ISIMA 2014: Gravitational Dynamics
Student participants
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Name: Ben Bar-Or |
Afilliation: Weizmann institute of science | Project Title: Escape from a star cluster on an elliptical orbit. |
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PhD Advisor: Tal Alexander |
Research Interests: Stellar dynamics near massive black holes, Statistical mechanics of stellar systems. |
Project Advisors: Douglas Heggie, Anna-Lisa Varri |
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Name: Paolo Bianchini |
Afilliation: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany | Project Title: Star clusters in galactic cores |
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PhD Advisor: Glenn van de Ven, Eva Schinnerer |
Research Interests: Dynamics of globular clusters |
Project Advisors: Florent Renaud, Mark Gieles |
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Name: Bryce Bolin |
Afilliation: University of Hawaii at Manoa | Project Title: Gravitational Instability in Planetesimal Disks |
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PhD Advisor: Robert Jedicke |
Research Interests: Small body dynamics |
Project Advisors: Yanqin Wu, Hanno Rein, Yoram Lithwick and Margaret Pan. |
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Name: Harry Braviner |
Afilliation: DAMTP, University of Cambridge | Project Title: Limits on the rigid precession of planetary systems |
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PhD Advisor: Gordon Ogilvie |
Research Interests: Tidal dissipation in stars and giant planets |
Project Advisor: Doug Lin, Man Hoi Lee |
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Name: Filippo Contenta |
Afilliation: University of Surrey | Project Title: Kinematics signature of the tidal field in a globular cluster |
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PhD Advisor: Mark Gieles |
Research Interests: Globular cluster dynamics and N-body problem |
Project Advisors: Douglas Heggie and Anna Lisa Varri |
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Name: Adrian Hamers |
Afilliation: Leiden Observatory | Project Title: Secular dynamics of hierarchical quadruple systems |
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PhD Advisor: Simon Portegies Zwart |
Research Interests: Dynamics and evolution of galactic nuclei and triple systems |
Project Advisor: Hagai Perets |
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Name: Gongjie Li |
Afilliation: Harvard University | Project Title: Cross Sections for Solar System Disruption |
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PhD Advisor: Avi Loeb |
Research Interests: Dynamics of high mass ratio multiples |
Project Advisor: Fred Adams |
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Name: Stephen Pardy |
Afilliation: University of Wisconsin - Madison | Project Title: Modelling the tidal stream of NGC 5466 |
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PhD Advisor: Elena D'Onghia |
Research Interests: Stellar dynamics in Magellanic galaxies |
Project Advisor: Andreas Kupper |
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Name: Rosemary L. Shanahan |
Afilliation: University of Edinburgh | Project Title: The evolving stellar mass function of dissolving star clusters |
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PhD Advisor: Jorge Penarrubia |
Research Interests: Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies, Dark Matter |
Project Advisor: Mark Gieles |
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Name: Anna Sippel |
Afilliation: Swinburne University | Project Title: Evolving a 106 solar mass star along the Hayashi track |
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PhD Advisor: Jarrod Hurley |
Research Interests: Dynamical evolution of star clusters |
Project Advisor: Norman Murray |
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Name: Kathryne J. Daniel |
Afilliation: Johns Hopkins | Project Title: Analytical models of globular clusters that include potential escapers |
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PhD Advisor: Rosemary Wyse |
Research Interests: Stellar dynamics, Galactic evolution |
Project Advisor: Douglas Heggie, Anna-Lisa Varri |
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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 |
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PhD Advisor: Rainer Spurzem Thjis Kouwenhoven |
Research Interests: Planetary systems in star clusters |
Project Advisor: Mark Gieles |
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Name: Jean Teyssandier |
Afilliation: Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris and Oxford University | Project Title: Torque on an exoplanet caused by a evaporative wind |
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PhD Advisor: Caroline Terquem |
Research Interests: Planetary dynamics and planet-disc interactions |
Project Advisors: Alice Quillen, James Owen and Fred Adams |
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Name: Nan Wang |
Afilliation: School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, China | Project Title: Collisional dynamics including fragmentation and hit-and-run collisions |
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| 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 |
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Name: Xiaochen Zheng |
Afilliation: Peking University | Project Title: The in-situ origin of irregular moons |
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PhD Advisor: Thijs Kouwenhoven and Doug Lin |
Research Interests: Planetary disk dynamics |
Project Advisor: Hagai Perets |
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