Weekend in NTHU Campus

NTHU has a beautiful campus with hills and lakes. We usually go to Cheng-Kung lake during the weekends. My son, Ural (21 months old), loves to feed the fishes and the turtles.

 

Sometimes we watch squirrels having lunch.

This is not special for weekends, but he also loves to watch the garbage truck, he can spend half an hour just by watching it. I appreciate the garbage collector who visits the campus so often.

We visited the Lulin Observatory

Last weekend (2016/10/05~2016/10/06), we visited the Lulin Observatory for the Observational Astronomy class. Besides, we enjoyed hiking in the mountain with the extremely beautiful scene.

The observatory is located on the top of a mountain called 鹿林前山, which is 2862-meter height.

The 1-meter telescope!

Here come some photos of mountains view

We went hiking in the first day evening.

The "moonrise"! (Unfortunately, it was full moon on that day.)

Hiking again in the second day morning. We love mountains!

Colloquium on Sept. 30, 2016

After the long summer,
we started off our first colloquium at NTHU this semester with this talk:



(It was a pity that I did not take any picture during the colloquium...
'Cause I was busy taking notes! (Scribble... scribble...) )

It was an awesome talk by our alumnus - Dr. Yen-Chen Pan (潘彥丞).

(If I did not get anything wrong...)
I summarize the talk below :)

In 2011, Perlmutter, Schmidt and Riess won the Nobel Prize in Physics
"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe
through observations of distant supernovae."
Detailed studies on 'supernovae' are therefore important in probing the cosmic expansion.
Especially, the Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), which people often call them 'standard candles'
due to the consistent peak luminosity produced.
In their work, they studied the relation between SNe Ia and their host galaxies
using high quality photometric and spectroscopic data.
They concluded that:
1. SNe are Fainter in More Massive galaxies.
2. SNe are Fainter in galaxies with Higher Metallicity.
3. SNe are Fainter in Older galaxies.
4. Metallicity may have More contributions to systematic errors than stellar mass.

It was fun having a lot of discussions and asking lots of follow-up questions
when we were having snacks at the lounge after the talk!

Well... again... I did not take any picture during the tea time...
'Cause I was busy asking questions... QAQ

(By Valerie :D)

Welcome, Ece!

There is the new member in our group. 

Ece Kilerci Eser, welcome.
She got her phD from University of Copenhagen, and now is working with us as a postdoc.

She is working on the data from AKARI all sky survey and her phD thesis is "ACTIVE GALAXIES: A Study of Local Seyferts and Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies" 

Abstract: http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/research/phd_theses/phd_theses_2014/ece_kilerci_eser/

We picked her up at airport. 

Welcome to Taiwan!
Hope you like everything of this small island.

Subaru Observation 20160910-20160911

Hey, it's me Valerie. :)
I went to Mauna Kea, Hilo, in Hawaii with Ji-Jia(NTU) and Motonari for observation last week.

Hi, we (Ji-Jia and Valerie) are at Subaru.

(Motonari is the one who took the picture :P )

Heartbeat and blood pressure? Normal :)

Our supporting scientists: Josh and Ji Hoon.

Wait! Where's Tomo!??

Tomo: Hello! I'm here!

Tomo the PI zoomed with us using this machine the whole night :D

Teru teru bozu? (てるてる坊主)

They helped us with the good weather that night :)

And we finished the observation quite successfully.

This is how the 8-m telescope looks like!

Sceneries here:

JCMT and SMA (only 7 antennas?)

Subaru and Keck I, Keck II viewed from CFHT, Gemini and UH 2.2-m Telescope.

(Below are CSO, JCMT and SMA.)

Thanks for stopping by :)

We hope you can go for observation very soon.

Wow !

 <= Dani`s defence

Congratulations !

Welcom Dr. Tetsuya Hoshimoto

NTHU IAA has a new member, Dr. Tetsuya Hoshimoto!

We have a welcome party for him!