Vassiliki Kalogera {Kalogera personal page}
Professor Kalogera is interested in compact objects (white dwarf stars, neutron stars, black holes) -- especially when they are in binary star systems. General relativity predicts that such systems should emit gravity waves, thus forcing the stellar partners to slowly spiral inward until they collide. Kalogera is part of a large experiment, LIGO, which is attempting to detect gravity waves.
Frederic Rasio {Rasio personal page}
Professor Rasio is interested in the dynamics of dense stellar systems, hydrodynamic stellar interactions, relativistic astrophysics, the dynamics of binary and multiple star systems, radio pulsar timing and applications, and extrasolar planetary systems.
Ron Taam
Professor Taam's research focuses on understanding the physics of compact sources (white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes) by studying the nature, origin, and evolution of close binary systems in which a white dwarf or neutron star captures matter and angular momentum from a companion star.
