Texas Cosmology Center

Directory


M. Sohaib Alam

Graduate Student - Physics

RLM 9.318


Aditya Aravind

Graduate Student - Physics

RLM 9.326

Cosmology, High energy physics, Inflation


Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Assistant Professor

RLM 17.212

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Dark matter; cosmological structure formation; galaxy formation and dynamics; near-field cosmology; cosmic reionization.


Volker Bromm

Professor

RLM 16.214

website

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.


Thomas Crawford

Visiting Researcher/Scholar

RLM 16.206


Anindya Dey

Graduate Student

RLM 9.318

String Theory and Cosmology.


Duane Dicus

Professor

RLM 9.204A

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Field theory of strong, weak, and electromagnetic interactions, astrophysical implications of the weak force.


Jacques Distler

Professor

RLM 9.218A

website

High energy theory, mathematical physics, and string theory.


Willy Fischler

Research Professor

RLM 9.310A

website

Field theory, supersymmetry, string theory, quantum cosmology, statistical mechanics.


Raphael Flauger

Assistant Professor

RLM 9.301


Walter Tangarife Garcia

Graduate Student

RLM 9.322

Supersymmetry, cosmology and string theory.


Karl Gebhardt

Professor

RLM 15.224

website

Formation and evolution of galaxies; dynamics of stellar systems; study of supermassive black holes.


S. Asif Hassan

Graduate Student

RLM 9.214

Loop quantum gravity, spin foam models, loop quantum cosmology.


Gary Hill

Research Professor

RLM 17.320

website

Observational cosmology; radio galaxies and quasars; astronomical instrumentation.


Vadim Kaplunovsky

Professor

RLM 9.314A

website

Field theory, supersymmetry, string theory.


Can Kilic

Assistant Professor

RLM 9.216

Extensions of the Standard Model, Collider phenomenology, Dark Matter models and searches.


Ely Kovetz

Research Associate
Weinberg Theory Group

RLM 9.316

Theoretical models of inflation; Cosmic microwave background anisotropies and data analysis; Tests of LCDM.


Sandipan Kundu

Graduate Student - Physics

RLM 9.312

Cosmology, particle physics.


Bohua Li

Graduate Student

RLM 16.212

Theoretical cosmology: structure formation, reionization, early universe.


Dustin Lorshbough

Graduate Student

RLM 9.318

Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology, High Energy Theory.


Richard Matzner

Professor

RLM 9.224

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Milos Milosavljevic

Associate Professor

RLM 17.220

website

Formation of stars, galaxies, and massive black holes in the early universe; computational astrophysics; radiation transport; chemical enrichment of the universe; machine learning with astronomical big data.


Mike Montgomery

Research Scientist

RLM 16.232

website

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.


Sonia Paban

Associate Professor

RLM 9.208A

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Particle Phenomonology and String Theory, Particle Physics, Theory.


Juan F. Pedraza

Graduate Student

RLM 9.322

Cosmology, AdS/CFT and String Theory


Paul Shapiro

Professor

RLM 16.204

website

Theoretical astrophysics: cosmology, galaxy formation, the interstellar medium, the intergalactic medium, interstellar dust grains, astrophysical hydrodynamics.


Luis Suazo

Graduate Student

RLM 9.326

Loop quantum gravity/cosmology, cosmology, mathematical physics.


Nicholas Suntzeff

Professor

Texas A&M

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Steven Weinberg

Professor

RLM 9.306

website

Theoretical astrophysics and cosmology.


Don Winget

Professor

RLM 16.236

website

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.