Asia-Pacific Astronomy Sideways Workshop

Asia-Pacific Astronomy Sideways Workshop Program

v.2024.12.19

Day 1 (December 18, Wednesday)

09:00 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 09:45 Welcome / Group photo
09:45 - 10:45 Shri KULKARNI (Caltech)
Keynote Talk
Doing Astronomy Sideways?
10:45 - 11:05 Break
11:05 - 11:30 Ue-Li PEN (ASIAA)
BURSTT
11:30 - 11:55 Devendra OJHA (TIFR)
MFES Program - Comprehensive, Long-term and Multi-wavelength Monitoring of FUors & EXors Sources
11:55 - 12:20 Michitoshi YOSHIDA (Online) (NAOJ)
The J-GEM, OISTER, and EPASNET programs for follow-up and monitoring observations for transient objects using Japanese small-mid-large scale facilities
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:25 Myungshin IM (SNU)
7-Dimensional Sky Survey: Spectral Mapping Survey of the Southern Sky and Its Synergy with Major Survey Missions
14:25 - 14:50 Janet CHEN (NCU)
Lulin observatory's rapid response to extreme transients
14:50 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 15:40 Michael COUGHLIN (University of Minnesota)
A technical ecosystem to enable multi-messenger astrophysics
15:40 - 16:05 Jian Ge (SHAO)
The Earth 2.0 (ET) Space Mission
16:05 - 16:30 Geoffrey Bower (ASIAA)
Thinking Sideways with The Event Horizon Telescope
16:30 - 16:55 Jean-Michel DéSERT (University of Amsterdam)
Synergies Between Observatories for Exoplanet Science
16:55 ~ Discussion
18:00 ~ Banquet ( 台灣磚窯雞平鎮店 )

Day 2 (December 19, Thursday)

09:00 - 09:25 Weimin Yuan (Online) (NAOC)
Einstein Probe: starting to reveal a deeper and clearer view of the dynamic X-ray universe
09:25 - 09:50 Benjamin SHAPPEE (Online) (University of Hawaii)
Anuenue: The Global, Public, 5-band, High-Cadence, All-Sky Survey
09:50 - 10:15 Yu ZHANG (Online) (XAO)
The science and progress with optical astronomy of XAO
10:15 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:05 Saurabh SAURABH (ARIES)
ARIES 3.6m telescope and its near-infrared Instruments
11:05 - 11:30 Takashi MORIYA (NAOJ)
Supplementing ground based transient surveys with space telescopes
11:30 - 11:55 Wen-Ping CHEN (NCU)
Niche Transient Science with the Trans-Pacific 2m Telescope
11:55 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 13:55 Thiem HOANG (KASI)
Interstellar Objects: Opening New Frontiers in Astrophysics and Space Science
13:55 - 14:20 Jeewan C PANDEY (ARIES)
Capability of High-Resolution Spectrograph for 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope
14:20 - 14:45 Shravan HANASOGE (TIFR)
Accelerating scientific discovery using machine learning
14:45 - 15:10 Break
15:10 - 15:35 Shiang-Yu WANG (ASIAA)
Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II)
15:35 - 16:00 Kyle HART (University of Hawaii)
Old Man of the Mauna: Robotization of Hawaii’s UH88 Telescope
16:00 - 16:25 Samaya Nissanke (University of Amsterdam)
Challenges for optical follow up of gravitational wave mergers in the 2030s and 2040s
16:25 - 17:00 Discussion

Day 3 (December 20, Friday)

09:00 - 12:00 Topical discussion