High-energy astrophysics in the X-ray and GeV energies
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 and Fermi, our understandings of astrophysical compact objects have improved significantly. In particular, supernova […]
ALMA Town Meeting
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 (Jongsoo Kim) 15:00 – 15:25 Introduction to the ALMA Observing Tool (Aran Lyo) […]
Lighting up the Universe with Extreme Supernovae
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 outside traditional SN classification schemes. These exotic outliers in many cases are due […]
Multi-frequency mm-VLBI observations of AGNs with KVN
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 the challenges of mm-VLBI and the new opportunities offered by KVN, i.e. FPT […]
Rugged but enigmatic post-Planck Cosmos
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 cosmological model’ hasrelied on certain key assumptions at various levels. I review work […]
Hot subdwarf stars in binaries
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 most of these stars must have lost their hydrogen envelope by stellar winds […]
Numerical simulations of structure formation: LCDM and beyond
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 this talk, I will first show how the initial conditions can affect the […]
New Insights into the Role and Importance of Interstellar Nanoparticles
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 an important role in modern astrophysics. Mid-infrared emission from PAHs is widely used […]
Superconducting Gravitational Wave Detector For Observation in Infrasound Frequency Band
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 (BHs) by Advanced LIGO has opened a new window of astronomical observation. Many conceivable […]
Feedback-regulated fueling of massive 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 of many astrophysical questions pertaining to black hole growth and the coevolution of […]
