KICP People | James Truran

KICP People

James Truran

James Truran

Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the College; ASC Flash Center; Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago

Ph.D., Yale, 1965

Contact Information

Email: truran

nova.uchicago.edu

Research

Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)

Early galactic evolution; the early star formation and nucleosynthesis history of the Universe; astrophysical thermonuclear explosions; nucleosynthesis; and ages from nuclear chronometers. He is a co-Principal Investigator on the NSF Frontier Center "Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics," centered at Notre Dame University 2003.

Truran's research is concerned with the nuclear processes by which the elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are synthesized in stellar
and supernova environments, and with the mechanisms of nova and supernova explosions.

Talks, Lectures, & Workshops

KICP Workshop, International conference: "Type Ia Supernovae: progenitors, explosions, and cosmology" (organizer)
PhD Thesis Defense, Alissa Bans, "Large-scale Magnetic Fields in Protoplanetary Disks"
PhD Thesis Defense, Yeunjin Kim: "The effect of the nuclear burning during the deflagration on the final observables in Supernovae type Ia" (PhD advisor)
KICP Cosmology Course, "Extreme Astronomy @ the Planetarium", Cosmology Short Course (course instructor)

Students

Past Students

GRADUATE: Yeunjin Kim (2013)

KICP Publications

Latest Journal Publications

"Evidence for Type Ia Supernova Diversity from Ultraviolet Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 749, Issue 2, article id. 126, 17 pp. (2012) (Apr 2012)

Latest Conference Proceedings

"56Ni, Explosive Nucleosynthesis, and SNe Ia Diversity", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 337, Issue 1, pp. 012040 (2012) (Feb 2012)