Friday, April 15, 2016

Student presentation 2016/04/08: Paul

Paul talked about his second paper. Congratulations!



Colloquium 2016/03/25: Kiyoto Yabe

みんなで昼ご飯を食べた。

矢部清人さんは百瀬莉恵子さんのご主人だ。

おいしいスナックとケーキがあった。天文所はとでもにぎやかだった。

Colloquium 2016/03/11: Li-Ting Hsu

Before Rieko and Tomo join, we chatted in Chinese secretly. haha

Switch to English mode. 

Very interesting and helpful talk in AGN.

Colloquium 2016/03/08: Michal

Michal (from Edinburgh) gave a talk about massive star formation in atomic hydrogen reservoir.



Monday, April 11, 2016

Tomo gave a talk on cosmic star formation history results from AKARI+new CFHT data at Japanese astronomy society meeting in Tokyo. Other highlights of the meeting include;
  • AKARI's new data release
  • TAO 6.5m telescope is near completion
  • SPICA's special session.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

JCMT observation

Dani went to JCMT observation.
(The second from the right is the PI: Wei-Hao Wang; the fourth is one of the TSS of JCMT:William Montgomerie )

JCMT is a 15m submm telescope at Maunakea.
(image credit: http://www.cosmosportal.org/)

The big dish seen from inside.


SCUBA-2, a very powerful instrument on JCMT. Dani mainly performed the observation with SCUBA-2 this time. 

There are also many other telescopes around JCMT. From left: SUBARU, KECK 1&2.

From left: Gemini, UH2.2, UKIRT

CFHT

Two small ears of SMA array.

The view from the window of JCMT control room in the morning.






Monday, March 14, 2016

2016/02/19 Yang Ming-Hsu's talk


We learned many things about helioseismic wave and sunspots.


After the colloquium, we also have interesting discussion and delicious snack.