Xiaolei Zhang
George Mason University, USA
Biography
Xiaolei Zhang obtained her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 and was a Post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) from 1992-1995. She subsequently worked at the CFA as a Staff Scientist, at NASA's Goddard Space Flgiht Center as a Contractor and at the US Naval Research Lab as a Civil Servant Astrophysicist. She took an early retirement in order to devote more time to her interests in the foundations of physics, in astrophysics, as well as in art. She is currently an affiliate faculty at the George Mason University.
Abstract
Abstract : Giant impact and the formation of the Colorado Plateau