2025 SSP Campus Visit Schedule

Kick-off Gathering

  • Date:July 1st and 2nd, 2025
  • Location:ASIAA/NTU (ASMAB 1412)

  • July 1st
  • 10:20 - 10:30 Welcome Remark (Wen-Ping Chen)
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Introduction to TARA (Po-Chieh Yu)
  • 11:00 - 11:30 Introduction to NTU (Ting-Wen Lan)
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Introduction to ASIAA (Chin-Fei Lee)
  • 12:00 - 13:30 Group photo / Lunch
  • 13:30 - 14:50
    Basic Linux command line interface
    Development environment - IDE, virtual environment (Kuan-Chou Hou/Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • 14:50 - 15:05 Coffee break
  • 15:05 - 16:30
    Basic programming knowledge - Environment, Syntax, and Data types
    Basic programming I - Loop, if statement, array, and matrix
    Basic programming II - Functions, Classes, Objects, and Modules (Kuan-Chou Hou/Zhen-Kai Gao)

  • July 2nd
  • 09:00 - 10:30 Astronomical application I - File handling and Scientific computation (Kuan-Chou Hou/Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
  • 10:45 - 12:00
    Astronomical application I - File handling and Scientific computation
    Advanced programming I - Parallel computation and Recursive Functions (Kuan-Chou Hou/Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
  • 13:00 - 13:30 Lab tour (Bo-Jhou Wang/Yuh-Jing Huang)
  • 13:30 - 14:45 Astronomical application II - Data analysis and visualization (Kuan-Chou Hou/Zhen-Kai Gao)
  • 14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break
  • 15:00 - 16:30
    Astronomical application II - Data analysis and visualization
    Advanced programming II - GPU acceleration, Decorator, and others (Kuan-Chou Hou/Zhen-Kai Gao)

One-day Campus visit

  • Date:July 21, 2025
  • Location:TKU

  • 09:50 - 10:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
  • 10:00 - 11:00 Lecture: Extragalactic Astronomy (Prof. Hsi-An Pan/TKU)
  • 11:00 - 11:10 Coffee Break
  • 11:10 - 12:40 Student Progress Report I (9 students, 10 mins each including Q&A)
  • 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch, Group Photo, and Campus Walk (optional)
  • 14:00 - 15:30 Student Progress Report II (9 students, 10 mins each including Q&A)
  • 15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break
  • 15:50 - 16:50 Lecture: Radio Astronomy (Prof. Yi-Nan Chin/TKU)
  • 16:50 - 17:00 Closing Remarks

One-day Campus visit

  • Date:August 13, 2025
  • Location:NCUE

  • 09:20 - 09:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks
  • 09:30 - 10:30 Lecture: High-Energy Astrophysics (Prof. Chin-Ping Hu/NCUE)
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  • 11:00 - 12:30 Student Progress Reports I (9 students, 10 minutes each including Q&A)
  • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Group Photo
  • 13:30 - 15:00 Lecture: Observational Studies of Fast Radio Bursts (Prof. Tetsuya Hashimoto/NCHU)
  • 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
  • 15:30 - 17:00 Student Progress Reports II (9 students, 10 minutes each including Q&A)
  • 17:00 - 17:10 Closing Remarks

Final Presentation

  • Date:August 29, 2025
  • Location:NCU (Science Building #4 R1013)
  • 09:20 - 09:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks (Prof. Yi Chou/NCU)
  • 09:30 - 10:10 Lecture I (Prof. Yen-Chen Pan/NCU)
  • 10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  • 10:30 - 12:45 Student Final Reports I (9 students, 15 minutes each including Q&A)
  • 12:45 - 13:30 Lunch & Group Photo
  • 13:30 - 14:10 Lecture II (Prof. Wing Ip/NCU)
  • 14:10 - 14:30 Coffee Break
  • 14:30 - 16:45 Student Final Reports II (9 students, 15 minutes each including Q&A)
  • 16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks (Dr. Tien-Hao Hsieh/TARA)