CHINA-US BILATERAL WORKSHOP ON ASTRONOMY
Program
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Sunday, 20 April |
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09:00-18:00 |
Arrival pick-up for foreign participants & Registration
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18:00-20:00 |
Reception Dinner (Sleeping Buddha Hotel)
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Monday, 21 April |
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Morning Session I:
Introduction to US and Chinese astronomy |
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Chair:
Rendong Nan |
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08:00-08:10 |
Welcome Addresses |
Jun Yan (Director of NAOC) |
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08:10-08:30 |
Briefing NAOC |
Gang Zhao (Vice Director of
NAOC) |
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08:30-9:00 |
Astronomy in |
Prof. J. S. Chen (NAOC/PKU) |
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9:00-9:30 |
NRAO and International Connections |
Prof. K. Y. Lo (NRAO) |
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9:30-10:00 |
Coffee Break
& Group photo |
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Morning Session
II: FAST Project: Science
and Technology |
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Chair:
Fred Lo |
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10:00-10:30 |
FAST Project: Status and Directions |
Prof. R. Nan (NAOC) |
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10:30-11:00 |
Cutting Edge Pulsar Science with GBT and Next Generation Facilities |
Dr. Scott Ransom (NRAO) |
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11:00-11:30 |
Pulsar Studies at |
Prof. Na Wang (UAO/NAOC) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Gravitational Wave Detection by Pulsar Timing |
Dr. Rick Jenet ( |
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12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session I: VLBI Science and
Applications |
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Chair: Jiangsheng Chen |
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14:00-14:30 |
Chinese VLBI
Network and applications |
Prof. Xiaoyu Hong (SHAO) |
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14:30-15:00 |
SgrA* and the Galactic Center |
Prof. James Moran (CFA) |
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15:00-15:30 |
Probing into the shadow of the galactic center black hole with sub-millimeter VLBI |
Prof. Zhiqiang Shen (SHAO) |
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15:30-16:00 |
VLBI observation of
a sub-sample of EGRET-detected AGNs |
Prof. Xiaoyu Hong (SHAO) |
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16:00-16:30 |
VLBI Studies of Relativistic Jets in the GLAST Era and Possibilities for US-China Collaboration |
Dr. Teddy Cheung (GSFC) |
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16:30-17:00 |
Coffee Break |
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Afternoon Session II: Solar
Radio Astrophysics |
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Chair:
Jean Turner |
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17:00-17:30 |
The solar radio
observations at dm-cm wavelengths - on progress of
CSRH project |
Prof. Yihua Yan (NAOC) |
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17:30-18:00 |
Science Objectives
of the Frequency Agile Solar Array (FASR) |
Dr. Tim Bastian
(NRAO) |
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18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
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Tuesday, 22 April |
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Morning Session: Early Universe |
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Chair:
Shuangnan
Zhang |
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08:30-09:00 |
Reionization and
the First Galaxies |
Prof. Donald Backer (UC, Berkeley) |
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09:00-09:30 |
The first stars and
their |
Prof.
Xuelei Chen (NAOC) |
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09:30-09:45 |
Millimeter & radio studies on high red shift Quasars at z〜6 |
PhD Ran Wang(PKU) |
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09:45-10:00 |
21CMA: status & prospect |
Dr. Bo Qin （NAOC） | |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30-11:00 |
Prof. Anthony Reahead (Calteck) |
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11:00-11:30 |
RM tomography of
cosmology magnetic field |
Prof. Jinlin Han (NAOC) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Cosmological
evolution of type 2 quasars |
Prof. Jianmin Wang(IHEP) |
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12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session I: High
Energy Astrophysics |
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Chair:
Donald Backer |
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14:00-14:30 |
HXMT |
Prof. T.P. Li (Tsinghua) |
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14:30-15:00 |
High Energy Astrophysics with NRAO Facilities |
Dr. Dale Frail
(NRAO) |
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15:00-15:30 |
Jets and Environments of Microquasars |
Prof. Shuangnan Zhang (Tsinghua) |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:00-16:30 |
Sub-millisecond radio pulsars |
Prof. Renxin Xu |
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16:30-17:00 |
Pulsar radio and gamma-ray emission: the annular
gap model |
Prof. Guojun Qiao (PKU) |
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17:00-17:30 |
Multi-wavelength studies on AGNs and Microquasars |
Prof. Xue-Bing Wu (PKU) |
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17:30-18:00 |
High energy emission in blazars
and other radio-loud AGNs |
Prof. Jinming Bai
(YNAO/NAOC) |
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18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
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Wednesday, 23 April Excursion
activities |
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Thursday, 24 April |
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Morning Session:
Star and Galaxy Formation |
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Chair:
James Moran |
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08:30-09:00 |
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Microwave emissions
- critical tools for probing massive star formation |
Prof. Yuefang Wu (PKU) |
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09:30-10:00 |
Star formation rate
in galaxies |
Prof. Yu Gao (PMO) |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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10:30-11:00 |
The Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey |
Dr. Aaron Evans (UV, |
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11:00-11:30 |
Star Formation in
External Galaxies |
Prof. Jean Turner (UCLA) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Science with the
Cornell-Caltech Atacama Telescope |
Dr.
Jason Glemn (CU-Boulder) |
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12:00-14:00 |
Lunch |
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Afternoon Session: Radio Instrumentation |
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Chair: Yu Gao |
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14:00-14:30 |
FAST receivers |
Dr. Chengjin Jin (NAOC) |
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14:30-15:00 |
Focal Plane Array Developments at NRAO |
Dr. Roger Norrod (NRAO) |
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15:00-15:30 |
Multiple point-feeds for spherical telescopes |
Dr. Jim Condon (NRAO) |
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee Break |
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16:30-17:00 |
Development of mm Spectroscopic
Superconducting Array receiver |
Prof. J. Yang (PMO) |
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17:00-17:30 |
MMIC Technology for Radio
Astronomy |
Dr. Matt Morgan (NRAO) |
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19:30-18:00 |
Sub-mm receiver development at PMO |
Prof. Shengcai Shi (PMO) |
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17:30-19:00 |
Dinner |
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Friday, 25 April |
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09:00-11:30 |
Meeting
Summary & Discussions (Chaired Fred Lo) |
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12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00-14:00 |
Participants
Changing Hotel: moving from the Sleeping Buddha to the |
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14:00-18:00 |
Free
activities or attending Don Backer’s colloquium at PKU/KIAA |
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18:00-20:00 |
Banquet at Bai Restaurant |
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