Colloquium

SHAO Astrophysics Colloquium

The Lecture Hall, The Third Floor of Astronomy Building

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Fall 2021

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
Sep 9	Chenhui Niu
Sep 16	Meng Su
Sep 30	Yuqing Lou
Oct 14	Guang-Xing Li		Tie Liu
Oct 20
Oct 28	Fayin Wang
Nov 4	Bin Yue
Nov 11	Nicola Napolitano		Shi-yin Shen
Nov 18	Chichuan Jin
Nov 25	Tao Wang		Hong Guo
Dec 2	Miao Li
Dec 9	Min Fang
Dec 16	Qiusheng GU
Dec 23	Yefei Yuan
Dec 30	Tao-Chung Qing		Tie Liu } Spring 2021 Date Speaker Topic Host Mar 25 Xinwen Shu Stellar tidal disruption event by massive black holes: dormant vs. active, and single vs. binary. Apr 1 Chen Xian The Nature of Massive Gravitational Wave Sources Apr 15 Jirong Mao High-energy Transients: Multi-messager and Multi-wavelength Studies Apr 22 Bei You Timing and spectral properties of Black hole X-ray binary Apr 29 Wenting Wang The mass distribution in and around isolated central galaxies and our Milky Way Galaxy May 6 Feng Yuan Numerical study of AGN feedback May 13 Shaolin Xiong GECAM: an all-sky gamma-ray monitor in the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength era May 20 Wei Zhu Standing on the shoulders of Kepler May 27 Zhoujian Cao How far away we are from the template bank of CBC for gravitaitonal wave detection in space Jun 3 Rafael S. de Souza Searching for new structures in the Milky Way and beyond Jun 10 Ran Li mapping the dark matter universe Jun 17 Guoliang Li 中国空间站工程巡天空间望远镜主巡天观测仿真 Jun 24 Jianning Fu Stellar Pulsations and Asteroseismology Jul 1 Yao Liu Grain Growth and Dust Processing in Protoplanetary Disks Fall 2020 Date Speaker Topic Host Sep 24 Mouyuan Sun (XMU) The UV/optical Stochastic Variability as a Symptom of the AGN Central Engine Crisis Fulai Guo Oct 1 No colloquium (Holidays) Oct 8 No colloquium (Holidays) Oct 15 Jinlin Han (NAOC) FAST - Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey (GPPS) Feng Yuan Oct 22 Ruizhi Yang (USTC) The Milky Way in Gamma-rays Fulai Guo Oct 29 Donglian Xu (SJTU） Probing the extreme Universe with a “nu” messenger Minfeng Gu Nov 5 Zhen Cao (IHEP) The first results of LHAASO: Opening The UHE g-ray Astronomy Minfeng Gu Nov 12 Di Li (NAOC) CRAFTS: the World’s First Commensal HI and Pulsar Survey Tie Liu Nov 19 Zhaohui Shang (NAOC) Progress in Chinese Antarctic Astronomy MinFeng Gu Nov 26 Xi Kang (ZJU) The quenching of massive spiral galaxies ppt Shiyin Shen Dec 3 Hua Feng (Tsinghua) Reopening the window of astronomical soft X-ray polarimetry Wenfei Yu Dec 10 Wei Cui (Tsinghua) Galaxies in X-ray Perspective Feng Yuan Dec 17 Shuo Cao (BNU) Tests of General Relativity with ultra-compact radio quasars and strong gravitational lensing Huanyuan Shan Dec 24 Ke Wang (KIAA) A filamentary view of the Milky Way interstellar medium Tie Liu Jan 7 Bin Wang (SJTU) Dark Matter, Dark Energy Interaction: Cosmological Implications, Observational Signatures and Theoretical Challenges Wenbiao Han Spring 2020 Date Speaker Topic Host Apr 16 Fabo Feng (Carnegie) Detect and characterize exoplanets using Gaia and Hipparcos data Ling Zhu Apr 23 Cheng Zhao (EPFL) Cosmology with large-scale structures Huanyuan Shan Apr 30 Yuan