Mercedes T. Richards, Professor

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Education

University of Toronto

International Awards

Fulbright Distinguished Chair

Other Awards

Past Students Association, Kingston, Jamaica, November 2009

Graduate Awards

Academic Positions

Institute for Advanced Study

Academic Service

IAU Commission 42

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Main Research Interests

Computational Astrophysics

Doppler tomography of interacting binaries: 2D and 3D
Computation of synthetic spectra of accretion structures with SHELLSPEC
Hydrodynamic simulations of mass transfer in interacting binaries
Power spectrum, median trace, and phase dispersion minimization analyses
of magnetic activity on cool stars and the Sun

Stellar Astrophysics

Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs

From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Essential Modeling Tools,
Proceedings of IAU Symp. 282 (toc.pdf); edited by Richards and Hubeny, 2012 April 23

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