KIAA Program on high-z quasars

Other Confirmed Participants: Zugan Deng(GUCAS), Ligang Hou (NAOC), Zhendong Jia(PKU), Fukun Liu (PKU), Shangfei Liu(PKU), Xin Liu (Princeton), Youjun Lu (NAOC), Zhaohui Shang (TJNU), Qinghua Tan (PMO), Xiaping Tang (PKU), Bing Zhang (BeiHang), Shuo Zhang (Tsinghua), Yanxia Zhang (NAOC), Youhong Zhang (Tsinghua)...

Announcement
Astrophysics studies have entered a multiwavelength era. Many powerful ground- and space-based telescopes, covering the wavebands from radio to gamma-ray, have been built in the last two decades. Observations made with them have revealed a vivid picture of our universe. High redshift quasars, especially those at z~6, are located in the very early universe. Recent observations on these rare objects have provided us unique and important information on the formation and growth of supermassive black holes and galaxies in the cosmic re-ionization era. High-z quasars will also be objects in a quasar survey of the newly-built chinese LAMOST 4-m telescope, with which the largest quasar sample will be obtained.

We are happy to announce that there will be a thematic program on "Multiwavelength studies on high redshift quasars" in the summer of 2009 at Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) in Peking University, Beijing, China. The program will be held in Beijing in May 25 - June 5, 2009. It will be sponsored by KIAA, with financial support from Peking University and National Astronomical Observatories--Chinses Academy of Sciences (NAOC). We hope to have about 30 scientists and students working in this field to get together in KIAA and discuss the multiwavelength properties of high redshift quasars in details. The program will take a form of lecturing with 1-2 talks each day in the morning, discussing among participants and supervising students in the afternoon.

The program has no registration fee. Interested participants please send an email to Xue-Bing Wu (mailto:wuxb@pku.edu.cn) to confirm their attendance and give the information of the possible arrival and departure dates before April 25, 2009. The accommodations of participants will be arranged at the ZhongGuanXinYuan Hotel in ZhongGuanYuan near the east part of PKU main campus. For the location of KIAA, Astronomy Department and ZhongGuanXinYuan hotel in the map of PKU, please visit: http://vega.bac.pku.edu.cn/~wuxb/pkumap.jpg

Program Schedule

May 25:
Morning: (8:30-9:30: GRB program;) 9:40-10:40 Quasar clustering at high redshift (Michael Strausss); 11:00-12:00 The soft X-ray properties of QSOs in SDSS (Shiyin Shen)
Afternoon: discussions

May 26:
Morning: (8:30-9:30: GRB program;) 9:40-10:40 Searches for high-z quasars with UKIDSS (Steve Warren); 11:00-12:00 Probing galaxy formation via high redshift QSO absorption line systems (Yiping Wang)
Afternoon: discussions

May 27:
Morning: (8:30-9:30: GRB program;) 9:40-10:40 The JANUS mission (Steve Warren); 11:00-12:00 The regularities of QSO phenomena and their origin and cosmological applications (Xiaobo Dong)
Afternoon: Free discussions

May 28:
Morning: 8:30-9:30: GRB program; 9:40-10:40 The highest redshift QSOs in SDSS (Xiaohui Fan); 11:00-12:00 LAMOST quasar survey (Xue-Bing Wu)
Afternoon: 14:00-17:00 A tour to Summer Palace
Evening: 18:00 Banquet

May 29:
Morning: (8:30-9:30: GRB program;) 9:40-10:40 Millimeter observations of Spitzer AGN at IRAM (Alain Omont); 11:00-12:00 HCN Observations of Dense Molecular Gas in High-z QSOs (Yu Gao)
Afternoon: Free discussions

May 30:
Morning: 9:40-10:40 1.2mm MAMBO survey of CFHQS z~6 QSOs and variability of QSOs in CFHTLS D1 deep field (Alain Omont); 11:00-12:00 Type II Quasars（Michael Strauss）
Afternoon: Free discussions

May 31:
A tour in Beijing.

June 1:
Morning: (8:30-9:30: GRB program;) 9:40-11:40 PhD thesis work report on "Centimetter and milimeter Observations on z~6 QSOs" (Ran Wang)
Afternoon: Free discussions

June 2:
Moring: (8:30-9:30: GRB program;) 9:40-10:40 CO observations of z~2 bright QSOs and Prospects for high-z QSOs in Herschel Science Demonstration (Alain Omont); 11:00-12:00 The molecular gas of IR QSOs (Xiaoyang Xia)
Afternoon: Free discussions

June 3:
Morning: (8:30-9:30: GRB program;) 9:40-10:40 CO line width and the BH - bulge relation of high-z QSOs (Xue-Bing Wu)
Afternoon: Free Discussions

June 4-5:
(8:30-9:30: GRB program;) Other lectures and discussions on high-z quasars

How to get to ZhongGuanXinYuan Hotel of PKU from Beijing Airport:
We recommend taking a taxi to get to the hotel from the airport. It takes about 50 mins and costs about 100 RMB. Here is the location of your hotel in Chinese characters for your taxi driver.
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