Wang (MPIA) HOR - The HI/OH/Recombination line survey of the inner Milky Way Huanyuan Shan May 14 Jun Hou (SHNU) Angular momentum accretion in galaxy formation Quan Guo May 21 Chao Liu (NAOC) LAMOST——from low-resolution to time-domain spectroscopic survey Ling Zhu & Huanyuan Shan Jun 4 Jie Wang (NAOC) Simulating the structure formation over 30 order of magnitudes in mass Ling Zhu & Huanyuan Shan Jun 11 Haoran Yu (XMU) The spins of galaxies and their probe of the primordial Universe Fulai Guo Jun 18 Long Wang （U-Tokyo） The impact of stellar dynamics on the formation and evolution of star clusters Huanyuan Shan Jun 25 No colloquium: Dragon Boat Festival holidays July 2 Lijing Shao (KIAA) Testing Gravity with Gravitational Waves Huanyuan Shan July 9 Huiyuan Wang (USTC) Characteristic mass in galaxy quenching: environmental versus internal effects Feng Yuan Fall 2019 Date Speaker Topic Host Aug 23 Eric Jullo (LAM) Cosmology with gravitational lensing in HST and wide field imaging surveys Huanyuan Shan Sep 5 Hong-Sheng Zhao (St. Andrews) A new way to measure potential and transverse velocity Huanyuan Shan Sep 12 Sep 19 Xue-Bing Wu (Peking Uni) Changing-look AGNs: Discoveries and Challenges Wenfei Yu & Feng Yuan Oct 3 No colloquium (Holidays) Oct 8 Jiangtao Li (Univ. of Michigan) What is beyond the “visible” galaxy? (2 pm in middle conference room) Fulai Guo Oct 10 Tie Liu (SHAO) The initial conditions of star formation Feng Yuan Oct 15 Hongyan Zhou (PRIC) First discovery of inflows fueling supermassive black hole accretion disks Lei Hao Oct 17 Charling Tao (CPPM) Highlights in cosmology 2019 Huanyuan Shan Oct 24 He Gao (BNU) Electromagnetic Counterparts for binary neutron star mergers Wenbiao Han Oct 30 Renato Dupke (National Obs. Brazil, 10am) J-PAS: The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey Zhenya Zheng Oct 31 Xianzhong Zheng (PMO) Understanding connections between star formation and dust obscuration in galaxies over time Ling Zhu & Huanyuan Shan Nov 14 Yu Gao An ALMA View of Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies/Quasars Feng Yuan Nov 21 Xuening Bai (Tsinghua) Magnetohydrodynamic-Particle-in-Cell Method and its Applications in Plasma Astrophysics Feng Yuan Nov 27 Konrad Kuijken (Leiden) Cosmology from weak gravitational lensing: latest results from the Kilo-Degree Survey Huanyuan Shan Nov 28 Suoqing Ji (Caltech) The Cosmic Ray-Dominated Circumgalactic Medium Fulai Guo Dec 5 Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL) Massive Spectroscopic Surveys & Fibre Positioner Robots Huanyuan Shan Dec 12 Fangjun Lu (IHEP) X-ray Emission of Pulsar Wind Nebulae Wenfei Yu Dec 19 Nan Li (NAOC) Applications of Simulations of Strong Lensing in Astrophysics and Cosmology Shiyin Shen Dec 26 Yingjie Peng (PKU/KIAA) Galaxy assembly across cosmic time Feng Yuan Jan 2 Wen Zhao (USTC) Gravitational waves and testing of gravity Ling Zhu & Huanyuan Shan Jan 9 Chengze Liu (SJTU) Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) in the Virgo cluster Ling Zhu & Huanyuan Shan Spring 2019 Date Speaker Topic Host March 7 Wenda Zhang (Czech Academy of Sciences) Self-consistent calculations of Comptonised spectra of extended AGN coronae