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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James Taylor University of Waterloo |
11 May 2015 to 22 May 2015 | Dark matter, numerical simulations, gravitational lensing, galaxy dynamics |
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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 |
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Mark Thompson University of Hertfordshire |
6 May 2015 to 10 May 2015 | Massive star formation and JCMT observations |
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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 |
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Doug Johnstone NRC-Herzberg |
28 Apr 2015 to 8 May 2015 | Star formation; molecular clouds; pre-stellar cores; protostars; circumstellar disks |
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Chengze Liu Shanghai Jiaotong University |
7 Apr 2015 to 9 Apr 2015 | Stellar populations, galaxies |
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Fred Lo NRAO |
28 Mar 2015 to 30 Mar 2015 | Interacting galaxies, dwarf galaxies, megamasers, Galactic center |
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Tom Abel Stanford/SLAC/KIPAC |
27 Mar 2015 to 31 Mar 2015 | Computational cosmology; first stars |
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Hsiao-Wen Chen Chicago/KICP |
14 Mar 2015 to 30 Mar 2015 | Observational extragalactic astronomy, galaxy-intergalactic medium connection, quasar absorption lines, gamma-ray burst afterglows |
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Yulong Zhuang Yunnan National Astronomical Observatory |
27 Jan 2015 to 6 Feb 2015 | Star cluster dynamics, stellar populations, N-body simulations |
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