Visiting Scholars

Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests

Marek Abramowicz

12 May 2024 to 19 May 2024 Prof. Marek Abramowicz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Warsaw University. After that he worked for several years at Stanford University and University of Texas at Austin. Later, for more than a decade, he collaborated closely with Dennis Sciama, first at Oxford University and then at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. For twenty years he was a member of the Academic Board at the Salam's International Centre of Theoretical Physics in Trieste. In 1990-1994 he was professor of astrophysics at Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen. He was the Chair professor of Astrophysics at Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden for many year. Now he is a professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Science, and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His main field of research is theory of black hole accretion disks. Together with collaborators he discovered and/or developed models of Polish Doughnuts, Slim disks, ADAFs, magnetically arrested disks (MAD). The well-known model of slim accretion disk has been considered as one of the foundations of understanding the formation and growth of supermassive black holes.

Minjin KIM

24 February 2024 to 25 February 2024 I am an associate professor in Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences at Kyungpook National University. My main research interests are the physical properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxies,  and the evolution of nearby galaxies. I am also involved in SPHEREx space mission.

Past Visiting Scholars

Visitor Period of stay Research interests
Chengze Liu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
23 Apr 2018 to 27 Apr 2018 Stellar populations, galaxies
Hongxin Zhang
University of Science and Technology of China
23 Apr 2018 to 27 Apr 2018 Star formation in galaxies, dwarf galaxies, globular cluster systems, ultracompact dwarfs
Pau Amaro-Seoane
Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
19 Apr 2018 to 30 Apr 2018 stellar dynamics, LIGO/Virgo/LISA black holes, data analysis and gravitational-wave search algorithms, planetesimal dynamics, scalar fields and collisional dark matter, and GPU computing
Minjin Kim
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)
17 Apr 2018 to 20 Apr 2018 Coevolution of black holes and galaxies
Juna Kollmeier
Carnegie Observatories
17 Apr 2018
Wenbiao HAN
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
4 Apr 2018 to 8 Apr 2018 low-frequency gravitational wave astronomy and numerical simulation of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
Dong Lai
Cornell University
1 Apr 2018 to 6 Apr 2018 Theoretical astrophysics: exoplanets, compact objects
Peter Mészáros
The Pennsylvania State University
25 Mar 2018 to 30 Mar 2018 Gamma-ray bursts, Neutrino astrophysiCosmology, Cosmic Rays, Gravitational waves, Neutron stars
David Buckley
South African Astronomical Observatory
24 Mar 2018 to 28 Mar 2018 Compact accreting binary stars including X-ray binaries and cataclysmic variables, particularly magnetic systems
HAN Zhanwen
The Yunnan Observatories
21 Mar 2018 to 22 Mar 2018 (1)Binary Population Synthesis (i.e. the BPS Theory) (2) Stellar Evolution (3) Binary Evolution (4) Peculiar Stars(5) Evolutionary Population Synthesis (6) Far-UV Excess of Early-type Galaxies