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Theory Group
The Theory Group of the Astronomy Department consists of faculty, research scientists, postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students working on a broad range of problems in astrophysics and cosmology.
AST 381S - Seminar in Theoretical Astrophysics
Mon, 3:30 PM, RLM 15.216B
Tues, 3:30 PM, RLM 15.216B
Friday Astrophysics Lunch
Fri, 12 noon, Carillon (AT&T Conference Center)
Research activity and member summary - pdf
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Associate Professor Research Interests Formation of the first stars and quasars; high-redshift supernovae and metal enrichment; supermassive black hole formation; gamma-ray bursts; reionization of the intergalactic medium; present-day star formation; computational astrophysics. Group Areas First Stars & Galaxies, ISM and Star Formation, Structure Formation, Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics |
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Assistant Professor Research Interests Planet formation, planet host composition, protostellar disk chemistry, Galactic chemical evolution, debris disks and brown dwarfs. Group Areas Planet Formation, Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks, Extrasolar Planetary Systems |
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Senior Research Scientist Research Interests Magnetars (ultra-magnetized neutron stars) and their possible observable consequences for soft gamma repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, cosmic rays, and old galactic neutron stars. Group Areas |
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Professor Research Interests Gamma-ray bursts; helioseismology; binary stars; tidal interaction; accretion disks; cosmology. Group Areas |
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Associate Professor Research Interests Massive black holes; the Galactic center; galaxy formation; galaxy clusters; plasma astrophysics. Group Areas Clusters of Galaxies, Gamma-ray Bursts, Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics, Black Holes & AGN |
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Research Scientist Research Interests Pulsation and seismology of white dwarf stars, nonlinear light curve modeling, numerical and theoretical studies of convection, evolution of white dwarf stars, constitutive physics of white dwarfs (crystallization, diffusion), Science Director of Whole Earth Telescope. Group Areas White Dwarfs, Whole Earth Telescope, Stellar Pulsation, Asteroseismology |
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Professor Research Interests Star formation; interstellar medium; turbulence; galaxy evolution; complex systems; astrobiology. Group Areas Astrobiology, Milky Way Evolution, ISM and Star Formation, Planet Formation, Atmospheres & Life, Star Formation & Protoplanetary Disks |
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Professor Research Interests Theoretical astrophysics: cosmology, galaxy formation, the interstellar medium, the intergalactic medium, interstellar dust grains, astrophysical hydrodynamics. Group Areas Structure Formation, Milky Way Evolution, ISM and Star Formation, Early Universe, First Stars & Galaxies, Cosmic Reionization, Clusters of Galaxies |
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Professor Research Interests Active galactic nuclei; supermassive black holes; chemical evolution of galaxies. Group Areas |
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Professor Research Interests Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology. Group Areas |
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Professor Research Interests Stellar evolution; supernovae; accretion discs; gamma-ray bursts, astrobiology. Group Areas |
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Professor Research Interests Theory and observation: cosmochronology; evolution of the Milky Way; late stages of stellar evolution; stellar pulsations; white dwarf stars as dark matter detectors; the Whole Earth Telescope. Group Areas White Dwarfs, Asteroseismology, Whole Earth Telescope, Stellar Pulsation |
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Postdoctoral Fellow Research Interests Theoretical cosmology, including structure formation, gravitational lensing, and cosmic reionization. |
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Postdoctoral Fellow Research Interests Galactic dynamics and structure formation, the nature of dark matter, quantum and classical many-body and statistical physics, cosmology. Group Areas |
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Postdoctoral Fellow Research Interests Supernovae Group Areas |
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Graduate Student Research Interests Primordial non-Gaussianity, inflation, high-energy theory. Group Areas |
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Graduate Student Research Interests Theoretical cosmology: structure formation, reionization, early universe. |
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Graduate Student Group Areas Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics, Gamma-ray Bursts, Supernovae |
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Graduate Student Research Interests Early universe cosmology, inflation, and non-Gaussianities. Group Areas |
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Graduate Student Research Interests Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect on the cosmic microwave background. |
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Graduate Student Research Interests Computational Cosmology Group Areas First Stars & Galaxies, Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics |
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Graduate Student Research Interests Star Formation in the First Galaxies; Chemical and Radiative Feedback from the First Stars and Galaxies; Near-field Cosmology Group Areas First Stars & Galaxies, Theoretical & Computational Astrophysics, ISM and Star Formation |
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