Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date March 3 * Speaker Prof. Jeongwoo Lee (SNU) * Title Recent Progress in Plasma Astrophysics * Abstract     Most of the observable matter in the Universe is in the plasma state and there

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date March 10 * Speaker Dr. Woojin Kwon (KASI) * Title Protoplanetary Disks Revealed by Millimeter Interferometers * Abstract     Circumstellar disks of young stellar objects (YSOs) at a later stage are often called

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date March 17 * Speaker Dr. Kwangsu Ahn (Big Bear Solar Observatory) * Title Introduction to the New Solar Telescope and its Instruments: Focusing on the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph and the Near-IR Imaging Spectropolarimeter

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date March 22 * Speaker Prof. Hyung-Mok Lee (SNU) * Title New Window for Astronomy: Gravitational Waves * Abstract       The gravitational waves were detected directly for the first time on September 14

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date March 24 * Speaker Dr. Kwangho Park (Georgia Tech) * Title Growth of Seed Black Holes * Abstract     Discovery of billion solar mass quasars at high redshift poses a challenge for modeling

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date March 31 * Speaker 이기형 회장 (인터파크/카오스재단) * Title 과학을 사랑하면 꼭 (과학과) 결혼해야 하나요? (500동 1층 목암홀에서) * Abstract   Date Speaker Title Remarks March 3 Prof. Jeongwoo Lee (SNU) Recent Progress in

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date April 7 * Speaker Prof. Kimitake Hayasaki (Chungbuk National Univ.) * Title Accretion Disk formation following tidal disruption of stars on bound orbits around spinning supermassive black holes * Abstract     Tidal disruption

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date April 21 * Speaker 이용복 교수 (소남천문학사 연구소장) * Title Almanac during Joseon Dynasty and Reliability of Astronomical Records in the Korean Ancient historical Books * Abstract     Almanac in Joseon Dynasty contains

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date April 28 * Speaker Dr. Hyunbae Park (KASI) * Title RECOMBINATION IN SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES DURING THE COSMIC REIONIZATION * Abstract     Density inhomogeneity in the intergalactic medium (IGM) on sub-Mpc scales can boost

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date May 3 * Speaker Dr. David Silva (NOAO) * Title NOAO Today and Tomorrow * Abstract     The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) is the USA national center for ground-based optical-infrared (OIR) astronomy.

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date May 19 * Speaker Prof. Myungkook James Jee (Yonsei Univ.) * Title The Magic of Gravitational Lensing and Its Application to Dark Matter Studies * Abstract   It was only two decades ago that

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date June 2 * Speaker Prof. Paul Yun (NASA Solar System Ambassador) * Title NASA Mars Missions * Abstract   Since 1964, NASA has sent flybys, orbiters, landers, and rovers to Mars, and is ready

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date June 21 * Speaker A. Gopakumar, (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) * Title Sub-micro Hz gravitational waves, TAPTA and OJ287  * Abstract   The first official ‘observing run’ of the advanced LIGO

Colloquium Astronomy Colloquium (2016 Spring Semester) * Date July 11 * Speaker Dr. Vivien Raymond (AEI-MPI) * Title Astrophysical inference from gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries with Advanced LIGO * Abstract   Gravitational-wave astronomy has made a tremendous stride forward with detections