2017 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 3-7 July 2017, TAIPEI, TAIWAN APR M July 3, 2017 (Monday) 16:00-16:30 Room 201 BCDE, 2F Opening Ceremony Meeting Chairman You-Hua Chu (The Astronomical Society of the Republic of China (ASROC) / Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) July 3, 2017 (Monday) Norio Kaifu (Former IAU President/ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)) Yuan-Tseh Lee (President Emeritus of Academia Sinica) 16:30-18:00 Room 201 BCDE, 2F Plenary Session 1 Chair: Albert Kong (National Tsing Hua University) 16:30 PL1-1 Keynote Lecture Dark Matter Particle Explorer: The First Chinese Astronomical Satellite Jin Chang (Purple Mountain Observatory) 17:30 PL1-2 Topical Lecture Early Science results from the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope on ASTROSAT Annapurni Subramaniam (Indian Institute of Astrophysics) 2017 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 3-7 July 2017, TAIPEI, TAIWAN APR M July 4, 2017 (Tuesday) 09:00-10:30 Room 201 BCDE, 2F Plenary Session 2 Chair: Lister Staveley-Smith (ICRAR / UWA / CAASTRO / CAASTRO-3D) 09:00 PL2-1 Keynote Lecture The Renaissance of Millisecond Pulsars July 4, 2017 (Tuesday) Albert Kong (National Tsing Hua University) 10:00 PL2-2 Topical Lecture The East Asian Observatory Paul Ho (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:00-12:30 Room 102, 1F Session 6-1: Observing Facilities and International Collaboration Chair: Masahiko Hayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) 11:00 S6-1-1 Invited Talk Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project Status Tomonori Usuda (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / SOKENDAI) 11:15 S6-1-2 Giant Magellan Telescope Project and Korean Prospects Byeong-Gon Park (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) 11:30 S6-1-3 Current Status and Future Plans at CFHT Doug Simons (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope) 11:45 S6-1-4 Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS): Overview, current status, updates and future plans of upcoming instrument on Subaru Telescope Naoyuki Tamura (IPMU, The University of Tokyo) 12:00 S6-1-6 The Transneptunian Automated Occultation Survey (TAOS II) Shiang-Yu Wang (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:00-12:30 Room 103, 1F Session 2-1: Interstellar Medium, Star Formation, and Milky Way Chair: Young Chol Minh (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) 11:00 S2-1-1 Invited Talk Shining Light on the Dark ISM Joanne Dawson (Macquarie University / CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science) 11:25 S2-1-2 Toward Galactic View of Star Formation Shu-Ichiro Inutsuka (Nagoya University) 2017 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 3-7 July 2017, TAIPEI, TAIWAN APR M 11:40 S2-1-3 Carbon Line Emission along the G300-G307 Sightline: Searching for Molecular Clouds in Our Galaxy Elida Istiqomah (Universitas Gadjah Mada / University of New South Wales) 11:55 S2-1-4 Observed properties of interstellar filaments Doris Arzoumanian (Nagoya University) 12:10 S2-1-5 Filaments and Dense Cores in Polaris Flare and California Molecular Cloud Eun Jung Chung (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) July 4, 2017 (Tuesday) 11:00-12:30 Room 105, 1F Session 5-1: Compact Objects and High Energy Astrophysics Chair: Albert Kong (National Tsing Hua University) 11:00 S5-1-1 Invited Talk Physics of compact object Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science) 11:25 S5-1-3 A theoretical study of the geometry of accretion flow in AGN Bifang Liu (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences) 11:40 S5-1-4 The impact of the stream from L1 on the shape of the accretion disc in cataclysmic variables Pavel Kaygorodov (Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences) 11:55 S5-1-5 Horizon-scale gamma-ray emission from rapidly rotating black holes Kouichi Hirotani (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:00-12:30 Room 201 A, 2F Session 1-1: Planetary Systems, Solar and Extrasolar Chair: Wei-Ling Tseng (National Taiwan Normal University) 11:00 S1-1-1 Dust-free modeling of dusty protoplanetary disks Min-Kai Lin (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:15 S1-1-2 On the Mechanism for Creating Multiple Rings in Protoplanetary Disks: Non-linear Development of Secular Gravitational Instability Ryosuke Tominaga (Nagoya University) 11:30 S1-1-3 Studying Formation and Dynamical Effects of Circumplanetary Disks using the Antares Code Chun-Fan Liu (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:45 S1-1-4 Transit timing variation and transmission spectroscopy study of transiting exoplanet with 0.7m class Thai telescopes Supachai Awiphan (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand) 2017 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 3-7 July 2017, TAIPEI, TAIWAN APR M 12:00 S1-1-5 Studying the Characteristics of Exoplanets through Transit Observations Ing-Guey Jiang (National Tsing Hua University) 12:15 S1-1-6 Discovery of young planet-mass objects in L1495 Poshih Chiang (National Central University) 11:00-12:30 Room 201 BCDE, 2F Session 4-1: