Vladimir Florinski

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

• Plasma physics of the interaction between the heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
• Galactic cosmic ray transport in the heliosphere
• Physics of charged particle acceleration by collisionless shocks with applications to the solar wind termination shock

Education

• MS, 1997, St. Petersburg State Technical University
• PhD, 2001, University of Arizona

Employment

• August 2008-Present:  Assistant Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• November 2008-August 2008:  Assistant Research Physicist, University of California, Riverside
• June 2001-September 2003:  Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Riverside

External Funding

• NASA grant "Cosmic-ray modulation in the global heliosphere", ~$400k

Representative Presentations and Papers

• "Acceleration at a dynamic termination shock near a solar minimum" (invited presentation), 2008 Solar, Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) workshop (Midway, UT: 23-27 June 2008)
• "Particle acceleration at shocks: beyond the diffusion approximation" (invited presentation), XXIV International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) general assembly (Perugia, Italy: 2-13 July 2007)
• "Physical processes in the heliosheath: theoretical predictions" (invited presentation), Solar Wind 11 - SOHO 16 conference (Whistler, Canada: 12-17 June 2005)
• "Cosmic ray propagation in the heliosphere" (invited presentation), 1^st Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) annual meeting (Singapore: 5-9 July 2004)
• "Solar system environment effects on cosmic-ray propagation in the heliosphere: consequences for cosmogenic isotope production" (invited presentation), 2004 Solar, Heliospheric and Interplanetary Environment (SHINE) workshop (Big Sky, MT: 27 June - 2 July 2004)
• "Galactic cosmic-ray transport in the global heliosphere" (invited presentation), 2002 American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting (San Francisco, CA: 6-10 December 2002)
• Florinski, V., Decker, R. B., and le Roux, J. A. 2008, Pitch-angle distributions of energetic particles near the heliospheric termination shock, J. Geophys. Res., 113, doi: 10.1029/2007JA012859, in press
• Florinski, V., and Zank, G. P. 2006, Particle acceleration at a dynamic termination shock, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L15110
• Florinski, V., Zank, G. P., and Pogorelov, N. V. 2005, Heliopause stability in the presence of neutral atoms: Rayleigh-Taylor dispersion analysis and axisymmetric MHD simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 110, A07104
• Florinski, V., Zank, G. P., Jokipii, J. R., Stone, E. C., and Cummings, A. C. 2004, Do anomalous cosmic rays modify the termination shock?, Astrophys. J., 610, 1169
• Florinski, V., Pogorelov, N. V., Zank, G. P., Wood, B. E., and Cox, D. P. 2004, On the possibility of a strong magnetic field in the local interstellar medium, Astrophys. J., 604, 700
• Florinski, V., Zank, G. P., and Pogorelov, N. V. 2003, Galactic cosmic ray transport in the global heliosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 1228
• Florinski, V., and Jokipii, J. R. 1999, A two-dimensional, self-consistent model of galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere, Astrophys. J., 523, L185.