Past Visiting Scholars
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Victor Debattista University of Central Lancashire |
17 Nov 2018 to 24 Nov 2018 | computational study of the formation and dynamics of galaxies |
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Kohei Ichikawa Tohoku University |
13 Nov 2018 to 16 Nov 2018 | AGN, black holes |
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Yanfei Jiang University of California, Santa Barbara |
1 Nov 2018 to 13 Nov 2018 | High energy astrophysics; black hole; galaxy evolution and structures; AGN/Stellar/Cosmic Ray feedbacks... |
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James Aird University of Leicester |
1 Nov 2018 to 4 Nov 2018 | The evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their co-evolution with galaxies; statistical studies using large X-ray and multiwavelength surveys; the Athena X-ray observatory. |
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Wei Zhu University of Toronto |
28 Oct 2018 to 2 Nov 2018 | research interests include both theoretical and observational aspects of astrophysics, with a focus on exoplanets |
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Alain Omont Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris |
28 Oct 2018 to 1 Nov 2018 | Atomic physics; Optical pumping; Circumstellar chemistry & dust; AGB stars; High-z dust and molecules; submm galaxies and QSOs. |
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Piero Madau University of California Santa Cruz |
15 Oct 2018 to 29 Oct 2018 | Dr. Madau has pioneered many areas that later developed into staples of standard modern cosmology. His tools range from pencil-and-paper to the most ambitious cosmological N-body and hydrodynamical simulations. |
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Scott Tremaine Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
8 Oct 2018 to 11 Oct 2018 | comets, the solar system, exoplanets, star clusters, black holes, galaxies, and cosmology |
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Alberto Sesana University of Birmingham |
7 Oct 2018 to 25 Oct 2018 | 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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Cristina Romero-Canizales Nucleo de Astronomia, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile |
23 Sep 2018 to 21 Oct 2018 | Radio/mm studies of interacting/merging galaxies Galaxy evolution and star formation Tidal Disruption Events at high angular resolution Astronomical masers |
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