Cosmology

  • Substructure in cosmological models
  • Evolution and assembly of clusters
  • Cosmological constraints from clusters and lens statistics
  • Gamma-ray bursts as cosmological probes

    • Gravitational lensing by galaxies and clusters

  • Mapping dark matter
  • Probing the nature of dark energy with cluster strong lensing

    • Black holes

  • Black Hole seed formation at high redshifts
  • Mass assembly history of black holes
  • Alignments of black hole spins

    • Accretion physics

  • Black hole accretion
  • Warped accretion disks

    • Galaxy formation and feedback

  • High redshift pre-galactic disks
  • Direct formation of black hole seeds
  • Feedback processes: energy input from AGN and Supernovae

    • History and Philosophy of Science

  • Issues in epistemology
  • Philosophy of Cosmology