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Vahé Petrosian (ADS, astro-ph) Professor: Theoretical astrophysics with concentration on high energy astrophysical processes and cosmology; solar flares, neutron stars, gamma-ray bursts and the accretion disk of stellar and active galactic black holes; early phase of the universe, the evolution of galaxies and quasars, arcs in clusters of galaxies, and gravitational lensing.
Dana Volponi Group Secretary
Felix Ryde Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar
Michael Dorris Graduate Student
Wei Liu Graduate Student
Yanwei Jiang Graduate Student Recent Ph. D.'s
Nicole Lloyd, Postdoctoral Fellow, now at LANL: Gamma-ray bursts. Ph.D. January, 2001.
Julia Pryadko, Ph.D. June 1998: Wave-particle interactions in plasma physics as a particle acceleration mechanism.
Dave Saraniti, Ph.D. Jan. 1997: Gravitational lens modelling and X-ray gases in galactic clusters as dark matter probes.
Walid Azzam, Ph.D. June 1996: Cosmological modelling of gamma-ray bursts.
Ted Lee, Ph.D. March 1996: Solar flare energetics and coronal heating, gamma-ray burst distributions.
Brian Park, Ph.D. 1996 Sept.: Stochastic acceleration of particles and its application to solar flares.