Post Visiting Scholars
Dr. Frontera Filippo
Room number: 110
Phone number:
Email address: frontera[at]fe.infn.it
Period of stay: 9 Oct - 16 Oct, 2011
Home institute: INAF & the Ferrara University, Italy
Research interests: high-energy astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, Gamma-Ray Burst
Dr. Della Valle Massimo
Room number: 110
Phone number:
Email address: dellavalle[at]oacn.inaf.it
Period of stay: 9 Oct - 16 Oct, 2011
Home institute: Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, INAF, Italy
Research interests: Supernovae, Gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows, Supernova/GRB connection, Novae, Distance scale and measurement of the cosmological parameters.
Dr. Pieter C. van der Kruit
Room number: 110
Phone number:
Email address: vdkruit[at]astro.rug.nl
Period of stay: 10 Sep - 8 Oct, 2011
Home institute: Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen
Research interests: Galactic structure and dynamics
Dr. Charles Robert O'Dell
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: cr.odell[at]vanderbilt.edu
Period of stay: 3 Sep - 24 Sep, 2011
Home institute: Vanderbilt University
Research interests: Star formation in the Orion Nebula Cluster, Structure and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae.
Dr. Yuk L.Yung
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5783
Email address: yly[at]gps.caltech.edu
Period of stay: 16 June - 20 June, 2011
Home institute: California Institute of Technology
Research interests: Planetary atmospheres, planetary evolution; atmospheric chemistry.
Dr. Herbert Lau
Room number: 207
Phone number: 6275-9748
Email address: hblau[at]astro.uni-bonn.de
Period of stay: 7 June - 14 June, 2011
Home institute: Argelander-Institut für Astronomi, universität bonn
Research interests: Stellar evolution.
Dr. Puragra Guhathakurta
Room number: 206
Phone number:6275-5783
Email address: raja[at]ucolick.org
Period of stay: 4 June - 17 June, 2011
Home institute: UCSC
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution
Dr. Ching-Wa Yip
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: cwyip[at]jhu.edu
Period of stay: 9 June - 19 June, 2011
Home institute: Johns Hopkins University
Research interests: Galaxy formation, galaxy variability; data-intensive astronomy.
Dr. Siming Liu
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: liusm[at]pmo.ac.cn
Period of stay: 25 May - 4 June, 2011
Home institute: Purple Mountain Observatory
Research interests: High energy astrophysics.
Dr. Man Hoi Lee
Room number: 103
Phone number: 6275-9601
Email address: mhlee[at]hku.hk
Period of stay: 15 May - 17 May, 2011
Home institute: Hong Kong University
Research interests: Planetary system formation and dynamics.
Dr. Soumen Mondal
Room number: 103
Phone number: 6275-9601
Email address: crabhorizon[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 5 May - 9 May, 2011
Home institute: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Research interests: Accretion processes around black hole.
Dr. Tobias Cornelius Hinse
Room number: 103
Phone number: 6275-9601
Email address: tchinse[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 5 May - 9 May, 2011
Home institute: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
Research interests: Small-body Solar System dynamics, observation and dynamics of extrasolar planets.
Dr. Marcel Zemp
Room number: 206
Phone number:6275-5783
Email address: mzemp[at]umich.edu
Period of stay: 6 May - 16 May, 2011
Home institute: Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan
Research interests: N-body techniques, integrators, dynamics, cosmological structure formation, dark matter, dark energy, cosmology in general and black holes.
Dr. Jens Chluba
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: jchluba[at]cita.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 28 Apr - 17 May, 2011
Home institute: Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophyics
Research interests: Cosmology; Atomic physics; Radiative transfer; High energy physics.
Dr. Biping Gong
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: bpgong[at]mail.hust.edu.cn
Period of stay: 11 Apr - 17 Apr, 2011
Home institute: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Research interests: AGN jet motion; Pulsar timing.
Dr. Dimitrios Stamatelos
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: D.Stamatelos[at]astro.cf.ac.uk
Period of stay: 4 Apr - 30 Apr, 2011
Home institute: Cardiff University, UK
Research interests: Low-mass star formation, planet formation, protostellar discs, computational hydrodynamics, radiation transfer.
