Cosmology Group - The Cosmology Group consists of a diverse group of professors, postdocs, and graduate students. Together they tackle problems in theoretical and experimental cosmology. Current research topics include: properties of clusters, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, extragalactic astronomy, dark matter, cosmic microwave background, the early universe, structure formation, and galaxy interactions and evolution.

Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Group - The Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Group (AFD Group) is a part of the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They are dedicated to the study of problems in astrophysics requiring numerical modeling where they often employ parallel computing.

Colliding Galaxies Group - The Colliding Galaxies Group, led by faculty member Susan Lamb, is focused on studies of interacting and colliding galaxies. Currently, they are embarking on a computational study of colliding galaxies that will include, for the first time, a representation of the three phases of the interstellar gas and which will thus allow direct comparison between simulations and the observations of the hot phase of the interstellar medium.

High Energy and Relativistic Astrophysics (under construction)







Preprints/Movies

Movies - Movies created by the Undergraduate Research Group

Preprints - Preprints by members of the the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics.