Current and Past Visiting Scholars
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Wei Zhu (祝伟) The Ohio State University |
10 Jul 2017 to 19 Jul 2017 | gravitational microlensing, planet detection and characterization, planet-star correlation |
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Lloyd Knox UC Davis |
10 Jul 2017 | cosmology |
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Zheng Zheng （郑政 ） University of Utah |
8 Jul 2017 to 13 Jul 2017 | cosmology, large-scale structure, galaxy formation and evolution, and Lyman-alpha radiative transfer. I also have broad interests in other fields of astrophysics. |
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Doug Johnstone National Research Council Canada |
4 Jul 2017 to 10 Jul 2017 | millimetre-wave astronomy (single dish/interferometry), star formation, molecular clouds, pre-stellar cores, proto-stars, circumstellar disks. |
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Huanian Zhang Steward Observatory, University of Arizona |
30 Jun 2017 | galaxy formation and evolution, specifically on the circumgalactic media of nearby galaxies and the Milky Way Galaxy, searching the globular clusters in the local group and searching the ultra diffuse galaxies (UDG) |
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Banibrata Mukhopadhyay Indian Institute of Science |
28 Jun 2017 to 1 Jul 2017 | Theoretical Astrophysics of black holes, white dwarfs and neutron stars, Astrophysical fluids, Particle Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity |
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R. N. (Dick) Manchester CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australian Academy of Science |
23 Jun 2017 | Precision timing of pulsars and its applications, Origin and evolution of pulsars, Pulsar beaming, polarization and the pulse emission mechanism, Effects of circumstellar and interstellar propagation, especially Faraday rotation and the Galactic magnetic field, Structure and evolution of supernova remnants, especially SNR 1987A |
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Xilong Fan |
22 Jun 2017 | gravitational wave astronomy, gravitational wave data analysis, galaxy properties by galactic chemical and SED models |
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Rohan Potham Naidu Yale-NUS College |
19 Jun 2017 to 14 Aug 2017 | Cosmic Reionization, High-Redshift Extragalactic Astronomy, Machine Learning Applications in Astronomy, Supernova Cosmology |
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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). |
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