Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Zoltan Haiman
Columbia University
2 Jul 2019 to 8 Jul 2019 Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Astronomy;Cosmology and Large Scale Structures;Structure Formation in the Early Universe
Miao Li
Flatiron Institute
1 Jul 2019 to 6 Jul 2019 Li’s research focuses on understanding how galaxies form and evolve, in particular on how the small-scale feedback from stars regulates galaxy formation.
Ana Bonaca
Harvard University
27 Jun 2019 to 30 Jun 2019 Tidal disruption of Galactic satellites and buildup of its stellar halo, global mapping of dark matter in the Milky Way and searches for low-mass dark matter subhalos
Masaru Shibata
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)
25 Jun 2019 to 2 Jul 2019
Kazumi Kashiyama
University of Tokyo
23 Jun 2019 to 27 Jun 2019 black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, multi-messenger astronomy
Victor Debattista
University of Central Lancashire
16 Jun 2019 to 13 Jul 2019 computational study of the formation and dynamics of galaxies
Pau Amaro-Seoane
Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
26 May 2019 to 19 Jun 2019 stellar dynamics, LIGO/Virgo/LISA black holes, data analysis and gravitational-wave search algorithms, planetesimal dynamics, scalar fields and collisional dark matter, and GPU computing
David Ian Jones
University of Southampton
20 May 2019 to 25 May 2019
Naoki Seto
Kyoto University
14 May 2019 to 20 May 2019 gravitational wave
Filippo Mannucci
Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory
13 May 2019 to 25 May 2019