2007 Lectures on Frontiers of Astrophysics

(Rm 2907, No. 2 Science Building, PKU; Wednesday 10-12am)

Organized by Prof. Xue-Bing Wu (wuxb[eta]bac.pku.edu.cn)

Date Speaker Institute
Title
Feb. 28 Xue-Bing Wu PKU 1.Opening Address on Frontiers of Astrophysics

2.Weighing Black Holes in the Universe

Mar. 7

Mar. 9

Doug Lin UCSC/KIAA 1. Extrasolar Planets (Part I)

2. Extrasolar Planets (Part II)

Mar. 14 Meg Urry Yale U. Accelerating Universe
Mar. 21 Yongheng Zhao NAOC LAMOST and Large Optical Sky Surveys
Mar. 28 Jinlin Han NAOC Cosmic Magnetic Fields
Apr. 4 Gang Zhao NAOC Stellar Spectroscopy
Apr. 11 Xuelei Chen NAOC WMAP and CMB
Apr. 18 Rendong Nan NAOC FAST Telescope: Its Science and Technology
Apr. 25 Ren-Xin Xu PKU Pulsars and Quark Stars
May 9 Shuangnan Zhang Tsinghua U. HXMT and X-ray Astronomy
May 16 Wei Cui Purdue U. TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy
May 23 Zuhui Fan ¡ PKU Gravitational Lensing
May 30 Fukun Liu PKU TBD
Jun. 6 Jingxiu Wang NAOC Solar Coronal Mass Ejections
Jun. 13 Xiaowei Liu PKU WSO/UV Overview