Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Emiko Hiyama
Kyushu Univeristy 		9 Sep 2018 to 1 Oct 2018 Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
Sharon Wang
Carnegie-DTM 		5 Sep 2018 current research focuses on improving the RV precision
Boaz Katz
Weizmann Institute of Science 		7 Aug 2018 to 15 Aug 2018
Claudio Ricci
Universidad Diego Portales 		6 Jul 2018 to 2 Aug 2018 Active Galactic Nuclei, X-ray astronomy
Li Aigen
University of Missouri 		28 Jun 2018 to 2 Jul 2018 Interstellar Dust Dust Disks around Young Stars Dust Envelopes around Evolved Stars Physics and Chemistry of Comets Infrared Galaxies Active Galactic Nuclei Gamma-Ray Bursts Light Scattering by Small Particles

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