Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Alberto Sesana
University of Birmingham
28 Oct 2017 to 4 Nov 2017 Gravitational waves; Massive black hole (binaries); Stellar dynamics, dense stellar systems; Hyper–velocity stars and the nature and environment of SgrA∗; Gas dynamics and accretion theory; Structure formation and galaxy evolution.
Yun-Kyeong Sheen
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
26 Oct 2017 to 31 Oct 2017 Galaxy formation and evolution in galaxy clusters using deep optical imaging and IFU spectroscopy
Woowon Byun
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
26 Oct 2017 to 31 Oct 2017 xtragalactic astronomy; galaxy outskirts, Supermassive black holes, AGNs
Minjin Kim
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
26 Oct 2017 to 31 Oct 2017 Coevolution of black holes and galaxies
Shri Kulkarni
Palomar Observatory, Caltech
25 Oct 2017 Planetary AstronomyPlanetary Science
Eli Waxman
The Weizmann Institute of Science
15 Oct 2017 to 28 Oct 2017 Theoretical Astrophysics, High-Energy and Particle Astrophysics
Laura Sales
University of California Riverside
9 Oct 2017 to 20 Oct 2017 Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Dynamical modeling of galaxies, Dwarf galaxies, Milky Way and Local Group cosmology, Nature of feedback, Physics of the ISM, Hydrodynamics, Numerical simulations
Charles Alcock
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
29 Sep 2017 Massive compact halo objects, comets and asteroids.
Barbara Catinella
University of Western Australia / ICRAR
18 Sep 2017 to 29 Sep 2017 Gas in galaxies
Yi-Fei Jin
prospective PhD student at RSAA/ANU (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics/ Australian National University)
11 Sep 2017 to 20 Sep 2017 galaxy formation and evolution, gas flows and chemical evolution.