Dr. Hiroshi Oda
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: hoda[at]shao.ac.cn
Period of stay: 2 Apr - 6 Apr, 2011
Home institute: Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Research interests: Black hole accretion disk and proto-planetray system.
Dr. Evghenii Gaburov
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: e-gaburov[at]northwestern.edu
Period of stay: 23 Mar - 4 Apr, 2011
Home institute: Northwestern University
Research interests: Computional astrophysics, stellar dynamics, fluid dynamics.
Dr. Gregory J. Herczeg
Room number: 206
Phone number:6275-5783
Email address: gregoryh[at]mpe.mpg.de
Period of stay: 24 Mar - 6 Apr, 2011
Home institute: Max-Planck-Institut f¨ur extraterrestriche Physik
Research interests: Accretion onto young stars, including measurements and magnetic structure; Disk dissipation mechanisms and disk structure; Observational diagnostics of wind launching mechanisms; Pre-main sequence stellar evolution, including outbursts and variability; Chromospheric and coronal activity around dwarf stars.
Dr. Erick Young
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: eyoung[at]sofia.usra.edu
Period of stay: 23 Mar - 26 Mar, 2011
Home institute: NASA Ames Research Center
Research interests: SOFIA
Dr. Howard Yee
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: hyee[at]astro.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 16 Mar - 19 Mar, 2011
Home institute: Institution: Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Univ. of Toronto
Research interests:
Dr. Alberto Sesana
Room number: 206
Phone number:6275-5783
Email address: alberto.sesana[at]aei.mpg.de
Period of stay: 13 Mar - 20 Mar, 2011
Home institute: Max Planck Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik
Research interests: strophysics of massive black hole and massive black hole binaries; their formation, their cosmological and dynamical evolution, and the information encoded in their electromagnetic and gravitational wave signals.
Dr. Yan Qu
Room number: 215
Phone number:6275-7391
Email address: yan.qu[at]obspm.fr
Period of stay: 14 Feb - 31 Mar, 2011
Home institute: Observatoire de Paris
Research interests: Galaxy mergers and interactions, galaxy formation and evolution, numerical simulations
Dr. Lorenzo Faccioli
Room number: 207
Phone number:6275-9748
Email address: lfaccioli[at]lbl.gov
Period of stay: 14 Feb - 31 Mar, 2011
Home institute:
Research interests: Binary stars; stellar evolution.
Dr. Jun Yin
Room number: 215
Phone number:6275-7391
Email address: jyin[at]shao.ac.cn
Period of stay: 10 Jan - 20 Jan, 2011
Home institute: SHAO
Research interests: The formation and evolution of galaxies, especially spiral and dwarf galaxies.
Dr. Alex Lazarian
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: Lazarian[at]astro.wisc.edu
Period of stay: 15 Dec - 27 Dec, 2010
Home institute: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research interests: Cosmic rays, MHD turbulence, dust
Dr. Puragra Guhathakurta
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: raja[at]ucolick.org
Period of stay: 14 Dec - 19 Dec, 2010
Home institute: UCSC
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution
Dr. Roya Mohayaee
Room number: 103
Phone number:6275-9601
Email address: mohayaee[at]iap.fr
Period of stay: 17 Nov - 1 Dec, 2010
Home institute: IAP, University of Paris VI
Research interests: String theory, black holes
Dr. Jacques Colin
Room number: 103
Phone number:6275-9601
Email address: colin[at]iap.fr
Period of stay: 17 Nov - 1 Dec, 2010
Home institute: IAP, University of Paris VI
Research interests: Dynamics of gravitational systems
Dr. Giuseppe Bono
Room number: 204
Phone number:6275-4067
Email address: giuseppe.bono[at]roma2.infn.it
Period of stay: 3 Dec - 12 Dec, 2010
Home institute: University of Rome Tor Vergata
Research interests: photometric and spectroscopic studies of the formation and evolution of galaxies, their stellar populations, and star cluster systems
Dr. Takuma Suda
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5783
Email address: suda[at]astro1.sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Period of stay: 21 Nov - 26 Nov, 2010
Home institute: Hokkaido University
Research interests: Stellar evolution
Dr. Herbert Lau
Room number: 207
Phone number: 6275-9748
Email address:
Period of stay: 11 Oct - 25 Oct, 2010
Home institute: Monash University, Australia
Research interests: Carbon enhanced metal poor stars
Dr. Sverre Aarseth
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5783
Email address: sverre[at]ast.cam.ac.uk
Period of stay: 7 Oct - 19 Nov, 2010
Home institute: IoA, University of Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Evolution of star cluster systems.
