Biographical Sketch for Jirina Rikovska Stone

Last updated Sept 28, 2016

Education: B.S in Nuclear Physics: Technical University Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1962

PhD in Physics: Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1975

Positions and Appointments:

2016 - present: Guest Scientist RIKEN, Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science,Japan

2008 - present: Professor of Physics (Adjunct), Department of physics,University of Tennessee, USA

2005 - present: Academic Visitor Department of Physics, Oxford University, UK

1993 - present: Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland , USA

2006 - present: member of UT-ORNL Theoretical Astrophysics Group

1995 -1999 Lecturer, Exeter College, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.

1992 - 2005 Lecturer (St. Edmund Hall) Oxford University, UK

1986 -1991 SERC Research Fellow, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, UK

1983 -1986, SERC Research Associate, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, UK

1978 - 1984 Associate Professor, Technical University of Prague, Czechia

1975 -1983 Visiting staff, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, USSR

1963 -1975 Visiting staff, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Rez, Czechia

1962 - 1978 Assistant Professor, Technical University of Prague, Czechia

Residencies: ISOLDE, CERN Geneva:1990-1991 (10 months), 2000 (8 months)

ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN: 1990 (2 months), 1991(2 months), 2000 (4 months),

2001 (2 months), 2002(2 months), 2003 (7 months),

2004 (7 months), 2005(7 months), 2006 – present

Institute for Neutron Physics, Studsvik, Sweden: 1994 (2 months)

Niigata University, Japan: 2003 (1 month)

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil: 2010 (3 months)

University of Surrey, United Kingdom: 2010 (2 months)

University of Adelaide, Australia: 2012 (1 month), 2013 (5 weeks)

2014 (3 weeks), 2015 (4 weeks)

Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China: 2014 (4 weeks)

Collaborations

2013 - present COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology:

Exploring fundamental physics with compact stars (NewCompStar) member

2009 - 2014 VESF (Virgo EGO Scientific Forum)

Coordinator: Francesco Fidecaro (Pisa) – member

2003 - 2006 Terascale Supernova Initiative, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

PI Anthony Mezzacappa,

Co-investigator and Lead on Microscopic Equation of State Project

2007 - 2012 COMPSTAR (The neutron-star physics European RTN Collaboration)

Coordinator: David Blaschke (Bielefeld/Darmstadt/Warsaw) – member

1986 - present On-line Nuclear Orientation (NICOLE) and the ISOLDE Collaboration,

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland – member and associated coordinator

Professional Societies: American Physics Society (1993-present), American Chemical

Society (2004-2015), American Astronomical Society (2005-present)

Current Research Interests:

Theoretical Astrophysics:

Equation of state, high density nuclear matter, neutron stars, core-collapse supernovae

Nuclear Physics:

nuclear models, sub-nucleon structure effects in nuclei, super-heavy nuclei

Subjects of general interest:

Nuclear Energy, Global warming, History of physics, Physics and Bioinformatics

Synergistic Experience:

Co-Investigator: British EPSRC Nuclear Physics Rolling Grant, UK(1985 – 2000)

Senior Investigator: DOE grant DE-FG02-94ER40834, 1993-2008

Co-Investigator: Terascale Supernova Initiative, DOE Scientific Discovery through

Advanced Computing Program, (2003-2006)

Co-Investigator: DOE, National Energy Technology Lab., NETL-40557-1 2004

Co-Investigator: INCITE: Multi-D Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae (2006-2013)

Collaborative Investigator: Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research: Nuclear matter in neutron

stars investigated by experiments and astrophysical observations (Japan):sub-

group B01 (Tetsuya Murakami)

Prime Investigator: DD Project NPH101 Phase transitions in high density matter in neutron

stars and supernovae at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)

(2014 - 2015)

Recent Selected Synergistic Activities:

Invited speaker: at international conferences, workshops and seminars, such as Workshop on Many faces of neutron stars, Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, September 2015, Germany, 2nd Workshop on Dense Matter from Chiral effective Theories, June 2015, Chang-Chun, China, Shanghai Particle Physics and Cosmology Symposium, May 2014, China; 3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, June 2014, Crete, Greece, OMEG12, Tsukuba, Japan November 2013, Nuclei in Cosmos, Cairns, Australia 2012

Member: International advisory committee of International symposium on Nuclei in Cosmos

(Niigata Japan 2016, Debrecen Hungary 2014, Cairns, Australia 2012)

