1998 ASIAA Seminar Schedule

ASIAA seminars in 1998
DATE SPEAKER & INSTITUTE TITLE
1998/12/15 (Tuesday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Dr. George Duh

HEMTs
1998/12/11 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Colloquium) Location: NCU Dr. Yang Ji
Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanking

Prof. Sun Kwok

University of Calgary, Canada
Observational Results of Star Forming Region Astronomical Infrared Spectroscopy: the search for large molecules in space
1998/12/10 (Thursday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Dr. Haida Liang
Bristol University
A Cluster Survey/CMB Telescope for the new generation
1998/12/4 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Dr. Eric Keto
Simthsonian Observatory
The Shapes of Cross-Correlation Interferometers
1998/11/27 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Dr. Paul Hartogh
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie

Chen-Yu Hsu

NCU
Microwave Investigation of the Earth and Mars Atmosphere Accretion and the Evolution of T Tauri Disks (1998, ApJ, 495, 385)
1998/11/20 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr. Park Yong-Sun
ASIAA

Dr. Nagayoshi Ohashi

ASIAA
Survey of the HCN J=1-0 hyperfine lines towards class 0 and I sources TBA
1998/11/6 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Prof. Yang Ying-Chuan
National Tsing-Hua University

Prof. Chen Wen-Ping

NCU
Geometrical Games of the Universe - Black Hole Miracles Deep Imaging of the Kuiper Belt with the Keck 10 Meter Telescope (1998, ApJL, 502, L91)
1998/10/30 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr. Chen Lin-Wen
ASIAA

Dr. Wen Chi-Yi

ASIAA
Through the Lockman hole: looking into the past Thermal Observations of Centaur 1997 CU26 (1998, ApJL, 499, 103)
1998/10/23 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Dr. Paul Ho
Smithsonian Observatory
Inflows to the Galactic Center
1998/10/16 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Cancelled by Typhoon (Not the "Lee"-type, but the "Ree"-al thing).
1998/10/9 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr. Ralf I. Kaiser
Academia Sinica Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences

Dr. Jeremy Lim

ASIAA
Cosmic ray particle induced formation of molecules in frozen ices On the multiplicity of eta Carina (1998, ApJL, 505, L131)
1998/10/8 (Thursday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium)Special Time! Location: ASIAA Dr. Minho Choi
University of Maryland
BIMA Survey of Protostellar Collapse Candidates in HCO+ and HCN Lines
1998/10/2 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Dr. Jason Pun
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Prof. Hwang Chorng-Yuan

NCU
Recent Observations of Supernova (Remnant) 1987A TBA
1998/9/18 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium)
Location:ASIAA
Prof. Tom Millar
Manchester University Institute of Science and Technology
Modelling interstellar chemistry
1998/9/11 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium)
Location:ASIAA
Prof. Tom Millar
Manchester University Institute of Science and Technology
Hot molecular cores
1998/9/4 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium)
Location:ASIAA
Prof. Ron Taam
Northwestern University
Variability in Black Hole X-Ray Binary Systems
1998/9/2 (Wednesday) 10:30 am - 4:30 pm (Seminar)
Location:ASIAA
Summer Student Talks

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1998/8/7 (Friday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Dr. Thijs de Graauw
SRON-Groningen


Infrared and Submm Observations from Space: from ISO to FIRST The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-InfraRed Space Telescope (HIFI)
1998/7/31 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location:ASIAA Dr. Bob Sault
Australia Telescope National Facility
The Australia Telescope Compact Array: Current state and the 3mm upgrade
1998/7/30 (Thursday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location:ASIAA Prof. Ai Kuo-Chiang
Director, Beijing Observatory
Major Astronomy Projects in mainland China
1998/7/23 (Thursday) 9:30 am (Colloquium) 10:45 am (Colloquium)Special Time! Location: ASIAA Prof. Gene Levy
University of Arizona

Prof. Ke-Chiang Hsieh

University of Arizona
Electromagnetic Phenomena in the Solar Nebula Energetic hydrogen atoms from the edge of the heliosphere: detection and implications
1998/7/21 (Tuesday) 3:00 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Prof. Lewis Snyder
University of Illinois
The search for large interstellar molecules of possible biological interest
1998/7/20 (Monday) 9:30 am (Colloquium) 10:45 am (Colloquium)Special Time! Location: ASIAA Prof. Imke de Pater
University of California, Berkeley

Prof. Jane Luu

Harvard University
Keck observations of our Solar System The Kuiper Belt: the Solar System's Circumstellar Disk
1998/7/10 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Luis Ho
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
LINERs as Low-Luminosity AGNs: How Do We Know and Why Should We Care?
1998/7/9 (Thursday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Luis Ho
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Super Star Clusters as a New Tool to Study Extragalactic Star Formation
1998/7/8 (Wednesday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Luis Ho
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei: Observational Evidence and Some Astrophysical Consequences
1998/6/29 (Monday) 10:00 am (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Mr. Yu-tsang Hwang
CCL/ITRI
Introduction to Solid State RF Power Amplifiers
1998/6/26 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Talk) Location:ASIAA Dr. Henry Tsz-King Wong
Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

Dr. Kin-Wang Ng

Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica
Summary of Results from the Super-Kamiokande Experiments Dark Matter Problem: Can Neutrinos Close the Universe?
1998/6/22 (Monday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Prof. Takashi Noguchi
Nobeyama Radio Observatory
Recent development of SIS receivers for millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths at NRO (Nobeyama Radio Observatory)
1998/6/5 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Seminars) Location: NCU 2nd-year Master's students
NCU
1998/5/29 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Dr. Jean-Fancois Panis
ASIAA

