Alex Lazarian

I am a Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin at Madison . I have a joint appoinment at Physics . I came to Madison from Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics where I was a Senior Research Fellow.

Research Interests

MHD Theory: Reconnection, Dynamo Theory

Interstellar Dust: Alignment, Microwave Emission

Interstellar Turbulence: Statistical Studies

Circumstellar Regions and Comets: Polarization

Molecular Clouds: Dynamics

Publicly available codes and data

Statistics code
Datacubes and movies
Compressible MHD code

Posters from AAS Jan 2007

Graduate students

REU students

Collaborators

Alex Lazarian(lazarian@astro.wisc.edu)

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Astronomy
475 N. Charter Street
Madison, WI 53706

Telephone: 608-262-1715
Fax: 608-263-6386

Support by NSF grant AST0307869 is acknowledged