Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars
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Marek Abramowicz |
12 May 2024 to 19 May 2024 | Prof. Marek Abramowicz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Warsaw University. After that he worked for several years at Stanford University and University of Texas at Austin. Later, for more than a decade, he collaborated closely with Dennis Sciama, first at Oxford University and then at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. For twenty years he was a member of the Academic Board at the Salam's International Centre of Theoretical Physics in Trieste. In 1990-1994 he was professor of astrophysics at Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. He was the Chair professor of Astrophysics at Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden for many year. Now he is a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Science, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His main field of research is theory of black hole accretion disks. Together with collaborators he discovered and/or developed models of Polish Doughnuts, Slim disks, ADAFs, magnetically arrested disks (MAD). The well-known model of slim accretion disk has been considered as one of the foundations of understanding the formation and growth of supermassive black holes. |
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Minjin KIM |
24 February 2024 to 25 February 2024 | I am an associate professor in Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences at Kyungpook National University. My main research interests are the physical properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies, and the evolution of nearby galaxies. I am also involved in SPHEREx space mission. |
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Past Visiting Scholars
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Evan Kirby Caltech |
7 Apr 2016 to 17 Apr 2016 | galaxy evolution; dwarf galaxies; stellar abundances; instrumentation |
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Juntai Shen Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS |
6 Apr 2016 to 8 Apr 2016 | galactic dynamics; supermassive black holes |
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Alain Omont Emeritus ‘Directeur de Recherche’ at Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) and CNRS |
30 Mar 2016 to 6 Apr 2016 | High redshift dust and molecules Star formation and evolution of high redshift galaxies and QSOs |
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Li Yun Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics at Shanghai Jiaotong University |
20 Mar 2016 to 23 Mar 2016 | Galaxy evolution, star formation, low-mass stars and brown dwarfs, and stellar dynamics |
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Yifu Cai(蔡一夫) University of Science and Technology of China |
3 Mar 2016 to 9 Mar 2016 | bouncing cosmology, inflation in string theory, dark energy, cyclic universe, cosmic string, and black hole physics |
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Jonas Sommer Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany |
14 Jan 2016 to 31 Mar 2016 | Star cluster dynamics, stellar populations |
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Dong Lai Cornell Univ. |
11 Jan 2016 | Theoretical astrophysics: exoplanets, compact objects |
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Erwin Lau Yale University, USA |
8 Jan 2016 to 9 Jan 2016 | Galaxy clusters, Cosmology, Numerical simulations |
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Weiguang Cui ICRAR, UWA |
5 Jan 2016 | numerical simulation, large scale structure, galaxy clusters |
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Areg Mickaelian Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Armenia |
9 Dec 2015 | active galactic nuclei; astronomy for development |
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