Galaxies, AGNs, and Cosmology July 4, 2017 (Tuesday) Chair: Gerhard Hensler (University of Vienna) 11:00 S4-1-1 The SAMI Galaxy Survey: energy sources of the turbulent velocity dispersion in spatially-resolved local star-forming galaxies Luwenjia Zhou (Nanjing University / Australian National University) 11:15 S4-1-2 The Quenched Mass Portion of Star-forming Galaxies and the Origin of the Star Formation Sequence Slope Xu Kong (University of Science and Technology of China) 11:30 S4-1-3 Stellar mass and star formation rate relation of infrared-bright dust- obscured galaxies selected with IRAS and AKARI far-infrared all-sky survey Yoshiki Toba (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:45 S4-1-4 Studying star formation quenching in galaxies with MaNGA and ALMA Lihwai Lin (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 12:00 S4-1-5 The environmental effect on star formation properties in galaxy pairs Fangting Yuan (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) 12:15 S4-1-6 Evolution of Gas-Star Cycle in Nearby Galaxies Hsi-An Pan (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:00-12:30 Room 201 F, 2F Session 7-1: Public Education, Outreach, and Diversity Chair: Thilina Heenatigala (Sri Lanka Astronomical Association) 11:00 S7-1-1 IAU for the Public Sze-Leung Cheung (IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach) 11:25 S7-1-2 Outreach & Education Concept and Strategy of NAOJ Hidehiko Agata (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) 11:40 S7-1-3 Education and Public Outreach Activities in ASIAA Mei-Yin Chou (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 11:55 S7-1-4 Boosting the luminance: how to contract more interest in astronomy in Thailand Siramas Komonjinda (Chiang Mai University) 12:10 S7-1-5 A Decade of Astronomy Outreach: Approaches, Impacts and Challenges in Nepal Suresh Bhattarai (Tribhuvan University / Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO)) 2017 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 3-7 July 2017, TAIPEI, TAIWAN APR M 14:00-15:30 Room 102, 1F Session 6-2: Observing Facilities and International Collaboration Chair: Zhi-Qiang Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) 14:00 S6-2-1 Invited Talk ALMA Status and Future Plan Satoru Iguchi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)) 14:15 S6-2-3 The ALMA Band 1 Receiver Development project: building the lower July 4, 2017 (Tuesday) frequency end of ALMA Oscar Morata (Academia Sinica (ASIAA)) 14:30 S6-2-4 Future Plans for the Parkes Radio Telescope in the era of the SKA James Green (CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science) 14:45 S6-2-5 New 50-m class Single Dish Telescope: Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST) Ryohei Kawabe (National Astronomy Observatory of Japan) 14:00-15:30 Room 103, 1F Session 2-2: Interstellar Medium, Star Formation, and Milky Way Chair: Joanne Dawson (Macquarie University / CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science) 14:00 S2-2-1 Invited Talk Nobeyama CO galactic plane survey Kazufumi Torii (Nobeyama Radio Observatory) 14:15 S2-2-2 The Mopra Southern Galactic Plane CO Survey Catherine Braiding (UNSW Sydney) 14:30 S2-2-3 Probing the coldest Milky Way: Follow-up observations of Planck cold clumps with ground-based telescopes. Tie Liu (KASI) 14:45 S2-2-4 CO In Protostars (COPS): Herschel-SPIRE Spectroscopy of Embedded Protostars Yao-Lun Yang (The University of Texas at Austin) 15:00 S2-2-5 Interpreting the results of large, multi-molecular-line datasets of the molecular ISM Maria Cunningham (University of New South Wales) 15:15 S2-2-6 The Evolutionary Status of the Prestellar Core: L1498 Ren-Shiang Sung (National Tsing Hua University) 2017 Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting 3-7 July 2017, TAIPEI, TAIWAN APR M 14:00-15:30 Room 105, 1F Session 5-2: Compact Objects and High Energy Astrophysics Chair: Banibrata Mukhopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science) 14:00 S5-2-1 A Unified Study of Accretion Flows of NS-LMXBs Through the Hard State Zhongli Zhang (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) 14:15 S5-2-2 Studies of energy dependent variability in the low-hard state of black hole X-ray binaries July 4, 2017 (Tuesday) Holger Stiele (National Tsing Hua University) 14:30 S5-2-3 The analysis of QPOs and time lag in ULXs with XMM-Newton Zi-Jian Li (Institute of High Energy Physics / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) 14:45 S5-2-4 Transfer of radiative and mechanical energy from ULXs to the interstellar medium Roberto Soria (ICRAR-Curtin University / NAOC (Chinese Academy of Sciences)) 15:00 S5-2-5 Flares from the supermassive black hole in our Galaxy Yaping Li (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) 14:00-15:30 Room 201 A, 2F Session 1-2: Planetary Systems, Solar and Extrasolar Chair: Zhong-Yi Lin (National Central University) 14:00 S1-2-1 The Direct Imaging Research of Exoplanets with Ground-based Telescopes and Space Missions Jiangpei Dou (Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics & Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) 14:15 S1-2-2 Chemical Abundance study of Planetary