Biography: Prof. Thompson is a theoretical astrophysicist with broad interests. Thompson has made contributions to the theory of core-collapse supernovae and the origin of the heavy r-process elements, the physics of the far-infrared and gamma-ray – radio correlations of star-forming galaxies, the theory of galactic winds and massive star feedback, the dynamics of triple systems, and to the discovery of new black hole – stellar binary star systems. He uses a combination of analytic and numerical calculations to explore these topics, and he is a core member of the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN). (From OSU Astronomy)