On this page you can the full program for the 2019 JCMT Users Meeting to be held in Taipei, Taiwan. Note that the SMA meeting will be held on November 4th and 5th. We hope our community benefits greatly from these back to back sub-mm meetings.
The meeting will be held in the AS/NTU Astronomy-Mathematics Building, No.1, Roosevelt Rd, Sec. 4, (inside NTU main campus), Taipei, Taiwan.
The JCMT Meeting Banquet will be held on November 7th at 18:00.
November 5th – JCMT Beginners Workshop
Remote connect: https://zoom.us/j/422673399
Location: 12F conference room
JCMT Beginners Workshop – from proposal to analysis (Led by Sarah Graves and Mark Rawlings)
13.30-14.10 Introduction to the JCMT and instrument capabilities
14.10-15.30 INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL SESSION: Introduction to ORAC-DR
15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-16.20 The lifecycle of a JCMT Project
16.20-17.30 INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL SESSION: Introduction to POL-2 DR and more ORAC-DR
November 6th – JCMT Meeting – Day 1
Remote connect morning session: https://zoom.us/j/124724382
Location: 1F ASIAA Auditorium
08:10 – 08:30 Registration
08:30 – 08:45 Dr You-Hua Chu – Opening remarks
08:45 – 09:15 P. Ho – JCMT Operations Update
Large Programs 1 (Chair: T. Liu)
9:15 – 09:40 D. Ward-Thompson – BISTRO
9:40 – 10:05 T. Moore – CHIMPS and CHIMPS2 surveys
10:05 – 10:30 L. Lin– JINGLE
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Star Formation 1 (Chair: G. Park)
11:00 – 11:18 Z. Li – JCMT CO(3-2) mapping of M31
11:18 – 11:36 J. Xie – Characterising Infall Signatures in Infrared Dark Clouds with JCMT
11:36 – 11:54 J. Forbrich – Dust to dust: combining dust emission and extinction data to study grain growth in starless cores
11:54 – 12:12 B. Lalchand – Single epoch transient events
12:12 – 12:30 Poster Flash Talks (60 sec each; Moderator: M. Rawlings)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (provided)
Remote connect afternoon session: https://zoom.us/j/126244626
Compact Objects (Chair: K. Koay)
14:00 – 14:18 P. Torne – Observing pulsars at (sub)millimetre wavelengths
14:18 – 14:36 A. Tetarenko – Submillimetre Timing and Polarimetry of Relativistic Jets with SCUBA-2/POL-2
14:36 – 14:54 M. Kam – Multifrequency polarimetric observations of blazars with the KVN, SMA, and JCMT
14:54 – 15:12 G. Bower – Twenty Years of Quasar Variability at Submillimeter Wavelengths
15:12 – 15:30 C. Chen – Unveiling Dust Emission Associated with Extended Quasar Nebulae
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session & Group Photo
Magnetic Fields 1 (Chair: J. Wang)
16:00 – 16:18 E. Chakali – Importance of magnetic fields in the hierarchically fragmented cores of B213/Taurus based on the JCMT BISTRO survey
16:18 – 16:36 K. Pattle – The Odd Couple: The differing magnetic fields of neighbouring cores in L1689
16:36 – 16:54 A. Lyo – BISTRO: Polarization study towards NGC2071IR
16:54 – 17:12 W. Kwon – BISTRO: Magnetic Fields in Serpens Main (Unpublished Results – No Public Version of Talk)
17:12 – 17:30 Q. Gu – A Comparison between Magnetic Field Directions Inferred from Planck and Starlight Polarimetry toward Gould Belt Clouds
17:30 – 17:40 Quick Break
17:40 – 18:20 JCMT/SMA Synergies Discussion (Moderators: Keping Qiu and Shih-Ping Lai)
November 7th – JCMT Meeting – Day 2
Remote connect morning session: https://zoom.us/j/958903479
Location: 1F ASIAA Auditorium
Large Programs 2 (Chair: T. Moore)
9:00 – 09:25 P. Scicluna – NESS
9:25 – 09:50 C. Lim – STUDIES
9:50 – 10:15 T. Liu – SCOPE
10:15 – 10:40 Y. Gao – MALATANG project updates: the far-infrared and HCN correlations
10:40 – 11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Star Formation 2 (Chair: A. Lyo)
11:00 – 11:18 L. Yuan – Sequential star formation in the extended filament S242 (remote talk)
11:18 – 11:36 J. Sai – Transition from a Quiescent Core to a Dynamical Envelope around the protostar L1489 IRS
11:36 – 11:54 G. Park – Submillimeter continuum variability in Planck Galactic cold clumps using the JCMT-SCOPE survey
11:54 – 12:12 S. Lin – Chemical modelling of starless cores
12:12 – 12:30 D. Eden – Power Scales of star formation – Clump formation efficiency maps
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (provided)
Remote connect afternoon session: https://zoom.us/j/825463864
Magnetic Fields 2 (Chair: K. Pattle)
14:00 – 14:18 P. Koch – Fragmentation and Relative Importance between Gravity, Magnetic Field, and Turbulence in IRDC
14:18 – 14:36 J. Hwang – The distribution of magnetic field strengths in Orion A region
14:36 – 14:54 J. Wang – Magnetic Fields within Hub-Filament Systems
14:54 – 15:12 H. Lee – Multi-wavelength polarization by radiative torque alignment
15:12 – 15:30 R. Furuya – 450/850 polarization comparisons
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
Instrumentation/Telescope Updates (Chair: R. Rao)
16:00 – 16:15 J. Han – GLT Instrumentation update
16:15 – 16:30 S. Matsushita – GLT, JCMT, and the East Asian High Frequency VLBI
16:30 – 16:45 Y.S. Dai – China’s Telescope Access Program (TAP)
16:45 – 17:00 M. Rawlings – Closing Remarks
18:00 – 21:00 Banquet
** Please note 15 min and 18 min talks include 3 minutes for questions (12+3 or 15+3, in the Instrumentation/Telescope Updates, Compact Objects, Magnetic Fields 1+2, Star Formation 1+2 sessions), and 25 min talks include 5 min for questions (20+5, in the Large Programs 1+2 sessions).
November 8th – JCMT Workshop
Remote connect: https://zoom.us/j/747748914
Location: 1F ASIAA Auditorium
JCMT data reduction and analysis workshop (Led by Sarah Graves and Mark Rawlings)
09.00-09.45 Calibration for SCUBA-2 and heterodyne instruments (talk and discussion)
09.45-10.30 INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL SESSION: SCUBA-2 and Heterodyne DR tutorials
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.15 Fun things to do in Band 5 weather (talk)
11.15-11.30 JCMT Dos and Don’ts
11.15-12.30 INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL SESSIONS: Scripting Starlink with Python
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (provided)
Remote connect: https://zoom.us/j/747748914
14.00 – 14.40
14.40-16.00: INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL SESSION: “Scripting Starlink with Python” and “Starlink Analysis”
16:00-16.30: Coffee break in room 12F: there will be a tea party to celebrate the GLT team winning the CTCI Foundation Award for their part in the EHT.
16.30-18.00: INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL SESSION: Anything you want!
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