Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholars
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John Carpenter |
1 April 2025 to 3 April 2025 | Dr. John Carpenter joined the ALMA Project in September 2015 as the ALMA Observatory Scientist. John received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and was a James Clerk Maxwell Fellow at the University of Hawaii and an Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). While at Caltech, John conducted research using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVR... |
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Past Visiting Scholars
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James Aird University of Leicester |
1 Nov 2018 to 4 Nov 2018 | The evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their co-evolution with galaxies; statistical studies using large X-ray and multiwavelength surveys; the Athena X-ray observatory. |
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Wei Zhu University of Toronto |
28 Oct 2018 to 2 Nov 2018 | research interests include both theoretical and observational aspects of astrophysics, with a focus on exoplanets |
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Alain Omont Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris |
28 Oct 2018 to 1 Nov 2018 | Atomic physics; Optical pumping; Circumstellar chemistry & dust; AGB stars; High-z dust and molecules; submm galaxies and QSOs. |
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Piero Madau University of California Santa Cruz |
15 Oct 2018 to 29 Oct 2018 | Dr. Madau has pioneered many areas that later developed into staples of standard modern cosmology. His tools range from pencil-and-paper to the most ambitious cosmological N-body and hydrodynamical simulations. |
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Scott Tremaine Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
8 Oct 2018 to 11 Oct 2018 | comets, the solar system, exoplanets, star clusters, black holes, galaxies, and cosmology |
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Alberto Sesana University of Birmingham |
7 Oct 2018 to 25 Oct 2018 | Gravitational waves; Massive black hole (binaries); Stellar dynamics, dense stellar systems; Hyper–velocity stars and the nature and environment of SgrA∗; Gas dynamics and accretion theory; Structure formation and galaxy evolution. |
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Cristina Romero-Canizales Nucleo de Astronomia, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile |
23 Sep 2018 to 21 Oct 2018 | Radio/mm studies of interacting/merging galaxies Galaxy evolution and star formation Tidal Disruption Events at high angular resolution Astronomical masers |
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Emiko Hiyama Kyushu Univeristy |
9 Sep 2018 to 1 Oct 2018 | Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics |
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Sharon Wang Carnegie-DTM |
5 Sep 2018 | current research focuses on improving the RV precision |
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Boaz Katz Weizmann Institute of Science |
7 Aug 2018 to 15 Aug 2018 |
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