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Frontiers of Astronomy and Astrophysics
-- an opening symposium of the KIAA-PKU
KIAA-PKU, Beijing, CHINA (June 27-29th, 2008) --
KIAA celebrates its inauguration as an international center of excellence and a
platform for world-wide collaboration in astronomy and astrophysics. The many
roles the KIAA intends to serve the scientific community include 1) to foster
active frontier research in a vibrant intellectual environment; 2) to provide
conceptual contexts for the development of major astronomical facilities; and
3) to facilitate synergetic multi-national collaborations.
The opening symposium is designed to highlight three broad-based
areas in modern astronomy and astrophysics as the main scientific
thematic foci for the KIAA in the near future. These sub-disciplines
include: 1) cosmology and galaxy formation, 2) high energy astrophysics
and active galactic nuclei, 3) star and planet formation in the
interstellar medium. Several leaders in the field will deliver keynote
lectures which cover overviews of the subject, highlights of recent
developments, and visions for future directions. There will also be
numerous topical presentations to report recent progress in a selection
of ongoing projects and research activities.
The opening symposium will begin with a ceremony to dedicate the opening
of the Institute building. With its traditional Chinese exterior and
lake-garden surroundings, the interior layout of this building is
specially designed to stimulate interaction and to host visiting
collaborators. It will be fully utilized as the physical setting
for the KIAA activities.
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Program of the Opening Ceremony |
Time: Friday, June 27th
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Venue: Yingjie Exchange Center, Peking University |
| 15:00 | welcoming remarks (D.N.C. Lin) | |
| | opening remarks (President Xu) | |
| | opening remarks (Fred Kavli) | |
| | opening remarks (Xian-en Zhang, Director of the Bureau of Basic Research, MOST) | |
| | opening remarks (Peiwen Ji, Executive Vice Director of the Math and Phys. Division, NSFC) | |
| | opening remarks (Ding Li, Director of the Bureau of Basic Research, CAS) | |
| | opening remarks (Jun Yan, Director of NAOC) | |
| | opening remarks (H.E. Mr Svein O. Saether, Norwegian Ambassador to China) | |
| | opening remarks (Yanlin Ye, Dean of the School of Physics, PKU) | |
| | opening remarks (Roger Blandford, Director of KIPAC, Stanford U.) | |
| | tour of the new building | |
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| 18:00 | Dinner (Shao Yuan Bld. #7) | |
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Program of Frontiers of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Time: June 27th - June 29th
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Venue: conference room of the School of Life Sciences, Peking University |
Thursday, June 26th
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| 14:00 - 18:00 | registration and receiption (Shao Yuan Bld.#7, Peking University Zheng Da International Center) |
| 18:00 - | dinner (Shao Yuan Bld.#2) |
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Friday, June 27th Morning session
Session I: ISM, clusters, stars and planets (Chair: D.N.C. Lin )
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| 08:30 - 09:10 | Frank Shu | The origin of jets in young stellar objects |
| 09:10 - 09:40 | Huirong Yan | New way of studying of magnetic field in diffuse astrophysical medium (PPT) |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Xiaowei Liu | Deep spectroscopy and 3D modeling of emission line nebulae (PDF) |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Eric Peng | Extragalactic globular clusters systems |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 - 11:40 | Robert Kennicutt | Galaxy evolution in the new cosmology |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Alain Omont | Molecules in galaxies, as probes of star formation and galaxy evolution (PPT) |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Yu Gao | Extragalactic star formation into the ALMA era |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Zhi-xia Shen | Li variation of TO stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 (PDF) |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | | 100 minutes lunch (Nong Yuan Dining-room, Peking University) |
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Saturday, June 28th Morning session
Session II: First light and galaxy assemblage (Chair: Ju-Fu Lu )
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| 08:30 - 09:10 | Simon White | Cosmic structure from large to (very) small scale |
| 09:10 - 09:40 | Hou-jun Mo | The formation and structure of cold dark matter halos (PDF) |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Qing-juan Yu | Massive black holes in galactic centers |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | | Coffee break |
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| 10:40 - 11:20 | Yi-peng Jing | Formation of galaxies and their environments |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Xiang-ping Wu | Probing the Epoch of Reionization with 21CMA (PPT) |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Jun-xian Wang | Searching for the first galaxies (PPT) |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | | 100 minutes lunch (Shao Yuan Bld.#2) |
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Saturday, June 28th Afternoon session
Session III: Dark energy and early universe (Chair: Kuang-Ta Chao )
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| 14:00 - 14:40 | Paul Steinhardt | Puzzles of the very early universe: inflation and alternatives |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Bin Chen | String cosmology: a brief overview (PPT) |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Xin-min Zhang | Recent progress on the study of dark energy (PPT) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Ran Wang | Millimeter and radio emission in the most distant quasars (PPT) |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | | Coffee break |
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| 16:20 - 17:00 | Michael Turner | Cosmic acceleration and dark energy ten years on |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Zu-hui Fan | Probing cosmology with weak gravitational lensing effects (PPT) |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Ravi Subrahmanyan | Large-scale structure of the universe - as probed by giant radio galaxies (PPT) |
| 18:00 - 18:30 | Xin-yu Dai | Quasar accretion disks under the microlens (PPT) |
| 18:30 - 18:50 | Lan Wang | Modeling the dependence of galaxy clustering on stellar mass and SEDs (PPT) |
| 19:20 - | | Banquet (Qing Hua Yuan Quan Ju De Restaurant |
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Sunday, June 29th Morning session
Session IV: Gravitation and high energy phenomena (Chair: Tan Lu )
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| 08:30 - 09:10 | Roger Blandford | Black hole power: active or passive? |
| 09:10 - 09:40 | Herbert Lau | Evolution and fate of metal-poor stars (PDF) |
| 09:40 - 10:10 | Fu-kun Liu | Supermassive black hole binaries in AGNs (PPT) |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | | Coffee break |
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| 10:40 - 11:20 | Ronald Taam | The high energy astrophysics of stellar compact objects |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Natalia Ivanova | Formation and evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond pulsars in globular clusters |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Richard de Grijs | Star cluster evolution: from young massive star clusters to old globulars |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | | 100 minutes lunch (Shao Yuan Bld.#2) |
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Sunday, June 29th Afternoon session
Session IV: Gravitation and high energy phenomena (Chair: Ti-Pei Li )
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| 14:00 - 14:40 | Shu-de Mao | Strong gravitational lensing |
| 14:40 - 15:10 | Shuang-nan Zhang | Structure and evolution of broad line regions in active galactic nuclei: |
| | implication for AGN unification scheme |
| 15:10 - 15:40 | Vladimir Pariev | Accretion flows in AGNs: how strong the magnetic fields can be? |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | | Coffee break |
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| 16:00 - 16:40 | Shri Kulkarni | A brave new world of transients: Gamma-ray, Optical and Radio |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Li-xin Li | The GRB-Supernova connection (PDF) |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Zi-gao Dai | Early afterglows & X-ray flares and GRB cosmology |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | Xian Chen | The tidal disruption rate in galactic nuclei containing SMBH binaries |
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| 18:10 - 18:10 | Simon White | closing remarks (Simon White) |
| 18:10 - 18:20 | Frank Shu | closing remarks (Frank Shu) |
| 18:20 - 18:30 | Jian-sheng Chen | closing remarks (Jian-sheng Chen) |
| 18:30 - 18:40 | D. Auston | closing remarks (D. Auston) |
| 19:00 - | | Dinner (Shao Yuan Bld.#2) |
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