Mr. Jincheng Yu
Room number: 102
Phone number: 6275-5293
Email address: yujc[at]shao.ac.cn
Period of stay: 30 Aug - 1 Nov, 2010
Home institute: SHAO
Research interests: Evolution of star cluster systems.
Mr. Song Wang
Room number: 102
Phone number: 6275-5293
Email address: wangsong[at]ynao.ac.cn
Period of stay: 30 Sep - 1 Dec, 2010
Home institute: YNAO
Research interests: star cluster, SFH,IMF.
Dr. Andrew Cumming
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: cumming[at]physics.mcgill.ca
Period of stay: 30 Aug - 1 Dec, 2010
Home institute: McGill University
Research interests: compact objects, exoplanets, high energy astrophysics, astrophysical fluids, nuclear astrophysics.
Mr. Cheuk Yin Lam
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5783
Email address: cyl35[at]cam.ac.uk
Period of stay: 31 Jul - 25 Sep, 2010
Home institute: Cambridge University, UK
Research interests:
Dr. Dean McLaughlin
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5783
Email address: dem[at]astro.keele.ac.uk
Period of stay: 15 Aug - 3 Sep, 2010
Home institute: Keele University, UK
Research interests: Dynamics and evolution of star clusters, galaxies, and dark-matter haloes.
Dr. Gang Chen
Room number: 103
Phone number: 6275-9601
Email address: chengump[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 9 July - 22 August, 2010
Home institute: Tianjing Normal University
Research interests: CMB data analysis, Dark energy model constraining, Non-Gaussianity.
Dr. Lee Spitler
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: lspitler[at]astro.swin.edu.au
Period of stay: 19 Sep - 21 Sep, 2010
Home institute: Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia
Research interests: Photometric and spectroscopic studies of the formation and evolution of galaxies, their stellar populations, and star cluster systems.
Prof. Heather Morrison
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: hlm5[at]case.edu
Period of stay: 15 July - 31 July, 2010
Home institute: Case Western Reserve University
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution.
Dr. Xinyu Dai
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: xinyu[at]astronomy.ohio-state.edu
Period of stay: 19 June - 25 June, 2010
Home institute: Ohio State University
Research interests: Gravitational lenses; AGNs; Galaxy clusters; GRBs; Galaxy luminorsity function; ISM.
Prof. Bing Zhang
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: zhangy96[at]hku.hk
Period of stay: 17 June - 14 July, 2010
Home institute: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Research interests: High energy astrophysics; GRBs; Plusars.
Dr. Yong Zhang
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: zhangy96[at]hku.hk
Period of stay: 5 - 18 June, 2010
Home institute: University of HongKong.
Research interests: Emission line nebulae.
Dr. Ian Dobbs-Dixon
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: ianmdd[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 24 May- 8 June, 2010
Home institute: University of Washington, USA
Research interests: Planetary formation and evolution.
Dr. Frederic Masset
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: fmasset[at]cea.fr
Period of stay: 17 May- 26 May, 2010
Home institute: Commissariat Energie Atomique, France
Research interests: Planet formation - high performance computing; hydrodynamical numerical simulations.
Dr. Marco Ajello
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: majello[at]slac.stanford.edu
Period of stay: 11 May- 14 May, 2010
Home institute: SLAC and Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Research interests: High-energy astrophysics; evolution and growth of AGN; the origin of Cosmic Backgrounds; cluster of galaxies.
Dr. Clement Baruteau
Room number: 102
Phone number: 6275-5293
Email address: clement.baruteau[at]ucolick.org
Period of stay: 5 May - 7 June, 2010
Home institute: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Research interests: Planetary formation and migration; Accretion disks; Hydrodynamical numerical simulations.