Lecturer: 11th, 12th and 13thRussbach school on nuclear astrophysics, March 2014, 2015 and 2016,Summer Immersion Program for international students, July 2015, Sichuan University, China, July 2015, XVI Escola de Verão Jorge André SwiecaFísica Nuclear February 2013, Brazil

Peer review service:

Physical Review C and D, Physical Review Letters, Astrophysical Journal,

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics A, Phys.Lett. B

Int.J.Mod.Phys., European Physics Journal, Modern Physics Letters, Astro. and Space Science, Mon. Not. RoyalAstro. Society (MNRAS)

U.S.D.O.E. (Nuclear Physics Program), NSF (Nuclear Physics),

U.S.D.O.E. (National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)),

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),

Czech Academy of Sciences (Research Grant Agency), Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

Graduate Teaching (Ph.D. Thesis - Selected)

Oxford ((co)supervisor) T. L. Shaw (1983-1987), C. J. Ashworth (1985-1989),D. E. Brown (1987-1990), M. Booth (1989-1993),Y. Khoo (1992-1995),D. Doran (1992-1997), D. A. Williams(1993-1997) ,G. White (1994-1998),T. Giles (1997-2000)

Oxford (supervisor) A. G. Griffiths (1986-1990), M. Lindroos (1991-1993),

P. D. Stevenson (1995-1999), W. G. Newton (2002-2007), C. Downum (2004-2010)

University of Tennesse: H.Pais (2010- 2013),O.Hamil (2012 - 2015)

Collaborators (in alphabetical order):

P. A.M.Guichon (Saclay, France), J.C.Miller (U.Oxford&SISSA, Italy), S.Moszkowski (UCLA), W.G.Newton (Texas A&M Commerce), P.Podsiadlowski (U.Oxford), P.-G.Reinhard (U.Erlangen, Germany), P. D. Stevenson (U.Surrey, UK), N.J.Stone (U.Oxford&U.Tennessee), A.E. Stuchberry (ANU, Canberra, Australia), A.W.Thomas (U.Adelaide, Australia), W.B.Walters (U.Maryland)

Publications (selected 2016 - 2010)

(totalover 150 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and over 70 contributions in non-refereed conference proceedings

1.Low energy nuclear structure modeling: Can it be improved?
Submitted to Proceedings of the International symposium of Nuclei in Cosmos, Niigata,
June 2016 (refereed)
2.Braking Index of Isolated Pulsars II: A novel two-dipole model of pulsar magnetism
O. Hamil, N.J.Stone and J.R.Stone, arXiv:1608.01375 accepted for publication in PRD
(Sep. 2016)
3.Finite nuclei in the Quark-Meson Coupling (QMC) Model
J.R.Stone, P.A.M.Guichon, P.-G. Reinhard and A.W.Thomas,
Phys.Rev.Letts. 116, 092501 (2016)
4.Phase transitions in core-collapse supernova matter at sub-saturation densities
Helena Pais, William G. Newton, and Jirina R. Stone, Phys. Rev. C 90, 065802 (2014)

5.Exploring the Nuclear Pasta Phase in Core-Collapse Supernova Matter

Helena Pais and Jirina R. Stone, Phys. Rev, Letts.109, 151101 (2012)

6.Modeling nuclear ``pasta'' and the transition to uniform nuclear matter

with the 3D Skyrme-Hartree-Fock method at finite temperature: Core-collapse

supernovae: W.G.Newton and J.R.Stone, Phys.Rev.C 79, 055801 (2009)

7.Neutron Star Interior: Theory and Reality

J.R.Stone, Eur. Phys. J. A (2016) 52: 66

8.Incompressibility in finite nuclei and nuclear matter

J. R. Stone, N. J. Stone, and S. A. Moszkowski, Phys. Rev. C 89, 044316 (2014)

9. High-density matter: Current status and future challenges.

J. R. Stone, EPJ Web of Conferences 95, 02006 (2015)

10. Braking index of isolated pulsars:
O. Hamil, J. R. Stone, M. Urbanec, and G. Urbancová, Phys. Rev. D 91, 063007 (2015)
11.Relativistic mean-field hadronic models under nuclear matter constraints
M. Dutra, O. Lourenço, S. S. Avancini, B. V. Carlson, A. Delfino, D. P. Menezes, C.
Providência, S. Typel, and J. R. Stone, Phys. Rev. C 90, 055203 (2014)

12. Quark-meson coupling model, nuclear matter constraints, and neutron star properties

D. L. Whittenbury, J. D. Carroll, A. W. Thomas, K. Tsushima, and J. R. Stone

Phys. Rev. C 89, 065801

13. Dense neutron star matter

J.R.Stone. AIP Conf. Proc. 1594, 406 (2014);

