Visitors  |  Visitors 2008-2009

RON WEBBINK (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Dates of visit: December 3-4, 2009  E-mail: webbink(at)astro.uiuc.edu
ALESSIA GUALANDRIS (Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
Dates of visit: November 29 - December 3, 2009  E-mail: alessiag(at)mpa-garching.mpg.de    December 1: Astrophysics Seminar “Young Stars in the Galactic Center”
BRET LEHMER (Johns Hopkins University)
Dates of visit: November 12-13, 2009  E-mail: blehmer(at)pha.jhu.edu
PANAYIOTIS TZANAVARIS (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Dates of visit: November 12-13, 2009  E-mail: panayiotis.tzanavaris(at)nasa.gov
LEIGH JENKINS (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Dates of visit: November 12-13, 2009  E-mail: Leigh.Jenkins(at)nasa.gov
ANN HORNSCHEMEIER (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Dates of visit: November 11-13, 2009  E-mail: ann.h.cardiff(at)nasa.gov    November 11: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “The International X-ray Observatory (IXO)”
SCOTT GAUDI (Ohio State University)
Dates of visit: November 10-11, 2009  E-mail: gaudi(at)astronomy.ohio-state.edu    November 10: Astrophysics Seminar “The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing”
SOKO MATSUMURA (University of Maryland)
Dates of visit: November 5-7, 2009  E-mail: soko(at)astro.umd.edu
JOSH WINN (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dates of visit: November 5-6, 2009  E-mail: jwinn(at)space.mit.edu    November 5: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Exoplanetary Spin-Orbit Alignment (and Misalignment)”
RON WEBBINK (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Dates of visit: October 7, 2009  E-mail: webbink(at)astro.uiuc.edu
TIM LINDEN (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Dates of visit: October 6-9, 2009  E-mail: trlinden(at)gmail.com    October 9: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “The Prospects for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Analysis of the WMAP Haze”
CHRIS BELCZYNSKI (New Mexico State University)
Dates of visit: September 25 - October 2, 2009  E-mail: kbelczyn(at)nmsu.edu
SMADAR NAOZ (Tel Aviv University)
Dates of visit: September 20-26, 2009  E-mail: smadar(at)wise.tau.ac.il    September 24: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “The First Generation of Galaxies and 21cm Fluctuations”
JOHN FREGEAU (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Dates of visit: August 27-31, 2009  E-mail: fregeau(at)kitp.ucsb.edu    August 28: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “White Dwarf Birth Kicks in Star Clusters”
DIEGO FAZI (California Institute of Technology)
Dates of visit: August 1-6, 2009  E-mail: fazi_d(at)ligo.caltech.edu
JEREMY SEPINSKY (University of Scranton)
Dates of visit: July 26 - August 6, 2009  E-mail: sepinskyj2(at)scranton.edu
TIM LINDEN (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Dates of visit: July 23-27, 2009  E-mail: tlinden(at)ucsc.edu
RICHARD O'SHAUGHNESSY (Penn State University)
Dates of visit: July 20-22, 2009  E-mail: oshaughn(at)gravity.psu.edu    URL: Richard O'Shaughnessy's homepage
MARCO CAVAGLIÀ (The University of Mississippi)
Dates of visit: July 8-9, 2009  E-mail: cavaglia(at)phy.olemiss.edu  URL: Marco Cavaglià's homepage
NATALIE HINKEL (Arizona State University)
Dates of visit: June 22, 2009  E-mail: natalie.hinkel(at)asu.edu    June 22: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Simulating Stellar Clusters; One Step at a Time”
WILL FARR (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dates of visit: June 18-19, 2009  E-mail: farr(at)mit.edu  URL: Will Farr's homepage
SHERRY SUYU (University of Bonn)
Dates of visit: June 10-15, 2009  E-mail: suyu(at)astro.uni-bonn.de  URL: Sherry Suyu's homepage    June 15: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Dissecting the Gravitational Lens B1608+656: Implications for the Hubble Constant”
ADAM BURROWS (Princeton University)
Dates of visit: May 22, 2009  E-mail: burrows(at)astro.princeton.edu  URL: Adam Burrow's homepage    May 22: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions”
ALBERTO SESANA (Penn State University)
Dates of visit: May 20-24, 2009  E-mail: alberto(at)gravity.psu.edu  URL: Alberto Sesana's homepage    May 21: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection with Forthcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays”
EVERT GLEBBEEK (McMaster University)
