Tamara M. Rogers

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Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Newcastle University

Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU

+44 0 191 2087294

tamara.rogers@ncl.ac.uk

www.solarphysicist.com

Professional Employment

Lecturer, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Newcastle University, UK, 2015-present

Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, 2014-present

Assistant Professor, Department of Planetary Sciences, The University of Arizona, 2008-2015

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, CO, 2006-2008

Graduate Research Fellow, The University of California, Santa Cruz, with Prof. Gary Glatzmaier, 1999-2006

Education

University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, CA Ph.D

    Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics March 2006

Helioseismology Summer School, NCAR/HAO Boulder, CO July 2005

NASA Summer School for High Performance Computing

    Greenbelt, MD Goddard Space Flight Center 2001

University of Arizona Tucson, AZ

  Magna Cum Laude B.S. Physics & Astronomy May 1999

Fellowships and Awards

1. •National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science Fellow 2011
   

2. •National Science Foundation, Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008
   

3. •National Physical Sciences Consortium Graduate Fellow 1999-2005
   

• Phi Beta Kappa, Member 1999

Service and Professional Memberships

1. •NSF panel reviewer, NASA panel reviewer 2012
   

2. •NRC Research Associates fellowship reviewer 2011-present
   

3. • NSF Teragrid  Supercomputing Allocation Committee 2008-2012
   

4. • Session Chair: AGU Fall Meeting 2009
   

5. • Reviewer For Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, New Astronomy
   

6. • Member of American Geophysical Union, American Astronomical Society

Refereed Publications

1. •Magnetic Effects in hot Jupiter Atmospheres,
   

  Rogers, T.M. & Komacek, T.D., 2014, The Astrophysical Journal ,  794, 132

1. •Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of the Atmosphere of HD209458b
   

  Rogers, T.M. & Showman, A.P. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 782, L4

1. •Internal Gravity Waves in Massive Stars I: Angular Momentum Transport
   

  Rogers, T.M., Lin, D.N.C., McElwaine, J.N. & Lau, H.H.B. 2013, The Astrophysical Journal, 772,21

1. • On Tidal Dissipation of Obliquity
   

  Rogers, T.M. & Lin, D.N.C., The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 769,L10

1. •Internal Gravity Waves modulate the apparent misalignment of exoplanets around Hot Stars, Rogers, T.M., Lin, D.N.C and Lau, H.H.B, 2012, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ApJ, 758, L6
   

1. •Toroidal Field Reversals and the Axisymmetric Tayler Instability
   

  Rogers, T.M. 2011 The Astrophysical Journal, 735, 100

1. •On Limiting the thickness of the Solar Tachocline
   

  Rogers, T.M. 2011, The Astrophysical Journal, 733, 12

1. • On the interaction of internal gravity waves with a magnetic field -II. Convective forcing
   

Rogers, T.M. and MacGregor, K.B. 2011 MNRAS, 410m 946 

• Reflection and Ducting of Gravity Waves Inside the Sun

  MacGregor, K.B. & Rogers, T.M. 2011 Solar Physics, in press

• On the interaction of internal gravity waves with a magnetic field -I. Artificial wave forcing

  Rogers, T.M. & MacGregor, K.B. 2010 MNRAS, 401,191

• Differential Rotation in Giant Planets Maintained by density-stratified Turbulent Convection

  Glatzmaier, G.A., Evonuk , M. & Rogers, T.M. 2009, GAFD, 103,31

• Non-linear dynamics of gravity wave driven flows in the Solar Radiative Interior

  Rogers, T.M., K.B. MacGregor & Glatzmaier, G.A. 2008, MNRAS, 387,616

• Numerical Simulations of Penetration and Overshoot in the Sun

  Rogers, T.M. & Glatzmaier, G.A. 2006, 653, 765

• Angular Momentum Transport by waves in the Solar Interior

  Rogers, T.M. & Glatzmaier, G.A. 2006, ApJ, 653, 756

• Gravity Waves in the Sun

  Rogers, T.M. & Glatzmaier, G.A. 2005, MNRAS, 364, 1135

• Penetrative Convection within the Anelastic Approximation  

  Rogers, T.M. & Glatzmaier, G.A. 2005, ApJ 620, 432

• Simulations of two-dimensional Turbulence in a Density-Stratified Fluid

  Rogers, T.M., Glatzmaier, G.A. & Woosley 2003, Physical Rev. E. 67, 6315

• A Test for the Nature of the Type IA Supernova Explosion Mechanism

  Pinto, P.A., Eastman, R.G. & Rogers, T.M. 2001,ApJ 551, 231

Teaching and Outreach

1. • Instructor, PTYS505A, Principles of Planetary Physics, UA 2012,2014
   

2. • Instructor, AY596B, Methods in Computational Astrophysics, UA, 2011
   

3. • Instructor, NATS 102, Universe and Humanity, Origin and Destiny, UA, 2009-2010,2012,2014
   

4. • LPL Public Lecture Series, 2012
   

5. • Sun City Vistoso Astronomy Club Lecture, Saddlebrook Astronomy Club Lecture, 2012
   

6. • Flandrau Solar Exhibit, ongoing
   

• Arizona Assurance Mentor, UA, 2008-2009

1. • Lecturer, Solar Physics Summer School, National Solar Observatory 2006-2009
   

• Teaching Assistant, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz 2000-2003

• Johns Hopkins University Talented Youth, University of California, Santa Cruz 2001

• Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz 2001

• Physics Lab Instructor, Department of Physics, University of Arizona 1998-1999