May 17, 2012

A Synthesis of the Cosmic X-ray and Infrared Backgrounds
Dr. Yong Shi (California Institute of Technology)
Time: 4:00 pm, Thursday, May 17, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 3, 2012

The Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies
Jong-Hak Woo (Seoul National University)
Time: 4:00 pm, Thursday, May 3, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 26, 2012

Testing General Relativity Using the Environmental Dependence of Dark Matter halos
Gongbo Zhao (University of Portsmouth, UK)
Time: 4:00 pm, Thursday, April 26, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 12, 2012

A golden age in gamma-ray pulsar astrophysics
Pablo Saz Parkinson (SCIPP, University of California, Santa Cruz)
Time: 4:00 pm, Thursday, April 12, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 6, 2012

Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters Over the Past 10 Billion Years
Kim-Vy Tran (Texas A&M University)
Time: 4:00 pm, Friday, April 6, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 29, 2012

Galaxy Clusters from Inside to Out: Thermal Instability and Non-thermal Pressure Support
Ian Parrish (UC Berkeley)
Time: 4:00 pm, Thursday, Mar 29, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 22, 2012

Fundamental physics from astronomical observations
Raul Jimenez (ICREA, Univ of Barcelona)
Time: 4:00 pm, Thursday, Mar 22, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 14, 2012

Galaxy and Mass Assembly: Cluster Galaxies as Probes of Galaxy Evolution and Formation
Roberto De Propris (NOAO/ Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory)
Time: 2:30 pm, Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 14, 2012

Supermassive Black Holes and the Warm Ionized Gas in Early-type Galaxies
Renbin Yan (Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, New York University)
Time: 4:00 pm, Wednesday, Mar 14, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 8, 2012

Simulating Globular Clusters with Monte Carlo Codes
Jonathan Downing (Univ. of Heidelberg)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Mar 8, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Jan 5, 2012

Cosmology on large and small cosmic scales
Yinzhe Ma (UBC/Vancouver)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Jan 5, 2012
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Dec 15, 2011

Pulsar Lensing and Gravity Wave Observatories
Ue-Li Pen (CITA)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Dec 15, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Dec 1, 2011

The Role of Turbulence in Planet Formation - From colliding boulders to migrating planets
H. Hubertus Klahr (Max-Planck Inst for Astronomy)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Dec 1, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Nov 10, 2011

Dynamics of disk galaxies
Juntai Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Oct 27, 2011

Probing the Extreme Universe -- From ANITA & ARA Cosmic Neutrino Observatory in the South Pole to UFFO GRB Telescope in Space
Pisin Chen (National Taiwan University & KIPAC)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Oct 27, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Oct 20, 2011

Measuring the Spin of the Accreting Black Hole Cygnus X-1
Lijun Gou (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Oct 20, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Oct 13, 2011

A Deep, Wide-Field, Panchromatic Survey of 47 Tuc and the SMC
Jason Kalirai (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Oct 13, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Oct 10, 2011

News from the Atlas3D project: shifting our paradigm for early-type galaxies
Eric Emsellem (ESO Garching)
Time: 12 noon, Monday, Oct 10, 2011
Venue: Room 2907, DoA

Sep 29, 2011

Linking Star Formation Histories with Galaxy Assembly
Amanda Bauer (Australian Astronomical Observatory, Sydney)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Sep 29, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Sep 1, 2011

Early Evolution of the Milky Way's satellite system
Gerhard Hensler (Univ. of Vienna)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, Sep 1, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Aug 25, 2011

Recent trends in Pierre Auger Observatory
Ernesto Kemp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Time: 4 pm, Thursday, 25 Aug, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

June 23, 2011

Open Questions in GRB Physics
Bing Zhang (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, June 23, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

June 17, 2011

A Tale of Methane on Two Planets
Yuk L. Yung (California Institute of Technology)
Time: Friday 4:00 pm, June 17, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

June 3, 2011

Gravitational Secondaries in the CMB
Wayne Hu (Chicago University)
Time: Friday 4:00 pm, June 3, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

June 2, 2011

New Chandra and Hubble Observations of Supernova 1987A (PPT)
Richard McCray (Colorado University)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, June 2, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 26, 2011

Particle Acceleration in Young Supernova Remnants
Siming Liu (PMO)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 26, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 19, 2011

The Promise of a Big Radio Telescope
Di Li (FAST/NAOC)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 19, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 12, 2011

The impact of baryon physics on the structure of high-redshift galaxies
Marcel Zemp (Michigan University)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 12, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 5, 2011

Signals from the Cosmological Recombination Epoch
Jens Chluba (CITA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 5, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Apr 28, 2011

Magnetic field structure in accretion discs around neutron stars
Luca Naso (Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National Astronomical Observatories)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Apr 28, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Apr 21, 2011