Dr. Thomas H. Puzia
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: tpuzia[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 11 Apr- 16 Apr, 2010
Home institute: Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, Canada
Research interests: Photometric and spectroscopic studies of the formation and evolution of galaxies, their stellar populations, and star cluster systems.
Dr. Yue Shen
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: yshen[at]cfa.harvard.edu
Period of stay: 15 Mar- 25 Mar, 2010
Home institute: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Research interests: Quasars.
Dr. Yong Zhang
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: zhangy96[at]hku.hk
Period of stay: 8 Mar- 15 Mar, 2010
Home institute: HongKong University
Research interests: Emission line nubulae.
Prof. Sun Kwok
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: sunkwok[at]hku.hk
Period of stay: 8 Mar - 12 Mar 2010
Home institute: University of Hong Kong
Research interests: Astrochemistry; planetary nebulae; late stages of stellar evolution.
Mr. Thomas Hughes
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: thomas.hughes[at]astro.cf.ac.uk
Period of stay: 6 Mar - 13 Mar 2010
Home institute: Cardiff University, UK
Research interests: Galaxy evolution in the local universe; environmental effects; chemical evolution of star-forming galaxies.
Dr. Yang-Shyang Li
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: ysleigh[at]astro.rug.nl
Period of stay: 24 Feb - 27 Feb 2010
Home institute: Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution with emphases on galaxies in the Local Group.
Dr. Ji Li
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: jili74[at]mit.edu
Period of stay: 29 Jan - 10 Feb 2010
Home institute: Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT
Research interests: Non-equilibrium ionization code and its applications; accretion disk corona.
Dr. Rene breton
Room number: 102
Phone number: 6275-5293
Email address: breton[at]astro.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 8 Jan - 23 Jan 2010
Home institute: University of Toronto, Canada
Research interests: Pulsars; Neutron stars; Binary systems.
Dr. Hilke Elisabeth Schlichting
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Email address: hilke.schlichting[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 2 Dec - 22 Dec 2009
Home institute: CITA, Canada
Research interests: Planet formation.
Dr. Yoram Lithwick
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: ylithwick[at]gamil.com
Period of stay: 1 Nov - 30 Nov 2009
Home institute: CITA, Canada
Research interests: Planet formation.
Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-5605
Email address: mhvk[at]astro.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 11 Oct 2009 - 1 Feb 2010
Home institute: University of Toronto, Canada
Research interests: Compact objects, stars and binaries, their structure, formation and evolution, and their use to infer fundamental physical properties.
Prof. Yanqin Wu
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: wu[at]astro.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 11 Oct 2009 - 1 Feb, 2010
Home institute: University of Toronto, Canada
Research interests:
Dr. Christoph Olczak
Room number: 102
Phone number: 6275-5293
Email address: olczak[at]ph1.uni-koeln.de
Period of stay: 2 Oct- 22 Dec, 2009
Home institute: Physics Institute, University of Cologne; ARI-ZAH, Heidelberg University
Research interests: Theoretical astrophysics; Star and planet formation.
Dr. Robert Rubin
Room number: 217
Phone number: 6275-8461
Email address: rubin[at]cygnus.arc.nasa.gov
Period of stay: 11, Oct - 1, Nov, 2009
Home institute: NASA/Ames Research Center, USA
Research interests: Planetary nebulae; H II regions.
Dr. Yong Zhang
Room number: 201
Phone number:
Email address: zhangy96[at]hku.hk
Period of stay: 26 Sep- 30 Sep, 2009
Home institute: HongKong University
Research interests: Emission line nubulae.
Dr. Herbert Lau
Room number: 201
Phone number:
Email address: hlau[at]kiaa.pku.edu.cn
Period of stay: 14 Sep - 25 Sep, 2009
Home institute:
Research interests: Carbon enhanced metal poor stars.
