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Harvard University
Department of Astronomy

 Professor Avi Loeb        
Email: 
aloeb@.cfa.harvard.edu
Tel: 
(617) 496-6808 (office)
(617) 913-5598 (cellular)
(781) 652-0077 (home)
Fax: 
(617) 495-7093 (office)
Address:
Center for Astrophysics, P-237
60 Garden Street, MS-51
Cambridge, MA, 02138

 

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Avi Loeb is a Professor 
at the Harvard University 
Department of Astronomy 
and the director of the 
Institute for Theory and Computation
of the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics.

Staff Assistant:
Ms. Donna Adams
Tel: (617)496-5870 

ITC Administrator: 
Ms. Lisa Rowan 
Tel: (617)495-1971 

Div.Administrator: 
Ms. Paula Cornelio 
Tel: (617)495-7962 

 

IN THE NEWS:

*ASTRONOMY magazine cover story on "The State of the Universe" (8/08)

*Smithsonian magazine cover story on "Illuminating Black Holes" (4/08)

*ASTRONOMY magazine cover story on "Milkomeda" (6/08)

*The Future of our Universe, Physica Plus (1/08)

*Top 10 Space Stories of 2007" (1/08)

*Scientific American article on "The Dark Ages of the Universe" (11/06)

*TIME Magazine cover story, entitled: "Let There Be Light" (9/06)

*"Eavesdropping on the Universe" (QuickTime movie; 1/07)| |(article; 5/07)

*Personal note about John N. Bahcall (12/06)

 

REVIEW PAPERS:

*"Let There be Light", invited review for UNESCO EOLSS encyclopedia (4/08)

*"The Physics and Early History of the Intergalactic Medium", Reports on Progress in Physics (11/06)

*"First Light" (book), SAAS-Fee Winter School (4/06)

*"The Reionization of the Universe by the First Stars and Quasars", Annual Reviews of Astronomy & Astrophysics (10/00)

*"In the Beginning: The First Sources of Light and the Reionization of the Universe", Physics Reports (10/00)

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Curriculum Vitae Current biographical information as well as a listing of all publications.
Biographical sketch Brief account of Loeb's biography and research highlights in Wikipedia.
Astro-ph Publication Search Search of the astro-ph archives for Prof. Loeb's scientific publications.
ADS Publication Search Search of the ADS abstract database for Prof. Loeb's scientific publications.
Press Releases Links to recent press releases and science news articles.
Scientific Images Simulation of the collision between the Milky-Way and Andromeda, and the appearance of the black hole at the center of our galaxy .
Research Highlights Various topics of research in theoretical Astrophysics.
Graduate Students List of current and former graduate students.
Harvard conferences organized by Loeb May, 2000: "The First Generation of Cosmic Structures"

May, 2002: "Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe"

May, 2004: "Astrophysics of Planetary Systems"

May, 2006: "The History of Nuclear Black Holes in Galaxies"

May, 2008: "21cm Cosmology"
Public Lecture Video of lecture to the general public (2006; 1 Giga-bit file)
Pictures Links to personal pictures.

 

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