Title：The Greenland Telescope – Construction, Commissioning, and Operations in Pituffik

Speaker：陳明堂 （ASIAA）

Time：10:00 am Dec. 07th (Thursday)

Tencent Meeting：576-157-8290 password: 6360

Location: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor

Abstract：

In 2018, the Greenland Telescope (GLT) started scientific observation in Greenland. Since then, we have completed several significant improvements and added new capabilities to the telescope system. In this talk, I will present a concise review of the GLT system, a summary of our observation activities since 2018, the lessons learned from the operations in the Arctic regions, and the prospect of the telescope.

CV：

Prof. Chen received his BS degree in physics from National Cheng Kung University in 1986. After two years of military service and one year of working as a teaching assistant, he came to US to pursue higher education. Mentored by Professor Jack Mochel, he studied the phenomena concerning the phase transition in two-dimensional superfuids, and received his MS & Ph.D. degrees in physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He did one term of post-doctoral research with Professor Arnold J. Dahm in Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, USA studying pattern formations in liquid helium isotope mixtures. In 1995, he shifted his field and joined the Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taiwan to work on the Sub-Millimeter Array. Since then, he built up ASIAA’s technical branch and led the teams to establish the core technologies for instrumentation. He has been the technical leader in most, if not all, radio instrumentation projects. He has personally recruited and mentored half of the staff in ASIAA’s technical groups and brought positive impacts to ASIAA through completing projects in time and enabling scientific research in the Submillimeter Array, Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and the Greenland Telescope projects.