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Sackler Lectures
CITA's association with Raymond Sackler began when Scott Tremaine, CITA Director ``emeritus'', was a Sackler Scholar in Cambridge, and was followed by a visit to Sackler in NY to interest him in CITA. Simon Lilly, a ``star'' in the UofT Astronomy Department, had also been a Sackler Scholar in Cambridge. In August 1996, the Sacklers made an endowment of $55,000 CDN to fund the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Visiting Astrophysicist Program to support an internationally distinguished theorist who would visit CITA, give two talks, one major popular presentation and one more technical, and strongly interact with our CITAzens. CITA considers the Sackler Lecture period ''to be the highlight of the academic year at CITA, and to play a prominent role in the Institute's academic life''.
Prof. Lynden-Bell is a world renowned expert on galactic dynamics, accretion disks, and black holes.
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Professor Leonard Susskind, one of the world's most influential theoretical physicists and the man who coined the term "cosmic landscape," is Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University.
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Jeremiah Ostriker was the founding director of the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, provost of Princeton University, Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, England, and, for 15 years, the Chairman of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton.
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Roger Blandford, FRS, FAAAS, a Cambridge graduate, is the founding Director of the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University and SLAC, which he took up after 27 years as a Caltech professor.
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Kip Thorne was cofounder of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) Project, with which he is still associated. He is a member of the LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) International Science Team.
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Scott Tremaine, the first Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and of Canada, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
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Rashid Sunyaev is a renowned scientist working in the fields of high-energy astrophysics and cosmology.
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Prof. Christopher McKee is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Physical Society.
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Professor George Efstathiou is one of the world's best known cosmologists.
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Professor Andre Linde of Stanford University, is the author of about 200 publications on cosmology and particle physics and two books on Early Universe cosmology.
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Prof. Bahcall is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Hans Bethe Prize of the American Physics Society and the Russell Prize of the American Astronomical Society.
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Prof. Peebles is a theoretical cosmologist who has played a central role in the understanding of the evolution and structure of the universe.
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Frank Shu, a past president of the American Astronomical Society, is a Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley,
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Prof. Goldreich is a Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics whose recent research interests include planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars.
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Sir Martin Rees, once Chairman of the European Space Agency's Scientific Advisory Committee, was CITA's first Sackler visitor.
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