in Kerr spacetime Fulai Guo March 14 Zigao Dai (Nanjing Univ) Neutron Star Mergers Fulai Guo March 21 Sowgat Muzahid (Leiden Observatory) MUSEQuBES CGM Surveys: From Low-z Star-forming Galaxies to High-z Lyman-alpha Emitters pdf Shiyin Shen March 28 Binbin Zhang (Nanjing) Data-Oriented GRB Research and the Gravitational Wave GRBs Minfeng Gu April 4 Cosimo Bambi (Fudan Univ.) Testing general relativity using X-ray reflection spectroscopy Fulai Guo April 11 Xiao-Jun Bi (IHEP) Geminga周围介质性质及对宇宙线正电子超出的影响 Fulai Guo April 18 Cheng Li (Tsinghua) Mapping the stars, gas and dust in nearby galaxies Ling Zhu April 19 Xun Shi (Yunnan Univ) at 10 am Turbulence and non-thermal pressure in galaxy clusters Fulai Guo April 25 Shude Mao (Tsinghua) What have we learned about extrasolar planets with microlensing? Ling Zhu May 2 No colloquium: Labor Day holidays May 9 Chris Reynolds (Univ of Cambridge) Special colloquium at 9 am: Why do active galactic nuclei vary? Fulai Guo May 9 Andy Fabian (Univ of Cambridge) Special colloquium at 10:30 am: Recent Advances in X-ray Observational Studies of Luminous Black Holes Fulai Guo May 9 Tim Beers (Notre Dame) The Origin of the Astrophysical r-Process. Slides for his two talks are available here: Monday and Thursday. Fulai Guo May 16 Dandan Xu (Tsinghua) A study of stellar orbital fractions: the CALIFA observed and the IllustrisTNG simulated galaxies Ling Zhu May 23 Bin Hu (Beijing Normal Univ) Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Fulai Guo May 28 Tao Wang (Univ of Tokyo) *Tuesday* New frontiers in galaxy and cluster formation in the early universe and challenges to theoretical models Zhenya Zheng May 30 Daniel Wang (University of Massachusetts) Probing Astrophysics of Galactic Feedback in Nearby Disk Galaxies Fulai Guo June 6 Ran Wang (KIAA/PKU) Co-evolution of the first supermassive black holes and their host galaxies Minfeng Gu June 13 Zuhui Fan (Peking Univ /Yunnan Univ) Steepness as a probe in weak lensing cosmological studies Zhenya Zheng June 20 Fukun Liu (PKU) Modeling the stellar tidal disruption events by supermassive black holes Zhenya Zheng June 25 Jian Ge (University of Florida) Deep Neural Network in Big Astronomical Data Era Fulai Guo June 27 Zhiyuan Li (Nanjing) New insights on the X-ray Source Populations in the Galactic Center and Nearby Galaxy Clusters Minfeng Gu July 4 Jie Jiang (Beihang University) The solar cycle: its variability and prediction Fulai Guo July 5 Hui Li (Los Alamos National Lab) Energy Evolution and Particle Energization in Turbulent Astrophysical Plasmas (at 10 am) Fulai Guo July 10 Liang Dai (IAS) ------ at 10 am Einstein’s Microscope: Caustic Transiting Stars in Lensing Clusters as Probes of Dark Matter Granular Structure Fulai Guo July 11 Hugh Jones (University of Hertfordshire) Exoplanets from the radial velocities of nearby stars Shiyin Shen July 23 Eric F. Bell (University of Michigan) How do mergers affect galaxies? (Tuesday 3pm) Juntai Shen August 5 David Elbaz (CEA-Saclay) Latest news on the formation of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters with ALMA (Monday 10am) Fulai Guo Fall 2018 Date Speaker Topic Host Sep 25 Chi-Kwan Chan (Univ of