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Department of Physics
University of Arizona
1118 E. 4th Street, PO Box 210081
Tucson, AZ 85721
Telephone: +1.520.621.6820
Fax: +1.520.621.4721

The University of Arizona is a premier, student-centered research institution. Established in 1885 as the first university in the Arizona Territory and the state's only land grant institution, the UA embraces its three-fold mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. Now in its second century of service to the state, the UA has become one of the nation's top 20 public research institutions. It is one of only 62 members in the Association of American Universities, a prestigious organization that recognizes universities with exceptionally strong research and academic programs.

The UA is one of the leading research universities in the United States. As one of only 50 universities nationwide with a coveted “Research 1” designation, it was most recently ranked 14th amongst US public universities in terms of research funding received. The research of the theoretical astrophysics group benefits from close association with other campus-wide programs in theoretical and observational astrophysics, and its theoretical studies are closely related to observations made with nasa's space telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Research Activities - Annual Report to ICRAnet 2006

• The Third Italian-Sino Workshop on relativistic astrophysics
  date and place: July 10-20, 2006, Pescara
  Participants: Italian 11; Chinese: 11; Taiwan: 2
  Talks: 25
  Topics: SN1006, GRBs, LAMOST project.
  
• Research project: Cross-correlation between WMAP and 2MASS: non-Gaussianity induced by SZ effect, MNRAS, 369, 645 (2006); Liang Cao (PhD candidate) joined this work under supervision of Li-Zhi Fang. Cao is partially supported by the ICRAnet.

2007 Planned Activities requesting the support of ICRAnet

• The Fourth Italian-Sino Workshop on Relativistic Astrophysics Astrophysics
  July 20 - 30, 2007, Pescara
  Participants: Italian about 20; Chinese about 20
  Talks: about 40
  Topics: astrophysics at redshift 6 - 30. high redshift GRBs, 21cm detection (21CMA project at Xingjiang)
• Research project: Estimating Power Spectrum of Suynaev-Zeldovich Effect from the Cross-Correlation between WMAP and 2MASS; Mr. Liang Cao will join this work, and be partially supported by the ICRANet.
• Research project: 21 cm Signals from Early Ionizing Sources. Dr. Jitrn Liu will join this work, and be partially supported by the ICRAnet.