ISYA-2025 : Welcome to Taipei!

The International School for Young Astronomers (ISYA) is an initiative of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to reinforce and promote the development of professional astronomy in communities around the world. The ISYA places a special emphasis on students located in areas that do not have the benefit of a local research institute that teaches most of the sub-disciplines of Astronomy.

Application deadline (including reference letters): July 1, 2025 (UTC+8)
Selection outcome: 1st August, 2025

Confirmed Topics and Lecturers

Solar System - Wei-Ling Tseng (NTNU, Taiwan)
Exoplanets - Yasunori Hori (Okayama University, Japan)
Galaxies - Itziar Aretxaga (Institute Centro de Astrobiología CSIC-INTA, Spain)
Cosmology - David Mota (University of Oslo, Norway)
Star formation - Patrick Hennebelle (AIM/CEA/CNRS, France)
Observational Astronomy - Chow-Choong Ngeow (NCU, Taiwan)
Time-domain and Multi Messenger astronomy - Ting-Wan Chen (NCU, Taiwan)
Computational Astrophysics - Hsi-Yu Schive (NTU, Taiwan)
Black hole Astrophysics - Karen Yang (NTHU, Taiwan)
Stars - Naoki Yoshida (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Machine Learning - Sheng Yang (Henan Academy of Sciences, China)
Career Development - Itziar Aretxaga and David Mota

Hands-on Projects and Supervisors

Orbital dynamics of a planetary system - Yu-Chi Cheng (NCU, Taiwan)
Line identification toward hot-corinos in star formation regions - Tien-Hao Hsieh (TARA, Taiwan)
How turbulence shapes young stellar groups in simulations - Vianey Camacho (NTNU, Taiwan)
Identifying Molecular Clouds with SCIMES - Raffaele Rani (NTHU, Taiwan)
Structural and kinematic analysis of double cluster NGC 2264 using Gaia DR3 data - Khushboo Kunwar Rao (NCU, Taiwan)
Characterization of MS turn-on stars of NGC 2264 galactic open cluster using spectral energy distributions - Khushboo Kunwar Rao (NCU, Taiwan)
Determining the prominent powering mechanisms of core-collapse supernovae - Amar Aryan (NCU, Taiwan)