Zoltan Haiman
Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Professor of Astronomy, Department of Astronomy
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Zoltan Haiman
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Astrophysics, Gravitational Waves, and CosmologyProfessor Zoltan Haiman received his Ph.D. in Astronomy from Harvard University in 1998, and a B.S. in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT. He held postdoctoral positions at Fermilab and at Princeton University. Prof. Haiman is a recipient of NASA’s Hubble Fellowship, a Gyorgy Bekesy Fellowship from the Hungarian Ministry of Education, a NYAS Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists (2010), and a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics (2016). He was named in 2002 as one of the Brilliant 10 young scientists by Popular Science magazine.
Professor Zoltan Haiman's research interests are in topics in theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, including the formation of the first stars and black holes, the subsequent growth of black holes, mergers between black holes and corresponding electromagnetic and gravitational wave signatures, and determining the nature of dark energy and dark matter using large Astronomical surveys, especially through weak gravitational lensing. He is currently serving on the Science and Technology De?nition Team (STDT) for NASA’s concept study for the X-ray satellite Lynx; he is an ESA-appointed member of the LISA Science Group, where he co-leads multi-messenger astrophysics efforts, and a NASA-appointed member of the NASA LISA Study Team. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed publications, and while on on the Columbia faculty, he has mentored 16 Astronomy and Physics PhD students, of whom 6 have gone on to faculty positions to date.
Self-lensing flares from black hole binaries: observing black hole shadows via light-curve tomography?
Simultaneously constraining cosmology and baryonic physics via deep learning from weak lensing
AGN as potential factories for eccentric black hole mergers
Equilibrium eccentricity of accreting binaries
The Assembly of the First Massive Black Holes
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)?
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Prof. Haiman is currently serving on the Science and Technology De?nition Team (STDT) for NASA’s concept study for the X-ray satellite Lynx; he is an ESA-appointed member of the LISA Science Group, where he co-leads multi-messenger astrophysics efforts, and a NASA-appointed member of the NASA LISA Study Team.
Lynx Observatory
LISA Consortium - ESA
NASA LISA Study Team
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