The 2006 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Astronomical Society (Taiwan)

National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung
April 28-30 (Friday to Sunday), 2006
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The CAST2006 is drawing near and we are getting ready to see you all at
the meeting. It is expected to be an exciting event, with some 130 who
registered to participate, 24 talks, and 58 posters.

The meeting will be held at the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung,
from April 28 to 30. In the evening of April 28 from 7:30 pm to 9 pm there
will be a reception party at the Museum (outside the main building in a large
hall way in front of the main entrance). You are invited to come to socialize,
and enjoy the refreshments. The registration begins at the same time.

On April 29 (Saturday), the registration starts at 8 am. The opening ceremony
begins at 9 am, followed by the scientific sessions, including two featured
speeches by Charles Alcock and Jay Pasachoff. In the evening of April 29 the
ALMA-Taiwan team will hold a reception and town meeting at the nearby
Splendor Hotel. The scientific sessions resume on Sunday, April 30, at 9,
until soon after noon.

For those who are giving oral presentations. Each talk is 12 minutes plus 2
minute questions. Each speaker should copy the electronic file to the
conference laptop machine(s) in the lecture room before the session starts.

For posters, the size of the board is 90 cm (width) x 120 cm (height).
They could be put up from Saturday morning to Sunday noon. Authors are
encouraged to stand by their posters during breaks, especially between 3:30
to 4 pm on Saturday when the judgement for poster awards will be conducted.
The winners would be arranged to make a two-minute presentation at 10:30 am
on Sunday.

The National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung, where the CAST2006 will
be held, is one of the most elaborate science museums on the island
and stands quite unique in Asia with many interesting exhibitions and special
collections. So in addition to interacting with colleagues and attending
talks and reading posters, please take a chance to tour around the Museum.

The agenda and list of oral presentations are attached below. For further
details and more updated information of the Annual Meeting, please visit
the society web site at <http://www.cast.org.tw/>.

Organizing Committee
Chang, Hsiang-Kuang (NTHU) co-chair
Chang, Yung-Hsin (NCU)
Chiang, Poshih (NCU)
Gou, Shih-Chuan (NCUE)
Ho, Layla (NCU) secretary
Hwang, Jau-jiunn (NMNS)
Jian, Jeng-Jong (NMNS)
Lin, Chilong (NMNS) co-chair

Program Committee
Chang, Kuei-Lan (TAM)
Chen, Alfred B. (NCKU)
Chen, Wen-Ping (NCU) co-chair
Chin, Yi-Nan (TKU)
Chou, Yi (NCU)
Huang, Chorng-Yuan (NCU)
King, Sun-Kun (ASIAA) co-chair
Kuan, Yi-Jehng (NTNU)
Liu, Sheng-Yuan (ASIAA)

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Agenda (CAST2006)
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4/28 (Friday)
19:30-21:00 Reception

4/29 (Saturday)
09:00-09:30 Opening Remarks (Dr. Hsiao, J. Q., Deputy Mayor of Taichung)
09:30-10:45 Oral Session I (chair: Y. Chou)
10:45-11:00 ** Break & Posters **
11:00-12:00 Lecture I (chair: P. Ho (TBD))
(Prof. Alcock: Shadows of faint Objects:
The use of indirect techniques in astronomy )
12:00-13:30 ** Lunch & Posters**
13:30-14:30 Lecture II (chair: W. Ip (TBD))
(Prof. Pasachoff: Syzygies: transits, occultations, and eclipses)
14:30-15:30 General Assembly
15:30-16:00 ** Break & Posters **
16:00-17:45 Oral Session II (chair: L. W. Chen)
18:00- (ALMA Town Meeting)

4/30 (Sunday)
09:00-10:30 Oral Session III (chair: Y. I. Byun)
10:30-10:40 Best Posters Awards (with Presentation)
10:40-11:00 ** Break & Posters **
11:00-12:30 Oral Session IV (chair: Y. J. Kuan)
12:30- (Museum Tour)

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Oral presentation program
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April 29, 2006 (Saturday)

Session I (chair: Yi Chou)
09:30-09:45 Sheng-Yuan Liu
SMA Observations of Star Forming Regions
09:45-10:00 Satoki Matsushita
ASIAA-SMA Seyfert Survey
10:00-10:15 Jeremy Lim
Instrumentation and Science with the CFHT
10:15-10:30 Bau-Ching Hsieh
CFHT Megacam I and z Survey of DEEP2 Field
10:30-10:45 Wing Ip
Iapetus and Enceladus as seen from Cassini

Session II (chair: Lin-Wen Chen)
16:00-16:15 Jiun-Huei Proty Wu
AMiBA Sciences
16:15-16:30 Huan-Hsin Li
Ultra-Wideband Digital Correlator of Upgraded AMiBA
16:30-16:45 Chorng-Yuan Hwang
SZ Effect from Secondary Electrons in Clusters of Galaxies
16:45-17:00 Dharam Vir Lal
X-shaped sources: An unusual result at low radio frequency
17:00-17:15 Wei-Hsin Sun
Dynamical History of Galaxy Encounters
17:15-17:30 Satoko Sawada-Satoh
Structure and Kinematics of CO 2-1 Emission
in the Central Region of NGC4258
17:30-17:45 Nagayoshi Ohashi
SMA Observations of the Herbig Ae Star HD 142527

April 30, 2006 (Sunday)

Session III (chair: Yong-Ik Byun)
09:00-09:15 Jumpei Takata
Polarization of high-energy photons from the Crab pulsar
09:15-09:30 Kinwah Wu
X-ray spectra from accreting black holes:
general relativistic radiative transfer calculations
09:30-09:45 Kaushar Sanchawala
X-ray Emitting Young Stars in the Carina Nebula
09:45-10:00 Hsiang-Kuang Chang
The Nuclear Compton Telescope (NCT) project
10:00-10:15 Tai-Sone Yih
Photolysis of ices irradiated by synchrotron radiation
10:15-10:30 Chin-Shuang Lee
The application of ion beam to Study of Outer Solar System Ices

Session IV (chair: Yi-Jehng Kuan)
11:00-11:15 Tapas Kumar Das
Dependence of relativistic accretion on black hole spin
11:15-11:30 Chin-Wei Chen
Morphology of Galactic Globular Clusters
11:30-11:45 Young Chol Minh
Chemical Structure of the Hot Core,
W3(H2O), containing a High-Mass Protobinary
11:45-12:00 Mei-Yan Wang
Molecular Hydrogen Jets, Filaments, and Haloes
in Planetary Nebulae with CFHT
12:00-12:15 Trung Dinh Van
Structure and dynamics of circumstellar envelopes
around AGB and post-AGB stars
12:15-12:30 Soumen Mondal
Brown dwarf variability: R and I band observations