Starting September 1997, ASIAA and the Graduate Department of Astronomy at NCU is hosting a joint Colloquium/Journal Club series where we alternate the locations of our Friday afternoon colloquiums/journal clubs. At the Academia Sinica, the colloquium/journal club is held in Room 428 (4th floor) of the Biochemistry builing, where ASIAA is temporarily located. At NCU, the colloquium/journal club is held in Room 1013 (Conference Room; 10th floor) of the Science IV Building. The Colloquium starts at 2:30 pm, and is normally followed by a Journal Club at 3:45 pm. All are invited to stay for afternoon tea after the presentations. Separate from the joint ASIAA/NCU series, ASIAA will occasionally host its own colloquia for visitors on brief stays. These colloquia also will be advertised on this page, and scheduled at times convenient for the speaker.
ASIAA seminars in 1997
| DATE | SPEAKER & INSTITUTE | TITLE |
| 1997/12/26 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA | Prof Fulvio Melia
University of Arizona | Unraveling the Mystery of Supermassive Black Holes in Seyfert Galaxies |
| 1997/12/24 (Wed) 2:10 pm (Colloquium) Location: NTHU | Prof Peter Goldreich
CalTech | Interaction of Acoustic Waves with Turbulence: Application to Helioseismology |
| 1997/12/20 (Sat) 2:00 pm (Popular Lecture) Location: Dr. Poes Memorial Hall, NTU | Prof Robert Wilson
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | After the Big Bang |
| 1997/12/17 (Wed) 2:10 pm (Colloquium) Location: Physics Building, NTHU | Prof Robert Wilson
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | The Submillimeter-wave Array: A Smithsonian Institution - Academia Sinica Partnership |
| 1997/12/16 (Tue) 2:10 pm (Colloquium) Location: Physics Building, NTU | Prof Robert Wilson
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | The Submillimeter-wave Array: A Smithsonian Institution - Academia Sinica Partnership |
| 1997/12/15 (Monday) 3:15 pm (Colloquium) Location: Institute of Physics | Prof Peter Goldreich
CalTech | Turbulence on Earth and in Space |
| 1997/12/12 (Friday)
2:30 pm (Colloquium)
[!! Room 625 !!]
3:40 pm (Colloquium) Location: NCU | Prof. Bradley Efron Stanford University Pre-Dr. Ing-Guey Jiang Oxford University | Truncated Data, with Applications to Astronomy
Galactic Warps |
| 1997/12/05 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Colloquium) Location: NCU | Dr. Yu-Qing Lou University of Chicago Prof. Qiu-He Peng Nanjing University | Dynamics in Pulsar Winds A Game Model of Quarsars and AGNs with Magnetic Monopole |
| 1997/11/28 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU | Dr. Louquan Lee
Chief Scientist, NSPO Prof. Wen-Ping Chen NCU | Formation and Eruption of Solar Prominences The Multiplicity of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars in Southern Star-Forming Regions & The Infrared Companions of T Tauri Stars |
| 1997/11/21 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA | Prof Jing-Yao Hu
Beijing Astronomical Observatory Pre-Dr. Yao-Hwan Tseng NCU | Optical Identifications of ROSAT Sources Discovery of a Boxy Peanut-Shaped Bulge in the Near-Infrared |
| 1997/11/15 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU | Prof Fred Lo
ASIAA, Director Dr. Jeremy Lim ASIAA | Luminous Water Masers, Circum-nuclear Disks and Supermassive Black Holes Molecular Outflows from X-ray-emitting Protostars in the rho Ophiuchi Dark Cloud |
| 1997/11/7 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Seminar) Location: ASIAA | Prof Wei-Hsin Sun
NCU, Chairman of Astronomy Department Prof Fred Lo ASIAA, Director | Optical Microvariability of BL Lac Objects A New Science Strategy for Space Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| 1997/11/03 (Monday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA | Professor Takeshi Oka
Millikan Distinguished Professor, University of Chicago | Infrared Spectrum of H3+: A Novel Probe for Plasmas
in Planetary Ionospheres and Molecular Clouds |
| 1997/10/29 (Wed) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA | Dr Stania Simberova
Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences | Analysis and Reconstruction of Astronomical
Image Data |
| 1997/10/24 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU | Dr Chin Yi-Nan
ASIAA Prof Byun Yong-Ik NCU | History of Chinese Astronomy Evidence for Age Spread Among Galaxies From UV upturn Phenomenon |
| 1997/10/17 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA | Dr Anja Schroeder
NCU Prof Chiueh Tzi-Hong NCU | DENIS Galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance Solar Dynamo and Magnetic Flux Emergence on the Sun |
| 1997/10/3 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU | Dr Nagayoshi Ohashi
ASIAA Dr Jeremy Lim ASIAA | Specific Angular Momenta in Circumstellar Envelopes:
The Typical Size Scale for Dynamical Collapse
HST images of 20 Nearby Luminous Quasars
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| 1997/9/26 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA | Prof K Y Lo
ASIAA, Director Dr Wen Chih-Yi ASIAA | Center of the Milky Way Galaxy: Evidence for a Massive Black Hole Occultations of Kuiper Belt Objects |
| 1997/09/15 10:30am Monday | Dr Myung-Hyun Rhee
