Visitors  |  Visitors 2006-2007

ASHLEY RUTIER (NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: May 21 - June 1, 2007  E-mail: aruiter(at)nmsu.edu  URL: Ashley Ruiter's homepage    May 31: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “ White Dwarf Binaries and LISA”
BEN OWEN (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: May 22-29, 2007  E-mail: owen(at)gravity.psu.edu  URL: Ben Owen's homepage    May 24: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Why LIGO results are already interesting”
STEPHEN ZEPF (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: May 17, 2007  E-mail: zepf(at)pa.msu.edu    May 17: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “From Galaxy Formation to X-ray Binaries with Globular Clusters”
JONATHAN TAN (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA)
Dates of visit: May 14-16, 2007  E-mail: jt(at)astro.ufl.edu  URL: Jonathan Tan's homepage    May 15: Astrophysics Seminar “Star Formation Near and Far”
HIRANYA PEIRIS (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
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JASON STEFFEN (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY)
Dates of visit: May 3, 2007  E-mail: jsteffen(at)fnal.gov    May 3: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Detecting Terrestrial Planets in Transiting Planetary Systems”
GREGORY SIVAKOFF (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: April 26, 2007  E-mail: sivakoff(at)astronomy.ohio-state.edu  URL: Gregory Sivakoff's homepage    April 26: Special Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar “Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies”
DEBRA FISCHER (SAN FRANSISCO STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: April 23-26, 2007  E-mail: fischer(at)stars.sfsu.edu  URL: Debra Fischer's homepage    April 24: Astrophysics Seminar “Hunting for Earths”
ALAN GUTH (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: April 6-11, 2007  E-mail: guth(at)ctp.mit.edu  URL: Alan Guth's homepage    April 6-11: 2007 Heilborn Distinguished Lecture Series: April 6: “Cosmic Inflation and the Accelerating Universe” April 9: “The Basic Physics of Inflationary Cosmology ” April 11: “Eternal Inflation and the String Theory Landscape ”
DAVID CHARBONNEAU (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: April 3-4, 2007  E-mail: dcharbonneau(at)cfa.harvard.edu  URL: David Charbonneau's homepage    April 3: Astrophysics Seminar “The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology”
STEINN SIGURDSSON (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: April 2 - May 30, 2007  E-mail: steinn(at)astro.psu.edu  URL: Steinn Sigurdsson's homepage    April 5: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Exotic Earths”
KOSTAS TASSIS (KICP - UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Dates of visit: March 29, 2007  E-mail: tassis(at)cfcp.uchicago.edu    March 29: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Are galactic winds shaping the properties of dwarf galaxies?”
MARIO JURIC (INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY)
Dates of visit: March 15-16, 2007  E-mail: mjuric(at)ias.edu  URL: Mario Juric's homepage    March 15: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “The Eccentricity Distribution of Extrasolar Planets - Evidence of a Violent History?”
SCOTT TREMAINE (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: March 8-9, 2007  E-mail: tremaine(at)astro.princeton.edu  URL: Scott Tremaine's homepage    March 9: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “The Long-term Stability of Planetary Systems”
VASO PAVLIDOU (KICP - UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Dates of visit: March 1, 2007  E-mail: pavlidou(at)cfcp.uchicago.edu  URL: Vaso Pavlidou's homepage    March 1: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Deciphering the GeV Sky: Gamma-Ray Astronomy in the Era of GLAST”
SHURI KULKARNI (CALIFORNIA INTSITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: February 15, 2007  E-mail: srk(at)astro.caltech.edu  URL: Shri Kulkarni's homepage    February 15: Special Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “The Space Interferometer Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More”
ILYA MANDEL (CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY)
Dates of visit: February 8-10, 2007  E-mail: ilya(at)caltech.edu  URL: Ilya Mandel's homepage    February 8: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Ground-based detection of gravitational waves from intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals”
STELIOS KAZANTZIDIS (KIPAC/STANFORD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: February 1, 2007  E-mail: stelios(at)kicp.uchicago.edu    February 1: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Infalling Satellites and Structure of Galactic Disks in CDM Models”
