2026 SSP Campus Visit Schedule

Kick-off Gathering

  • Date：July 1st and 2nd, 2026
  • Location：NCU (Chien-Shiung Building, Rm.1013)

  • July 1st
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  • 10:30 - 10:40 Opening remark (Prof. Wen-Ping Chen)
  • 10:40 - 11:00 Introduction to NCU (Prof. Yi Chou)
  • 11:00 - 11:15 Introduction to TARA (Po-Chieh Yu)
  • 11:15 - 11:30 Self-introduction from students
  • 11:30 - 11:40 Coffee break
  • 11:40 - 12:30 Tour: NCU Observatory (Hsiang-Yu Chen)
  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 - 15:00 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
    • Setting up development environment
    • Basic Linux
    • Astronomical software: CARTA, TOPCAT, Aladin, DS9
  • 15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break
  • 15:20 - 17:00 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
    • Basic programming
    • Numpy

  • July 2nd
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  • 09:30 - 10:00 How to Read an Astronomy Paper (Prof. Yen-Chen Pan)
  • 10:00 - 10:50 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
    • Astropy (including FITS file handling)
  • 10:50 - 11:00 Coffee break
  • 11:00 - 12:00 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
    • Pandas
    • Visualization (including meaningful plots)
  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
  • 13:00 - 14:00 Tour: Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, NCU
  • 14:00 - 15:30 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
    • Data analysis (including SIMBAD and VizieR)
    • Speeding up code
  • 15:30 - 15:50 Coffee break
  • 15:50 - 17:20 Lecture (Kuan-Chou Hou / Zhen-Kai Gao)
    • Hands-on session

One-Day Campus Visit

  • Date：July 27 (Monday), 2026
  • Location：ASIAA/NTU (Astronomy-Mathematics Building, Rm.1203)

  • 10:00 - 10:30 ASIAA Introduction (Dr. Chin-Fei Lee)
  • 10:30 - 11:00 NTU Introduction (Prof. Ting-Wen Lan)
  • 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
  • 11:15 - 12:00 Lab tour (Dr. Bo-Jhou Wang / Dr. Yuh-Jing Huang)
  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
  • 13:00 - 14:00 Student presentations
  • 14:00 - 14:40 SMA control room visit (Sheng-Feng Yen)
  • 14:40 - 14:55 Coffee break
  • 14:55 - 16:00 Student presentations
  • 16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break
  • 16:15 - 17:30 Student presentations

Final Presentation

  • 09:00 - 09:15 Opening Remark (Prof. Albert K. H. Kong)
  • 09:15 - 10:45 Student Presentations I - Galaxies, AGN & Environment (Chair: Dr. Po-Chieh Yu)
  • 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:15 Student Presentations II - Star Formation & Protostars (Chair: Dr. Tien-Hao Hsieh)
  • 12:15 - 13:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 - 14:45 Student Presentations III - Compact Objects & High-Energy (Chair: Prof. Hsi-An Pan)
  • 14:45 - 15:00 Coffee Break
  • 15:00 - 16:30 Student Presentations IV - Solar System, Space & Instrumentation (Chair: Dr. An-Li Tsai)
  • 16:30 - 16:45 Closing Remark (Dr. Chin-Fei Lee)