Publications

Presentations

  • [***See My CV for the Up-to-Date List of My Contributed and Invited Presentations***]. Presentation, Presented, 02/2024.
  • [***See My CV for the Up-to-Date List of My Presentations***]. Contributed Talk, Presented, 01/2023.
  • [***See My CV for the Up-to-Date List of My Invited Presentations***]. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/2023.
  • [***See My CV for the Up-to-Date List of My Presentations***]. Presentation, Presented, 01/2021.
  • [***See My CV for the Up-to-Date List of My Presentations***]. Presentation, Other, 01/2020.
  • Colloquium at the University of Utah, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Salt Lake City, UT; " Anisotropic Galaxy Clustering in the Isotropic Universe". Presentation, Presented, 09/11/2014.
  • LAMOST-PLUS Collaboration Meeting, Beijing, China; " The First Hypervelocity Star from the LAMOST Survey and Some Related Issues". Contributed Talk, Presented, 08/19/2014.
  • Plenary Talk, SDSS-III/SDSS-IV Collaboration Meeting, Park City, UT; "Galaxy Science from eBOSS". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 07/29/2014.
  • Colloquium, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Pasadena, CA; "Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies: Anisotropic Emission and Anisotropic Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/17/2013.
  • eBOSS Project Review Meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; " Galaxy Science from eBOSS". Presentation, Presented, 12/13/2013.
  • Colloquium at the University of Utah, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Salt Lake City, UT; "Illuminating the Darkness in the Universe". Presentation, Presented, 10/01/2013.
  • Workshop "Lyman Alpha as an Astrophysical Tool", Nordita, Stockholm, Sweden; "Shedding (Lyman-alpha) Light on the CircumGalactic and InterGalactic Media". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/09/2013.
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Astronomy Colloquium; "A Theoretical Exploration of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/08/2013.
  • Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, Astronomy Colloquium; "A Theoretical Exploration of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies" . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/27/2013.
  • 221st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA; "Anisotropic Lyman-alpha Emission". Contributed Talk, Presented, 01/10/2013.
  • Meeting "Exploring the Dark Universe: Frontier of Cosmology and Astrophysics in the 21st Century", Tucson, AZ;"A Theoretical Exploration of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/07/2012.
  • 220th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Meeting-in-a-Meeting "Lyman-Alpha Emitters as Probes of Galaxy Formation and Cosmology", Anchorage, Alaska; "Large-Scale Structure of Lyman-Alpha Emitters from Radiative Transfer Modeling". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/14/2012.
  • Workshop on Ecosystems of Galaxies, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China; "A Radiative Transfer Study of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies and Non-gravitational Distortions in Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/23/2012.
  • LAMOST-PLUS Bilateral Workshop, Sichuan, China; "Hypervelocity Stars: Recent Progress and LAMOST Prospects". Contributed Talk, Presented, 05/22/2012.
  • 2012 MPA-IFT Spring Workshop on Large Scale Structures, La Cristalera, Madrid; "Non-gravitational Distortions in Galaxy Clustering: Challenges and Opportunities". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/27/2012.
  • SDSS-III BOSS Lyman-alpha Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT; "Detecting Lya Emission Associated with QSO Absorption Systems" . Contributed Talk, Presented, 03/15/2012.
  • Arizona State University Cosmology Seminars, Tempe, AZ; "A Theoretical Exploration of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/29/2012.
  • Third Galileo -- Xu Guangqi Meeting "The Sun, the Stars, the Universe and General Relativity'', National Astronomical Observatories, Beijing, China; "Lyman Alpha Emitters: Radiative Transfer Modeling and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/15/2011.
  • Conference "New Horizons for High Redshifts'', Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; "Lyman Alpha Emitters: Radiative Transfer Modeling and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering". Contributed Talk, Presented, 07/26/2011.
  • Conference "The Cosmic Odyssey of Baryons: Accreting, Outflowing and Hiding'', Marseille, France; "Shedding (Lyman-alpha) Light on the Circum-Galactic and Inter-Galactic Media". Contributed Talk, Presented, 06/24/2011.
  • Conference "The Cosmic Odyssey of Baryons: Accreting, Outflowing and Hiding'', Marseille, France; Invited Review "Lyman-alpha Fluorescence Simulations''. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 06/24/2011.
  • BOWTIE Seminar, University of Utah, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Salt Lake City, UT; "What Can We Learn from Galaxy Clustering?". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/11/2011.
  • Colloquium at University of Utah, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Salt Lake City, UT; "Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/10/2011.
  • Colloquium at University of Oklahoma, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Norman, OK; "Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/08/2011.
  • Colloquium at University of California, San Diego, Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences Seminar, San Diego, CA; "Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/18/2011.
  • University of Arizona, Steward Observatory/NOAO Joint Colloquium, Tucson, AZ, "Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/14/2011.
  • Colloquium at University of Waterloo, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; "Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/04/2011.
  • Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation Seminars, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; "Galaxy Evolution from Galaxy Clustering". Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/04/2011.
  • UIUC, Astrophysics Colloquium, "Radiative Transfer Modeling of Lyman Alpha Emitters and New Effects in Galaxy Clustering''. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/20/2011.

Research Groups

  • Tyler Hagen, Graduate Student. 05/2022 - present.
  • Pengfei Li, Graduate Student. Physics and Astronomy. 08/2021 - present.
  • Callie Clontz, Graduate Student. Physics and Astronomy. 05/2020 - 06/2022.
  • Li Yang, Visiting Student. 09/2018 - 06/2023.
  • Xiaoju Xu, Graduate Student. 12/15/2015 - 08/2019.
  • Greg Engh, Other. 08/2015 - 05/2017.
  • TBD-XL, Visiting Student. Physics and Astronomy. 01/2015 - 04/2015.
  • To Be Disclosed, Graduate Student. Physics and Astronomy. 09/2014 - 12/2019.
  • TBD-EL, Undergraduate Student. Physcis and Astronomy. 02/2014 - 08/2016.
  • Raphael Sadoun, Postdoc. Physics and Astronomy. 08/2013 - 01/2018.
  • Hong Guo, Postdoc. Physics & Astronomy. 01/2013 - 08/2015.
  • Joshua Wallace, Undergraduate Student. Physics & Astronomy. 01/2012 - 07/2014.
  • To be disclosed (graduated), Undergraduate Student. Physics & Astronomy. 09/2011 - 08/2012.
  • Haojie Xu, Graduate Student. Physics & Astronomy. 09/2011 - 06/2018.

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

  • Collaborative Research: Physics and Applications of Lyman-Alpha Emission of Star-forming Galaxies. PI: Zheng Zheng. NSF, 08/01/2020 - present. Total project budget to date: $361,428.00
  • Tightening Cosmological Constraints from Small- and Intermediate-Scale Galaxy Clustering for the Next Generation Galaxy Surveys. PI: Zheng Zheng. University of Utah Incentive Seed Grant Program, 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018. Total project budget to date: $27,000.00
  • Support for the 2017 SnowPAC Workshop. PI: Zheng Zheng. NSF, 02/01/2017 - 02/2018. Total project budget to date: $12,900.00
  • Support for the 2012 SnowPAC workshop. PI: Adam Bolton. Co-PI(s): Zheng Zheng. National Science Foundation, 03/01/2012 - 03/2013. Total project budget to date: $8,200.00
  • From Galaxy Clustering to Galaxy Formation and Evolution. PI: Idit Zehavi. Co-PI(s): Zheng Zheng. National Science Foundation, 08/2009 - 07/2013. Total project budget to date: $332,605.00