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Name:
Douglas P. Hamilton Title: Professor Room: CSS 1245 Phone: (301) 405-1548 E-mail: hamilton |
Doug Hamilton's research interests are focussed on planetary science, orbital dynamics, and the origin of the solar system. Over the past few years, he has been involved in the development of new symplectic integration codes for both gravitational and non-gravitational forces. He has studied the dynamics of the Jovian ring and aided in the interpretation of Galileo images. He also assists the Galileo dust team with the interpretation of their Jupiter and interplanetary dust impact data. He is currently working on some simple but powerful theories which govern how perturbation forces affect systems in resonances. He has applied some of these ideas to Trojan asteroids and satellites, and continues to work seriously on these problems. He is a Co-I on two successful HST proposals - one which will look for a dust belt around Mars and another which will obtain precise timing for the transiting extrasolar planet. He has recently collaborated with Cole Miller on models of intermediate-mass black holes and their dynamical interactions.
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