Arizona) special colloquium: Imaging Event Horizons Fulai Guo Sep 27 Wei Wang (Wuhan Univ) Probe of Supernova Progenitors with Gamma-rays Fulai Guo Oct 4 No colloquium (Holidays) Oct 11 Jiaxin Han (SJTU) The small scale distribution of dark matter--from simulations to observations Hong Guo Oct 18 Yao Chen (Shandong Univ-Weihai) Initiation and Energy Release of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections and Relevant Solar Radio Bursts Juntai Shen Oct 25 Piero Madau (UCSC) Connecting the Dark and Light Side of Galaxy Formation Fulai Guo Nov 1 John Kormendy (Univ of Texas at Austin) Special: STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF S0 AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES pdf Juntai Shen Nov 1 Yu Dai (NAOC) Is there a relationship between AGN and star formation in IR-bright AGNs? Hong Guo Nov 8 Yi Mao (Tsinghua) Reionization science and 21-cm cosmology in the era of SKA Juntai Shen Nov 15 Subo Dong (Peking Univ) The Full Transient Sky at <17 mag Zhenya Zheng Nov 22 No colloquium due to the annual CAS key lab meeting Nov 29 Yongquan Xue (USTC) Probing AGN Physics with Variability Studies Minfeng Gu Dec 6 Jing Wang (Peking Univ) An HI view of the nearby galaxies Hong Guo Dec 13 Lulu Fan (Shandong Univ-Weihai) WISE-selected, luminous dust-obscured quasars and their host galaxies Zhenya Zheng Dec 20 Weimin Gu (Xiamen Univ) Accretion disks and outflows: theories and applications to ULXs and GRBs Minfeng Gu Dec 21 Dong Lai (Cornell Univ) Circumbinary Accretion: From Supermassive Binary Black Holes to Circumbinary Planets Fulai Guo Dec 27 Qingwen Wu (HUST) black holes and jets in the Universe Minfeng Gu Jan 3 Jianfeng Wu (Xiamen Univ) X-ray Emission of High-Redshift Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei Fulai Guo Jan 8 Niel Brandt (Penn State) special colloq 3pm, A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth Fulai Guo Jan 10 Hongyan Zhou Hydrogen and Helium Absorption-Lines in Quasars Zhenya Zheng Jan 17 Kohei Inayoshi (KIAA) Black hole accretion in the present-day and early universe Fulai Guo Jan 21 Xiangcheng Ma (UC Berkeley) Galaxy formation in the first billion years of the Universe: progress, big questions, and future Fulai Guo Spring 2018 Date Speaker Topic Host March 8 Alex Pettitt (Hokudai) What drives the morphological features of disc galaxies? Juntai Shen March 15 Lei Hao (SHAO) Galaxy Evolution via 2D Spectroscopy Fulai Guo March 22 Pengjie Zhang (SJTU) ABS, CMB foreground removal, weak lensing reconstruction by counting galaxies, and beyond Juntai Shen March 29 Andrzej Zdziarski (Copernicus Astronomical Center) Jets in black-hole binaries Fulai Guo April 5 No Colloquium Holiday April 11 Jerry Sellwood (University of Arizona) The Origin of Spirals in Galaxies / time: 2 pm (Wednesday) Juntai Shen April 19 S. Peng Oh (Univ of California, Santa Barbara) Make it, Shake it, Bake it: Warm Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium Fulai Guo April 26 Xinwen Shu (Anhui Normal University) Supersoft AGNs: signature of super Eddington accretion, IMBH, TDE or new AGN spectral state? Fulai Guo May 4 Tinggui Wang (USTC) Friday 3 pm 超大质量黑洞撕裂恒星事件 Juntai Shen May 10 Zhenya