14. Constraints on the symmetry energy and neutron skins from experiments andtheory

M. B. Tsang, J. R. Stone et al.: Phys. Rev. C 86, 015803 (2012)

15. Dark matter, neutron stars and strange quark matter

M.Angeles Perez-Garcia, Joseph Silk, Jirina R. Stone, Phys. Rev. Letts. 105, 141101

(2010)

Selected Scientific Oral Presentations (2016 -2014) (total over 150)

  1. High density matter, neutron stars and finite nuclei

Departmental Seminar, 9 Sept 2016, CEA Saclay, France (invited)

  1. Low energy nuclear structure modeling: Can it be improved?

International Symposium on Nuclei in Cosmos, Niigata, Japan, 19 - 24 June, 2016

  1. Low energy nuclear structure modeling: Can it be improved?

Strangeness Nuclear Physics Laboratory Seminar, RIKEN, Japan, Jun 15, 2016 (invited)

  1. Low energy nuclear structure modeling: Can it be improved?

13thRussbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics, 6 - 12 March 2016 (invited)

  1. Neutron stars and nuclear and particle physics.

CNR Seminar, Kent University, October 14, 2015 (invited)

  1. Neutron star interior: Theory and reality

Workshop on Many faces of neutron stars, Munich Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics, Munich 24 August - 18 September 2015 (invited)

  1. Neutron stars and their role in the Universe.

Lecture Course at the UIP 2015, Sichuan University, July 6 - 10, 2015 (invited)

  1. Neutron rich matter in stellar processes

Seminar at the Department of Physics, Sichuan University, July 15, 2015 (invited)

  1. Quark-Meson Coupling Model (QMC): Nuclear Matter and Finite Nuclei

Seminar at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, July 2, 2015 (invited)

  1. Nuclear Matter and finite nuclei in the Quark-Meson-Coupling Model

2nd Workshop on Dense Matter from Chiral effective Theories, Jilin University, Chang-Chun, 25-30 June 2015 (invited)

  1. Problems of dense matter in compact object and finite nuclei:
    Can they be solved?

12thRussbach school on nuclear astrophysics 8 - 14 March 2015, Russbach, Austria (invited)

  1. Notes on Quark-meson coupling model

Presentation at the meeting of COST NewCompStar collaboration, INP Lyon, France, November 18, 2014 (invited)

  1. High density matter problem: Can it be solved?

J.R.Stone, seminar at the Center for the Subatomic Structure of Matter, University of Adelaide, Australia, October 22, 2014 (invited)

  1. Current status of understanding of high density matter

J.R.Stone, Seminar at Monashcentre fro Astrophysics (MoCA), Melbourne, Australia, October 14, 2014 ( invited)

  1. Triaxiality in atomic nuclei?

J.R.Stone, informal seminar at the Department of Nuclear Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, September 26, 2014

  1. Physics of high-density matter in astrophysical and terrestrial objects

J.R.Stone, Workshop on Science at the interface of atomic and nuclear physics, Australian National University, Canberra, September 18 - 19, 2014 (invited)

  1. High-density matter: Current Status and Future Challenges

J.R.Stone, 3rd International conference on new frontiers in physics, Kolymbari, Crete, July 30 - August 6, 2014 (invited lecture)

  1. High-density matter in astrophysical objects

J.R.Stone, seminar at Institute of Physics, Silesian University in Opava, July 23, 2014 (invited)

  1. High-Density matter in neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae,

J.R. Stone, SPCS2014: Shanghai Particle Physics and Cosmology Symposium, May 28-31, Shanghai, China (invited)

  1. Aspects of modeling of some processes in the Universe

J. R. Stone, Huzhou Teachers College, Huzhou, China, May 23, 2014 (invited)

  1. Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter

J.R.Stone, Nuclear Astrophysics Summer School, Shanghai Jioa Tong

University, China, May 17-27, 2014 (invited)

  1. Dense matter in neutron stars and connection with finite nuclei

J.R.Stone, seminar at the Department of Theoretical physics, Peking University, May 12, 2014 - CUSTIPEN collaboration (invited)

  1. Quark-meson coupling model

J.R.Stone, Shanghai Jiao Tong University seminar, China, May 5, 2014 (invited)

  1. Dense (hadronic and quark) matter

J.R.Stone, 11thRussbach School on Nuclear Astrophysics, Austria, 9-15 March 2014

(invited)