The tidal tails of stellar clusters are an important tool for studying the clusters’ birth conditions, their evolution, coupling, and interaction with the...

In the past few years, a series of discoveries have been made of objects which appear to be accreting stellar mass black holes in globular clusters -- both in...

The SDSS Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) has collected high resolution near-IR spectra of several hundred thousand stars across...

The detection of chemical inhomogeities in the Galactic disk requires an oustanding precision in the abundance measurements and a thorough estimation of the...

1- Fundamental stellar dynamics - relaxation, collisionless dynamics - distribution functions, Jeans eqs, etc.

2- Stellar orbits and dynamical models - orbits in various potentials, Jeans Thm, DF models, Schwarzschild, M2M

3- Galactic disk dynamics

4- The Galactic bulge - structure - dynamics - origin

5- The Galactic halo - mass, extent, shape - substructure, inner/outer halo