TAOS Joint Seminars/Meetings

Schedule

(1998)
 Oct. 30	"Orbital Dynamics and Collisional Evolution of the
                 Kuiper Belt Objects"   by Wing Ip

 Nov.  6	(meeting and journal club)

 Dec.  8	(discussion on TAOS software)

 Dec. 18	"Discussion on ROTSE Programming -- skeld"	by Chih-Yi Wen


(1999)
 Jan.  6	(meeting and journal club)

 Jan. 15	"Kuiper Belt Objects" (D. Jewitt's review article, available here) 	by Sun-Kun King

 Mar. 19	(meeting and journal club)

 Mar. 26	(meeting and journal club)
		"Report on 'Dynamics of the Kuiper Belt'" (astro-ph/9901155)	by Chi Yuan

 Apr. 16	(meeting and journal club)
		"Constraints on the Origin of Kuiper Belt" (in Jewitt's review article)	by Wen-Ping Chen

 Apr. 23	(meeting and journal club ?)

 May. 14	(meeting and journal club ?)

 May. 28	"Cumulative Luminosity Function & Size distribution of KBOs"	by Andrew Wang
		"Physical Observations of KBOs"		by Claudia Lemme

 Oct. 15	"An Estimation of TAOS Occultation Event Rate"	by S. K. King

 Nov.  5	(meeting on site and enclosure related issues)

 Nov. 19	(meeting on site and enclosure related issues)

 Dec.  3	(meeting on photometry and enclosure related issues)

 Dec. 15	(meeting on photometry)

 Dec. 31	(meeting on enclosure, power system and communication)


(2000)
 Feb. 16-17	(TAOS meeting @ UC Berkeley)

 Mar.  2	(informal discussion on the shipment and installation of telescope #1)

 Mar. 29	(meeting on optical alignment of T#1 and the preparation work for Stuart's visit)

 Apr. 14	(meeting on the follow-up after getting the first light of TAOS telescope #1)

 May. 26	"Simulating and Detecting Occultations by Kuiper Belt Objects"		by Chyng-Lan Liang

 Jun.  9	(meeting on our recent test results of TAOS telescope #1)

 Jun. 30	(meeting on the alignment of T1/T2 and optical setup on Lulin)

 Sep.  5	(meeting on safety, our next trip to Lulin and the modification of TAOS telescope and enclosure)

 Oct. 20	(meeting on status of sites, telescopes, enclosures and the preparation of Stuart's visit in December)

 Oct. 27	"How to distinguish KBO occultations from asteroid occultations?"	by Claudia Lemme
		"A study of occultations from asteroid"		by S. K. King

 Nov. 24	"Was There a Sharp Edge for the Primordial Solar Nebula ?"		by Ing-Guey Jiang
		"How to distinguish KBO occultations from asteroid occultations?"       by Claudia Lemme



(2001)
 Jan. 10	(TAOS meeting @ NCU)

 Mar.  9	(meeting on the recent result of telescope #1 alignment)

 May   4	(meeting on the current status with Chih-Yi talking about his trip to LLNL)

 Sep.  3	(meeting on some preliminary results of zipper mode data)

 Sep. 21	(TAOS meeting @ LLNL)

 Dec. 28	(meeting on TAOS photometry and TAOS #2 telescope)


(2002)

 Feb.  7	(meeting on the status of TAOS telescopes and future plan)

 Mar. 15	(meeting on Lulin status, baffle testing and other issues)

 Aug. 29	(meeting on the result of the installation of TAOS B)

The Original Plan

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Dr. King, Sun-Kun (ª÷¤É¥ú)                      skking@asiaa.sinica.edu.tw
Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics           Tel: 886-2-26522020 x 241
Preparatory Office, Academia Sinica,            Fax: 886-2-27881106
P.O. Box 1-87, Nankang
Taipei, Taiwan 115, R.O.C.