Cosmology
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Lars Hernquist
Research Interests: Theoretical studies of dynamical processes in cosmology and galaxy formation/galaxy evolution. Numerical simulations of stellar dynamical and hydrodynamical systems. Investigations of the physics of compact objects, particularly...
Douglas Finkbeiner
Professor Finkbeiner was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1971. He graduated from Pioneer High School in 1989, and enrolled in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. His Freshman year he helped build the legendary Sunrunner and was active...
Daniel Eisenstein
Research Interests: Cosmology and extragalactic astronomy with a mix of theoretical and observational methods; the development of the baryon acoustic oscillation method to measure the cosmic distance scale and study dark energy.
Professor Eisenstein...
Xingang Chen
Dr. Chen received his PhD from Columbia University in 2003 and held postdoc positions at the University of Florida, Cornell University, and MIT. From 2009 to 2013, he was a Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Chen was an...
ITC Graduate Student Anna Patej’s Thesis Honored
Mark Reid
Mark Reid is Senior Radio Astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Research interests include black holes, active galactic nuclei, galactic structure, star formation, evolved stars...
Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He is the Former Chair (2011-2020) of the Department of Astronomy; Founding Director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative; and a Former Director of the Institute for Theory and...