Dr Sami Dib

Research Associate

s.dib@ null imperial.ac.uk

Fax: +44 (0)20 759 47772
Room 1012, Level 10
Imperial College London, Astrophysics, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, UK

MY Research

I use theory and numerical simulations to study questions related to the processes of star

formation in molecular clouds and the origin of turbulent motions in interstellar gas. Some

problems I have worked on so far include:

 

  • Supernova driven turbulence
  • Signatures of the scales of energy injection in the interstellar medium
  • The origin of the dense molecular cloud cores mass function
  • The origin of the initial stellar mass function and it potential universality
  • Instabilities in interstellar gas
  • Distances to nearby molecular clouds

 

MY Publications                                                      

They can be accessed via the SAO/NASA's ADS

Teaching                                                                                                      

2001-2002: CCD Photometry, at the MPIA, Heidelberg. You can access the tutorial I prepared

                  on the subject here.

 

2011-2012: tutorials for 3rd and 4th year Physics students.   

WHAT's New ?

Mar  2012: Paper on "Dynamical friction in an isentropic gas" accepted in Astrophysics &

                 Space Science

Dec  2011: Paper on "Distances to dense cores that contain very low luminosity objects" appeared

                 in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Oct  2011: Awarded a Santader Mobility Award for collaboration with the ICC Barcelona and the

                IAA in Granada, Spain.

Sep 2011: Astronomy Without A Telescope: Star Formation Laws. An article about our recent work

                on the star formation laws in galaxies by Steve Nerlich.

 

WhereABOUTS

01-06  Jul  2012: EPoS 2012 meeting, Ringberg.

27-29  Jun 2012: visiting the Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie, U. of Bonn

18-22  Jun 2012: Labyrinth of star formation conference, Crete

     07  Jun 2012: seminar at the Astrophysics Group, U. of Bristol (AG)

 

 

27-29  Mar 2012: NAM 2012 meeting, Manchester

     01  Feb 2012: seminar at Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL)

     11  Jan 2012: seminar at Astrophysics and Space Research Group, U. of Birmingham (ASR)