Lunch talks are less formal and shorter than colloquia or seminars and are held on Mondays at 12:00 in room 1412 (see the lunch talk schedule). The institute will provide lunch for anyone who wants to attend, but you need to order the lunchbox through the internal site by the Thursday before the talk. You can sign up to give a lunch talk about your research, a recent meeting you attended, or other topic by contacting the colloquium committee.
The best place to check the schedule of past and future seminars and colloquia is the IAA Colloquium Site. The official colloquium of the institute is now held at 14:20–15:20 in room 1203 or 1412 on Wednesdays, but this sometimes changes due to visitors' schedules. Special seminars may happen any day of the week.
The Joint Colloquium Schedule is also available on the IAA Colloquium Site The Joint Colloquium Series is organized by the NTU Physics Department, Center for Condensed Matter Science (CCMS), Leung Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (LeCosPA), Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), and the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS). The idea is to have excellent speakers to give inspiring, informative, but non-technical talks on the frontiers of Sciences. Joint Colloquia are held on Tuesdays from 14:20-15:20 in room 104 of the CCMS-New Physics Building (a short walk from IAA).
A wide variety of workshops are held at ASIAA, spanning existing collaborations (e.g. the Taiwan–Russia Polarisation Workshops, Baobab's "Dumpling" Workshop series) and activities based on facilities that ASIAA has access to (e.g. SMA–ALMA workshop). These are typically announced through emails. As the largest astrophysics research institute in Taiwan these workshops often bring in attendees from neighbouring universities. If you want to meet a broader mix of researchers and foster some collaborations outwith ASIAA, attendance of these is a good idea.
The ASIAA Summer Student Program is an excellent opportunity, providing you with project management, supervision, and research leadership experience. The program is held every summer for eight weeks, usually in July and August, and consists of lectures on a broad range of astrophysical topics and individual research projects. As a supervisor, you propose a research project (singularly or in collaboration with others at the institute) that will be advertised to undergraduate/pre-doctoral students in Taiwan and internationally. If you find a capable student to undertake your project, then you can work with them for the duration of the program (and potentially afterward). The program is intensive and short term, so the onus is on the supervisor (you) to come up with a feasible project with solid research outcomes given the duration of the program and experience of the student.
There are also limited opportunities for teaching through the TIARA summer school program (held at ASIAA), in addition to lectures given as part of the Summer Student Program. The scope, subject matter, and details of these programs vary year-to-year, but it is possible that as a member of ASIAA you could be invited to participate as a lecturer.
Last updated: July 21, 2025