Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Sungsoo Kim
Kyung Hee University
25 May 2015 to 26 May 2015 Galactic dynamics
Song Huang
Kavli IPMU
25 May 2015 to 31 May 2015 Galaxy formation and evolution; massive galaxies
Roberto Maiolino
Cambridge/KICC
25 May 2015 to 31 May 2015 Galaxy formation and evolution, metallicity and dust content in galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, supermassive Black Holes
Sarah Bird
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
18 May 2015 to 22 May 2015 Galactic halos, galactic kinematics, stellar populations
Dongming Jin
University of Texas at Brownsville, USA
12 May 2015 to 6 Jul 2015 Variable stars in open clusters
James Taylor
University of Waterloo
11 May 2015 to 22 May 2015 Dark matter, numerical simulations, gravitational lensing, galaxy dynamics
Alex Filippenko
UC Berkeley
7 May 2015 to 8 May 2015 Supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe
Mark Thompson
University of Hertfordshire
6 May 2015 to 10 May 2015 Massive star formation and JCMT observations
Alex Lazarian
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3 May 2015 to 9 May 2015 MHD Theory; Interstellar Dust; Interstellar Turbulence; Circumstellar Regions and Comets; Molecular Clouds
Doug Johnstone
NRC-Herzberg
28 Apr 2015 to 8 May 2015 Star formation; molecular clouds; pre-stellar cores; protostars; circumstellar disks