Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Paula Andrea Sánchez
Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
13 Mar 2017 to 7 Jun 2017 Active galactic nuclei (AGN) variability and its connection with AGN physical properties, time domain astronomy, variable stars, big data analysis, data science.
Robin Dong(董若冰)
Hubble Fellow at University of Arizona
10 Mar 2017 to 16 Mar 2017 My main research interests are in the general area of extrasolar planets. Specifically, how to connect the theories of planet formation with observations of protoplanetary disks
Andreas Schulze
NAOJ
8 Mar 2017 Active Galactic Nuclei, Quasars, Surveys
Ye-Fei Yuan
University of Science and Technology of China
2 Mar 2017 Relativistic astrophysics, focusing on compact objects (neutron stars, black holes and white dwarfs), and nuclear astrophysics (physics of dense nuclear matter, high energy neutrinos)
Amelia Stutz
University of Concepcion
27 Feb 2017 to 1 Mar 2017 Star formation, molecular clouds, the formation of stellar clusters, mm/sub-mm/IR observations, kinematics, spectroscopy.
Sun Kwok
Laboratory for Space Research, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong
23 Feb 2017 to 27 Feb 2017 stellar evolution, interstellar chemistry, space astronomy
Yangwei Zhang(张扬威)
Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
21 Feb 2017 to 21 Mar 2017 dual AGNs and their kinematics
Roland de Putter
California Institute of Technology
20 Feb 2017 to 23 Feb 2017 inflation, dark energy, dark matter, neutrino physics, the cosmic microwave background, weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering.
Lixin Jane Dai
University of Maryland
20 Feb 2017 to 23 Feb 2017 black hole accretion and jet, TDE, GRMHD simulation
Xuening Bai
Institute for Theory and Computation (ITC) at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
20 Feb 2017 to 23 Feb 2017 planet formation, particularly on the dynamics of gas and dust in protoplanetary disks,high-energy astrophysics