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SHAO Astrophysics Colloquia
Speaker: Di Li (NAOC)
Time: Thursday, 3:00pm,May 8th
Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor
Seminar talks
Title: The Thirty Meter Telescope: A golden opportunity for China
Speaker: Prof. Shude Mao (NAOC)
Time: Monday , 3:00pm, May 5
Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor
Abstract: The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project is a world-leading, next-generation extremely large optical/IR telescope that will provide collecting area nine times larger than KECK and resolution ten times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope. It will revolutionise our understanding of the universe for many decades to come. China is a full collaborative partner in TMT. I will highlight a few scientific areas that TMT can make key contributions, and then review the current status of TMT in terms of partner formation, China's technical contributions and challenges we face in the short-term. Finally I will address a few FAQs and outline what you, particularly the young generation, can do for TMT-China.
Title: Recent Results from the Australian SKA Site
Speaker: Prof Lister Staveley-Smith (University of Western Australia)
Time: Tuesday , 3:30pm, May 6
Location: the middle conference room, 3rd floor
Abstract: The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) are the two precursor telescopes of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) on the Western Australian site. The CSIRO ASKAP telescope is testing new phased array feed technology and will be the most powerful survey interferometer until the SKA. I will show some early results, summarise the science goals of the telescope and its relation to phase 1 of the SKA. MWA has already begun scheduled operations. I will summarise the science goals of the telescope, including the EOR and the GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey for which I am principal investigator. GLEAM will investigate low-frequency emission from clusters, the cosmic web, relic radio galaxies, diffuse Galactic polarised emission, the Magellanic Clouds, nearby galaxies and Supernova Remnants. The ongoing execution of the GLEAM survey allows an interesting glimpse into the algorithmic and and dataflow challenges that await us when other sensitive widefield instruments such as FAST and Phase 1 of the SKA come on-line.
Group meetings
Blackhole accretion and High-energy astrophysics Seminar