Visitors  |  Visitors 2004-2005

PAULO FREIRE (ARECIBO OBSERVATORY)
Dates of visit: May 26 - 27, 2005 E-mail: pfreire@naic.edu URL: Paulo Freire's website May 26, 2005: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Eclipsing Binary Pulsars”
SERA MARKOFF (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: May 23-25, 2005 E-mail: sera@space.mit.edu May 25, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Sgr A*'s Weakness is our Strength: Exploring Inflow/Outflow Around Starved Black Holes”
YURI LEVIN (CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS)
Dates of visit: May 18-21, 2005 E-mail: yuri@cita.utoronto.ca URL: Yuri Levin's website
ROBERT BUCHLER (FLORIDA UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: May 12-14, 2005 E-mail: buchler@phys.ufl.edu URL: Robert Buchler's website May 13, 2005: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science “Chaos in the Music of the Stars”
SCOTT RANSOM (NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY)
Dates of visit: May 9-11, 2005 E-mail: ransom@physics.mcgill.ca URL: Scott Ransom's website May 10, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Hittin' the Pulsar Jackpot in Cluster Terzan 5 with the Green Bank Telescope”
ROMAN RAFIKOV (INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY)
Dates of visit: April 27-30, 2005 E-mail: rrr@ias.edu April 27, 2005: Astrobiology Workshop “Formation of Terrestrial Planets” April 29, 2005: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Nonlinear Science “Coagulation Processes in Astrophysical Systems”
DIMITAR SASSELOV (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: April 26-28, 2005 E-mail: dsasselov@cfa.harvard.edu URL: Dimitar Sasselov's website April 27, 2005: Astrobiology Workshop “Astrobiology in the Context of a Research University”
AMAYA MORO-MARTIN (PRINCETON)
Dates of visit: April 25-28, 2005 E-mail: amaya@astro.princeton.edu April 26, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Looking for Planets by their Dusty Fingerprints” April 27, 2005: Astrobiology Workshop “Infrared Signatures of Planet Formation”
ERIC FORD (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)
Dates of visit: April 25-28, 2005 E-mail: eford@astron.Berkeley.EDU URL: Eric Ford's website April 27, 2005: Astrobiology Workshop “Detecting Life on Extrasolar Planets with Future Telescopes” April 28, 2005: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Bayesian Data Analysis, Adaptive Experimental Design, and Extrasolar Planets”
TOM WEILER (VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: April 24-26, 2005 E-mail: tom.weiler@vanderbilt.edu
BARRY BARISH (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: April 18-22, 2005 E-mail: barish@ligo.caltech.edu URL: Barry Barish's website April 18 - 21, 2005: The Heilborn Lectures April 18, 2005: “Probing Einstein's Universe” April 19, 2005: “The Next Great Particle Accelerator: The International Linear Collider” April 21, 2005: “Detecting Gravitational Waves with LIGO”
JOSEPH PATTERSON (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: April 11-12, 2005 E-mail: jop@astro.columbia.edu URL: Joseph Patterson's website April 12, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Last Rites for Cataclysmic Variables”
CARLOS PENA-GARAY (INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY)
Dates of visit: April 7-6, 2005 E-mail: penya@ias.edu April 7, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Neutrinos as Astrophysical Probes”
ROSALBA PERNA (UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO)
Dates of visit: March 14-16, 2005 E-mail: rosalba@jilau1.colorado.edu March 15, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era”
HOLGER BAUMGARDT (UNIVERSITY OF BONN)
Dates of visit: March 7-14, 2005 E-mail: holger@astro.uni-bonn.de URL: Holger Baumgardt's website March 10, 2005: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Massive Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters”
ANDREW HAMILTON (UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO)
Dates of visit: March 7-9, 2005 E-mail: Andrew.Hamilton@colorado.edu URL: Andrew Hamilton's website March 8, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Inside Black Holes”
DEIRDRE SHOEMAKER (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: February 25 - March 2, 2005 E-mail: deirdre@gravity.psu.edu URL: Deirdre Shoemaker's website March 1, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Mining for Observables: A New Challenge for Numerical Relativity”
ANDREAS ZEZAS (HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS)
Dates of visit: February 28 - March 1, 2005 E-mail: azezas@cfa.harvard.edu
