Projects

1. Anatomy of a giant: investigating environment effects in the Saraswati supercluster
   This project can be carried out remotely.
   Keywords:
   Data analysis
   Extragalactic Astrophysics
   Galaxy clusters
   Large scale structure of the Universe
   Subaru Hyper-Suprime Cam survey
   Superclusters of galaxies
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Rogério Monteiro-Oliveira

2. Angular Momentum Problem in an Accretion Disk in the Early Phase of Star Formation
   Keywords:
   ALMA
   Protostellar Disk
   Radio Astronomy
   Star Formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Chin-Fei Lee, Kai-Syun Jhan

3. Can multi-scale gas flows explain why the giant molecular filament G214.5-1.8 is so bad at forming stars?
   This project can be carried out remotely.
   Keywords:
   Giant molecular filaments
   Radio Astronomy
   Star formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Seamus Clarke

4. Characterizing the embedded disk around protostars
   Keywords:
   ALMA
   Protostellar disk
   Radio astronomy
   Star formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Jinshi Sai

5. Computational Methods, Benchmarking and Code Development for Astrophysical Fluids
   This project can be carried out remotely.
   Keywords:
   CHARMS
   CompAS
   Computational fluid dynamics
   Numerical Methods
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Hsien Shang

6. Cosmic dust in the diffuse medium in and out of galaxies
   This project can be carried out remotely.
   Keywords:
   Cosmic dust
   galaxy evolution
   Theory
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Hiroyuki Hirashita

7. Dark Matter in Massive Galaxy Clusters
   Keywords:
   Cosmology
   Dark Matter
   Galaxy Cluster
   Gravitational lensing
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Sut-Ieng Tam, Keiichi Umetsu

8. Dark on Dark - dark energy as seen from the eyes of dark galaxies
   Keywords:
   Cosmology
   Galaxy redshift surveys
   Large-scale structure of the universe
   Submillimeter Astronomy
   Theoretical Astrophysics
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Teppei Okumura, Chian-Chou Chen (TC)

9. Developing Numerical Tools for Star Forming Processes
   This project can be carried out remotely.
   Keywords:
   CHARMS
   Modeling
   Numerical simulations
   Star Formation
   
   Task Description and Goals

   supervisors: Hsien Shang

10. Dust dynamics in magnetized protoplanetary disks
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
    Dust Dynamics
    Hydrodynamics
    Magneto-hydrodynamics
    Planet Formation
    Planetesimal Formation
    Protoplanetary Disks
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Min-Kai Lin, Chun-Yen Hsu

11. Exploring non-circular motions in barred galaxies
    Keywords:
    barred galaxies
    Integral Field Spectroscopy
    Kinematics of galaxies
    Non-circular motions
    rotation curves
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Carlos Lopez-Coba

12. Formation of binary stars or multiple systems in molecular clouds
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Multiplicity
    Radio observation
    Star formation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Hsi-Wei Yen

13. How are orbits of planets determined?
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    Star and planet formation, ALMA, Kepler, IRTF
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Christian Flores Gonzalez and Nagayoshi Ohashi

14. How to build the Solar System???
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    AstroLabs
    Experimental astrophysics
    Meteorites
    NanoSIMS
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Hsien Shang, Der-Chuen Lee, Daniel Harsono, Ming-Jye Wang

15. Investigating the Impact of Simplifying Assumptions in Exomoon System Modeling
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    Exomoons
    Exoplanets
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Alex Teachey

16. Modelling of resonantly excited nonlinear wave trains in Saturn's rings.
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
    Hydrodynamics
    Planetary Rings
    Satellite-Disk Interactions
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Marius Lehmann

17. Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Cosmological Simulations II. Formation of Baby Galaxies
    Keywords:
    Computational Astrophysics
    Cosmology
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Ken Chen

18. Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Hydro Simulations I. Superluminous Supernovae
    Keywords:
    Computational Astrophysics
    High Energy Astrophysics
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Ken Chen

19. Probing Gas flows from Superbubbles to the Circumgalactic Medium with the Hubble Space Telescope
    Keywords:
    Hubble Space Telescope
    Interstellar and Circumgalactic Media
    Multiwavelength Astronomy
    Observations
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: You-Hua Chu & Ting-Wen Lan

20. Probing the onset of star formation with deuterated molecules
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    ALMA (ACA)
    Astrochemistry
    Radio observations
    Star formation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Naomi Hirano

21. Star cluster formation in the molecular clouds
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    dense core
    Observation
    Radio Astronomy
    star cluster formation
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Somnath Dutta, Chin-Fei Lee

22. The activity of black hole magnetospheres
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    CompAS
    Computational Astrophysics
    Computer Animations
    General relativity
    plasma physics
    Theoretical Astrophysics
    VLBI Observations
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Kouichi Hirotani, Hsien Shang

23. Why are there so few vortices in protoplanetary discs?
    This project can be carried out remotely.
    Keywords:
    ALMA
    Exoplanets
    hydrodynamic simulations
    numerical simulations
    Protoplanetary Discs
    
    Task Description and Goals

    supervisors: Michael Hammer, Min-Kai Lin