Dr. Eiichiro Kokubo
Room number: 201
Phone number:
Email address: kokubo[at]th.nao.ac.jp
Period of stay: 27, July - 31 June, 2009
Home institute: NAOJ
Research interests: Planetary systems
Dr. Ji Li
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: jili74[at]mit.edu
Period of stay: 29 Jan - 10 Feb 2010
Home institute: Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, MIT
Research interests: Non-equilibrium ionization code and its applications; accretion disk corona.
Dr. Rene breton
Room number: 102
Phone number: 6275-5293
Email address: breton[at]astro.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 8 Jan - 23 Jan 2010
Home institute: University of Toronto, Canada
Research interests: Pulsars; Neutron stars; Binary systems.
Dr. Hilke Elisabeth Schlichting
Room number:
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Email address: hilke.schlichting[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 2 Dec - 22 Dec 2009
Home institute: CITA, Canada
Research interests: Planet formation.
Dr. Yoram Lithwick
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: ylithwick[at]gamil.com
Period of stay: 1 Nov - 30 Nov 2009
Home institute: CITA, Canada
Research interests: Planet formation.
Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-5605
Email address: mhvk[at]astro.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 11 Oct 2009 - 1 Feb 2010
Home institute: University of Toronto, Canada
Research interests: Compact objects, stars and binaries, their structure, formation and evolution, and their use to infer fundamental physical properties.
Prof. Yanqin Wu
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: wu[at]astro.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 11 Oct 2009 - 1 Feb, 2010
Home institute: University of Toronto, Canada
Research interests:
Dr. Christoph Olczak
Room number: 102
Phone number: 6275-5293
Email address: olczak[at]ph1.uni-koeln.de
Period of stay: 2 Oct- 22 Dec, 2009
Home institute: Physics Institute, University of Cologne; ARI-ZAH, Heidelberg University
Research interests: Theoretical astrophysics; Star and planet formation.
Dr. Robert Rubin
Room number: 217
Phone number: 6275-8461
Email address: rubin[at]cygnus.arc.nasa.gov
Period of stay: 11, Oct - 1, Nov, 2009
Home institute: NASA/Ames Research Center, USA
Research interests: Planetary nebulae; H II regions.
Dr. Yong Zhang
Room number: 201
Phone number:
Email address: zhangy96[at]hku.hk
Period of stay: 26 Sep- 30 Sep, 2009
Home institute: HongKong University
Research interests: Emission line nubulae.
Dr. Herbert Lau
Room number: 201
Phone number:
Email address: hlau[at]kiaa.pku.edu.cn
Period of stay: 14 Sep - 25 Sep, 2009
Home institute:
Research interests: Carbon enhanced metal poor stars.
Dr. Eiichiro Kokubo
Room number: 201
Phone number:
Email address: kokubo[at]th.nao.ac.jp
Period of stay: 27, July - 31 June, 2009
Home institute: NAOJ
Research interests: Planetary systems
Prof. Pin-Gao Gu
Room number: 203
Phone number:
Email address: gu[at]asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
Period of stay: 26, July - 2 Aug, 2009
Home institute: ASIAA, Taiwan, China
Research interests: Extrosolar planets
Dr. Feng Tian
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: feng.tian[at]colorado.edu
Period of stay: 25 July - 1 Aug, 2009
Home institute: University of Colorado at Boulder
Research interests: Evolutionary of planetary atmospheres
Mr. Randy Laine
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: laineschip[at]yahoo.fr
Period of stay: 11 July - 25 July, 2009
Home institute: University Paris
Research interests: Solar system formation; Planetary migration; Biophysics.
Dr. Jorge Cuadra
Room number: 201
Phone number:
Email address: jcuadra[at]shao.ac.cn
Period of stay: 13 July - 17 July, 2009
Home institute: SHAO
Research interests: Gas dynamics and massive black hole binaries; Star formation in self-gravitating accretion discs; Stellar dynamics in galactic nuclei.
Dr. Hui Li
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: hli[at]lanl.gov
Period of stay: 8 July - 11 July, 2009
Home institute: Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Research interests: Plasma astrophysics; Planetary formation and migration; Accretion disks; Jets; High energy astrophysics.
