Tom is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Tom leads the N-Body Shop, where he works on running and analyzing N-body simulations of structure formation in the Universe. His other research interests include Galactic and Solar System dynamics, and planet formation. He is a member of the UW Astrobiology program.
Astr 508: Hydro- and Magnetohydro-dynamics
He regularly teaches the graduate Stellar Dynamics course, the graduate Magneto-Hydrodynamics course, Origins of the Solar System, the undergraduate Cosmology course and a course on Numerical Methods for Astrophysics.