TAOS-Variable Star Workshop

(Announcement 1, Dec. 12, 1998)

ASIAA is organizing a small informal workshop to study how to maximize the serendipity return to stellar physics using the large photometry database for background stars that the Taiwanese American Occultation Survey (TAOS) for Kuiper Belt Objects is expected to generate. All interested scientists in Taiwan are welcome to attend by registering.

Date: Feb. 25 - 27 (Thu - Sat), 1999.
Place: ASIAA, Biochemistry Building, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei.
Format: The TAOS-Vstar workshop will consist of three components:

  1. Tutorials on variable stars - given by invited speakers
  2. TAOS status reports - by members of the TAOS collaboration
  3. Discussion of possible projects and implications for TAOS' planning
    - target field selection, observing strategy, data acquisition method, data pipelines, and database structure.
Speakers: The invited speakers and their tutorial subjects are:
  1. Prof. Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton) - overview on stellar physics research using large database from massive surveys.
  2. Prof. Don Kurtz (Cape Town) - stellar seismology
  3. Prof. Ron Taam (Northwestern) - compact objects and transient phenomena
  4. Prof. Doug Welch (McMaster) - experience from MACHO-variable stars

Participants from overseas (so far confirmed ):
Charles Alcock (Livermore), Yong Zhong Qian (Los Alamos), Eugene Chiang (Caltech')

Sponsors: Academia Sinica, National Central University, National Science Council.
Limit: A total of 50 participants.
Registration : please register before January 31, 1999.

TAOS VS workshop participant
TAOS-Variable Star Workshop Schedule
Map for TAOS-Variable Star Workshop