Zheng (SHAO) Probing Cosmic Reionization with Lyman Alpha Galaxies Fulai Guo May 17 Jian-Min Wang (IHEP) Reverberation Mapping of AGNs Fulai Guo May 24 Ying Zu (SJTU) Galaxy-Halo Connection for Next Generation Galaxy Surveys Hong Guo May 31 Tong Liu (Xiamen University) 伽玛暴中心的黑洞超吸积 Fulai Guo June 7 Qi Guo (NAOC) Galaxy formation in the context of concordance cosmology: confront theory with observations Hong Guo June 14 Guilin Liu (USTC) Star formation and quasar feedback on galactic scales Fulai Guo June 21 Jifeng Liu (NAOC) 司天工程 Juntai Shen June 28 Jingwen Wu (NAOC) Hot dust-obscured galaxies: Catching the maximum SMBH accretion during galaxy evolution Juntai Shen Fall 2017 Date Speaker Topic Host Sep 7 Mousumi Das (Indian Institute of Astrophysics) Low Surface Brightness Galaxies - their morphological classes and disk evolution Fulai Guo Sep 14 Stijn Wuyts (Univ. of Bath) The Growth of Disks and Bulges Fulai Guo Sep 18 Mike Rich (UC Los Angeles) New Observational Perspectives on the Galaxy's Central Bulge/Bar System Juntai Shen Sep 21 Sandra Faber (UCSC) Toy model for the growth of black holes and galaxy quenching Juntai Shen Sep 28 Ji-Wei Xie (Nanjing Univ) The scientific impact of the LAMOST on exoplanet research Fulai Guo Oct 5 No colloquium (Holidays) Oct 12 Xiaowei Liu (PKU) The LAMOST Spectroscopic Survey of the Galactic Anti-center Fulai Guo Oct 19 E. (Lia) Athanassoula (LAM) Dynamical and chemical modeling of Milky Way-type galaxies Martin Smith Oct 26 Xian Chen (PKU) Retrieving the true mass of gravitational-wave sources Hong Guo Nov 2 Yifu Cai (USTC) Probing the Very Early Universe with CMB Experiments Hong Guo Nov 9 Tong Liu (Xiamen Univ) cancelled Fulai Guo Nov 16 Bernhard Brandl (Leiden) Science Goals of the Mid-Infrared Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) at ESO's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) Fulai Guo Nov 23 Xu Kong (USTC) Star formation quenching and mass assembly of galaxies Hong Guo Nov 30 Xiaohu Yang (SJTU) Mapping the real space distribution of galaxies Juntai Shen Dec 7 Jinlin Han (NAOC) 银河系结构与磁场研究的新结果 Juntai Shen Dec 13 Jian Ge (Univ of Florida) Searching for Habitable Worlds Using Artificial Intelligence (special time: 10:30 am) Fulai Guo Dec 14 Yong Shi (Nanjing Univ) Star Formation Across Cosmic Time Hong Guo Dec 21 note: cancelled due to SKA meeting Dec 28 Liang Gao (NAOC) 暗物质天文学研究 Juntai Shen Jan 4 Daniel Wang (Univ of Massachusetts) The Galactic Center Ecosystem Fulai Guo Jan 11 Hua Feng (Tsinghua) Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Fulai Guo Jan 18 Zheng Zheng (Univ of Utah) The Curious Case of Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies Hong Guo Jan 25 Shiyin Shen (SHAO) The dust along the line-of-sight to extra-galactic objects Fulai Guo Spring 2017 Date Speaker Topic Host Feb 16 Christine Wilson (McMaster) Observing Galaxies with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Ting Xiao Feb 23 No Colloquium March 2 James Stone (Princeton) cancelled Fulai Guo March 9 Di Li (NAOC) An Unprecedented Commensal Drift-Scan Survey with FAST Fulai Guo March 16 Yipeng Jing (SJTU) 星系红移巡天 Juntai Shen March 23 Alok Gupta (ARIES/SHAO) Multi-wavelength