Visiting Astronomers at the University of Virginia

Throughout the year we have a number of vistors to the Department of Astronomy; many give colloquia while visiting. Below is a partial list of the visiting astronomers since Fall 1997.

Robert Carlson, Jet Propulsion Lab
Dates: April 3-7, 2000

Ben Dorman, Goddard Space Flight Center
bd4r@virginia.edu
Senior Research Scientist
Dates: 1997 - June 1998

Claes Fransson, Stockholm Observatory, Sweden
VITA visitor
Dates: March 30 - April 3, 1998

Sebastien Fromang, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
fromang@astsun.astro.virginia.edu
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Dates: January 5 - July 5, 1999; July 25 - September 14, 2001

Richard Gelderman, University of Western Kentucky
Dates: July 1999

Jimmy Irwin, University of Michigan
jai7e@astsun.astro.virginia.edu
Dates: January 10 - January 19, 1998; May 2000

Yuri Izotov, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev
izotov@astsun.astro.virginia.edu
Dates: February 6 - June 5, 1998; February - June, 1999; February 8 - April 20, 2001

Pavel Koubský, Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic
Dates: July - September, 1998

William Kunkel, Las Campanas Observatory, Chile
Dates: September 19 - September 26, 1997; Frequent subsequent visits

Yuri Levin, Berkeley
Dates: January 31 - February 1, 2002

François Levrier, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Dates: January 8 - July 6, 1998

Duncan Lorimer, Arecibo
Dates: January-February, 2000

Maxim Lyutikov, McGill
CITA National Fellow
Dates: February 30, 2002

Harold McAlister, CHARA/Georgia State
Dates: November 28 - December 1, 2000

Rene Mendez, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Dates: May 7 - 11, 2001

Kristen Menou, Princeton
VITA visitor
Dates: September 11-15, 2000; January, 2002

John Papaloizou, Queen Mary & William College, England
VITA visitor
Dates: December, 1998

Valery Shematovich, Institute for Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dates: September 6 - October 10, 1999; August 2000; August 2001

Noam Soker, University of Haifa
Visiting Professor
Dates: Septermber 2001 - January 2002

Caroline Terquem, OCU/Lick Observatory
VITA visitor
Dates: November, 1998; February 2000; January 2001

Ray White, University of Alabama
Dates: February 18-23, 2000