, R. C., Tickoo, A. K., Bhattacharyya, S., & Bhat, C. L. 2001, Experimental Astronomy, 12, 195
    5. Gokhale, V., Bhattacharyya, S., Tickoo, A. K., Rannot, R. C., Procureur, J., Dumora, D., & Bhat, C. L. 2001, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 558, 629

    References: 

    Juhan Frank, Thesis advisor, LSU.
    Joel Tohline, Professor, LSU.
    Rob Hynes, Asst. Professor, LSU.
    DCV Mallik, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India.
    SB Patel, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Bombay (Mumbai), India.
    Subir Bhattacharya, Research Scientist, NRL/BARC, India.

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