Cover News

  Home/Research/Research Highlights and News/Cover News
To Explore the Dark Matter with DAMPE

To Explore the Dark Matter with DAMPE

On March 4th 2017, the 17th session of the "New Worlds, New Horizons" Public Lecture series was held in the Auditorium of Tsinghua University. Dr. Chang Jin, Deputy Director of the Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and PI of the DAMPE project, presented the audience the breathtaking view of the satellite, its history and its missions. The lecture attracted approximately 500 on-site audiences and over 8900 on-line audiences.

Read more...
Scholarship Award Ceremony & Pizza Party

Scholarship Award Ceremony & Pizza Party

In the afternoon of January 13th, 2017, the annual Scholarship Award Ceremony was held at S527, Mong Man-wai Science and Technology Building, Tsinghua University. Approximately 30 students and faculty participated in the event. Nine students were awarded the Tsinghua-AMD Scholarship, one student won the Lin-bridge Fellowship and two students were awarded the THCA Award Scholarship.

Read more...
FAST - The Super Eye to Watch the Cosmos

FAST - The Super Eye to Watch the Cosmos

On Dec. 19th 2016, the 16th session of the "New Worlds, New Horizons" Public Lecture series was held at Tsinghua Auditorium. The lecture was delivered by Prof. Di Li, Project Scientist of the FAST Program. The lecture attracted a large audience of students, faculties as well as the general public to attend. There were also 13,000 viewers watching the live lecture online.

Read more...
Tsinghua Students Visit Xinglong Observing Station (NAOC)

Tsinghua Students Visit Xinglong Observing Station (NAOC)

43 students and instructors from the two courses "Roaming between Physics and Astronomy" and "Frontiers of Astrophysics" visited the Xinglong Observing Station, National Astronomical Observatories of China, on November 5th, 2016.

Read more...
Gravitational Wave - A New Window to Explore the Universe

Gravitational Wave - A New Window to Explore the Universe

On the night of Oct. 29th, 2016, Gravitational Wave - A New Window to Explore the Universe, the 15th session of the "New Worlds, New Horizons" Public Lecture series was held in the iconic Auditorium of Tsinghua University. The lecture was delivered by Professor Rana Adhikari, a member of the LIGO Science Collaboration (LSC) and a professor of Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology. The lecture attracted an audience of over 500 students and general public to admire the beauty of gravitational waves.

Read more...
Dark Matter - The Mysterious Ghost in The Universe

Dark Matter - The Mysterious Ghost in The Universe

On the evening of September 24th, 2016, the 14th lecture of Tsinghua Astrophysics Public Series (TAPS): New Worlds, New Horizons was held at the Auditorium. The speaker, Professor Xiangdong Ji is the director of Institute of Nuclear, Particle, Astronomy and Cosmology (INPAC) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (STJU), and is the project leader for the PandaX experiment located in the China Jin-Ping underground Laboratory (CJPL). Approximately 1,000 students, faculties and off-campus audience attended the lecture.

Read more...
Low Temperature Detector Lab near completion

Low Temperature Detector Lab near completion

Two large rooms on the 6th floor of the Meng Min Wei Building have been renovated and set up as the new Low Temperature Detector Lab. The construction is now nearly completed. The lab will be used by Prof. Wei Cui’s group to develop superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) arrays for high throughput, high resolution X-ray imaging spectroscopy in astrophysics. A TES operates as an ultra-sensitive thermometer. It measures the deposited energy of an incident X-ray photon by sensing a tiny rise in the temperature of the absorber (to which it is attached). The absorber temperature recovers, after heat leaks out (to a thermal bath), and the detector is ready for another photon. The accuracy to which a TES measures photon energy is fundamentally limited by thermodynamic fluctuations in the exchange of thermal energy between the absorber and the thermal bath. To achieve good energy resolution, it is necessary to operate the device at cryogenic temperatures (typically < 100 mK).

Read more...

Categories

Archives