Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Yujing Qin (秦雨静)
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
14 Apr 2016 to 14 May 2016 the interpretation of galaxy morphology with orbital dynamics and the spontaneous modelling of galactic structures and stellar populations
Katelyn Allers
Bucknell University
12 Apr 2016 to 12 May 2016 directly-imaged exoplanets, brown dwarfs, young stars and infrared spectroscopy
Evan Kirby
Caltech
7 Apr 2016 to 17 Apr 2016 galaxy evolution; dwarf galaxies; stellar abundances; instrumentation
Juntai Shen
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS
6 Apr 2016 to 8 Apr 2016 galactic dynamics; supermassive black holes
Alain Omont
Emeritus ‘Directeur de Recherche’ at Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) and CNRS
30 Mar 2016 to 6 Apr 2016 High redshift dust and molecules Star formation and evolution of high redshift galaxies and QSOs
Li Yun
Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics at Shanghai Jiaotong University
20 Mar 2016 to 23 Mar 2016 Galaxy evolution, star formation, low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, and stellar dynamics
Yifu Cai(蔡一夫)
University of Science and Technology of China
3 Mar 2016 to 9 Mar 2016 bouncing cosmology, inflation in string theory, dark energy, cyclic universe, cosmic string, and black hole physics
Jonas Sommer
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
14 Jan 2016 to 31 Mar 2016 Star cluster dynamics, stellar populations
Dong Lai
Cornell Univ.
11 Jan 2016 Theoretical astrophysics: exoplanets, compact objects
Erwin Lau
Yale University, USA
8 Jan 2016 to 9 Jan 2016 Galaxy clusters, Cosmology, Numerical simulations