Yonsei University Observatory, Korea | "Synthetic Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies : PCA approach" |
| 1997/09/06 10:30am Saturday | Dr Haida Liang
Bristol, UK | "Multi-wavelength Studies of Clusters of Galaxies" |
| 1997/09/04 10:30am Thursday | Dr Wing Ip
MPI fuer Aeronomie (former chief scientist of the National Space Program Office) | "Dynamics and structures of the Kuiper Belt Objects" |
| 1997/09/01 10:30am Monday | Dr Dan Harris
CfA | "X-ray Emission Processes in Extragalactic Radio Sources" |
| 1997/08/13 10:30am | Prof Frank Shu
UCB | "Protostellar Jets and Their Impact on Giant Molecular Clouds" |
| 1997/08/13 09:30am | Dr Don Kurtz
Astronomy Dept, Cape Town Univ. | "Recent Developments in Astro-seismology" |
| 1997/08/12 02:00pm | Dr Tadataka Morishita
International Superconductivity Technology Center, Tokyo | "Microwave Properties of YBa_2Cu_3O_x Films
Grown by Liquid Phase Epitaxy" |
| 1997/08/12 10:30am | Prof Ron Taam
NWU | "Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Results on the Galactic
Microquasar GRS 1915+105" |
| 1997/08/12 09:30am | Prof Doug Lin
Lick Observatory | "The formation of first generation stars" |
| 1997/08/09 | Prof You-Hua Chu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | "Multi-wavelength view of the ISM in the Large Magellanic Cloud" |
| 1997/07/14 (Mon 10:30am) | Dr Achim Weiss
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA) | "The Age of Globular Clusters" |
| 1997/06/28 | Prof. Yuk-Ling Yung (¯Î¥ÉªL)
Division of Geological & Planetary Sci., California Institute of Technology | "Venus: Composition of the Middle Atmosphere" |
| 1997/06/21 | Dr Sun-Chong Wang
Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica |
"Low Temperature X-ray Detectors" (abstract)
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| 1997/06/14 | Prof Jonas Zmuidzinas
Caltech |
"New Developments in Submillimeter Astronomy Instrumentation" |
| 1997/05/26-31 | Various
ASIAA Advisory Committee |
"NEW COSMIC INSIGHTS Lecture Series"
(details) |
| 1997/05/17 | Prof Charles Alcock
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
"A Proposal to Conduct a Census of Kuiper Belt Comets" |
| 1997/05/03 | Prof S-T Wu (§d¦¡Àé)
Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research / Dep of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville |
"A numerical MHD model for the illustration of
the initiation and propagation of a coronal mass ejection (CME)"
(abstract) |
| 1997/04/26 | Dr Minho Choi (±Z±ÓÂî)
ASIAA | "Molecular line observations of protostellar collapse
candidates" |
| 1997/04/12 | Prof Chung-I Kuo (³¢¤¤¤@)
Department of Physics, Soochow University | "Equivalent medium approach to quantum gravity - with a possible
application in search of MACHO" |
| 1997/04/01 (Tue 10:30am) | Dr Nagayoshi Ohashi
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | "Dynamically Infalling Disk-like Envelopes around YSOs" |
| 1997/03/28 (Fri 10:30am) | Dr Hsiang-Kuang Chang (±i²»¥ú)
Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University | "Acoustic Imaging in Helioseismology" |
| 1997/03/26 (Wed 10:30am) | Prof Hyung Mok Lee
Pusan National University, Korea | "Distribution and Dynamics of Interstellar Clouds toward the
Galactic Center" |
| 1997/03/24 (Mon 10:30am) | Dr. Paul Ho (¶P´¿¾ë)
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | tba (about search for brown dwarfs) |
| 1997/03/20 (Thu 15:30) | Prof. Yuk-Ling Yung (¯Î¥ÉªL)
Division of Geological & Planetary Sci., California Institute of Technology | "Titan: An atmosphere in a state of flux" |
| 1997/03/15 | Prof Tseung-Yuen Tseng (´¿«T¤¸)
Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tong University | "High Temperature Superconducting Thin Films for
Bolometer Applications" |
| 1997/03/08 | Prof Sun Kwok (³¢·s) The University of Calgary | "The Mystery of Planetary Nebulae" (abstract) |
| 1997/03/06 (Thursday) 10:30 am | Dr Balasubramanyam Ramesh Raman Research Institute, INDIA | "Catching Massive Stars Young" |
| 1997/03/03 (Monday) 10:30 am | Dr Thomas Wilson Max-Planck-Institut fu"r Radioastronomie | "The Search for High Mass Protostars: NGC2024, NGC281 and W3"
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| 1997/03/01 |
rescheduled to 03/15 due to an unexpected national holiday | |
| 1997/02/22 | Dr Thomas Wilson Max-Planck-Institut fu"r Radioastronomie | "Isotope Abundances in the ISM"
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| 1997/02/15 | Prof C.M. Ko (°ª¥ò©ú) NCU |
"Cosmic ray, magnetic field, and ISM" |
| 1997/02/01 | Prof J Y Juang (²ø®¶¯q) National Chiao Tong University |
"Microwave properties
and applications of high temperature superconductors" |
| 1997/01/25 | Dr Chi-Chung Chin (¿ú§ÓÁo) ASIAA |
"The growth of YBaCuO
thin film -- a potential material for bolometer for astronomy" |
| 1997/01/22 Wednesday | Dr Robert Martin (former director of SMTO) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona |
"UA/MPIfR 10m Submm telescope" |
| 1997/01/15 | Dr Jian-sheng Chen (³¯«Ø¥Í) Beijing Astronomical Observatory | "The LAMOST Project" |
| 1997/01/11 | Dr Evgeny (Uri) Griv ASIAA |
"Bending Instability in Galaxies: Theory vs. Observations"
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