Substructure in lensing galaxies
Shude Mao (NAOC)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Apr 21, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Apr 22, 2011

Evidence for a top-heavy IMF in extreme star-bursts
Pavel Kroupa (University of Bonn)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Apr 22, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Apr 14, 2011

A Bayesian model of galaxy formation: tensions between theory and observation
Houjun Mo, University of Massachusetts
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Apr 13, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Apr 8, 2011

High energy cosmic-ray and neutrino astronomy
Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Apr 8, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Apr 7, 2011

The formation of low-mass stars
Dimitris Stamatellos (Cardiff University, UK)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Apr 7, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 24, 2011

SOFIA: Progress and Initial Science Flights
Erick Young (SOFIA Science Center)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Mar 24, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 17, 2011

Recent Results on Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology from the RCS and the SpARCS Surveys
Howard Yee (Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Univ. of Toronto)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Mar 17, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 10, 2011

DRAGON: a new comprehensive numerical model for Cosmic Ray Nuclei in the Galaxy
Carmelo Evoli (NAOC)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Mar 10, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 3, 2011

The connection between missing stellar cusps in galactic nuclei and general relativity
Pau Amaro-Seoane (Albert-Einstein-Inst., MPIG, Potsdam, Germany)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Mar 3, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Feb 24, 2011

Angular momentum evolution and the impact of minor mergers on disk galaxies
Yan Qu (GEPI, Observatoire de Paris)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Feb 24, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Jan 20, 2011

Evolution of growing black holes in axisymmetric galaxy cores
Dr. Jose Fiestas (ARI-ZAH, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Jan 20, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Jan 7, 2011 (Joint Plasma - KIAA colloquium)

Multi-scale interaction in diffusive shock acceleration
P H Diamond (Univ Calif,San Diego,USA; and Natl Fusion Research Institute, Daejeon, ROK)
Time: Friday 2:30 pm, Jan 7, 2011
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

December 17, 2010 (Joint Plasma - KIAA colloquium)

Fast Reconnection and Change of the Paradigm of Star Formation
Alex Lazarian (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Time: Friday 2:30 pm, December 17, 2010
Venue: Physics Building, central 212

December 16, 2010

Using Andromeda as a Testbed of Hierarchical Galaxy Formation
Puragra Guhathakurta (UCSC)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, December 16, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

December 9, 2010

Classical Cepheids as distance indicators, stellar tracers and stellar physics laboratories
Giuseppe Bono (Institute University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, December 9, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

December 2, 2010

The star capture model for fueling quasar accretion disks
Gareth Kennedy (University of Barcelona)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, December 2, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

November 25, 2010

A Chemical Probe into the Star Formation History of Our Galaxy Using the SAGA Database
Takuma Suda (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, November 25, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

November 18, 2010

The birth of OB stars in spiral galaxies (pptx)
Frank Shu (University of California, San Diego)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, November 18, 2010
Venue: Auditorium room, KIAA-PKU

November 11, 2010

M31, Globular Star Clusters, and LAMOST
Harvey Richer (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Time: Thursday 3:30 pm, November 11, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

November 11, 2010

Pulsars: New Results, New Discoveries, New Instruments
Michael Kramer (Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany/University of Manchester, UK)
Time: Thursday 4:30 pm, November 11, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

November 2, 2010

Massive black hole X-ray binaries
Roger Blandford (Stanford/KIPAC/SLAC)
Time: Tuesday 4:15 pm, November 2, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

October 29, 2010

VLBI for gravitational waves: how networks add value?
Bernard F Schutz (Albert Einstein Institute, Germany)
Time: Friday 3:00 pm, October 29, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

October 28, 2010

Mergers and ejections of black holes in globular cluster
Sverre Aarseth (Cambridge University)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, October 28, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

October 14, 2010

Long Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors: Rotating Massive Stars or Mergers of ONe White Dwarfs?
Herbert Lau (Monash University, Australia)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, October 14, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

September 30, 2010

Submillimeter Science - in the Past and Future of KOSMA
Martin Miller (University of Cologne, Germany)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, September 30, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Septemper 16, 2010

The inner edge of the black hole accretion disk
Marek Abramowicz (Goteborg University, Sweden)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Septemper 16, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

August 26, 2010

Relations Between galaxy nuclei and galaxy bulges
Dean McLaughlin (Lennard-Jones Laboratories, Keele University, UK)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, August 26, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

June 24, 2010

A robust cosmic shear measurement method
Dr. Jun Zhang (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, June 24, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

June 22, 2010

Mapping our universe for precision cosmology
Max Tegmark (MIT)
Time: Tuesday 10:00 am, June 22, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

June 17, 2010

The search for B-mode polarization in the CMB: status and prospect
Chao-Lin Kuo (Physics and SLAC, Stanford University)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, June 17, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 27, 2010

Searching for dark matter with X-ray observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Prof. Michael Loewenstein (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 27, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 20, 2010