PABLO LAGUNA (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: February 24 - March 2, 2005 E-mail: pablo@astro.psu.edu URL: Pablo Laguna's website February 13, 2005: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “When Black Holes Collide”
JOHN GALLAGHER (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN)
Dates of visit: February 24-25, 2005 E-mail: gallagher@astro.wisc.edu URL: John Gallagher's website
CHRIS BELCZYNSKI (UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO)
Dates of visit: February 21 - March 1, 2005 E-mail: kbelczyn@nmsu.edu
BOB BENJAMIN (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN)
Dates of visit: February 3-4, 2005 E-mail: benjamir@uww.edu URL: Bob Benjamin's website February 13, 2005: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “A Look at GLIMPSE: Spitzer's View of the inner Galaxy”
BRYAN GAENSLER (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: January 24-26, 2005 E-mail: bgaensler@cfa.harvard.edu URL: Bryan Gaensler's website January 25, 2005: Astrophysics Seminar “Small Stars in a Big Backyard: Probing the Interplay Between Neutron Stars and Their Environments”
SHIHO KOBAYASHI (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: January 16-23, 2005 E-mail: shiho@gravity.psu.edu January 20, 2005: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Gamma-Ray Burst Early Afterglows in the Swift Era”
JAMES LOMBARDI (VASSAR COLLEGE)
Dates of visit: December 7-11, 2004 E-mail: lombardi@vassar.edu December 9, 2004: Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Stellar collisions and ultracompact X-ray binary formation in globular clusters”
GEOFF BOWER (UC Berkeley)
Dates of visit: December 7-10, 2004 E-mail: gbower@astro.berkeley.edu URL: Geoff Bower's website December 9, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “The Main Event: A Three Round Fight with Sagittarius A*”
DUNCAN LORIMER (UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)
Dates of visit: December 4-8, 2004 E-mail: drl@jb.man.ac.uk URL: Ducan Lorimer's website
DANIEL PROGA (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: November 29 - December 1, 2004 E-mail: dproga@astro.princeton.edu November 30, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “How Outflows Reveal and Assist Accretion Onto Black Holes: Quasar Case”
CHRIS BELCZYNSKI (UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO)
Dates of visit: November 22-30, 2004 E-mail: kbelczyn@nmsu.edu
INGRID STAIRS (UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA)
Dates of visit: November 13-20, 2004 E-mail: stairs@astro.ubc.ca URL: Ingrid Stairs' website November 16, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “Observing Relativistic Binary Pulsars” November 18, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “New Wide-Orbit Binary Pulsars”
FENG YUAN (PURDUE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: October 27-30, 2004 E-mail: fyuan@physics.purdue.edu
BRAD HANSEN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES)
Dates of visit: October 22-23, 2004 E-mail: hansen@astro.ucla.edu URL: Brad Hansen's website
NERGIS MAVALVALA (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: October 20-23, 2004 E-mail: nergis@ligo.mit.edu URL: Nergis Mavalvala's website October 21, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “The LIGO Interferometers: Recent Progress, and What's Next” October 22, 2004: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Gravitational-Wave Observatories -- Giant Detectors, Precision Measurement, and the Search for the Elusive Waves”
MIKE MUNO (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES)
Dates of visit: October 11-16, 2004 E-mail: mmuno@astro.ucla.edu October 14, 2004: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Young Stars and Stellar Remnants in Chandra Observations of the Galactic Center”
TOM ABEL (STANFORD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: October 11-13, 2004 E-mail: Hi@TomAbel.com URL: Tom Abel's website October 12, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “The First Stars in our Universe”
ERIC FORD (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)
Dates of visit: September 20-25, 2004 E-mail: eford@astron.Berkeley.EDU URL: Eric Ford's website September 23, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “Extrasolar Planets: New Discoveries and Challenges”
AVI LOEB (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: September 1-5, 2004 E-mail: aloeb@cfa.harvard.edu URL: Avi Loeb's website September 2, 2004: Astrophysics Seminar “Birth and Dynamics of Black Holes in Galaxies”
MARC FREITAG (ARI, HEIDELBERG)
Dates of visit: August 9 - September 4, 2004 E-mail: freitag@ari.uni-heidelberg.de URL: Marc Freitag's website