Gang (Gary) Li

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

• Particle Acceleration and transport in the heliosphere; Solar Energetic Particle events and Space weather.
• MHD Turbulence property of the solar wind.
• Numerical astrophysics, Monte-Carlo techniques and stochastic differential equation.

Education

• BS in Physics, 1994, Tsinghua University
• PhD in Physics, 2000, Indiana University
• MS in Computer Science, 2000, Indiana University

Employment

• February 2006-August 2008: Assistant Research Physicist, Space Science Lab, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• Janurary 2002- Janurary 2006: Postdoc and Assistant Research Scientist, IGPP, University of California, Riverside, CA

External Funding

• NASA Living With a Star Program, $0.5M

Conferences Organized

• 4th Annual (IGPP) international Astrophysics conference, Palm Spring, CA, 2005
• 7th Annual (IGPP) international Astrophysics conference, Kauai, HI, 2008

Representative Presentations and Papers

• Are there current-sheet-like structures in the Earth's magnetotail as in the solar wind - results and implications from high time resolution magnetic field measurements by Cluster, Li, G., E. Lee, and G. Parks, Annales Geophysicae 26, (2008).
• Identifying Current-Sheet-like Structures in the Solar Wind, Li, G. , Astro. Phy. J., 672, Issue 1, pp. L65-L68, (2008).
• Particle Acceleration at Interplanetary Shocks, Zank,G. P., Li, G. , Verkhoglyadova, Olga, Space Science Reviews, 130, p 255, (2007).
• Particle acceleration at a rippling termination shock, Li, G. and G. P. Zank, AIP 858, 183, (2006).
• Multiple CMEs and large gradual SEP events, Li, G. & Zank, G. P., 29th ICRC proceedings, Vol. 1, p173, (2006).
• Mixed particle acceleration at CME-driven shocks and flares, Li, G. & G.P. Zank, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, Issue 2, L02101 (2005).
• Acceleration and transport of heavy ions at CME-driven shocks, Li, G. , Zank, Gary P., Rice, W. K. M., J. Geophys. Res.110, A06104, (2005).
• Particle acceleration and transport at CME-driven shocks: a case study, Li, G. , Zank, Gary P., M.I. Desai, G. M. Mason, Rice, W. K. M., Geophysical Monograph 156, edited by Gallagher et al., (2004).
• Perpendicular diffusion coefficient for charged particles of arbitrary energy Zank, G. P., Li, G. , Florinski, V., Matthaeus, W. H., Webb, G. M., le Roux, J. A., J. Geophys. Res., 109, A4, CiteID A04107, (2004).
• Energetic particle acceleration and transport at coronal mass ejection-driven shocks, Li, G. , Zank, Gary P., Rice, W. K. M., J. Geophys. Res., 108, pp. SSH 10-1, CiteID 1082, (2003).