Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Mar 02 * Speaker Chris Belczynski (Warsaw University Observatory) * Title The ongoing LIGO search for gravitational-waves: BH-BH modeling * Abstract   Advanced LIGO has so far announced detection of two firm and one

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Mar 09 * Speaker Jeongwoo Lee (Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University) * Title When the Sun’s Coronal Tail Wags Its Photospheric Dog * Abstract   The Sun’s corona is an electrically conducting

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Mar 16 * Speaker Hongjun An (CBNU) * Title High-energy astrophysics in the X-ray and GeV energies * Abstract      Since the launch of high-performance X-ray and gamma-ray satellites such as Chandra, XMM-Newton, NuSTAR

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Mar 23 * Speaker KASI ALMA Group * Title ALMA Town Meeting * Abstract    – Program       14:00 – 14:30  ALMA science talks (10min/student)       14:30 – 15:00  ALMA Cycle 4 Proposer’s Guide and Capability

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Mar 30 * Speaker Ken Chen (NAOJ, Japan) * Title Lighting up the Universe with Extreme Supernovae * Abstract     Recent all-sky transient searches have discovered new and unexpected explosion types that fall

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Apr 06 * Speaker Guangyao Zhao (KASI) * Title Multi-frequency mm-VLBI observations of AGNs with KVN * Abstract     KVN is a unique and powerful mm-VLBI array. In this talk, I will introduce

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Apr 11 * Speaker Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA Pune, India) * Title Rugged but enigmatic post-Planck Cosmos * Abstract     The widely heralded andremarkable   progress in cosmology leading to  the emergence of a  ‘standard

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Apr 20 * Speaker Tugca Sener (KASI) * Title Hot subdwarf stars in binaries * Abstract     Hot subdwarfs are helium burning stars, located at the blue end of the horizontal branch. Although

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Apr 27 * Speaker Benjamin L’Huillier (KASI) * Title Numerical simulations of structure formation: LCDM and beyond * Abstract     Numerical simulations have become a powerful tool to study cosmological structure formation. In

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date May 11 * Speaker Thiem Hoang (KASI) * Title New Insights into the Role and Importance of Interstellar Nanoparticles * Abstract     Interstellar nanoparticles, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), are believed to play

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date May 18 * Speaker Ho Jung Paik (U Maryland) * Title Superconducting Gravitational Wave Detector For Observation in Infrasound Frequency Band * Abstract     Detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black holes

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date May 23 * Speaker Kwang-Ho Park (Georgia Tech) * Title Feedback-regulated fueling of massive black holes * Abstract     Accretion of gas and the interaction of matter and radiation are at the heart

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date May 25 * Speaker Pei-Ying Hsieh (ASIAA) * Title The molecular gas feeding the Galactic center – an excellent laboratory to understand supermassive black hole feeding * Abstract     The interaction between a

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date May 30 * Speaker Andreas Schulze (NAOJ) * Title New constraints on the black hole spin in radio-loud quasars * Abstract     One of the major unsolved questions on the understanding of the

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Jun 08 * Speaker Juan Carlos Algaba Marcos (KASI) * Title Exploring the variability of the flat spectrum radio source 1633+382 * Abstract     We present multi-frequency simultaneous VLBI radio observations of the

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2017 Spring Semester) * Date Jun 16 * Speaker Takahiro Hiroi (Brown University) * Title Asteroid-Meteorite Reflectance Spectroscopy, Space Weathering, and Hayabusa Missions * Abstract     Asteroids, along with comets, are believed to be the remnant of the