ISIMA 2014: Gravitational Dynamics

Student participants



Name:
Ben Bar-Or
Afilliation:
Weizmann institute of science
Project Title:
Escape from a star cluster on an elliptical orbit.

PhD Advisor:
Tal Alexander

Research Interests:
Stellar dynamics near massive black holes, Statistical mechanics of stellar systems.

Project Advisors:
Douglas Heggie, Anna-Lisa Varri
Name:
Paolo Bianchini
Afilliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
Project Title:
Star clusters in galactic cores

PhD Advisor:
Glenn van de Ven, Eva Schinnerer

Research Interests:
Dynamics of globular clusters

Project Advisors:
Florent Renaud, Mark Gieles
Name:
Bryce Bolin
Afilliation:
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Project Title:
Gravitational Instability in Planetesimal Disks

PhD Advisor:
Robert Jedicke

Research Interests:
Small body dynamics

Project Advisors:
Yanqin Wu, Hanno Rein, Yoram Lithwick and Margaret Pan.
Name:
Harry Braviner
Afilliation:
DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Project Title:
Limits on the rigid precession of planetary systems

PhD Advisor:
Gordon Ogilvie

Research Interests:
Tidal dissipation in stars and giant planets

Project Advisor:
Doug Lin, Man Hoi Lee
Name:
Filippo Contenta
Afilliation:
University of Surrey
Project Title:
Kinematics signature of the tidal field in a globular cluster

PhD Advisor:
Mark Gieles

Research Interests:
Globular cluster dynamics and N-body problem

Project Advisors:
Douglas Heggie and Anna Lisa Varri
Name:
Adrian Hamers
Afilliation:
Leiden Observatory
Project Title:
Secular dynamics of hierarchical quadruple systems

PhD Advisor:
Simon Portegies Zwart

Research Interests:
Dynamics and evolution of galactic nuclei and triple systems

Project Advisor:
Hagai Perets
Name:
Gongjie Li
Afilliation:
Harvard University
Project Title:
Cross Sections for Solar System Disruption

PhD Advisor:
Avi Loeb

Research Interests:
Dynamics of high mass ratio multiples

Project Advisor:
Fred Adams
Name:
Stephen Pardy
Afilliation:
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Project Title:
Modelling the tidal stream of NGC 5466

PhD Advisor:
Elena D'Onghia

Research Interests:
Stellar dynamics in Magellanic galaxies

Project Advisor:
Andreas Kupper
Name:
Rosemary L. Shanahan
Afilliation:
University of Edinburgh
Project Title:
The evolving stellar mass function of dissolving star clusters

PhD Advisor:
Jorge Penarrubia

Research Interests:
Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, Dark Matter

Project Advisor:
Mark Gieles
Name:
Anna Sippel
Afilliation:
Swinburne University
Project Title:
Evolving a 106 solar mass star along the Hayashi track

PhD Advisor:
Jarrod Hurley

Research Interests:
Dynamical evolution of star clusters

Project Advisor:
Norman Murray
Name:
Kathryne J. Daniel
Afilliation:
Johns Hopkins
Project Title:
Analytical models of globular clusters that include potential escapers

PhD Advisor:
Rosemary Wyse

Research Interests:
Stellar dynamics, Galactic evolution

Project Advisor:
Douglas Heggie, Anna-Lisa Varri
Name:
Maxwell Xu Tsai
Afilliation:
National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Project Title:
The evolution of star clusters on eccentric orbits in galactic tides

PhD Advisor:
Rainer Spurzem
Thjis Kouwenhoven

Research Interests:
Planetary systems in star clusters

Project Advisor:
Mark Gieles
Name:
Jean Teyssandier
Afilliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and Oxford University
Project Title:
Torque on an exoplanet caused by a evaporative wind

PhD Advisor:
Caroline Terquem

Research Interests:
Planetary dynamics and planet-disc interactions

Project Advisors:
Alice Quillen, James Owen and Fred Adams
Name:
Nan Wang
Afilliation:
School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, China
Project Title:
Collisional dynamics including fragmentation and hit-and-run collisions
PhD Advisor:
Ji-Lin Zhou
Research Interests:
Numerical simulations of lunar impacts, tidal evolution of the Earth-Moon system
Project Advisors:
Shangfei Liu, Diana Valencia
Name:
Xiaochen Zheng
Afilliation:
Peking University
Project Title:
The in-situ origin of irregular moons

PhD Advisor:
Thijs Kouwenhoven and Doug Lin

Research Interests:
Planetary disk dynamics

Project Advisor:
Hagai Perets