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Dr. Paul T.P. Ho

Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of ASIAA

Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
P.O. Box 23-141, Taipei, 106 Taiwan
Tel: 886-2-33652200 x 700
Fax: 886-2-23677849
e-mail: pho@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw

or Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory,
60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617-4957088
e-mail: ho@cfa.harvard.edu

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Ph.D. Students Supervised
 

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Citizenship
  • United States
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Education
  • Ph.D. (1977), Physics, MIT
  • S.B. (1972), Physics, MIT
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Positions
  Position Affiliation
2005-
2002-2003
 Director, Distinguished Research Fellow Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
2002-
 AMiBA Principal Investigator Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
2005-
ALMA-Taiwan Principal Investigator Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
1989-
 Senior Astrophysicist Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
1989-2005
SMA Project Scientist Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
2006-
 Adjunct Professor of Physics National Tsing Hua University
2003-
 Adjunct Professor of Astronomy National Central University
2003
 Joint Professor of Physics National Taiwan University
1986-1990
 Associate Professor of Astronomy Harvard University
1982-1986
 Assistant Professor of Astronomy Harvard University
1979-1982
 Miller Fellow, Research Associate Radio Astronomy Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
1977-1979
 Research Associate Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Fellowships and Awards
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1984-1986
  • Henri Chre'tien Award, 1982
  • Miller Fellowship, 1979-1981
  • National Needs Fellowship, 1979-1980 (declined)
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Professional Societies
  • American Astronomical Society
  • International Astronomical Union
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Professional Activities
  1. Referee for: Astrophysical Journal, Astronomical Journal, Publication of the Astronomical Society of Japan, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Science, Nature, Icarus, Astrophysical Letters and Communications.
  2. Referee for: National Radio Astronomy Obervatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, National Research Council of Canada, National Science Council of Taiwan.
  3. Past Managing Editor for: Astrophysical Letters and Communications.
  4. Past Member of: Harvard University Department of Astronomy Committee on Academic Studies; NRAO Users Committee; NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences Visiting Committee; USRA Astronomy and Space Physics Science Council; NRAO Visiting Committee; ALMA Cost Review Committee; ACA Preliminary Design Review Committee, Chair; ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee; National Taiwan University Physics Department Visiting Committee; National Tsing Hua University Physics Department Visiting Committee.
  5. Past Member of: SAO Colloquium Committee; SAO Fellowship Committee; SAO Central Engineering Advisory Committee; Submillimeter Array Steering Committee; SAO Federal Scientist Appointments Committee, Chair; SAO Professional Accom- plishments Evaluation Committee; SMA Legacy Science Committee, Chair.
  6. Member of: Advisory Committee for the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  7. Member of: Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Science Working Group.
  8. Member of: Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan.
  9. Member of: Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Board.
