Current and Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Alex Filippenko
UC Berkeley
7 May 2015 to 8 May 2015 Supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe
Mark Thompson
University of Hertfordshire
6 May 2015 to 10 May 2015 Massive star formation and JCMT observations
Alex Lazarian
University of Wisconsin-Madison
3 May 2015 to 9 May 2015 MHD Theory; Interstellar Dust; Interstellar Turbulence; Circumstellar Regions and Comets; Molecular Clouds
Doug Johnstone
NRC-Herzberg
28 Apr 2015 to 8 May 2015 Star formation; molecular clouds; pre-stellar cores; protostars; circumstellar disks
Chengze Liu
Shanghai Jiaotong University
7 Apr 2015 to 9 Apr 2015 Stellar populations, galaxies
Fred Lo
NRAO
28 Mar 2015 to 30 Mar 2015 Interacting galaxies, dwarf galaxies, megamasers, Galactic center
Tom Abel
Stanford/SLAC/KIPAC
27 Mar 2015 to 31 Mar 2015 Computational cosmology; first stars
Hsiao-Wen Chen
Chicago/KICP
14 Mar 2015 to 30 Mar 2015 Observational extragalactic astronomy, galaxy-intergalactic medium connection, quasar absorption lines, gamma-ray burst afterglows
Yulong Zhuang
Yunnan National Astronomical Observatory
27 Jan 2015 to 6 Feb 2015 Star cluster dynamics, stellar populations, N-body simulations
Jenny Greene
Princeton University
24 Jan 2015 to 28 Jan 2015 Supermassive black holes and their co-evolution with galaxies