Previous News
Previous News
- 2012:
- My students, R. Thompson and J. Jaacks have graduated. (Dec)
- Attending the Cosmological Radiative Transfer workshop, TX Austin (Dec 12-14)
- My Ph.D. student, Robert Thompson, successfully defended his Ph.D. (Nov 15) (see above photo)
- CAGE collaboration meeting, Princeton Univ., NJ (Sep 23-29)
- XSEDE12 conference, Chicago, IL (July 17-19)
- Extreme Scaling workshop, Chicago, IL (July 15-16)
- Seminars at Nagoya Univ., Kumamoto Univ., Osaka Univ., Japan (July)
- Visiting the Aspen Center for Physics, CO (June 10-24)
- Seminar at Kavli IPMU (June 5)
- Visiting the Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo (5/28 - 6/6)
- Attending the First Star IV conference, Kyoto, Japan (May 21-25)
- Submitted the paper, "Duty Cycle and the Increasing Star Formation History of z>=6 Galaxies" (Apr 21)
- Submitted the Chandra cycle 14 proposal (Mar 15)
- My undergrad student, Jason Jaacks, has been featured on UNLV website (Mar 1).
- Received the College of Science, Distinguished Researcher Award (Feb)
- Submitted the HST proposal (Feb 24)
- CAGE collaboration meeting at Princeton Univ., NJ (Feb 8-18)
- 2011
- Submitted a paper on "Effect of radiative transfer on damped Lyman-alpha and Lyman limit systems in cosmological SPH simulations" (Dec 23)
- Submitted a paper on "Multiphase, non-spherical gas accretion onto a black hole" (Dec 22)
- Submitted a conf proceedings article on "Gas Accretion onto a Supermassive Black Hole: a step to model AGN feedback" (Dec 15)
- Blue Waters PRAC Workshop, NCSA, Univ. of Illinois, IL (Dec 13-16)
- AGN Winds conference, Charleston, SC (Oct 14-18)
- I'm teaching a graduate course, AST714 "Astrophysics II: Radiative Processes" in Fall 2011 semester.
- High-z galaxies conference, IoA, Cambridge, UK (Jul 25-29)
- Submitted a paper on "Pairwise Velocities of Dark Matter Halos: a Test for the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model using the Bullet Cluster" (July 23)
- Ringberg workshops on "First Galaxies" and "DLAs", Munich, Germany (6/29-7/8)
- Submitted a paper on "Gamma-ray burst rate: high-redshift excess and its possible origins" (May 23)
- HST panel, STScI, Baltimore, MD (May 16-18)
- Submitted a paper on "Steep Faint-end Slopes of Galaxy Mass and Luminosity Functions at z>=6...." (Apr 14)
- Submitted a paper on "SPH Simulations of Black Hole Accretion..." (Feb 18)
- Submitted a paper on "On the Inconsistencies between the estimates of cosmic SFR and..." (Jan 29)
- AAS, Seattle, WA (Jan 8-13)
- 2010
- Caltech visit (Dec 20-24)
- Colloquium at Univ. of Notre Dame, IN (Oct 25-27)
- BlueWaters PRAC Fall workshop, NCSA, IL (Oct 17-20)
- NSF OCI review panel (Sep 13-17)
- Star Formation Workshop, Aspen Center for Physics, Colorado (8/22-9/4)
- Submitted a paper on "Effects of UV Background and local stellar radiation..." (06/28/10)
- Submitted a paper on "Luminosity Distribution of Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies..." (06/25/10)
- Visiting Researcher, IPMU, Japan (June 23 - July 31)
- IPMU Cluster Conference, Japan (June 28 - July 2)
- Oort Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands (June 14-16)
- BlueWaters PRAC Spring Workshop at NCSA, IL (Apr 26-28)
- See Blue Waters Newsletter, in which my work is featured.
- Teragrid/XD/BlueWaters Extreme I/O Workshop at TACC, TX (Mar 22-24)
- Colloquium at Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington (Mar 10-12)
- NSF OCI review panel, Washington DC (Feb 17-19)
- Submitted a paper on "Escape fraction of ionizing photons from high-redshift galaxies in cosmological SPH simulations" (02/17/10)
- Colloquium at Mississippi State Unviersity (Jan 26-28)
- Submitted a paper on "Multiphase and Variable Velocity Galactic Outflow in Cosmological SPH Simulations" (01/20/10)
- CAGE meeting at Princeton (Jan 5-8, 2010)
- 2009
- Invited talk at the ESF Conference on the Origin of Galaxies, Austria (Dec 12-17)
- NSF review panel (Nov 2-4)
- Spitzer's Legacy Conference (Oct 26-28, '09)
- Passed the 4th dan promotion test in Kendo! (10/25/09)
- Submitted a new paper on SF models: arXiv:0909.5425 (09/29/09)
- Seminars at Kyoto Univ., IPMU, Tsukuba Univ. in Japan (Jun-Aug '09)
- Invited review talk at XXVth IAP Annual Colloquium, The Lyman Alpha Universe in Paris, France (Jul 6-10, '09)
- Conference on Accretion and Ejection in AGN: a gobal view in Como, Italy (Jun 22-26, '09)
- Visiting IPMU (6/15 - 8/10/09)
- Workshop on "Chemical Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium" at Lorentz Center, Leiden (May 25-29, '09)
- Submitted a review paper on Star Formation History of Dwarf Galaxies in Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations (05/11/09)
- Workshop on "Observational Signatures of Black Hole Mergers" at STScI, Baltimore (3/30-4/1/09)
- Received a 3-yr NSF OCI grant, "Peta-scale Cosmology: galaxy formation and virtual astronomy" (Mar '09)
- Colloquium at Yale astronomy (2/12/09)
- 2008
- Submitted a paper on Cross-Correlation between DLAs and LBGs in Cosmological SPH Simulations (12/12/08)
- NSF review panel (Dec 1-5, '08)
- University Forum lecture at UNLV (Nov 20, '08)
- Invited review talk at The Impact of Simulations in Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, SISSA, Italy (Oct 20-22, '08)
- Invited review talk at Understanding Lyman-alpha emitters, MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany (Oct 6-10, '08)
- Received a 3-yr NSF grant, "Black Hole Feedback and Galaxy Formation" (Aug '08) [Newsletter]
- 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, '08)
- 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 High Redshift" (6/19/08)
- Visiting IPMU (6/15-8/15, '08)
- Colloquium at ASU astronomy (3/27/08)
- Added 5 TB of disk to the Cosmology Computing Cluster (Mar '08)
- My previous work is quoted and described in the cover story of the March issue of Scientific American (Mar '08)
- Received a theory grant of Spitzer Space Telescope, "Infrared Properties of High-Redshift Galaxies" (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)
- [CII] collaboration meeting @UCSD (1/15/08)
- My grad student, T. S. Lee, made his first AAS poster presentation [ADS] (Jan 2008)
- 2007
- Proposals, proposals, proposals....(Nov 2007)
- Submitted an invited brief review for Modern Physics Letters A [arXiv] (Aug 2007)
- Seminars at Univ. of Tokyo, NAOJ, ICRR, Nagoya Univ., Kyoto Univ., Tsukuba Univ., ISAS (June - July 2007)
- Gave a talk at the topical session "Lyman-alpha Galaxies" of 210th AAS meeting (also attended the CAE workshop) (May 2007)
- My linux cluster was upgraded to 5 nodes (total 20 cores, 40GB mem, 4TB disk) (May 2007)
- UNLV Astrophysics group has acquired Sun Fire X4600 and X4500 systems (Mar 2007)
(Opteron 2.6GHz 20 cores, 48GB mem, 24TB disk)- Received the "New Investigator Award" grant @UNLV (Feb 2007)
Joint proposal with Dr. Bailey in Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction; Link1 Link2- Junwhan Choi (currently a grad student at UMass Amherst) will join UNLV as my postdoc in Sep (Feb 2007)
- First CAGE collaboration meeting in Princeton (Jan 2007)
- 2006
- Gave a talk at the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law Workshop at UC San Diego (Dec 2006)
- Birth of "UNLV Cosmology Computing"!! (Dec 2006)
My linux cluster (Opteron 2.4GHz 16 cores, 32GB mem, 3TB disk) is up and running.- Joined UNLV as a faculty (Aug 2006)