KENTARO NAGAMINE Assistant Professor Department of Physics & Astronomy University of Nevada, Las Vegas I am an astrophysicist studying the Universe. How and why is the Universe expanding? When and how did galaxies form? Why do they exhibit large-scale structure? Why do they have different colors and morphologies? How do black holes affect galaxy formation? What is the history of cosmic star formation in our Universe? These are the questions that I'm trying to answer. In practice, I use supercomputers to simulate the evolution of universe and the matter therein using the laws of gravity and hydrodynamics. This relatively new field of study is called "Computational Cosmology". UNLV Astrophysics Group

• University Forum lecture at UNLV (Nov 20, '08)
• Invited talk at The Impact of Simulations in Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, SISSA, Italy (Oct 20-22, 2008)
• Invited talk at Understanding Lyman-alpha emitters, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany (Oct 6-10, 2008)
• Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics: The Origin of Stars, Planets and Galaxies, Ascona, Switzerland (Jul 13-18, '08)
• Seminars at IPMU (Jul 2, '08) and Tohoku Univ. (Jul 8, '08)
• Invited talk at 2008 Nanjing GRB Conference, China (Jun 23-27, 2008)
• Submitted a paper on "Effects of metal enrichment and metal cooling in galaxy growth and cosmic star formation history" (6/20/08)
• Submitted a paper on "Incidence Rate of GRB-HOST-DLAs at z=1-10" (6/19/08)
• Visiting IPMU (6/15-8/15, 2008)
• Colloquium at ASU astronomy   (3/27/08)
• Added 5 TB of disk to the Cosmology Computing Cluster (Mar 2008)
• My previous work is quoted and described in the cover story of the March issue of Scientific American (Mar 2008)
• Received a theory grant of Spitzer Space Telescope (2/29/08)
• Talk at the Aspen Winter Workshop on "The First Two Billion Years of Galaxy Formation: The Reionization Epoch and Beyond" (Feb 11-15, 2008)
• Presented a poster at the NASA Swift science team meeting @UNLV (2/4/08)
• Submitted a paper on LAEs  [arXiv] (2/1/08)
• UNLV Astrophysics group has won the NASA EPSCoR grant (Jan 2008)
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