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Terry J. Jones

Professor (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics), Dir. Graduate Studies

355/385 Tate, 624-8009/626-2067, email tjj @ astro.umn.edu
http://www.astro.umn.edu/~tjj/
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Jones

Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1991-; Associate Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1987-1991; Assistant Professor, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1982-1987; IT Outstanding Instructor Award, 1993; Horace T. Morse-University of Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2008.

Chairman, External Advisory Committee for The Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica; Chairman, Critical Design Review for FLITECAM,First Light Infrared Test Experiment CAMera for the Stratospheric Infrared Observatory; Chairman, Critical Design Review for Mimir, an infrared camera for Perkins Observatory.

Research Areas
Astronomical polarimetry, Infrared astronomy, Comets and Interstellar Magnetic Fields. [Research Group Web Page]

Education

B.A., Occidental College, 1972
M.S., University of Hawaii, 1974
Ph.D., University of Hawaii, 1977