Professor of Astronomy Contact Information Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St., MS 51
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office: P-222, Phone: (617) 496-4180, Fax: (617) 495-7093 lhernquist@cfa.harvard.edu Research Interests
Theoretical studies of dynamical processes in cosmology and galaxy
formation/galaxy evolution.
Numerical simulations of stellar dynamical and hydrodynamical systems.
Investigations of the
physics of compact objects, particularly neutron stars and the interplay
between thermal and
magnetic processes in strongly magnetized neutron stars.
Publications