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Astronomy education

Duration:2012-Present  Updated:2024/09/10

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Astronomical research plays a crucial role in human progress. It has driven numerous pivotal scientific and technological innovations and influenced our philosophies of life. To promote astronomy education among the general public in Taiwan, Mr. Bruce Cheng, the founder of Delta Electronics and the chairperson of Delta Electronics Foundation, also an astronomy enthusiast, and The National Central University (NCU) jointly established the NCU-Delta Young Astronomer Lectureship Award in 2012. This award honors scholars worldwide under the age of 45 who have made outstanding contributions to the field of astronomy or astrophysics. Candidates are nominated by the Nomination Committee without regard to sex, race, or nationality, and the finalists are selected by the Review Committee.

Award recipients are invited to Taiwan to deliver a colloquium at NCU, as well as public lectures at Delta Headquarters and Taichung Municipal Taichung First Senior High School. These lectures provide the opportunity for the local astronomer community to interact with international scholars and inspire young minds to pursue research in astronomy.

To date, 17 scholars have been honored with the NCU-DELTA Young Astronomer Lectureship Award. Below is the list of the award recipients and the details of their public lectures:

  • 2024 Spring: Prof. Jenny E. Greene, Princeton Department of Astrophysical Science, Princeton University, USA
  • 2023 Autumn: Prof. Anders Johansen, Planetary Sciences and Planet Formation at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark & Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden
  • 2022 Autumn: Prof. Sherry H. Suyu, Associate Professor at Technical University of Munich, Germany & Max Planck Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany
  • 2021 Autumn: Prof. Stella S. R. Offner, Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Public talk-Stellar Siblings: How Multiple Star Systems Form
  • 2020 Spring: Prof. Mansi Kasliwal, California Institute of Technology, USA
    Public talk-Cosmic Firework 
    Academic lecture-The dynamic infrared sky
  • 2019 Spring: Prof. Chao-Lin Kuo, Department of Physics, Stanford University, USA
  • 2018 Autumn: Prof. Yue Shen, Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA 
    Public talk-Galactic-Scale Supermassive Black Hole Pairs at Cosmic Noon
  • 2017 Autumn: Prof. Masaomi Tanaka, Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Japan 
    Public talk-Multimessenger astronomy and the origin of heavy elements
  • 2017 Spring: Dr. Jean-Baptiste Vincent, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research, Germany 
    Public talk-Next frontiers in the exploration of asteroids and comets
  • 2016 Autumn: Prof. Ji-Feng Liu, Director of the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
    Public talk-Sitian Project
  • 2016 Spring: Prof. Lisa J. Kewley, Director of the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian, USA & Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Australia
  • 2015 Autumn: Prof. Kevin Heng, Department of Astronomy & Planetary Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland 
    Public talk-The Atmospheres of Exoplanets
  • 2015 Spring: Prof. Nissim Kanekar, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA)-Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), India 
    Public talk-Atomic Gas in Star-forming Galaxies at High Redshifts
  • 2014 Autumn: Prof. Eva Grebel, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Zentrum für Astronomie, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2013 Spring: Prof. Christopher Reynolds, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, USA & Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK (past)
  • 2012 Autumn: Prof. Stephen J. Smartt, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK & Queen’s University Belfast, UK (past) 
    Public talk-The present and future of multi-messenger astrophysics
  • 2012 Spring: Dr. Matthew J. Holman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA 
    Public talk-The continuing search for planet nine

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