Gillian R. Knapp
Princeton University
Astrophys Science Dept
Peyton Hall
Ivy Ln
Princeton NJ 08544-1001
New Jersey (NJ)
United States
Phone: +1 609 452 3824
Organization website: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/index.htm
NCA adherence: United States
Last updated:
November 20, 2023
IAU Status
Active Member
Affiliation(s) within the IAU
Past affiliation(s) within the IAU
- Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (2006-2009)
- Past Organizing Committee Member of Commission 28 Galaxies (2003-2006)
- Past Member of Division J Galaxies and Cosmology
- Past Member of Commission 28 Galaxies
- Past Member of Commission 33 Structure & Dynamics of the Galactic System (until 2015)
- Past Member of Commission 34 Interstellar Matter (until 2015)
- Past Member of Division VI Interstellar Matter (until 2012)
- Past Member of Division VII Galactic System (until 2012)
- Past Member of Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe (until 2012)
Areas of interest
1 - General: 1.6 - Astronomy Education
2 - Physical data and processes: 2.3 - Astrochemistry, 2.20 - Molecular data
3 - Astronomical instrumentation, methods and techniques: 3.10 - Telescopes: optical, 3.11 - Telescopes: radio, 3.12- Adaptive optics, 3.13 - Interferometry
4 - Astronomical data bases: 4.1 - Astronomical databases: miscellaneous, 4.4 - Surveys
5 - Astrometry and celestial mechanics: 5.1 - Astrometry, 5.6 - Parallaxes, 5.7 - Proper motions
6 - The Sun: 6.7 - Sun: evolution
8 - Stars: 8.6 - Stars: brown dwarfs, 8.7 - Stars: circumstellar matter, 8.10 - Stars: formation, 8.24 - Stars: mass-loss
9 - Interstellar medium (ISM), nebulae: 9.1 - ISM: abundances, 9.2 - ISM: atoms, 9.6 - ISM: dust, extinction, 9.7 - ISM: evolution, 9.15 - ISM: molecules
10 - The Galaxy: 10.4 - Galaxy: disk, 10.5 - Galaxy: evolution, 10.7 - Galaxy: fundamental parameters
11 - Galaxies: 11.6 - Galaxies: distances and redshifts, 11.8 - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD, 11.9 - Galaxies: evolution, 11.34 - Galaxies: star formation