Visitors  |  Visitors 2003-2004

WALTER LEWIN (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: June 2-5, 2004 E-mail: lewin@mit.edu URL: Walter Lewin's website
DEREK FOX (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: May 25-30, 2004 E-mail: derekfox@astro.caltech.edu URL: Derek Fox's website May 27, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Early-Time Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts”
DAVID SPERGEL (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: May 21-22, 2004 E-mail: dns@astro.princeton.edu URL: David Spergel's website May 21, 2004: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “WMAP and Beyond”
FENG YUAN (PURDUE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: May 20-21, 2004 E-mail: fyuan@physics.purdue.edu May 20, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Luminous hot accretion flows”
RICHARD DURISEN (INDIANA UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: May 18-19, 2004 E-mail: URL: Richard Durisen's website May 18, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “Can Gravitational Instabilities Produce Gas Giant Planets in Disks Around Young Stars?”
KINWAH WU (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LONDON)
Dates of visit: May 3-7, 2004 E-mail: K.Wu@physics.usyd.edu.au URL: Kinwah Wu's website May 6, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Radiative Transfer of Emission Lines from Acrreting Black Holes”
LUIGI STELLA (ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF ROME)
Dates of visit: April 29-30, 2004 E-mail: stella@mporzio.astro.it April 29, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Disk Accretion Onto Magnetic Neutron Stars: Some Surprises and a New Toy Model&rdquo
DEEPTO CHAKRABARTY (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: April 13-14, 2004 E-mail: deepto@space.mit.edu URL: Deepto Chakrabarty's website April 13, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “Clocking Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars: A Speed Limit for the Fastest Spinning Stars in the Universe”
TOMASZ BULIK (NICHOLAS COPERNICUS INSTITUTE)
Dates of visit: March 9-16, 2004 E-mail: bulik@camk.edu.pl URL: Tomasz Bulik's website March 11, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “INTEGRAL observations of accreting pulsars”
CARLO GRAZIANI (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Dates of visit: February 24-25, 2004 E-mail: carlo@oddjob.uchicago.edu February 17, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “Evidence From HETE-2 For GRB Evolution With Redshift”
ANDREA GHEZ (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES)
Dates of visit: February 16-18, 2004 E-mail: ghez@astro.ucla.edu URL: Andrea Ghez's website May 26, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Unveiling a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy”
GIUSEPPINA FABBIANO (HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS)
Dates of visit: February 12-14, 2004 E-mail: pepi@head-cfa.cfa.harvard.edu February 12, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “X-ray Emission from the Antennae and on Elliptical Galaxies”
JOHN GALLAGHER (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN)
Dates of visit: February 13-14, 2004 October 13-15, 2003 E-mail: gallagher@astro.wisc.edu URL: John Gallagher's website October 14, 2003: Astrophysics Seminar “Starbursts, Super Star Clusters and the Development of Galaxies”
ANDREAS ZEZAS (HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS)
Dates of visit: February 13-14, 2004 E-mail: azezas@cfa.harvard.edu
VIKRAM DWARKADAS (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Dates of visit: February 5-6, 2004 E-mail: pfreire@naic.edu February 5, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “The Evolution of Supernovae in the Winds of Massive Stars”
ANDREW LYNE (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)
Dates of visit: January 19-21, 2004 E-mail: agl@jb.man.ac.uk URL: Andrew Lyne's website May 26, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “The Discovery of a Double Pulsar Binary System”
ASAF PE'ER (WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, ISRAEL)
Dates of visit: December 10-14, 2003 E-mail: asaf@wicc.weizmann.ac.il December 11, 2003: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “GRB prompt emission spectra: Detailed analysis”
CHRISTOPHER DELOYE (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA)
Dates of visit: December 3-5, 2003 E-mail: cjdeloye@physics.ucsb.edu May 26, 2005: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Realistic Models for the Donors in Ultracompact Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries: The Impact of Donor Composition and Entropy on the Binary's State and Evolution”
PETER EGGLETON (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)
Dates of visit: December 1-3, 2003 E-mail: ppe@shoshone.ucllnl.gov December 2, 2003: Astrophysics Seminar “Non-conservative processes in Binary Star Evolution”
STUART SHAPIRO (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)
Dates of visit: November 13-15, 2003 E-mail: shapiro@astro.physics.uiuc.edu November 13, 2003: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Black Hole Spin Evolution through Accretion” November 14, 2003: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Formation of Supermassive Black Holes: Simulations in General Relativity”
CHRISTOPHER KOCHANEK (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: November 13-14, 2003 E-mail: ckochanek@astronomy.ohio-state.edu URL: Christopher Kochanek's website November 13, 2003: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Detection of CDM Substructure"”
MARC FREITAG (ARI, HEIDELBERG)
Dates of visit: October 26 - November 26, 2003 E-mail: freitag@ari.uni-heidelberg.de URL: Marc Freitag's website October 30, 2003: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Stellar Dynamics for LISA: Stars captured by a massive black hole”
TOM MacCARONE (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)
Dates of visit: September 29 - October 3, 2003 E-mail: tjm@science.uva.nl September 29, 2003: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “X-Ray Binaries in Elliptical Galaxies and the Globular Cluster Connection”