Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Sep. 1 * Speaker Dong-Hoon Kim * Title Primordial Gravitational Waves and Rescattered Electromagnetic Radiation in the Cosmic Microwave Background * Abstract   Understanding the interaction ofprimordial gravitational waves (GWs) with the Cosmic MicrowaveBackground

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Sep. 6 * Speaker Dr. Pierre Cox (ALMA Director, Joint ALMA Observatory, Chile) * Title Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA): Status and Development * Abstract     The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Sep. 8 * Speaker Prof. Jimmy Irwin (University of Alabama) * Title Giant X-ray Flares in Nearby Galaxies * Abstract     Very rapid (<1 minute), high amplitude (>100) variability at >1e40 erg/s is

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Oct. 6 * Speaker Hyung Do Kim (SNU, Physics Department) * Title Cosmology and particle physics * Abstract     I present a survey of recent ideas using cosmology to understand the hierarchy between

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Oct. 20 * Speaker Chang-Goo Kim (Princeton University) * Title Roaring TIGRESS: supernovae driven galactic outflows * Abstract   In this talk, I will introduce our new simulation suites called TIGRESS, “Three-phase ISM in

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Nov. 3 * Speaker Jeffrey Hodgson (KASI) * Title VLBI – What can we do at the highest resolutions? * Abstract   Very Long Baseline Interferomatry is a technique that has long been used

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Nov. 10 * Speaker Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University) * Title The Birth of High-energy Neutrino Astronomy * Abstract   IceCube recently reported the observation of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, which marks the beginning of the

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Nov. 17 * Speaker Dimitris Stamatellos (University of Central Lancashire) * Title Young protostellar discs and their role in planet formation and evolution * Abstract   Stars are born with protostellar discs that during

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Nov. 24 * Speaker Suk Kim (KASI) * Title Study of galaxies in extensive area of the Virgo cluster * Abstract     We present a new catalog of galaxies in the wider region

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Dec. 1 * Speaker Quang Nguyen-Luong (KASI) * Title Star formation laws of mini-starurst complexes in the Milky Way and link to extragalactic star formation * Abstract     In the Milky Way, most

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Dec. 2 * Speaker Kyu-Hyun Chae (Sejong University) * Title Statistical analyses of the dynamics of elliptical galaxies from SDSS: dark matter versus modified Newtonian dynamics * Abstract     Dark matter appears inevitablefor

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Dec. 13 * Speaker Kengo Tomida (Osaka University) * Title Formation and Evolution of Circumstellar Disks * Abstract   Angular momentum transport by magneticfields is the key physical process in star and disk formation

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Fall Semester) * Date Dec. 19 * Speaker Jeonghee Rho (SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center) * Title Herschel and Millimeter Observations of Supernova Remnants * Abstract   Supernovae (SNe) are among the mostviolent events in the