Pre-Dr. Su Yu-Nung

NCU
The IRAM key-project: small scale structure of pre-star forming regions The Expansion Rate and Distance to G5.89-0.39
1998/5/22 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr. Claudia Lemme
NCU

Ms. Lee Ting-Hui

ASIAA
The Spatial Sodium Distribution in the Coma of Comet Hale-Bopp A CCD study of the enviroment of Seyfert Galaxies: The Survey (1998, ApJS, 115, 163)
1998/5/15 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr. Jimmy Herrnstein
NRAO

Dr. Lee Siow-Wang

ASIAA
Imaging the Central Engine of an Active Galaxy: The Remarkable Megamaser in NGC 4258 Infall Signature of Young Stellar Objects (1997, ApJ, 484, 256 and 489, 719)
1998/5/14 (Thursday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Yu Gao
University of Illinois
Dense Molecular Gas and Ultraluminous Starbursts
1998/5/11 (Monday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Abraham Chian
National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
Order and Chaos in Solar Radio Emissions
1998/5/8 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr. Yu Gao
University of Illinois

Pre-Dr. Yao-Huan Tseng

NCU
Molecular Gas in Luminous Infrared Galaxy Mergers Dynamical friction and Distribution of Dark Matter in Barred Galaxies (1998, ApJ, 493, L5)
1998/5/1 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Dr. Jason Jiun-San Shen
ASIES

Dr. Yi-Nan Chin

Discovery of 138La Anomaly in the Early Solar System The AMANDA Neutrino Telescope and the Indirect Search for Dark Matter (hep-ex/9804007 at xxx.lanl.gov)
1998/4/29 (Wednesday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Prof. Sun Kwok
University of Calgary
What is the intrinsic structure of the Ring Nebula?
1998/4/27 (Monday) 12:00 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Yuen-Keong Ng
Padova Astronomical Observatory, Italy
AMORE: Auto-Matic Observation REndering
1998/4/24 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Prof. Lou-Chuang Lee
National Cheng Kung University

Prof. Xiang-Ping Wu

Beijing Astronomical Observatory
COSMIC: Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate Gravitational Lens Image Separations: Implications for the Cosmological Density Parameter Omega_0
1998/4/21 (Monday) 11:00 am (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Eric Keto
CfA
Software development for the SMA
1998/4/20 (Monday) 1:00 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:ASIAA Dr. Eric Keto
CfA
Super star clusters in the mid-IR
1998/4/17 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Prof. V. B. Belyaev
Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia

Dr. N. Ohashi

ASIAA
The role of triple collisions in star plasma Low Mass Clumps in TMC-1: Scaling Laws in the Small Scale Regime
1998/4/3 (Friday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Dr. Paul Ho
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Prof Tzihong Chiueh

National Central University
Dr. Erick Young

University of Arizona
Circumstellar disks Dark matter in galaxies and clusters Development of far-IR arrays for SIRTF
1998/4/2 (Thursday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:45 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Prof. Douglas Lin
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

Dr. Man-Hoi Lee

Queens University
Dr. Erick Young

University of Arizona
Recent developments in planet origins Coagulation and runaway growth NICMOS observations of young stars
1998/3/30 (Monday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) Location: ASIAA Prof. Sun Kwok
Univ. of Calgary

Prof. Frank Shu

Univ. of California, Berkeley
Stellar Metamorphosis: HST observations of butterfly-like nebulae emerging from stellar cocoons Magnetized polytropic clouds as models of turbulent star-forming regions
1998/3/20 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr. Lee Siow-Wang
ASIAA

Dr. Hwang Chorng-Yuan

ASIAA
Supershells and the Interstellar Medium in Two Spiral Galaxies The Dark Side of Star Formation in the Antennae galaxies
1998/3/13 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Prof Chen Wen-Ping
NCU

Pre-Dr. Alfred Chen

NCU
Dispersal of Protoplanetary Nebula in a Binary Environment New Optical Reddening Model for the Solar Neighborhood - Galactic Structure through Low-Latitude Starcounts from the Guide Star Catalogue (A&A, 1998, 330, 910)
1998/3/6 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: NCU Dr Jeremy Lim
ASIAA

Dr. Chen Lin-Wen

ASIAA
The Structure and Temperature of Betelgeuse's Atmosphere Intergalactic Stars and Gas (TBD)
1998/2/27 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Dr B. C. Low
High Altitude Observatory

Prof. Sun Wei-Shin

NCU
The large-scale Hydromagnetic Corona Reverberation Mapping Technique in the Study of Active Galactic Nuclei (1997, ApJS, 113, 69)
1998/2/13 (Friday) 13:00 pm (Colloquium) Special Time! Location: NCU Dr. Stuart Marshall

ROSTE search for optical counterparts of gamma ray bursters
1998/2/13 (Friday) 10:30 am (Colloquium) Special Time! Location:NCU Dr. Kem Cook

What MACHO did other than finding dark matter, a model for TAOS?
1998/1/16 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Seminar) Location: NCU Dr. Huang Ming-Huey
University of Utah
2nd-year Master's students

NCU
In Search for Cosmic Ray Sources Thesis Progress Report
1998/1/9 (Friday) 2:30 pm (Colloquium) 3:40 pm (Journal Club) Location: ASIAA Prof. Wu Xiang-Ping
Beijing Astronomical Observatory
Dr. Anja Schroeder

NCU
Gravitational Lensing HIPPARCOS calibration of the peak brightness of four SNeIa and the value of Ho




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