Dates of visit: May 18-21, 2009  E-mail: glebbeek(at)mcmaster.ca  URL: Evert Glebbeek's homepage    May 20: Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Modelling the evolution of stellar collision runaways”
HSIAO-WEN CHEN (University of Chicago)
Dates of visit: May 12, 2009  E-mail: hcchen(at)odjob.uchicago.edu  URL: Hsiao-Wen Chen's homepage    May 12: Astrophysics Seminar “Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows as New Probes”
BENJAMIN KNISPEL (AEI, Hannover)
Dates of visit: April 25 - May 1, 2009  E-mail: benjamin.knispel(at)aei.mpg.de  URL: Benjamin Knispel's homepage    April 30: Special Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar “Searching Radio Pulsars in Tight Binaries with Einstein@Home and PALFA”
TJ COX (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Dates of visit: April 27 - April 29, 2009  E-mail: tcox(at)cfa.harvard.edu  URL: TJ Cox's homepage    April 28: Astrophysics Seminar “Using Numerical Simulations to Study the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies”
MAXIM LYUTIKOV (Purdue University)
Dates of visit: April 21, 2009  E-mail: lutikov(at)purdue.edu  URL: Maxim Lyutikov's homepage    April 21: Astrophysics Seminar “The Double Pulsar as Jupiter: Testing Theories of Gravity, Plasma Physics and Pulsar Radio Emission”
JONATHAN GAIR (Cambridge University)
Dates of visit: April 14-22, 2009  E-mail: jgair(at)ast.cam.ac.uk  URL: Jonathan Gair's homepage    April 15: Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar Astrophysics and Cosmology with LISA Gravitational Wave Sources”
JONATHAN McKINNEY (Stanford University)
Dates of visit: December 8-9, 2008  E-mail: jmckinne(at)stanford.edu  URL: Jonathan McKinney's homepage    December 8: Special Colloquium “General Relativistic Simulations of Black Hole Accretion Disks and Jets”
YUEXING LI (Harvard University)
Dates of visit: December 4-5, 2008  E-mail: yxli(at)cfa.harvard.edu  URL: Yuexing Li's homepage    December 4: Special Colloquium “Galaxies and Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization”
YORAM LITHWICK (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
Dates of visit: December 1-2, 2008  E-mail: yoram(at)cita.utoronto.edu  URL: Yoram Lithwick's homepage    December 1: Special Colloquium “Dynamics of Protoplanetary Disks (and of Cosmological Haloes)”
ELIZABETH TASKER (University of Florida)
Dates of visit: November 24-25, 2008  E-mail: tasker(at)astro.ufl.edu  URL: Elizabeth Tasker's homepage    November 25: Special Colloquium “Formation and Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds in Disk Galaxies”
AVERY BRODERICK (Canadian Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics)
Dates of visit: November 20-21, 2008  E-mail: aeb(at)cita.utoronto.ca  URL: Avery Broderick's homepage    November 20: Special Colloquium “Imaging Black Hole Horizons”
BRANT ROBERTSON (University of Chicago)
Dates of visit: November 18-19, 2008  E-mail: brant(at)kicp.uchicago.edu  URL: Brant Robertson's homepage    November 18: Special Colloquium “The Role of Dissipative Physics In Galaxy Formation”
AVI LOEB (Harvard University)
Dates of visit: November 14-15, 2008  E-mail: aloeb(at)cfa.harvard.edu  URL: Avi Loeb's homepage    November 14: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium “Exploring New Physics in the Early Universe and Around the Black Holes”
KOSTAS TASSIS (California Institute of Technology / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Dates of visit: November 13-14, 2008  E-mail: konstantinos.tassis(at)jpl.nasa.gov  URL: Kostas Tassis' homepage    November 13: Special Colloquium “Star Formation from AU to Mpc Scales: Simulating the Formation and Evolution of Stars and Galaxies”
GLENN VAN DE VEN (Institute for Advanced Study)
Dates of visit: November 11, 2008  E-mail: glenn(at)ias.edu  URL: Glenn van de Ven's homepage    November 11: Astrophysics Seminar Speaker “Dynamical structure and evolution of early-type galaxies unraveled with integral-field spectroscopy”
RAMESH NARAYAN (Harvard University)
Dates of visit: October 14, 2008  E-mail: rnarayan(at)cfa.harvard.edu  URL: Ramesh Narayan's homepage    October 14: Astrophysics Seminar Speaker “Measuring Black Hole Spin”
JOHN SEIRADAKIS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Dates of visit: September 19-20, 2008  E-mail: jhs(at)astro.auth.gr  URL: John Seiradakis' homepage    September 19: Special Event at Adler Planetarium “The Antikythera Mechanism: Astronomy and Technology in Ancient Greece”