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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Jianhui LIAN University of Portsmouth |
25 Jun 2018 | My current research interest mainly lies in understanding the chemical evolution of external galaxies and our Milky Way from both an observational and an theoretical angle. Besides, I am also interested in the star formation history of galaxies, especially the quenching process, and galaxy structure from deep and high spatial resolution photometry. |
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Eiichi Egami The University of Arizona |
21 Jun 2018 to 17 Jul 2018 | Cosmology, Infrared Astronomy, Extragalactic Astronomy |
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Christian Wolf The Australian National University |
17 Jun 2018 to 30 Jun 2018 | Galaxies, clusters, SNe/GRBs, surveys, photo-z |
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Roberto Decarli INAF |
13 Jun 2018 to 23 Jun 2018 | Astronomy at (sub)-mm wavelengths. Star formation in high-z galaxies and quasar hosts. Physics of the interstellar medium at high redshift. |
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Chunhua Qi Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
13 May 2018 to 18 May 2018 | protoplanetary disks and comets |
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Andy Sheinis Director of Engineering, CFHT |
7 May 2018 |
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Kei SZETO MSE Project Manager |
7 May 2018 |
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Doug Simons Executive Director, CFHT |
7 May 2018 |
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Alan McConnachie Instrument Scientist / Research Officer at NRC Herzberg |
7 May 2018 | galaxies, their formation, evolution, stellar content, and the tools to understand them. |
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Zhenya ZHENG Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS |
2 May 2018 to 8 May 2018 | high-redshift galaxies, cosmic reionization, supermassive black hole binaries, and AGN variabilities |
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