James Binney

Research Some of my current research interests Encyclopedia article on our Galaxy Modelling the Galaxy Galaxy formation Android application demonstrating orbits in our Galaxy Galactic warps Links to some recent research papers Past year Last several years Some recent talks The Milky Way Galaxy How galaxies are shaped by environment Making Sense of Gaia The Case for Modified Newtonian Gravity Making Sense of Gaia (Brouwer prize lecture) The Case for Modified Newtonian Gravity Gas in the Local Group Cooling Flows & Galaxy Formation Coloquium at MIT & Heidelberg Extraplanar Gas Dark matter in the Milky Way Galaxy Formation Galaxy modelling with tori Graduate lecture: The Galaxy 2014 Sciama lecture: Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium

Short biography

Books in Print

• The Physics of Quantum Mechanics, Binney & Skinner, 416 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-968857-9. £24.99 Oxford University Press, 2013.
  
  • Error List
  • Corrected Section 10.3.2 (was corrected in second printing)
• Galactic Astronomy, Binney & Merrifield, 796 pp, ISBN 0-691-02565-7, $65.00, Princeton University Press, 1998.
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Figure dowloads
    
  • Error List
• Galactic Dynamics, Binney & Tremaine, first & second editions 1988 - 2008
• The Theory of Critical Phenomena, Binney, Dowrick, Fisher & Newman, 476 pp, ISBN 0-19-851393-3, £23.50, Oxford University Press, 1992
  • Table of Contents

• Professor J J Binney FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford, OX1 3NP, UK.
• Fax: +44 (0)1865 273947
• Email: binney at thphys.ox.ac.uk