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Research Highlights
  1. Top 10 Astronomical Results in 1987: Ph.D. thesis of student Eric Keto on Collapsing Core in G10.6-0.4 was picked as one of the top 10 astronomical results in 1987 by the American Astronomical Society.
  2. Finalist in Apker Award: Undergraduate thesis of student Luis Ho was among the three top undergraduate physics theses in the U.S. in 1990.
  3. M82 as NRAO Research Highlight in 1992: Ph.D. thesis of student Min Yun on M82 featured as the cover of NRAO yearly research report to NSF.
  4. Student Prizes: Goldberg Prizes to Luis Ho (1990), Lisa Norton (1991); Hoopes Prizes to Luis Ho (1989; 1990).
  5. Cover of Nature: M81-M82 Interacting System (1994).
  6. Highlighted in Nature: Gas Filaments in Orion (1996).
  7. Highlighted in Nature: Puff of Ejection of Water Masers in Cepheus A (2001).
  8. Submillimeter Array: Dedicated on Mauna Kea (2003)
  9. Special Ap.J. Letters Volume: Submillimeter Array 2004).
  10. Yuan Tseh Lee Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy: Dedicated on Mauna Loa (2006).
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Scientific Organizing Committees (1990-present)
  1. Third Haystack Observatory Conference on Atoms, Ions, and Molecules: New Results in Spectral Line Astrophysics; Westford, Massachusetts (May 1990).
  2. 1991 Taipei Astrophysics Workshop: Relationships Between Active Galactic Nuclei and Starburst Galaxies; Taipei, Taiwan (March 1991).
  3. 1992 Taipei Astrophysics Workshop: Science and Technology of Astronomical Interferometry; Taipei, Taiwan (March 1992).
  4. IAU Colloquium No. 140: Astronomy with Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Interferometry; Hakone, Japan (October 1992).
  5. IAUNAM Workshop: Circumstellar Disks and Outflows in Young Stars; Cozumel, Mexico (November 1994).
  6. Fourth Center for Astrophysics Internal Symposium on Star and Planet Formation and Related Topics; Chair; Cambridge, Massashusetts (June 1995).
  7. The 1995 Star Formation Workshop: Star and Planet Formation at High Angular Resolution; Nankang, Taiwan (July 1995).
  8. Japan-U.S. Workshop on Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at 10 Milli-Arcseconds Resolution; Tokyo, Japan (March 1997).
  9. 2003 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astropyhsics; Co-Chair; Taipei, Taiwan (November 2003).
  10. 2004 New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos; Maryland (October 2004).
  11. Submillimeter Astronomy: in the ara of the SMA; Chair; Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 2005).
  12. AMiBA Workshop; Chair; Hilo, Hawaii (September 2005).
  13. Workshop on Submillimeter Astronomy and Receiver Technologies; Co-Chair; Nanjing, China (December 2005).
  14. ASIAA-TIARA Star Formation Workshop 2005: From Cloud Cores to Debris Disks; Taipei (December 2005).
  15. 2006 International Symposium on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics; Taipei, Taiwan (November 2006).
  16. Massive Star Formation: Observations Confront Theory; Heidelberg, Germany (September 2007).
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Ph. D. Students Supervised
  1. Eric R. Keto (2/1985 to 6/1987)
    "Microwave Spectroscopy and Gravitational Collapse"
  2. Min S. Yun (9/1986 to 6/1992)
    "Study of Tidal Interactions in M81-M82-NGC3077 System"
  3. John C. Szczepanski (9/1986 to 6/1993)
    "Gas Feeding of the Galactic Center Region"
  4. Jose F. G'omez (9/1990 to 6/1993)
    "Observational Study of Protoplanetary Disks and Outflows in Regions of Star Formation"
  5. Jennifer J. Wiseman (9/1989 to 6/1995)
    "Large Scale Structure, Kinematics, and Temperature of the Orion Ridge"
  6. Qizhou Zhang (2/1993 to 1/1997 )
    "Dynamical Collapse in Star Forming Cores"
  7. Jose M. Girart (9/1993 to 10/1997 )
    "The Emission of the Ammonia and the Formyl Ion in Molecular Outflows"
