Events
【DoA Colloquium】March 18th by Weiwei Zhu（NAOC）
Description
Title: FAST FRB Key Science Project
Speaker：Weiwei Zhu
Abstract:
Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) are some of radio astronomy's most energetic and "fast" objects. In this talk, I will introduce recent FAST key science project results, including the large sample repeating FRB studies and what we learned about FRB mechanism from the radio pulsar phase of the magnetar SGR J1935+2154. I will also talk about the discovery and timing of new pulsars using FAST, peculiar pulsar emission geometry, interacting pulsar binary, testing theories of gravitation, and future developments of the FAST telescope and the 21CMA.
Bio:
Weiwei Zhu got his PhD from McGill University (2011). He worked as a post-doc at the University of British Columbia in Canada and then at the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany. He joined the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Science (NAOC) as a professor in 2017 and FAST's early science and commissioning team, serving as a key member of FAST's key science projects since 2020. He is now the leader of the NAOC pulsar and gravitation group and also the chief scientist of the FAST operation and development center. He studies pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts using FAST and other radio telescopes. His group also builds digital backend systems.
Time: 14:00-15:00, 18/Mar, Tuesday
Venue: Room 506 (Large seminar room), Department of Astronomy
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