ASIAA Summer Students Program
ASIAA Summer Student Program 2022
July 1 - August 31

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
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