Jie Zhang
Associate Professor
GMU
Computational and Data Sciences
4400 University Dr.
MSN 6A2
Fairfax
VA
22030
Email
jzhang7@gmu.edu
Phone
703) 993-1998
Website
Research interests
solar physics, heliospheric physics, and space weather. In particular, CMEs, flares, and their space weather effects. CME initiation, propagation, interplanetary CMEs and interaction with solar wind, geomagnetic storms. Relationship between CMEs and flares. Magnetic and coronal source regions of solar activities.
Candidate's preferred background
physics, in particular, plasma physics or solar physics. Familiar with observations, data, IDL, C/C++, also interested in numeric simulations.