Academic

             Papers

The Properties and Fate of the Galactic Center G2 Cloud

Accepted by Astrophysical Journal on Jan 16, 2014

Modeling Hot Gas Flow in the Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus of NGC3115

Accepted by Astrophysical Journal on Jan 3, 2014

Submillimeter Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Magnetically Chocked Accretion Flow Models of Sgr A*

Accepted by Astrophysical Journal Letters on Aug 9, 2013

GRB060218 as a Tidal Disruption of a White Dwarf by an Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Accepted by Astrophysical Journal on Mar 18, 2013

Prompt Emission from Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs by Intermediate

Mass Black Holes

Proceedings of “Tidal Disruption events and AGN outbursts workshop”, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012

Feeding and Small-scale Feedback in Low-Luminosity AGNs

Proceedings of 290IAU symposium, Beijing, China, August 20-24, 2012

Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by GR Dynamical and Radiative Modeling

Proceedings of 290IAU symposium, Beijing, China, August 20-24, 2012

Sagittarius A* Accretion Flow and Black Hole Parameters from General Relativistic Dynamical and Polarized Radiative Modeling

Accepted by Astrophysical Journal on Jun 20, 2012

Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs from Ultra-close Encounters with Intermediate Mass Spinning Black Holes

Accepted by Astrophysical Journal on Feb 6, 2012

Faraday Conversion and Rotation In Uniformly Magnetized Relativistic Plasmas

Accepted by MNRAS on Jun 8, 2011

GR Polarized Radiative Transfer: Building a Dynamics-observations Interface

Accepted by MNRAS on Aug 9, 2010

Inflow-Outflow Model with Conduction and Self-consistent Feeding for Sgr A*

Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal on Apr 26, 2010

Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by GR Dynamical and Radiative Modeling

ASP proceedings of Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai, China, Oct 19-23, 2009

Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*

ASP proceedings of Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai, China, Oct 19-23, 2009

Dispersion of Waves in Relativistic Plasmas with Isotropic Particle Distributions

Accepted by the Physics of Plasmas on Jan 22, 2009

Propagation Effects in Magnetized Transrelativistic Plasmas

Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal on Jul 28, 2008

Spherically Symmetric Accretion Flows: Minimal Model with MHD Turbulence

Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal on Feb 21, 2008

Dynamics of Magnetized Spherical  Accretion Flows

AIP proceedings of  “Astrophysics of Compact Objects”, HuangShan, China, July 1-7, 2007

Region of the Anomalous Compression under Bondi-Hoyle Accretion

Astronomy Letters, vol. 31, Issue 9, pp. 591-597, 2005

             Presentations & Public talks

Feeding and Feedback in Nearby Low-Luminosity AGNs 

Colloquium at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Oct 17, 2013

A New Channel for X-ray Flashes: Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs by Intermediate Mass Black Holes 

Colloquium at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA, Feb 7, 2013 + later talks at NCSU and UNC

Parameters and Quasi-Periodic Variability of Sgr A* Accretion Flow from GRMHD Simulations

Invited talk at “Revealing Radiative Processes near Black Holes ” workshop, Princeton, NJ, May 1-3, 2013

Prompt Emission from Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs by Intermediate

Mass Black Holes

“Tidal Disruption events and AGN outbursts workshop” talk, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012

Feeding and Accretion in Low Luminosity AGNs 

290IAU symposium talk, Beijing, China, August 20-24, 2012

Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by GR Dynamical and Radiative Modeling

290IAU symposium poster, Beijing, China, August 20-24, 2012

Feeding and Accretion in Low Luminosity AGNs

Hubble Fellowship Symposium talk, Baltimore, MD, USA, March 5-7, 2012

Ultra-close Tidal Disruptions of White Dwarfs by IMBHs

Conference Talk, “The Physics of Astronomical Transients”, Aspen, CO, USA, January 21-27, 2012

Quiescent X-rays from Sgr A* flow & constraints from 3D GRMHD + GR polarized rad. transfer

Poster,  “Accretion Processes in X-rays: from White Dwarfs to Quasars”, Boston, MA, USA, July 13-15, 2010

Self-consistent Modeling of Sgr A* Quiescent Emission

Contributed Talk, “Probing Strong Gravity near Black Holes”, Prague, Czech Republic, Feb 15-18, 2010

Unified Accretion Model for Sgr A*

Contributed Talk, 215-th AAS meeting, Washington, DC, USA, Jan 3-7, 2010

Constraining the Accretion Flow in Sgr A* by GR Dynamical and Radiative Modeling

Poster, Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai, China, Oct 19-23, 2009

Inflow-Outflow Solution with Stellar Winds and Conduction near Sgr A*

Contributed Talk, Galactic Center Workshop 2009, Shanghai, China, Oct 19-23, 2009

Large Scale Magnetic Fields and Dynamo Theory

Turbulence Discussion Group, ITC, CfA, Apr 14, 2008

Dynamics of Magnetized Spherical Accretion Flows

“Astrophysics of Compact Objects”, HuangShan, China, Jul 1-7, 2007

Magnetized Spherically Symmetric Accretion Flows

Research Exam, May 18, 2007

Magnetized Accretion. Quasi-spherical Case

Group meeting, Dec 8, 2006

Some New Semi-Analytical Approaches to Axially Symmetric Hydrodynamic Flows

“Scientific Conference”, MIPT, section of “Problems of Physics and Astrophysics”, Nov 26-27, 2005

Methods of Solution the Equations of Hydrodynamics on the Example of Bondi-Hoyle Accretion

Bachelor Thesis Presentation, Jun 24, 2005

             Notes

Magnetized Spherically Symmetric Accretion Flows

Research Exam paper, August 2007

Fourier Space Solution of Burgers Equation

Applied Mathematics 201A Final paper, January 2007

The Problem of Angular Momentum for Accretion onto Sgr A*

Reaction to ”The Pattern of Accretion Flow on to Sgr A*”, MNRAS, 2006, v.370, Issue 1.,pp..219-228, February 2006

Effective Semi-Numerical Approach to Bondi-Hoyle-Littleton Accretion

Some new ideas about the subject of the first article, unpublished article, January 2006

 

             Presentations for graduate courses at Harvard

Modified Gravity verses ΛCDM

Astronomy 202b. Cosmology , December 12, 2007

Magnetized (“real”) Accretion Flows

Astronomy 200hf. Seminar in Modern Astrophysics and Cosmology , December 5, 2007

Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flows

Astronomy 200hf. Seminar in Modern Astrophysics and Cosmology , November 28, 2007

Big World of Small Neutrinos

Astronomy 200hf. Seminar in Modern Astrophysics and Cosmology , March 21, 2007

Exploring the X-Ray Universe

Astronomy 201b. Interstellar Medium , February 21, 2007

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"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

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