Aristotle Socrates

Hello. I am member, working in theoretical astrophysics, at the Institute for Advanced Study. Before coming to the IAS, I was a Hubble and Lyman Spitzer Jr. postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. I did my graduate work in Physics at UC Santa Barbara after completing my undergraduate degree in Applied Physics at Columbia University.

Many topics interest me. For example, I have worked on the basic dynamics of radiating magnetized fluids, stability and radiation mechanisms of accretion flows onto black holes and neutron stars, the physics of core-collapse supernovae and gamma-ray burst central engines, the global effects of cosmic ray production on the formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes and most recently, on the tidal evolution of extra-solar planets.

I was born in New York and grew up in Connecticut. My wife, Lauren, and I recently welcomed the happy arrival of our daughter, Nova Socrates.

Working in physics is really fun. But, I have fun in other ways as well. I play tennis, run, relax with my friends and snowboard.