Gabor Toth

Office:

1424C

Phone:

(734) 615-5362

Fax:

(734) 615-9723

Email:

gtoth@umich.edu

Web:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gtoth

Education:

• M.S. in Physics and Translation of Technical English, Eotvos Uninversity, Hungary, 1989.
• Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, 1993

Research:

Algorithm and code development for space and plasma physics simulations.

• Leading role in the development of Space Weather Modeling Framework that can couple and execute about a dozen different space physics models modeling domains from the surface of the Sun to the upper atmosphere of the Earth.
• Developer of the BATS-R-US code, a multi-physics and multi-application MHD code using block-adaptive grids.
• Software architect for the Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics. The center's work involves modeling radiative shocks created by high energy lasers.
• Design and implementation of the Versatile Advection Code, a general purpose publically available hydrodynamics and MHD code.

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• Research Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan, 2008
• Bolyai Fellowship of the the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1997-1999
• Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Hungarian Science Foundation, 1997-1999
• Undergraduate Fellowship of the Hungarian Republic, 1987

Publications

See http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gtoth/Papers