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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.
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Personnel and Research Activity by Subject
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Theory Group Members
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Title & Research
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Bromm, Volker
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Assistant Professor
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.
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Duncan, Rob
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Senior Research Scientist
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.
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Komatsu, Eiichiro
(Chair)
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Assistant Professor
Cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and polarization; inflationary scenarios of the early universe; alternative theories of gravity; radio band observational cosmology.
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Kumar, Pawan
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Professor
Gamma-ray bursts; helioseismology; binary stars; tidal interaction; accretion disks; cosmology.
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Milosavljevic, Milos
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Assistant Professor
Massive black holes; the Galactic center; galaxy formation; galaxy
clusters; plasma astrophysics.
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Scalo, John
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Professor
Star formation; interstellar medium; turbulence; galaxy evolution; complex systems; astrobiology.
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Shapiro, Paul
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Professor
Theoretical astrophysics: cosmology, galaxy formation, the interstellar medium, the intergalactic medium, interstellar dust grains, astrophysical hydrodynamics.
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Weinberg, Steven
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Professor (Physics-Astronomy)
Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology.
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Wheeler, J. Craig
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Professor
Stellar evolution; supernovae; accretion discs; gamma-ray bursts, astrobiology.
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Winget, Don
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Professor
Theory and observation: cosmochronology; evolution of the Milky Way; late stages of stellar evolution; stellar pulsations; the Whole Earth Telescope.
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Ahn, Kyungjin
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Postdoctoral Fellow
Cosmology, the nature of dark matter, structure formation.
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Kim, Agnes
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Postdoctoral Fellow
White dwarfs; astro-particle physics.
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Maund, Justyn
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Shen, Juntai
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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Agarwal, Meghann
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Barniol Duran, Rodolfo
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Graduate Student - Physics
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Couch, Sean
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Graduate Student
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Fernandez, Beth
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Graduate Student
Population III Stars and the Near Infrared Background.
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Jeong, Donghui
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Graduate Student
Cosmological perturbation theory, Large-scale structure of the universe
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Johnson, Jarrett
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Graduate Student
Nonequilibirum chemistry and primordial star formation.
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Koda, Jun
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Graduate Student - Physics
Cosmology, the nature of dark matter, structure formation.
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Pan, Liubin
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Graduate Student
Interstellar turbulence and chemical mixing.
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Shen, Rongfeng
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Graduate Student
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Shoji, Masatoshi
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Graduate Student
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Stacy, Athena
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Graduate Student
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Watanabe, Yuki
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Graduate Student - Physics
Early universe, cosmology,
gravitational waves.
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Summary
pdf - A downloadable summary of Theory Group activity and membership.
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