Past Visiting Scholars
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Minzhi Kong (孔民芝) Hebei Normal University |
11 Jan 2018 to 14 Jan 2018 | AGN evolution and estimation of their central black hole masses |
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Antonios Tsokaros University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
21 Dec 2017 to 15 Jan 2018 | General relativity; numerical relativity; astrophysics; alternative theories of gravity; cosmology; dynamical systems. |
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Lijing Shao(邵立晶) Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn Germany |
19 Dec 2017 to 23 Dec 2017 | Tests of gravity theories, Gravitational waves, Pulsars and neutron stars, Black hole physics, Precision tests of fundamental physics, Bayesian data analysis and statistics |
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Sherry Suyu Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
13 Dec 2017 to 29 Dec 2017 | Cosmology, galaxy formation/evolution, gravitational lensing |
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Kohei Hayashi National Astronomical Observatory of Japan |
11 Dec 2017 to 12 Dec 2017 | Dark matter distribution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies, formation history of the Milky Way and its satellites, Galactic Archaeology, Numerical simulations |
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Alain Omont Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris |
10 Dec 2017 to 12 Dec 2017 | Atomic physics; Optical pumping; Circumstellar chemistry & dust; AGB stars; High-z dust and molecules; submm galaxies and QSOs. |
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Masami Ouchi The University of Tokyo |
8 Nov 2017 to 17 Nov 2017 | Galaxy formation, observational cosmology, deep surveys |
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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. |
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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 |
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Woowon Byun Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) |
26 Oct 2017 to 31 Oct 2017 | xtragalactic astronomy; galaxy outskirts, Supermassive black holes, AGNs |
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