Alar Toomre

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Primary Section: 12, Astronomy
Membership Type:
Member (elected 1983)

Research Interests

Research interests cover applied mathematics (especially fluid dynamics and numerical analysis); astronomy (especially dynamics of galaxies); and computer simulations of the bridges, tails, and occasional ring-like shapes of interacting galaxies, and of mergers giving rise to elliptical galaxies.

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