Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Astrophysics Colloquium

Title : Status and Future of The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Bower (East Asian Observatory)

Special Time：3:00 pm Dec.17th (Wednesday)

Tencent Meeting: 669154699, password: 6360

Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor

Abstract：

I will summarize the current status and future plans for the world’s largest sub millimeter telescope, the JCMT. The JCMT provides a powerful suite of instruments for wide-field mapping, heterodyne spectroscopy, and very long baseline interferometry. These have been used extensively and with high impact including the discovery and characterization of sub millimeter galaxies, studies of star-formation and galaxy evolution, and the first images of the black holes in M87 and Sgr A* with the Event Horizon Telescope.  New observing programs in the areas of VLBI, time domain science, and intensity mapping will play key roles in the future of the JCMT and new instrumentation will lead to order of magnitude improvements in capability.

CV：

Dr. Geoffrey Bower is the President of the East Asian Observatory and Director of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Previously, he served as Project Scientist of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration and as Chief Scientist for Hawaii Operations for Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Dr. Bower has published in a wide range of fields including black holes, pulsars, cosmology, radio transients, and radio instrumentation. He has received the Breakthrough Prize in Physics as an EHTC member, among other awards.

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