Time Domain Astronomy: To Probe the Environs of Central Super Massive Black Hole of Blazars Fulai Guo March 30 Pengfei Chen (NJU) Observations and Modeling of Solar Coronal Waves Fu-Guo Xie April 6 Jun Lin (Yunnan Observatories) Lin-Forbes Model for the Solar Eruption and the CME/Flare Current Sheet Juntai Shen April 11 James Binney (Oxford) Special Colloquium: How did our Galaxy form? Martin Smith April 13 Martin Bureau (Oxford) 3D Observations of Molecular Gas in Galaxies: From Global Dynamics to Supermassive Black Holes Juntai Shen April 20 Xiaofeng Wang (Tsinghua) Supernova Zoo: Obervations and Theories Juntai Shen April 27 Xi Kang (PMO) Galaxy formation and spatial alignment Fu-Guo Xie May 4 Wei Cui (Tsinghua/Purdue) Probing Missing Baryons with X-ray Spectroscopy Juntai Shen May 11 Xuefeng Wu (PMO) Testing Fundamental Physics With Fast Radio Bursts Fu-Guo Xie May 18 Zigao Dai (NJU) Models for Fast Radio Bursts and Future Astrophysical Tests Fu-guo Xie May 25 Zhanwen Han (Yunnan Observatories) Binary population synthesis and the formation of binary-related objects Juntai Shen June 1 Jin Chang (PMO) 空间探测暗物质粒子 Fulai Guo June 8 Linhua Jiang (KIAA/PKU) Properties of Spectroscopically-Confirmed Galaxies at z >= 6 Fu-Guo Xie June 15 Qiang Yuan (PMO) Cosmic ray physics and dark matter searches with AMS-02 Fulai Guo June 22 Junxian Wang (USTC) The UV/Optical Variation in Active Galactic Nuclei Fulai Guo June 29 Xiang-Yu Wang (NJU) Multi-messenger approach to study the origin of high-energy cosmic rays Fu-Guo Xie Fall 2016 Date Speaker Topic Host Oct 20 Weiguang Cui (ICRAR/UWA) The MACRO simulated galaxy cluster project: The final chapter Fu-Guo Xie Oct 27 Jun Zhang (CAA/SJTU) Recent Progress in Weak Lensing Measurement Fu-Guo Xie Oct 28 Sandra Faber (UCSC) Fast vs. Slow: Galaxy Death at z ~ 2 vs. z ~ 0 (NEW TIME: 10 am) Fulai Guo Nov 3 Neal Evans (UT Austin) What Determines Star Formation Rates? Fulai Guo Nov 10 Richard (Dick) Manchester (CSIRO) Pulsars and FRBs: Recent Developments Fulai Guo Nov 17 Houjun Mo (Tsinghua/UMass) Reconstructing the initial conditions to simulate the formation of the local universe Juntai Shen Nov 24 Bin Luo (Nanjing Univ.) Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth in the 7 Ms CDF-S Fulai Guo Dec 1 Youjun Lu (NAOC) A short introduction to gravitational wave and gravitational wave astrophysics Fulai Guo Dec 8 Peter Scicluna (ASIAA) Comparing radiative transfer models and observations of astrophysical dust Lei Hao Dec 15 Siming Liu (PMO) Acceleration of high-energy particles in supernova remnants Fulai Guo Dec 22 Shuang-Nan Zhang (IHEP) Testing Einstein’s Equivalent Principle with Fast Radio Bursts and the Problem of Detecting Electromagnetic Waves from Merging Black Holes Fulai Guo Dec 29 Xiang-Dong Li (Nanjing Univ) Formation of Galactic Black Hole Low-Mass X-ray Binaries Fulai Guo Jan 5, 2017 Shude Mao (Tsinghua/NAOC) Is the IMF Universal in Galaxies? A MaNGA View Fulai Guo Jan 12, 2017 Luis Ho (KIAA/Peking) Some Unsolved Problems in Black Hole - Galaxy Coevolution Fulai Guo Jan 19, 2017 Richard de Grijs (KIAA) TIME: 1:30 pm Not-so-simple stellar populations in nearby, resolved massive star clusters Fulai Guo