MIKE POLITANO (MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: January 29 - May 31, 2007  E-mail: Michael.Politano(at)marquette.edu  URL: Mike Politano's homepage
AVERY BRODERICK (HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS)
Dates of visit: January 18-19, 2007  E-mail: abroderick(at)cfa.harvard.edu    January 18: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Microarcsecond imaging of Sgr A*: A way to test the Kerr metric”
RICHARD EDGAR (UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER)
Dates of visit: January 11-12, 2007  E-mail: rge21(at)pas.rochester.edu  URL: Richard Edgar's homepage    January 11: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Giant Planet Migration”
NATASHA IVANOVA (CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS)
Dates of visit: December 5-15, 2006  E-mail: nata(at)cita.utoronto.ca  URL: Natasha Ivanova's homepage
JOSH FABER (UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN)
Dates of visit: December 6-9, 2006  E-mail: jfaber(at)uiuc.edu  URL: Josh Faber's homepage
CHRIS BELCZYNSKI (NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: November 5-27, 2006 December 17, 2006 - January 2, 2007  E-mail: kbelczyn(at)nmsu.edu
ED THOMMES (CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS)
Dates of visit: November 13-17, 2006  E-mail: thommes(at)cita.utoronto.ca  URL: Ed Thommes's homepage    November 16: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Saving Giant Planet Cores”
JENNIFER HOFFMAN (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)
Dates of visit: November 14-15, 2006  E-mail: jhoffman(at)astro.berkeley.edu  URL: Jennifer Hoffman's homepage    November 14: Astrophysics Seminar “Polarized Line Profiles as Diagnostics of Circumstellar Geometry in Type IIn Supernovae”
SARAH STEWART-MUKHOPADHYAY (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: November 3, 2006  E-mail: sstewart(at)eps.harvard.edu  URL: Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay's homepage    November 3: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Impact Craters as Windows into the Climatic History of Mars”
LOREN HOFFMAN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: October 30 - November 8, 2006  E-mail: lhoffman(at)cfa.harvard.edu  URL: Matthew Bailes's homepage    November 2: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Consequences of 3-black hole interactions in hierarchically merging massive galaxies”
MATTHEW BAILES (SWINBURNE, AUSTRALIA)
Dates of visit: October 26-27, 2006  E-mail: mbailes(at)astro.swin.edu.au  URL: Matthew Bailes's homepage    October 26: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Public Outreach in 3 Dimensions and the impact of software correlators in precision pulsar timing”
TAL ALEXANDER (WEIZMANN INSTITUTE, ISRAEL)
Dates of visit: October 23-27, 2006  E-mail: tal.alexander(at)weizmann.ac.il  URL: Tal Alexander's homepage  October 23: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar on “The Galactic Center as a laboratory for the dynamics of extreme mass ratio gravitational wave sources”    October 27: Physics Colloquium “Stars and Singularities: Stellar Processes near the Galactic Black Hole”
STAN PEALE (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA)
Dates of visit: October 22-24, 2006  E-mail: peale(at)io.physics.ucsb.edu    October 24: Astrophysics Seminar “Mercury's Rotation and Interior”
MARTA VOLONTERI (CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY)
Dates of visit: October and November 2006  E-mail: marta(at)ast.cam.ac.uk    October 17: Astrophysics Seminar “Building up massive black holes”
TIZIANA DI MATTEO (CARNEGIE MELLON)
Dates of visit: October 10, 2006  E-mail: tiziana(at)phys.cmu.edu  URL: Tiziana Di Matteo's homepage    October 10: Astrophysics Seminar “The formation and evolution of a cosmological population of black holes and galaxies”
SCOTT DODELSON (FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY / UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)
Dates of visit: September 29, 2006  E-mail: dodelson(at)fnal.gov  URL: Scott Dodelson's homepage    September 29: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Fundamental Physics from Space”
ERIC FORD (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: Sept 21-22, 2006  E-mail: eford(at)cfa.harvard.edu  URL: Eric Ford's homepage
MIKE ERACLEOUS (PENN STATE UNIVERSITY)
Dates of visit: Fall Quarter 2006 (on sabbatical) and May 1-30, 2007  E-mail: m-eracleous(at)northwestern.edu  URL: Mike Eracleous's homepage    September 21: Astrophysics Seminar “Double Peaked Emission Lines and what they tell us about the Accretion Disks of Active Galaxies”
ALBERTO VECCHIO (BIRMINGHAM, UK)
Dates of visit: Academic Year 2006-2007 (on sabbatical)  E-mail: av(at)star.sr.bham.ac.uk  URL: Alberto Vecchio's homepage