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  • Division of Astrophysics & Space Research
    • Research Areas:
      • High Energy Astrophysics
      • Planetary Remote Sensing
      • Cosmology & Early Universe
      • Dynamics of Galaxies & Dark Matter
  •  Faculty Members
    • Cairo University
      • Prof. Tarek Hussien
      • Prof. Saleh Al-Nawawi
      • Prof. Hisham Mansour
      • Dr. Alaa Ibrahim
      • Dr. Amr El-Zant
      • Dr. Morsy Amer
    • Alexandria University
      • Dr. Ahmed K. Sultan Salem
    • Adjunct Faculty
    • National Research Institute for Astronomy & Geophysics:
      • Prof. Rabab Helal
      • Dr. Hamed Ismail, Dr. Badie Abdel-Halem, Dr. Essam Ahmed
  • Coordinator
    • Dr. Alaa Ibrahim (alaa @ gwu.edu)

  • Graduate Students
    • Mohamed Soliman
    • Hisham Anwer
    • Nasser Ahmed
    • Mona Molham
    • Sherihan Mohamed
    • Ahmed Abdel-Basit
     
  •  Undergraduate Students
    • Ahmed Hashem
    • Ghada Ahmed
                                                                                                          Dr. George Whitesides (3rd from right) with members of the Astrophysics division;
                                                                                                          from right Ahmed Abdel-Basit, Alaa Ibrahim, Mona Molham & Sherihan Mohamed 
  •  Research Projects
    • High Energy Astrophysics
      • X-ray and Gamma-ray Observations of Neutron Stars
      • Spectral and Timing Properties of Magnetar Bursts
      • Physics of Plasma in High Magnetic Filed
    • Cosmology
      • Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies
      • Large Structures and Galaxy Evolution
    • Space Physics
      • Interstellar Grain Chemistry
      • Influence of Natural Space Plasma on Satellites
  •  Grants (last 5 years)
    • NSF Workshop Grant (2007-2008)
    • Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research & Technology, A Center of Excellence Grant (2007)
    • NASA Research Grant NAG5-13740 (2003 – 2006)
    • NASA Research Grants NAG5-11951, NAG5-12805, NAG5-13186 (2002 - 2003)
    • University of Manitoba (Canada) Research Grants (2001 – 2002)
  •  International Collaborators
    • George Washington University (Profs. William Parke, Kalvir Dhuga, Ali Eskandrian, Leonard Maximon)
    • NASA GSFC, USA (Dr. Jean Swank)
    • Mullard Space Science Lab, Univ. College London (Dr. Silvia Zane)
    • CITA, University of Toronto, Canada (Prof. Dick Bond)
    • University of Wisconsin Madison (Prof. Hakki Ogelman)
    • Institute for Advanced Study & Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University (Profs. Peter Glodreich, Scott Tremaine),
    • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Prof. Simon White)
  •  Active Conference Participation (Last 5 Years)
  •  Alaa Ibrahim
    • Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Interior to the Surface, University College London, London, UK, April 2006, “A 20 keV Absorption Line from SGR 1806-20”.
    • International X-ray Astronomy School, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, Aug. 2005, “Chandra View of Some Magnetars”.
    • Neutron Stars at the Crossroads of Fundamental Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Aug. 2005, “Burst Observations from the Two Neighboring Magnetars XTE J1810-197 & SGR 1806-20”.
    • National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences, Cairo University, Egypt, Jan. 2005, “Cosmic Maser: Connecting Atoms & Photons to Stars & Galaxies”.
    • High Energy Astrophysics 2006, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA, Jan. 2006, Co-Organizer & Speaker.
    • Communicating Astronomy with the Public, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany, June 2005.
    • Summer School on Particle Physics, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, June, 2005.
    • X-ray Astronomy School, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, 2001.
    • Magnetic Fields in the Universe Conference, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, Nov. 2004, “The Highest Magnetic Field in the Universe:: Evidence, Implications & Prospects”.

    • NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars, Marmaris, Turkey, June 2004, “The Discovery & Implications of Transient Magnetars”.

    • American Astronomical Society Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Jan. 2004, “The Implications of Transient Magnetars”.
    • Chandra CIAO Workshop, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2003.
    • X-ray Timing 2003: Rossi and Beyond, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, Nov. 2003, “Discovery of a Transient Magnetar Candidate: XTE J1810-197”.
    • X-ray Timing 2003: Rossi and Beyond, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, Nov. 2003, “Discovery of Two Spectral Features from the Magnetar Candidate SGR 1806-20”.

    • American Astronomical Society HEAD Meeting, Mont. Tremblant, Canada, March 2003, “Diagnosing Magnetars with Spectral Line Features”.

    • International Workshop on Pulsars, AXPs and SGRs Observed with BeppoSAX and other observatories; Sicily, Italy, Sept. 2002, “Discovery of Proton Cyclotron Resonance in SGR 1806-20”.
    • Astrophysics with Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA, March 2000, ”The First Detection of an Emission Line from a Magnetar”.
    • American Astronomical Society meeting, Chicago, USA, May 1999, “Evidence of Spectral Evolution in an Extraordinary burst from SGR 1900+14”.
       
  • Amr El-Zant
    • Frontiers of Astronomy Workshop, held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (March-April 2006): organizer and speaker
    • Summary of theoretical issues involved in COSMOS: oral presentation given at the third “COSMOS Workshop” held Kyoto, Japan (May 2005)
    • Origin and Persistence of Dark Matter Cusps: talk given at workshop on “Galaxy Formation” held at the University of California Santa Cruz (August 2004)
    • Theoretical issues that can be Addressed with COSMOS Survey data: talk given at the first “COSMOS Workshop” held at the Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History, New York (November 2003)
    •  The Central Density of Cluster Haloes: talk given at the “Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California” meeting held at the University of California Los Angeles (October 2003)
    • Bar Survival in Mildly Triaxial Halos: talk given at the workshop on “Galaxies and Chaos” held at Athens, Greece (September 2002).
    • The Dissolution of Cold Dark Matter Density Cusps and the Formation of the Disk-Bulge Component: talk given at the workshop on “Disk Galaxies: Kinematics, Dynamics and Perturbations” held at Puebla, Mexico (May-June 2001).
    • Shaping the Central Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos: talk given at the conference on “The Central KC: the La Paloma Connection” held at La Palma, Spain (May 2001)
    • Gas Dynamics of Galaxies with Non-axisymmetric Non-rotating Components: talk given at the “Disks 99” conference held at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany (October 1999)
    • Evolution of Galaxies with Triaxial Haloes: poster paper presented at the conference on “Galaxy Evolution on Cosmological Timescales” held at Tennerife, Spain (December 1998)
    • Astronomical Time Series: talk given at the Winter School on “Nonlinear Time Series analysis” held at Dresden, Germany (February 1998).
    • Dissipative Motion in Non-axisymmetric Galaxy Models: talk given at the meeting on “Astro-physical Fluids from Atomic Nuclei to Stars and Galaxies”: a Conference on the Occasion of Giora Shaviv’s 60th Birthday (January 1998).
    • Numerical Simulations of Closed N-Body Systems: poster paper presented at the 36th Herstmon-ceux Conference: Gravitational Dynamics, held in honour of D. Lynden Bell’s 60th birthday at Cambridge, England (August 1995).
    • Stability of Motion in Potentials with Disk and Triaxial Halo Contributions: talk given at the international conference on “Structure and Evolution of Stellar Systems” held at Petrozavodsk, Russia (August 1995).
    • Stability of Motion of N-body Gravitational Systems: talk given at the international workshop on “Chaos in Gravitational N-body Systems” held at La Plata, Argentina (July-August 1995).
 

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