Peter Sturrock

Faculty Type: 
Emeritus Faculty
Title: 
Professor (Emeritus)
Additional Titles: 
Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus
Contact Email: 
sturrock@stanford.edu
Group Website: 
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Support Staff: 
Dana Volponi

Research Interests

Plasma physics, solar-terrestrial relations, and high-enery astrophysics. 

Robert Wagoner

Faculty Type: 
Emeritus Faculty
Title: 
Professor (Emeritus)
Address: 

Room 332 Varian Physics Bldg
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4060

Phone Number: 
650-723-4561
Contact Email: 
wagoner@stanford.edu
Group Website: 
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Support Staff: 
Dana Volponi

Research Interests

Various topics in gravitational astrophysics. Oscillations of accretion disks around black holes, and other signatures of very strong gravitational fields. Sources of gravitational radiation, and their detection by LIGO and other facilities. Scalar-tensor theories of gravitation. Physics of the early universe.

Shamit Kachru

Faculty Type: 
Active Faculty
Title: 
Professor
Address: 

Varian Physics Bldg. Rm.380
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-4060

Phone Number: 
650-736-2047
Contact Email: 
skachru@stanford.edu
Support Staff: 
Julie Shih

How can we use quantum field theory and string theory to understand key questions in high energy theory, cosmology, and condensed matter physics?  Do the hints of deep mathematical structures underlying string theory contain new lessons for fundamental physics?

Risa Wechsler

Faculty Type: 
Active Faculty
Title: 
Associate Professor
Additional Titles: 
Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar in the Humanities and Sciences
Address: 

Physics and Astrophysics Bldg
Rm. 211
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4060

Phone Number: 
650-736-8017
Contact Email: 
rwechsler@stanford.edu
Personal Website: 
http://risa.stanford.edu/

Research interests

How did structure form in the universe? How do galaxies form and how can they be used to understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy?

Roger W. Romani

Faculty Type: 
Active Faculty
Title: 
Professor of Physics
Address: 

Physics and Astrophysics Bldg., Rm. 233
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Phone Number: 
650-725-7595
Contact Email: 
rwr@astro.stanford.edu

What are the physical conditions around compact objects? How do they accelerate particles to the highest energies seen?

Vahe Petrosian

Faculty Type: 
Active Faculty
Title: 
Professor
Additional Titles: 
Professor, Applied Physics; Chairman, Astronomy Program
Address: 

Varian Physics Rm. 342
382 Via Pueblo Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4060

Phone Number: 
650-723-1435
Fax Number: 
650-723-4840
Contact Email: 
vahep@stanford.edu
Group Website: 
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Support Staff: 
Dana Volponi

 

How do things evolve in the universe? How are particles accelerated in the universe?

Professor Petrosian’s research covers many topics in the broad area of theoretical astrophysics and cosmology, with a strong focus on high-energy astrophysical processes.

Roger Blandford

Faculty Type: 
Active Faculty
Title: 
Luke Blossom Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
Additional Titles: 
Professor of Physics at Stanford University and at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Address: 

KIPAC  
452 Lomita Mall,
Stanford, CA  94305-4085

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Phone Number: 
650-723-4233
Fax Number: 
650-725-4096
Contact Email: 
rdb3@stanford.edu
Personal Website: 
http://stanford.edu/~rdb3/index.html
Group Website: 
http://kipac.stanford.edu/kipac/
Support Staff: 
Sara McCardle-Blunk

Research Interests

Research interests include: cosmology; black hole astrophysics, gravitational lensing; galaxies; cosmic rays; neutron stars; white dwarfs.

Tom Abel

Faculty Type: 
Active Faculty
Title: 
Professor of Physics
Additional Titles: 
Professor, SLAC; Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Address: 

Offices: Physics/Astrophysics Bldg. Room 208 on campus and 318 at the Fred Kavli building on the SLAC campus.

2575 Sand Hill Rd
Mailstop 0029
Menlo Park, California 94025

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Phone Number: 
650-723-0112; 650-926-2421
Contact Email: 
tabel@stanford.edu
Personal Website: 
http://www.tomabel.org/
Support Staff: 
Martha Siegel

 

What were the first objects that formed in the Universe?