Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Ariane Lançon
Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
18 Jul 2014 to 28 Jul 2014 Stellar populations; spectra of cool stars; infrared spectroscopy
Sijing Shen
UC Santa Cruz
26 May 2014 to 28 May 2014 Galaxy formation and evolution; hydrodynamical simulations; ISM, IGM, gas flows
Zhaohuan Zhu (朱照寰)
Princeton University
16 May 2014 to 27 May 2014 Planet and star formation
Rashid Sunyaev
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
16 May 2014 Cosmology, galaxy clusters, theory of accretion, X-ray astronomy
Jun Zhang (张骏)
Shanghai Jiaotong University
15 May 2014 Cosmology, cosmic shear, weak lensing
Hagai Netzer
Tel Aviv University
8 May 2014 to 9 May 2014 Active and starburst galaxies; Accretion disks; Black holes; Ionized plasma
Ruxandra Cojocaru
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain)
5 May 2014 to 8 Aug 2014 White dwarfs, Milky Way stellar populations
Minjin Kim
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
1 May 2014 to 2 May 2014 Coevolution of black holes and galaxies
Andrew Gould
Ohio State University
26 Apr 2014 to 12 May 2014 Gravitational lensing, dark matter, exoplanets
Steven Rieder
University of Groningen
21 Apr 2014 to 27 Apr 2014 star clusters, dark matter, N-body simulations