Lars Hernquist
Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
60 Garden Street, MS-51
Cambridge, MA 02138
Office P-235
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.