Before arriving in New York, I spent more than 5 years working with Dr. Scott Kenyon in the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences (SSP) Division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and one year working with Prof. Phil Charles in the Astronomy Group at the University of Southampton, in England. I did my PhD in physics at U.C. Berkeley with Lars Bildsten.
 

Scientific Interests

• Jets from White Dwarfs, and the Disk-Jet Connection (talk abstract)
• Accreting White Dwarfs, Symbiotic Systems, and Supersoft X-ray Sources (talk abstract)
• Supernova Type Ia Progenitors
• Interacting Binary Stars
• Variability Studies and Asteroseismology

Current Research

• The recurrent nova RS Oph (radio image of the 2006 eruption from Rupen et al. to the right)
• Jets in from Accreting White Dwarfs
• Multi-wavelength Observations of Symbiotic Systems in Outburst
• Optical Flickering in Symbiotics and Supersoft X-ray Sources
• Symbiotic-Like Systems with Neutron Star or Black-Hole Accretors

Publications and CV

• Papers Listed by the Astrophysics Data System(ADS)
• Curriculum Vitae (PostScript,PDF)
• Ph.D. Thesis: Magnetism and Rapid Photometric Variability in Symbiotic Binary Stars

Conferences and Talks

• Workshop on Symbiotic Stars
• "Accretion and Explosion: the Astrophysics of Degenerate Stars" to be held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at U. C. Santa Barbara, January 29-June 1 2007
• SSP Seminar Series
• Past Conference on Symbiotic Stars

• In March, 2002, the first ever International Conference on Women in Physics was held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. I attended as one of the twelve U.S. delegates.
• Consider volunteering to be an Eyes to the Future science mentor for middle-school girls. My students at the Healey school contributed to an on-line magazine called Speak Out!. You can see pictures of us from their online magazine here.
• The Science Club for Girls in the Cambridge public schools provides another opportunity for women in science and technology to mentor girls. To get involved, contact program coordinator Alejandra Pallais at pallaial@gse.harvard.edu.

Contact Information

Present address:     Columbia Astrophysics Lab
                                  550 W120th St., 1027 Pupin Hall, MC 5247
                                  Columbia University
                                  New York, New York 10027
                                  USA

Telephone:               (212) 854-8322

FAX:                          (212) 854-8121

E-mail:                   jeno at astro.columbia.edu
 

Funding Acknowledgement

Some material on this web page is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 9902665 and 0302055. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.