Robert Rosner

Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, and the College; Director, Argonne National Laboratory; ASC Flash Center; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Enrico Fermi Institute

Education: Ph.D., Harvard, 1976

Contact Information

Phone: (773) 702-0560
Location: RI 468
Email: r-rosneruchicago.edu
WWW: Web Site

Research

Theoretical physics, fluid and plasma dynamics; solar physics; high-energy astrophysics

R. Rosner and collaborators conduct both theoretical and observational research in solar and stellar astrophysics, more general plasma astrophysics, and fluid dynamics.

Professor Rosner is currently serving as the Director of the Argonne National Laboratory.

Research Fields: Cosmology; Extragalactic Astronomy; Galactic Astronomy; Solar System Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Computational Astrophysics

Scientific Projects: Center for Magnetic Self Organization in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas

Visit: Argonne National Laboratory; ASC Flash Center; Computation Institute; Enrico Fermi Institute

Current Students

Graduate: Alex Alexakis; Alvaro Caceres; Jonathan Dursi; Dimitris Giannakis; Robert Harmon; Elizabeth Hicks; Scott Horner; E.-J. Kim; Andrea Mignone; Louis Tao; Joseph Werne; Y.N. Young

Past Students

Graduate: Andrea Mignone (2004); Joseph A. Biello (2001)

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