Dr. Clement Baruteau
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: clement.baruteau[at]ucolick.org
Period of stay: 2 July - 31 July, 2009
Home institute: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Research interests: Planetary formation and migration; Accretion disks; Hydrodynamical numerical simulations.
Katherine Kretke
Room number: 210
Phone number: 6275-3991
Email address: kretke[at]ucolick.org
Period of stay: 27 May - 19 June, 2009
Home institute: University of California, Santa Cruz
Research interests: Protoplanetary disks; Planet formation and migration.
Silvia Verdolinin
Room number: 210
Phone number: 6275-3991
Email address: silvia.verdolini[at]gmail.com
Period of stay: 31 May - 20 June, 2009
Home institute: University of Bologna
Research interests: Formation and evolution of planetary systems.
Dr. Nathan Bastian
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: bastian[at]ast.cam.ac.uk
Period of stay: 16 - 31 May, 2009
Home institute: University of Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Young massive clusters; Starburst and merging galaxies; extragalactic and Galactic star formation.
Dr. Barbara Ercolano
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: be[at]ast.cam.ac.uk
Period of stay: 16 - 31 May, 2009
Home institute: University of Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Radiative transfer; Numerical simulations; Star formation; Emission line nebulae.
Prof. Isabelle Baraffe
Room number: 203
Phone number:
Email address: baraffe[at]ens-lyon.fr
Period of stay: 26 May - 5 June, 2009
Home institute: Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon
Research interests: exoplanets, stellar evolution, hydrodynamics, compact binaries.
Dr. Marat Gilfanov
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Email address: gilfanov[at]mpa-garching.mpg.de
Period of stay: 14 May - 23 May, 2009
Home institute: MPA
Research interests: High energy astrophysics.
Prof. Bing Zhang
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: zhang[at]physics.unlv.edu
Period of stay: 13 May - 11 July, 2009
Home institute: U. of Nevada Las Vegas
Research interests: High energy astrophysics; GRBs; Plusars.
Dr. Haojing Yan
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: yanhaojing@gmail.com
Period of stay: 15 - 17 Apr, 2009
Home institute: Ohio State University
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution; Universe at very high redshifts.
Dr. Zheng Zheng
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: zhengz[at]ias.edu
Period of stay: 7 - 25 Apr, 2009
Home institute: IAS, Princeton University
Research interests: Cosmology; Galaxy formation and evolution.
Dr. Thomas R Greve
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address:
Period of stay: 12 - 14 Apr, 2009
Home institute: MPA
Research interests: Star formation.
Prof. Richard McCray
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: dick[at]jila.colorado.edu
Period of stay: 5 - 9 Apr, 2009
Home institute: University of Colorado
Research interests: ISM, AGNs, X-ray binaries, SN explosions.
Dr. Vladimir Ivanovich Pariev
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Period of stay: 22 - 29 Mar, 2009
Home institute:
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Prof. Ue-Li Pen
Room number: 202
Phone number: 62758611
Email address: pen[at]cita.utoronto.ca
Period of stay: 18 Mar - 5 Apr, 2009
Home institute: CITA, Canada
Research interests: Cosmology.
Prof. Hongsheng Zhao
Room number: 204
Phone number: 62754067
Email address: hz4[at]st-andrews.ac.uk
Period of stay: 16 - 19 Mar, 2009
Home institute: Univ. of St. Andrews
Research interests: Cosmology; Gravity.
Prof. Weipeng Lin
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: linwp[at]shao.ac.cn
Period of stay: 18 - 22 Dec, 2008
Home institute: SHAO
Research interests: Pulsar emission; Galaxy formation.
Prof. Shude Mao
Room number: 203
Phone number:
Email address: Shude.Mao[at]manchester.ac.uk
Period of stay: 14 - 22 Dec, 2008
Home institute: Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, Univ. of Manchester, UK
Research interests: Gravitational Lensing; Microlensing; Galaxy formation.
Dr. Sverre Aarseth
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: sverre[at]ast.cam.ac.uk
Period of stay: 30 Nov - 21 Dec, 2008
Home institute: IoA, University of Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Nbody simulation.
Dr. Petro Bertsyk
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: berczik[at]ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Period of stay: 6 - 15 Dec, 2008
Home institute: University of Heidelberg, Ge
Research interests: Nbody simulation.
