Research Projects and Collaborators

• Habitable planet formation in extrasolar planetary systems
  [Binary and multistar systems, systems with hot Jupiters, multiplanet systems]

• Formation and dynamics of extrasolar terrestrial planets

• Dust dynamics in gaseous nebulae and planetesimal formation

• Formation and detection of planets in binaries
  [collaboration with John Chambers (Carnegie/DTM), Sean Raymond (Univ. Colorado),
  Elisa Quintana (NASA Ames/Kepler Team)]

• Detection of debris disks in and around binary star systems
  [collaboration with John Stansberry Univ. Arizona), David Thrilling (Univ. Arizona),
  Steve Kortenkamp (PSI), Eric Jensen (Swarthmore College), Robert Mathieu (JPL)]

• Detection of close-in terrestrial planets via transit timing method
  [collaboration with Eric Agol (Univ. Washington), Jason Steffan (Fermi Lab)]

• Dynamics and origin of irregular satellites
  [collaboration with David Jewitt (Univ. Hawaii/IFA)]

• D/H ratio and main belt comets
  [collaboration with David Jewitt (Univ. Hawaii/IFA) and Karen Meech (Univ. Hawaii/IFA)]

• Dynamics and accretion of planetesimals in the gaseous envelope
  of protogiant planets [collaboration with Morris Podolak (Univ. Tel Aviv, Isreal)]

• Study of the origin of the parent bodies of iron meteorites
  [collaboration with Ed Scott (Univ. Hawaii/HIGP)]

• The dynamical evolution of planetary systems
  [collaboration with Jeffery Sudol (West Chester University)]

• Extrasolar Trojans
  [collaboration with Krzysztof Gozdziewski (Torun Center for Astronomy, Poland)]