Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Dimitris Stamatellos
Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, University of Central Lancashire
21 May 2016 to 6 Jun 2016 Star formation, exoplanets, brown dwarfs, low mass stars, protoplanetary disks, binary stars, gravitational instabilities, computational hydrodynamics and radiative transfer.
Simchon Faigler
Tel Aviv University
20 May 2016 to 27 May 2016
Tsevi Mazeh
Tel Aviv University
20 May 2016 to 27 May 2016 Extrasolar planets, transiting extrasolar planets, binaries, eclipsing binaries, dynamics, data analysis and algorithms, analysis of photometric and spectroscopic data
Christopher Sneden
University of Texas at Austin, USA
18 May 2016 to 22 May 2016 the chemical compositions of stars based on spectroscopic studies
Ezequiel Treister
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
18 May 2016 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Galaxy formation and evolution, Black holes
Ruobing Dong
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
9 May 2016 to 15 May 2016 My main research interests are in the general area of extrasolar planets. Specifically, how to connect the theories of planet formation with observations of protoplanetary disks.
Keiichi Umetsu
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA)
3 May 2016 to 24 May 2016 Gravitational Lensing, Observational Cosmology, Galaxy Clusters, Cosmic Structure Formation
Lei Hao (郝蕾)
SHAO
21 Apr 2016 to 24 Apr 2016 AGNs, Starbursts, dwarf galaxies, and high-redshift Lyman-Alpha emission-line galaxies
Yujing Qin (秦雨静)
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
14 Apr 2016 to 14 May 2016 the interpretation of galaxy morphology with orbital dynamics and the spontaneous modelling of galactic structures and stellar populations
Katelyn Allers
Bucknell University
12 Apr 2016 to 12 May 2016 directly-imaged exoplanets, brown dwarfs, young stars and infrared spectroscopy