Accreting gas in AGN - the key to understanding quasar emission line spectra?
Prof. Gary J. Ferland (University of Kentucky, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 20, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 13, 2010

Cosmic puzzles: unveiling the origin of cosmic diffuse backgrounds
Dr. Marco Ajello (Kavli Institute for Partical Astrophysics and Cosmology, Standford University, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 13, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 6, 2010

The promise and challenge of detecting gravitational waves from space
Prof. Bernard F. Schutz (Max Planck Institute fro Gravitational Physics, Germany)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, May 6, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 29, 2010

Binary and recoiling supermassive black holes
Prof. Monica Colpi (University of Milano--Bicocca, Italy)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, April 29, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 22, 2010

A 100 year old problem: mystery of the source of cosmic rays
Prof. Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, April 22, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 15, 2010

Extragalactic globular cluster systems: -What's new and what's next? (PDF)
Dr. Thomas H. Puzia (Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council, Canada)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, April 15, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 8, 2010

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (PPT)
Prof. Christian Veillet (CFHT)
Time: Thursday 1:00 pm, April 8, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

April 1, 2010

Quake-induced shear vibrations of degenerate solid stars
Prof. Sergey Bastrukov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, April 1, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 25, 2010

Cosmology with cosmic microwave background radiation and quest for B-mode polarization
Prof. Tony Readhead (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Mar 25, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 18, 2010

Statistical properties of SDSS quasars and the evolution of the SMBH population across cosmic time
Dr. Yue Shen (Harvard University, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Mar 18, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Mar 11, 2010

Synthesis of organic compounds in the late stages of stellar evolution
Prof. Sun Kwok (University of Hong Kong, China)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Mar 11, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Jan 28, 2010

Gravitational lensing as a cosmological tool
Dr. Lindsay King (IoA, University of Cambridge, UK)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Jan 28, 2010
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Dec 24, 2009

Searching for the missing baryons
Dr. Taotao Fang (University of California Irvine, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Dec 24, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Dec 11, 2009

Probing the galaxies near the epoch of reionization
Prof. Jean-Paul Kneib (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, France)
Time: Friday 2:00 pm, Dec 11, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Dec 10, 2009

Debris disks around hot white dwarfs
Prof. You-Hua Chu (Astronomy Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00 pm, Dec 10, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Dec 3, 2009

The diverse X-ray source populations of globular clusters
Prof. Albert Kong (National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, China)
Time: Thursday 3:30 pm, Dec 3, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Nov 19, 2009

Extreme astrophysics with neutron stars
Prof. Marten van Kerkwijk (University of Toronto, Canada)
Time: Thursday 3:30 pm, Nov 19, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Nov 12, 2009

Stellar substructure and star clusters in the halo of M31
Prof. Annette Ferguson (Royal Observatory Edinburgh, UK)
Time: Thursday 3:30 pm, Nov 12, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Oct 15, 2009

Exploration of planets: prospective and destiny
Prof. Yuk Ling Yung (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Time: Thursday 3:30 pm, Oct 15, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Sep 17, 2009

AGN feedback
Prof. Jeremiah Ostriker (Princeton University Observatory, USA)
Time: Thursday 3:30 pm, Sep 17, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Sep 1, 2009

The fine-scale structure of dark matter halos
Prof. Simon D. M. White (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik)
Time: Thursday 3:30 pm, Sep 1, 2009
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Nov 13, 2008

AGN feedback and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters (PDF)
Dr. Hui Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Time: Thursday 4:00pm, Nov 13, 2008
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Nov 6, 2008

Effect of magnetic field in star formation (PPT)
Prof. Kohji Tomisaka (National Astronomical Observatory, Japan)
Time: Thursday 2:30pm, Nov 6, 2008
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Tracing the molecular gas mass in extreme enviroments (PPT)
Dr. Ming Zhu (Joint Astronomy Center, National Research Council, Canada)
Time: Thursday 4:00pm, Nov 6, 2008
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Nov 3, 2008

Secular galaxy evolution and bulge formation at z~2
Prof. Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany)
Time: Monday 4:00pm, Nov 3, 2008
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Oct 23, 2008

Signatures of string theory in cosmological observations (PDF)
Prof. Robert Barndenberger (McGill University, Canada)
Time: Thursday 2:30pm, Oct 23, 2008
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

Massive black holes and powerful starbursts at high redshift
Prof. Hagai Netzer (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Time: Thursday 4:00pm, Oct 23, 2008
Venue: Seminar room, KIAA-PKU

May 28th, 2007

Black Hole Accretion and Radiative Feedback from Quasars
Prof. Jeremiah Ostriker (Princeton University Observatory, Princeton)
Time: Monday 10:00am
Venue: Like Er Hao Lou (Natural Science Complex #2), Rm. 2907