  8. Maria T. Beltran (10/1998 to 5/2002 )
    "Circumstellar Material Around Low- and Intermediate-Mass Very Young Stellar Objects"
  9. Robin S. McGary Herrnstein (1/1999 to 6/2003)
    "The Molecular Environment in the Central 10 Parsecs of The Milky Way"
  10. Daisuke Iono (9/2001 to 8/2004)
    "Response of Atomic and Molecular Gas to a Disk-Disk Collision"
  11. Peter K. Sollins (3/2000 to 8/2005)
    "Accrection adn Outflow in Massive Star Formation:
    Observational Studies at High Angular Resolution"
  12. Aina Palau Puigvert (6/2003 to 3/2006)
    "Star Formation in Cluster Environments at Mm and Submm Wavelengths"
  13. Luis Alberto Zapata Gonzalez (1/2004 to 11/2006 )
    "Centimeter and Millimeter Observations of the Massive Star Formation in the OMC1 South Region "
  14. Maria Montero-Castano (4/2003 to ~)
  15. Ya-Wen Tang (9/2004 to ~)
  16. Hau-Yu Liu (9/2007 to ~)
  17. Roberto Galvan Madrid (9/2007 to ~)
  18. Shin-Yi Lin (9/2007 to ~)
  19. Gemma Busquet (11/2007 to ~)
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Master Students Supervised
  1. Adrienne Cool "G10.6-0.4" (2/1985 to 6/1987)
  2. Hongsong Chou "Masers" (9/1994 to 8/1997)
  3. Jenny E. Greene "HI in Seyferts" (10/2001 to 5/2003)
  4. Shin-Yi Lin "Protoplanetary Disks" (9/2003 to 7/2005)
  5. Hau-Yu Liu "Galaxy Cluster Finding Algorithm" (9/2006 to 8/2007 )
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Undergraduate Students Supervised
  1. Buell Jannuzi (1/1983 to 6/1983)
  2. Bruce Jacob (1/1987 to 6/1988)
  3. Edward W. Pyne (1/1987 to 6/1988)
  4. Luis C. Ho (1/1988 to 6/1990)
  5. Nancy A. Levenson (1/1988 to 6/1988)
  6. Ray Zollinger (11/1988 to 6/1989)
  7. Michael Pahre (11/1988 to 6/1989) (9/1991 to 8/1992)
  8. Lisa Norton (11/1989 to 6/1991)
  9. Rebecca Shen (9/1992 to 6/1993)
  10. Larry Lee (11/1992 to 6/1995)
  11. Andrew Ross (12/1992 to 6/1993)
  12. Cory Carter (6/1993 to 6/1994)
  13. Michael DePrezio (9/1994 to 8/1995)
  14. Alison Coil (6/1996 to 8/1998)
  15. Naveen Reddy (6/1999 to 8/1999)
  16. David Rothstein (6/1999 to 8/1999)
  17. Cheng-Yu Kuo (6/2002 to 8/2005)
  18. Shin-Yi Lin (6/2002 to 8/2003)
  19. An-Li Tsai (9/2003 to 8/2004)
  20. Ya-Wen Tang (8/2003 to 8/2004)
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Postdoctral Fellows Supervised
  1. Mary Barsony (7/1990 to 8/1993)
  2. Mark Wolfire (9/1990 to 8/1992)
  3. Jun-Hui Zhao (7/1993 to 10/1997)
  4. Merce Crosas (2/1994 to 4/1997)
  5. Nimesh Patel (9/1994 to 3/1996)
  6. Nagayoshi Ohashi (9/1994 to 8/1997)
  7. Mark Gurwell (9/1995 to 4/1998)
  8. Sridharan Tirupati (8/1996 to 6/2000)
  9. Todd Hunter (10/1996 to 3/1999)
  10. Charles Katz (9/1997 to 8/2000)
  11. Masao Saito (10/1997 to 9/2000)
  12. Martina Wiedner (10/1998 to 9/2002)
  13. Brad Wallace (7/1999 to 11/2000)
  14. Christopher Moore (7/1999 to 7/2000)
  15. Satoki Matsushita (4/2000 to 4/2003)
  16. Kazushi Sakamoto (9/2000 to 11/2004)
  17. Chunhua Qi (9/2000 to 10/2003)
  18. Hiroko Shinnaga (10/2001 to 8/2004)
  19. Alison Peck (12/2001 to 9/2003)
  20. Tyler Bourke (9/2002 to 8/2005)
  21. David Fong (9/2002 to 8/2005)
  22. Shigehisa Takakuwa (9/2002 to 6/2005)
  23. Hiroaki Nishioka (4/2003 to present)
  24. Satoko Sawada-Satoh (4/2003 to present)
  25. Patrick Koch (4/2003 to present)
  26. Henrik Beuther (9/2003 to 8/2005)
  27. Ram Rao (9/2003 to 7/2005)
  28. Chin Fei Lee (9/2003 to 8/2005)
  29. Daisuke Iono (9/2004 to 8/2005)
  30. Glen Petitpas (10/2004 to 8/2005)
  31. Sozo Yokogawa (03/2005 to 2/2006)
  32. Bau-Ching Hsieh (10/2005 to present)
  33. Guo-Chin Liu (9/2005 to present)
  34. A-Ran Lyo (3/2006 to present)
  35. Jun-ichi Nakashima (3/2006 to 8/2007)
  36. Kai-Yang Lin (8/2006 to present)
  37. Daniel Espada (9/2006 to present)
  38. Tzu-Ching Chang (12/2006 to present)
  39. Satoko Takahashi (8/2007 to present)
  40. Li-Hwai Lin (9/2007 to present)
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