Mercedes T. Richards, Professor

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Students

Teaching

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B.Sc. (Special), Physics, University of the West Indies, 1977
M.Sc., Astronomy, York University, 1979
Ph.D., Astronomy, University of Toronto, 1986

Awards:
   Fulbright Distinguished Chairs - Research Scholar Award from CIES, to visit the Astronomical Institute of Slovakia, May - August, 2011
   Musgrave Gold Medal, Institute of Jamaica, October 15, 2008

Appointments:
2002 -         :    Professor, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
2003 - 2008:    Assistant Head, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn State University
2000 - 2001:    Visiting Scientist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1999 - 2002:    Professor, University of Virginia
1993 - 1999:    Associate Professor, University of Virginia
1987 - 1993:    Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

2010 - 2012:    Vice President, Organizing Committee, IAU Commission 42 (Division V, Binary Stars)
2008 -         :    Associate Director, Summer Experience in the Eberly College of Science (SEECoS), Penn State
                         six-week summer research program for high school students
2007 - 2010:    Nominating Committee, American Astronomical Society (Chair: 2009 - 2010)
2006 - 2012:    Organizing Committee, IAU Commission 42 (Division V, Binary Stars)
2006 - 2008:    Director, SEECoS summer research program for high school students, Penn State
2004 -         :    Harlow Shapley Visiting Lecturer, American Astronomical Society
2002 -         :    Board of Advisors, Caribbean Institute of Astronomy (CARINA), University of the West Indies
1998 - 1999:    Faculty, Vatican Observatory Summer School, Vatican Observatory, Castel Gandolfo, Vatican
1997 - 2001:    Member, Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy, American Astronomical Society

2009 - 2011: IAU Symposium 282, From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools
           Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia, July 18 - 22, 2011
           Mercedes Richards, SOC Chair, Ivan Hubeny (co-chair).


Proceedings, edited by Mercedes T. Richards and Ivan Hubeny    (April 23, 2012)      Table of Contents (pdf)

2003:  Astrotomography, Joint Discussion No. 9, IAU General Assembly XXV, Sydney, Australia, July 17 and 21
           Mercedes Richards, SOC Chair, Luisa Morales Rueda (co-chair).
           See proceedings in Astron. Nachr., Vol 325, No. 3, pp. 179-263 (March 2004)

2002:  3D Stellar Structure Workshop, UC Davis, Livermore, CA, July 22-26 (Member, SOC)

"Tomography of Interacting Binary Systems: Algols to Gamma Ray Binaries,"
IAU Symposium 282, From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia, July 19, 2011.


"Understanding Accretion Disks in Algol Binaries,"
International Bezovec conference on Successes of Stellar Astronomy, Bezovec, Slovakia, June 4, 2011.


"Doppler Tomography of Accretion Disks and Streams in Close Binaries,"
IAU Symposium 240, Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, August 23, 2006.


"Dopplertomography of Algols,"
IAU General Assembly, Joint Discussion 9 on Astrotomography, Sydney, Australia, July 17, 2003.


"Doppler Tomography of Eclipsing and Non-eclipsing Algols,"
Astrotomography: An International Workshop on Indirect Imaging, Brussels, Belgium, July 6, 2000.

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