本次大會演講特別邀請的國外講者為譽滿全球的太陽系外行星發現者 – 美國加州 柏克萊大學的 Geoffrey Marcy 教授，以及日本國家天文台台長觀山正見（Shoken Miyama）博士。 中文科普演講則特別邀請國立台灣大學的陳丕燊教授。
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[Invited-I]
Searching for Other Earths and Life in the Universe
Prof. Geoffrey Marcy
University California, Berkeley / 美國加州大學柏克萊分校 [ 個人網頁 ]
ABSTRACT
It was 400 years ago that Galileo gazed innocently toward the heavens with a telescope, displacing the Earth from its central pedastal. Since then, telescopes have placed our Solar System and our Milky Way Galaxy in their proper contexts within the universe. But profound questions remain about the commonality of other Earths and about life in the universe. Science fiction offers a model of our Milky Way Galaxy teeming with habitable planets populated by advanced civilizations that engage in interstellar travel and exploration. But in our real universe, Earth-like planets and alien life have proved elusive. Where are they? Habitable earths may be more precious than currently realized. This month, on March 6, NASA launched the Kepler telescope from the Kennedy Space Center, designed to carry out humanities' first search for Earth-like worlds around other stars. A wild race to discover habitable and inhabited worlds is about to begin.
[Invited-II]
Introduction to NAOJ
Dr. Shoken Miyama / 觀山正見博士
National Astronomical Observatory, Japan / 日本國立天文台
ABSTRACT
The facilities and recent activity of National Astronomical Observatory of JAPAN (NAOJ) is introduced. In NAOJ we have various observatories, Subaru Telescope in Hawaii Observatory, 45m radio telescope and heliograph in Nobeyama observatory, Okayama observatory and Mizusawa VERA observatory and so on. I will show the recent scientific results from those observatories. And I will show the recent progress of ALMA which is under construction under collaborative work with Taiwan, North America and Europe. I would like to emphasize that NAOJ facilities are open to the Japanese communities and also to foreign researchers. Therefore I would like to proceed international cooperative work in the field of astronomy, especially with Taiwan community. The future plan of NAOJ is also introduced. I explain new instruments for Subaru telescope and I would like to refer to ELT (Extreme Large Telescope) project.
[Public talk]
天外有天：從單一宇宙到多重宇宙
From Universe to Multiverse
Prof. Pisin Chen / 陳丕燊教授
Department of Physics and Graduate Institute of Astrophysics, National Taiwan University & Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (LeCosPA)
National Taiwan University / 國立臺灣大學
ABSTRACT
This year celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo's revolutionary discoveries on our universe using his own telescope. Among his seminal discoveries was his proof that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the world. Since then our understanding of the universe continues to expand. We now know that the Sun is one of the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and our galaxy is just one of 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. One then naturally wonders, following this Copernican dictum, is our universe unique? Are there more universes in addition to our own? In parallel with the advancement in astronomy, there has been also tremendous progress in physics over the centuries since Galileo’s time that has revolutionized our understanding of the nature. By now physicists have developed the “standard model of particle physics”. Together, we by now have developed a “standard model of cosmology”. In this lecture I will give an overview on what we know about our universe from the standard models of particle physics and cosmology, the inflation, to the wonders of dark matter and dark energy. Towards the end I will return to the question: Can there be more than one universe?
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成果發表會則是國內天文學家一年一度發表研究上最新的發現和成果、交換研究心得或洽商研究合作的聚會，也是研究生報告論文進度或發表研究成果的最佳場合。本次將有許多與天文和天文物理研究領域相關的口頭或壁報論文成果報告。歡迎業餘天文學家、天文同好和社會大眾，踴躍參觀、共襄盛舉。
