Colloquium
SHAO Astrophysics Colloquium
Thursdays 3:00 - 4:00 pm
The Lecture Hall, The Third Floor of Astronomy Building
This is the wiki page for Astrophysics Colloquium at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. The colloquium language is usually English, unless otherwise stated (often due to some special reasons). If you would like to give a colloquium or invite someone to give a colloquium at SHAO, please contact one of the current members of the colloquium committee: Fulai Guo, Hong Guo, Minfeng Gu, Zhenya Zheng, Ling Zhu.
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 
|
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 and Andy Fabian (Univ of Cambridge) | Special colloquium at 9-11:30 am | Feng Yuan |
| May 9 | Tim Beers (Notre Dame) | The Origin of the Astrophysical r-Process | Fulai Guo |
| May 16 | Dandan Xu (Tsinghua) | Ling Zhu | |
| May 23 | Bin Hu (Beijing Normal Univ) | Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background | Fulai Guo |
| May 28 | Tao Wang (Univ of Tokyo) *Tuesday* | New insights into the formation of the most massive galaxies in the early Universe | 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) | Minfeng Gu | |
| June 13 | Zuhui Fan (Peking Univ /Yunnan Univ) | Zhenya Zheng | |
| June 20 | Fukun Liu (PKU) | Zhenya Zheng | |
| June 27 | Zhiyuan Li (Nanjing) | Minfeng Gu | |
| July 4 | Jie Jiang (BUAA) | Fulai Guo | |
| July 11 | Hugh Jones (University of Hertfordshire) | Shiyin Shen |
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 
|
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) | special colloquium | 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, Fulai Guo |
| Feb 23 | No Colloquium | ||
| March 2 | James Stone (Princeton) | cancelled | Feng Yuan, 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 |