Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Weichen Wang (王炜辰)
Johns Hopkins University
19 Jun 2017 to 23 Jun 2017 understanding galaxy formation, dust geometry and star formation features using large extragalactic surveys conducted on the Hubble Space Telescope (CANDELS, 3D-HST, etc).
Zhi-Yu Zhang(张智昱)
University of Edinburgh/ESO
14 Jun 2017
Zheng Zheng (郑政 )
University of Utah
12 Jun 2017 to 16 Jun 2017 cosmology, large-scale structure, galaxy formation and evolution, and Lyman-alpha radiative transfer. I also have broad interests in other fields of astrophysics.
Pau Amaro-Seoane
Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
9 Jun 2017 to 17 Jun 2017 stellar dynamics, LIGO/Virgo/LISA black holes, data analysis and gravitational-wave search algorithms, planetesimal dynamics, scalar fields and collisional dark matter, and GPU computing
Nan Li
University of Chicago
9 Jun 2017 Machine Learning and Gravitational Lensing, interactive Lens Modeling, Simulations of Time Delays in Galaxy Scale Lensing
Xu KONG (孔旭)
University of Science and Technology of China
8 Jun 2017 stellar population synthesis and its application, two dimension properties of low-z/high-z galaxies, formation and evolution of low-z/high-z galaxies, dust attenuation and the IRX-beta relationship
Daniel Harsono
Leiden University
5 Jun 2017 to 15 Jun 2017 testing of radiative transfer tools for ALLEGRO ALMA arcnode, accretion disk formation around low-mass stars
Zachariah Etienne
West Virginia University
1 Jun 2017 Compact binary inspirals & mergers: Simulations in fully dynamical spacetimes, Black hole accretion, New techniques for performing compact object and compact binary simulations, Gravitational wave astrophysics & data analysis
Ian Philip Czekala
KIPAC Fellow at Stanford University
24 May 2017 to 28 May 2017 young stars, protoplanetary disks, pre-main sequence evolution, and exoplanets
Nicolas Caballero
Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy
20 May 2017 to 27 Jun 2017 Pulsar Timing, Gravitational Wave detection, Noise characterisation of (millisecond) pulsars Radio Astronomy