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Vadim Semenov

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Vadim’s research is centered on understanding how galaxies form and evolve. He explores this problem by running and analyzing supercomputer simulations of galaxies. His previous and current work focuses on the origin of inefficient star formation in...

Morgan MacLeod

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Morgan MacLeod is a Lecturer in Astronomy whose research focuses on stellar encounters in binary systems and their imprints on the transient night sky. 

Morgan uses computational and simulation methods to trace close encounters of stars and compact objects...

George Rybicki

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Research Interests

Radiative processes and radiative transfer in stellar atmospheres and X-ray sources; radiation hydrodynamics; stellar and galactic dynamics.

Publications

  • ADS Abstract and Article database.
  • ArXiv astro-ph preprint archive.

Dimitar Sasselov

Person

Research Interests:   Professor Sasselov studies the interaction between light and matter (radiative transfer) from stars and exoplanets to biomolecules at the origins of life, and astrobiology in general. He runs a photochemistry lab exploring the...

ITC Graduate Student Anna Patej’s Thesis Honored

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ITC Graduate Student Anna Patej has been selected as one of three finalists for the 2017 APS Division of Astrophysics Thesis Award, which recognizes original doctoral thesis work of outstanding scientific quality in the area of astrophysics. The pool of...

Eric Keto

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Research interests: star formation, numerical simulations, extragalactic, instrumentation, 

The Eric R. Keto Prize 

Endowed with a generous donation by ITC Senior Member Eric Keto, the Keto Prize is awarded each year for the best thesis in theoretical...

Charles Alcock

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Charles Alcock is the former director of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, a position he held for 17 years until January 2022. Charles remains a Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a Senior Scientist at the Smithsonian...