Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

May 6-25, 2014

The Spring School aims at providing a chance for graduate and undergraduate students to do hands-on scientific research. The research topics will mainly focus on Protostellar Disk Evolution, Planet Formation and Exoplanet Detection(by Astrometry and by Microlensing). Besides a few lectures and group discussions, students will also start a research project with the top experts in the fields.

Organizer:

Douglas Lin (林潮), UC Santa Cruz

Dong Lai (赖东), Cornell University

Xuening Bai (白雪宁), Harvard CfA

Additional Invited Lecturer:

Andy Gould, The Ohio State University

Michael Shao, NASA JPL

Shude Mao (毛淑德), NAOC

Zhaohuan Zhu (朱照寰), Princeton University

Graduate and junior/senior undergraduate students are welcomed to the Spring School. Please send your name, school/institute, year(grade) and your email address to Ms. Li Li (castu03@tsinghua.edu.cn) if you want to attend. There is no registration fee for the spring school.

Lecture section is open to everyone (including faculty) and no need to register. But if you are a student and want to do a project, please do remember to sign up!

The school will be held at Rm. 213 of IASTU. Detailed schedule will be posted online later.

If you have any question, please feel free to contact student representative Yuan Zhang (yzhang815@gmail.com).

Poster

Schedule

lecture notes-Andy Gould

lecture notes-Lin lecture notes 2-Lin

lecture notes 1-Shao lecture notes 2-Shao lecture notes 3-Shao

lecture notes 1-Bai lecture notes 2-Bai PlanetFormation_Bai

DongLai-1 DongLai-2(kozai-chaos) DongLai-3(magnetosphere) DongLai-3(Tide)