Astronomy Public Outreach and Education
Director of International Schools for Young Astronomers, IAU
Distinguished Researcher at CAB CSIC-INTA, Spain
Her research focuses on starbursts in high redshift galaxies and Active Galactic Nuclei. She is on leave from INAOE, Mexico, to lead the Milgatz project at CAB, Spain.
Mexico
Title of the talk: Training graduate students from the developing world
Galaxies, AGN and the High Redshift Universe
Professor at The Institute of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, Radio astronomy Group
Japan
National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, NARIT. She participated in the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) project
Thailand
Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and former Director of the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing.
HKSAR
Emily Wisnioski
High energy Astrophysics
Professor of Astronomy at the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics of the National University of Mexico (UNAM) and currently the Robert F. Kennedy visiting professor at the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University.
Mexico
Title of the talk: EHT Black Hole imaging.
Professor at Pusan National University, South Korea, specialized in cosmic-ray acceleration in astrophysical shocks, including those formed in supernova remnants and radio relics of merging galaxy clusters.
South Korea
Hyesung Kang
Title of the talk: Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Nonthermal Emissions of Galaxy Clusters
INSPIRE Faculty of Physics. Areas of Expertise: High Energy Astrophysics, X-Ray Astrophysics, X-Ray Binaries: Neutron Stars and Black holes
India
Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the current Head of the Monash Astrophysics group.
Australia
Professor of astrophysics at Seoul National University. Area of Expertise: interstellar medium, dynamics of star clusters, and the evolution of galaxies and cosmology.
South Korea
The lifecycle of stars and their planets
Area of Expertise: Star and planet formation is one of the most fundamental structure-formation processes in the universe.
Japan
Area of Expertise: Integrated study on the chemical evolution of molecular clouds to protoplanetary disks
Japan
Honorary Professor, UBC Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Dean of Science and Chair Professor of Physics, The University of Hong Kong (2006-2016)
Canada
The director of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica and the chair of the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
USA, Taiwan
Manager of the Center for Optics and Photonics and Acting Manager of the Center for Atmospheric Science Research, National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand
Thailand
Title of the talk: Exoplanet Research in Thailand through Global Collaboration
Vice-head of department of Astrophysics, Vietnam National Space Center
Vietnam
Title of the talk: Evolution of stars on the Asymptotic Giant Branch, with particular emphasis on its relation with the evolution of their light curves
Hyosun Kim
Radio, mm and sub-mm astronomy
Do-Young Byun
Astronomical Surveys & Time Domain Astronomy
Area of Expertise: cosmic microwave background radiation, large-scale structure of the universe, and galaxies to understand the nature of the universe and the galaxy formation process.
South Korea
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. Areas of Interest: High energy cosmic transients such as Gamma Ray Bursts, Supernovae, Electromagnetic counterparts of Gravitational Wave sources and other exotic transients.
India
Nguyen Nhat Minh
Upcoming Astronomical Facilities
Chair Professor of Astronomy at National Central University
Taiwan
Title of the talk: Bootstrapping Time-Domain Astronomy with the Trans-Pacific 2-m Telescope: Synergy with the LSST
Director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. She is the Principal Investigator of the proposed next generation UV-Optical space telescope (INSIST), leveraging on the experience gained from AstroSat and UVIT.
HKSAR
Space Sustainability