Dr. Clement Baruteau
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: clement.baruteau[at]ucolick.org
Period of stay: 11 Nov - 15 Dec, 2008
Home institute: University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Research interests: Planetary formation and migration; Accretion disks; Hydrodynamical numerical simulations.
Dr. Hui Li
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: hli[at]lanl.gov
Period of stay: 12 - 16 Nov, 2008
Home institute: Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Research interests: Plasma astrophysics; Fluid dynamics - Accretion processes; Kinetic theory; Particle acceleration - Radiative processes; NSs; GRBs;
Prof. Kohji Tomisaka
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: tomisaka[at]th.nao.ac.jp
Period of stay: 5 - 9 Nov, 2008
Home institute: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Research interests: Numerical simulation of star formation and interstellar medium and galactic structure.
Prof. Reiner Spurzem
Room number: 203
Phone number:
Email address: spurzem[at]ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Period of stay: 4 - 11 Nov, 2008
Home institute: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum fur Astronomie, Univ. Heidelberg, Germany
Research interests: Stellar dynamics and numerical modelling.
Prof. Colin Norman
Room number: 204
Phone number: 6275-4067
Email address: norman[at]stsci.edu
Period of stay: 2 - 8 Nov, 2008
Home institute: STScI, USA
Research interests:
Prof. Ji-Lin Zhou
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: zhoujl[at]nju.edu.cn
Period of stay: 2 - 8 Nov, 2008
Home institute: Department of Astronomy, Nanjng University, China
Research interests: Extrosolar planets
Prof. Reinhard Genzel
Room number: 206
Phone number: 6275-5604
Email address: genzel[at]mpe.mpg.de
Period of stay: 2 - 5 Nov, 2008
Home institute: Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany
Research interests: IR/submillimeter astronomy.
Dr. Todd Thompson
Room number: 202
Phone number: 6275-8611
Email address: thompson[at]astronomy.ohio-state.edu
Period of stay: 1 - 4 Nov, 2008
Home institute: Ohio State University, USA
Research interests: Starburst galaxies; SNa; GRBs.
Prof. Hagai Netzer
Room number: 202
Phone number:
Email address: netzer[at]wise.tau.ac.il
Period of stay: 22 - 25 Oct, 2008
Home institute: Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Research interests: Astronomy; Black holes; Active galaxies; Starburst galaxies.
Prof. Alain Omont
Room number: 206
Phone number:
Email address: omont[at]iap.fr
Period of stay: 14 - 23 Oct, 2008
Home institute: Institute d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP)
Research interests: Past: Atomic physics; Optical pumping; Circumstellar chemistry & dust; AGB stars; Current: IR(Spitzer) & submm (Herschel) surveys and mm & radio follow-up; High-z dust and molecules; submillimeter galaxies and QSOs.
Prof. Ji-Lin Zhou
Room number: 202
Phone number:
Email address: zhoujl[at]nju.edu.cn
Period of stay: 22 - 25 Sep, 2008
Home institute: Department of Astronomy, Nanjng University, China
Research interests: Extrosolar planets
Prof. Pin-Gao Gu
Room number: 204
Phone number:
Email address: gu[at]asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
Period of stay: 21 - 28 Sep, 2008
Home institute: ASIAA, Taiwan, Chian
Research interests: Extrosolar planets
Dr. Gordon Ogilvie
Room number: 206
Phone number:
Email address: gio10[at]cam.ac.uk
Period of stay: 11 - 26 Sep, 2008
Home institute: DAMTP, U. of Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Accretion disks, extrasolar planets
Mr. Ruben Garcia-Benito
Room number: 210
Phone number:
Email address: ruben.benito[at]uam.es
Period of stay: Sep, 2008 - Dec, 2008
Home institute: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Research interests: H II regions.
Dr. Robert Rubin
Room number: 217
Phone number:
Email address: rubin[at]cygnus.arc.nasa.gov
Period of stay: Aug, 2008 - Nov, 2008
Home institute: NASA/Ames Research Center, USA
Research interests: Planetary nebulae; H II regions.