Dr. Hong Guo will be joining the CWRU Astronomy Department in January
2011 as a postdoctoral scholar. He will be working with Professor
Idit Zehavi on different aspects of large-scale structure and galaxy
formation and evolution, particularly as pertaining to the SDSS and
other surveys.
Hong has been doing a PhD in Astrophysics at Shanghai Astronomical
Observatory in China under the supervision of Professor Yipeng Jing.
He has mostly been working on high-order statistics, such as bispectra
and three-point correlation functions, applied to both the dark matter
and galaxy distributions. He has been studying theoretical models for
these statistics using large numerical simulations and analytical
models, as well as measuring them with the SDSS data. He is currently
a long-term visitor at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in
Germany.
