Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Pau Amaro-Seoane
Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
13 Oct 2019 to 25 Oct 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
Jarrod Hurley
Swinburne University of Technology
7 Oct 2019 to 18 Oct 2019 Globular Clusters; GPU and advanced HPC algorithms; Dynamical systems; Advanced Statistics and Big Data; Galaxy Formation; Scientific Computing and Visualisation; Star and Planet Formation
Jinyi Shangguan
Max-Planck Institute
25 Sep 2019 to 7 Oct 2019 infrared interferometric observations of AGNs
Li Jiangtao
University of Michigan
23 Sep 2019 to 24 Sep 2019 Multi-wavelength observations of the circum-galactic medium (CGM) of nearby galaxies; High redshift universe (quasars, CGM, IGM).
Ryosuke Hirai
Waseda University
18 Sep 2019 to 20 Sep 2019 Binary Stars;Numerical Techniques
Congyao Zhang
Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
2 Sep 2019 to 10 Sep 2019 large-scale structure, galaxy cluster, and cosmology
Xin Wang
University of California
30 Aug 2019 Xin studies how gas flows, star formation and galactic feedback influence the cycle of baryons and metals as a key ingredient to the chemo-structural evolution of high-redshift galaxies using diffraction-limited spatially-resolved spectroscopy.
Se-Heon Oh
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University
23 Jul 2019 to 6 Aug 2019 • Galaxy dynamics and its link to star formation • Observational radio astronomy • Galaxy surveys with SKA pathfinders
Jim Fuller
California Institute of Technology
12 Jul 2019
Re’em Sari
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12 Jul 2019 to 16 Jul 2019 cosmological gamma-ray bursts and their afterglow, as well as dynamical issues in planet formation and their orbital evolution