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Lee Hartmann Professor lhartm@umich.edu 955 Dennison 500 Church St. Ann Arbor, Mi 48109 Phone: (734) 936-7781 Department Phone: (734) 764-3440 Fax: (734) 763-6317

 

Professor Hartmann is an expert in star formation and protoplanetary disk evolution. He is a past vice-president of the American Astronomical Society.

He was also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.

Hartmann is now Leo Goldberg Collegiate Professor of Astronomy.

Research Interests

• Formation of stars; molecular cloud structure; protostellar accretion; evolution of protoplanetary disks; planet formation.

Book

• Accretion processes in star formation, second edition, Cambridge University Press

Publications

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Conduct a search of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System for papers that include me as an author.

Current PhD students

• Wen-Hsin (Tina) Hsu, formation of stars and the initial mass function.
• Jaehan Bae, time-dependent protostellar/planetary disk accretion

Recent PhD students

• Zhaohuan Zhu, zhzhu@astro.princeton.edu , postdoc with J. Stone & R. Rafikov, evolution of protoplanetary disks and disk gap opening by planets

• John Tobin, jtobin@nrao.edu , Hubble fellow, formation of protostars and kinematics of forming star clusters