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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David Blair Australian International Gravitational Research Centre，University of Western Australia |
14 Jul 2017 | methods of detecting gravitational waves |
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Wei Zhu (祝伟) The Ohio State University |
10 Jul 2017 to 19 Jul 2017 | gravitational microlensing, planet detection and characterization, planet-star correlation |
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Lloyd Knox UC Davis |
10 Jul 2017 | cosmology |
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Zheng Zheng （郑政 ） University of Utah |
8 Jul 2017 to 13 Jul 2017 | cosmology, large-scale structure, galaxy formation and evolution, and Lyman-alpha radiative transfer. I also have broad interests in other fields of astrophysics. |
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Doug Johnstone National Research Council Canada |
4 Jul 2017 to 10 Jul 2017 | millimetre-wave astronomy (single dish/interferometry), star formation, molecular clouds, pre-stellar cores, proto-stars, circumstellar disks. |
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Huanian Zhang Steward Observatory, University of Arizona |
30 Jun 2017 | galaxy formation and evolution, specifically on the circumgalactic media of nearby galaxies and the Milky Way Galaxy, searching the globular clusters in the local group and searching the ultra diffuse galaxies (UDG) |
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Banibrata Mukhopadhyay Indian Institute of Science |
28 Jun 2017 to 1 Jul 2017 | Theoretical Astrophysics of black holes, white dwarfs and neutron stars, Astrophysical fluids, Particle Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity |
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R. N. (Dick) Manchester CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australian Academy of Science |
23 Jun 2017 | Precision timing of pulsars and its applications, Origin and evolution of pulsars, Pulsar beaming, polarization and the pulse emission mechanism, Effects of circumstellar and interstellar propagation, especially Faraday rotation and the Galactic magnetic field, Structure and evolution of supernova remnants, especially SNR 1987A |
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Xilong Fan |
22 Jun 2017 | gravitational wave astronomy, gravitational wave data analysis, galaxy properties by galactic chemical and SED models |
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Rohan Potham Naidu Yale-NUS College |
19 Jun 2017 to 14 Aug 2017 | Cosmic Reionization, High-Redshift Extragalactic Astronomy, Machine Learning Applications in Astronomy, Supernova Cosmology |
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