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James Charbonneau
CONTACT
INFORMATION
CITIZENSHIP
James Charbonneau Phone: (604) 734-4730
1510 Graveley St. Work: (604) 822-5096
Vancouver, B.C.
E-mail: james@phas.ubc.ca
V5L 3A6
Website: www.physics.ubc.ca/∼james
Canadian
CURRENT Sessional Instructor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
POSITION Phys102 – Electricity, Light, and Radiation July 2012 - Current
Science One Physics Instructor
September 2011 - Current
Course Author: Phys333 – Energy and Climate
September 2011 - Current
EDUCATION
ADDITIONAL
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2004 − 2011
Ph.D., Physics: Topological Currents in Dense Matter June 2011
M.Sc., Physics: Vortex Structures in Neutron Stars May 2007
Supervisor: Professor Ariel Zhitnitsky
University College of the Cariboo (now TRU), Kamloops, BC, Canada 1999 − 2004
B.Sc., Physics with Math Minor May 2004
Panelist and Moderator for AskScience
• Science forum associated with reddit.com with over 600,000 subscribers
Science 101
• A barrier free course for residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Jump Start Faculty Fellow
• A immersive program designed to introduce international students to UBC.
2010 – Current
2012 – Current
2012 – Current
Events at CTLT, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Mixing It Up! Collaborating across the disciplines (Co-facilitator) May 2012
• Community of Practice: Course Design (Co-facilitator)
September 2011 – Current
• Screencasting Tools February 2012
• Faculty Instructional Skills Workshop - December 6, 7, 8 December 2011
• CTLT & Partners Course Design Intensive December 2011
Teaching Assistant at UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Evaluation scores in parentheses)
• Phys 203/313, Thermodynamics (4.53) 2008
• Phys 259, Eng Phys lab course (4.99, 4.67, 4.47) 2005 − 2007
• Phys 209, Methods and measurement lab (4.33, 4.28) 2005 − 2007
• Phys 153, Introductory lab techniques (4.63) 2004 − 2005
• Phys 100, Tutorials (4.49) 2004
PUBLICATIONS
1. L. Brits and J. Charbonneau, A Constraint-Based Approach to the Chiral Magnetic Effect. Phys.
Rev. D 83, 126013 (2011). [arXiv:1009.4230]
2. J. Charbonneau, K. Hoffman and J. Heyl, Large Pulsar Kicks from Topological Currents, MN-
RAS:Letters 404 (2010) L119. [arXiv:0912.3822]
3. J. Charbonneau and A. Zhitnitsky, Topological Currents in Neutron Stars:Kicks, Precession, Toroidal
Fields, and Magnetic Fields, JCAP08(2010)010. [arXiv:0903.4450]
4. J. Charbonneau and A. Zhitnitsky, A Novel Mechanism for Type-I Superconductivity in Neutron
Stars, Phys. Rev. C76 (2007) 015801. [astro-ph/0701308]
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OTHER
CONTRIBUTIONS
1. J. Charbonneau The Axial Anomaly and Large Pulsar Kicks, Prepared for the proceedings of the
the 25th Lake Louise Winter Institute, [arXiv:1005.3851].
2. J. Charbonneau Observational Consequences of Topological Currents in Neutron Stars, Prepared
for the proceedings of the the 24th Lake Louise Winter Institute, [arXiv:0904.4268].
3. N. Ambrosetti, J. Charbonneau, and S. Weinfurtner, The fluid/gravity correspondence: Lectures
note from the 2008 Summer School on Particles, Fields, and Strings,
[arXiv:0810.2631].
4. M. Milner-Bolotin, F. Bates, A. Kotlicki, D. Witt, G. Rieger, J. Nakane, D. Peets, J. Charbonneau,
H. Kew, Enhancing Student Experiences for First Year Large Introductory Physics Course.
(2005). A successful grant application submitted to the Teaching and Learning Enhancement
Fund.
5. J. Charbonneau, GrADS documentation. (2004). A technical report describing the usage of the
data visualization scripts I developed for the GDCFDC.
CONTRIBUTED/
INVITED TALKS
1. Parity Violation and Topological Currents, TRU Science Seminar Series (2011) [Invited]
2. Kicking Pulsars Hard, 25th LLWI (2010)
3. Punting Pulsars: Big Kicks from Little Physics, 47th WNPPC (2010)
4. Topological Currents in Neutron Stars, 24th LLWI (2009)
5. Topological Currents, Neutron Star Kicks, Toroidal Magnetic Fields, 46th NWPPC (2009)
6. Topological Vector Currents, 10th NW APS (2008)
7. A Mechanism for Type-I Superconductivity in Neutron Stars, 44th WNPPC (2007)
8. Project Firestorm, Western Canada Weather Workshop (2003).
AWARDS
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• NSERC PGS D3 2008 − 2011
• Second Place Student Talk WNPPC’09 2009
University College of the Cariboo (now TRU), Kamloops, BC, Canada
• UCC Physics Science Prize 2003
• Order of the Eastern Star Scholarship 2001
• UCC Foundation Scholarship 2000,2002
ARPES lab at UBC, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Research Assistant May 2004 − August 2004
• Designed in Auto-CAD, purchased, and assembled a helium/neon delivery system for the
light source of the spectroscope.
• Managed a $10,000 budget.
Geophysical Computational Fluid Dynamics Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Research Assistant May 2004 − August 2004
May 2003 − December 2003
January 2002 − August 2002
• Developed data visualization for numerical weather models using GrADS, C, C++, PERL,
and Bash. These can be viewed at weather.eos.ubc.ca/wxfcst/.
• Purchased and deployed remote weather stations and developed automated data retrieval shell
scripts.
• Used MATLAB to analyze infrared satellite images for initializing the forest fire models used
in project Firestorm.
• Inserted a cloud parameterization into the FORTRAN oriented single column Canadian Climate
Model
• Maintained the Project Firestorm web page.
PERSONAL
INTERESTS
I enjoy playing music and taking photographs. I maintain a blog at www.jimmycorp.com, which a
friend and I coded in PHP and some Javascript, that I use to publish my photos and music, along with
the odd drawing.
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