Invited Colloquia and Lectures
2023
Nov 24, 2023, Complex Organics in Space: a changing view of the cosmos, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
October 27, 2023, The Legacy of Copernicus, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
October 25, 2023, Complex Organics in Space: a changing view of the cosmos, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
September 11, 2023, Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, 10th International Asian Congress, Toruń, Poland
June 27, 2023, Unexplained Spectral Phenomena in the Interstellar Medium, Workshop on Complex Organics in Space, Vancouver, Canada
2022
May 20, 2022, 9th International Asian Congress, Toruń, Poland
May 12, 2022, Mexican Society of Astrobiology, Mexico
January 5, 2022, Physical Research Lab, India,
2021
December 4, 2021, Seventh International Astronomy Universe and Society, Guadalajara, Mexico
June 9, 2021, Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, Division of Geological and Planetary Science, Caltech
May 9, 2021, Stardust: the cosmic seeds of life, TRIUMP Saturday Morning Lectures, Vancouver
Jan 25, 2021, Science Education in the 21st Century, Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) symposium, Japan
2020
December 14, 2020, The search for biomarker in the solar system and beyond, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC, Vancouver
2019
November 13, 2019, Organic Matter in the Universe, South-Western Institute for Astronomy Research, Yunnan University, Kunming, China
July 21, 2019, Organic Matter in the Universe, Astrobio2019: Moonshots and Earthshots in the Search for Life Beyond Earth, Green Bank, West Virginia, U.S.A.
May 6, 2019, Science Education in the 21st Century, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
April 1, 2019, Abiotic synthesis of complex organics in the Universe, New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics IV Astrochemistry, Astrobiology and the Origin of Life, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Feb 7, 2019, Oganic Matter in the Universe, Dept. of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, UBC, Vancouver
2018
October 31, 2018, Organic Dust in Space, Cosmic Dust and Magnetism, Daejeon, Korea
October 27, 2018, Abiotic synthesis of complex organics in the Universe, IVth International Congress on Astrobiology, Lima, Peru
October 27, 2018, Astrobiology as a medium of science education, IVth International Congress on Astrobiology, Lima, Peru
October 26, 2018, Astrochemistry: the observation of molecules and solids in space, IVth International Congress on Astrobiology, Lima, Peru
July 25, 2018, Star dust: the cosmic seeds of life, 2nd Latin American Astrobiology Congress, Bogota, Colombia
2017
December 11, 2017, Overview of Planetary Nebulae Research, Sabaru Workshop, Hong Kong
November 25, 2017, Astrochemistry: the observations of molecules and solids in space, Astrobiology Training School, Santiago, Chile
November 23, 2017, Organic Matter in the Universe, Chinese Academy of Sciences South America Center for Astronomy , Santiago, Chile
November 3, 2017, Physics and Chemistry of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, With One Hand Waving Free, Port Douglas, Australia
October 11, 2017, Our Place in the Universe, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau
October 12, 2017, Organics in the Solar System, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau
October 6, 2017, Our Place in the Universe, National Tsing Hua University, Hsingchu, Taiwan
October 5, 2017, The Origin of Complex Organic Matter in the Universe, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
October 5, 2017, Organic Matter in the Universe: from solar system to distant galaxies, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
October 3, 2017, Organics in the Solar System, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
September 18, 2017, THz observations of interstellar atoms and molecules from Antarctica, Third Australia China Workshop on Astrophysics, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
September 12, 2017,Organic Matter in the Universe: from solar system to distant galaxies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
June 16, 2017, Stardust: the cosmic seeds of life, Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong
April 25, 2017, Planetary Nebulae Research: past, present, and future, Instituto de Astronomía, Ensenada, Mexico
April 26, 2017, Organic Matter in the Universe, Instituto de Astronomía, Ensenada, Mexico
April 27, 2017, Stardust: the cosmic seeds of life, Ensenada, Mexico
February 27, 2017, Stardust: the cosmic seeds of life, International Space Science Institute, Beijing, China
February 23, 2017, Organic Matter in the Universe, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing, China
January 20, 2017, Education in the 21st Century, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
January 9, 2017, Organic Matter in the Universe: from solar system to distant galaxies, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2016
December 12, 2016, Relationship between Stellar Synthesized Complex Organics and Solar System Organics, XIIth Rencontres du Vietnam: Search for Life: from early earth to exoplanets, Qui Nhon, Vietnam
November 4, 2016, Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, International Space Science Institute Workshop on "Cosmic Dust from the Lab to the Stars", Bern, Switzerland
October 20, 2016, Detection of Molecules and Solids in Space, Third International Congress in Astrobiology, Manizales, Colombia
October 19, 2016, Organic Matter in the Universe, Third International Congress in Astrobiology, Manizales, Colombia
October 14, 2016, Conference Summary, IAU Symposium 323: Planetary Nebulae:multi-wavelength probes of stellar and galactic evolution, Beijing, China
May 24, 2016, Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, National Resarch Council of Canada, Victoria, Canada
2015
December 14, 2015, Physics and Chemistry of the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, XIth Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Hong Kong
November 20, 2015, Our Place in the Universe, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
November 19, 2015, Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
November 5, 2015, Science Curriculum Reform at HKU, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
October 29, 2015, Stardust: the cosmic seeds of life, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau
October 19, 2015, Science Curriculum Reform at HKU, York University, Toronto, Canada
October 20, 2015, Synthesis of Complex Organics in the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution, York University, Toronto, Canada
August 3, 2015, Search for Water and Life’s Building Blocks in the Universe, Focus Meeting 15, IAU General Assembly, Honolulu, U.S.A.
2014
August 21, APRIM 2014, 12th Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting, Daejeon, Korea
July 7, Origins 2014, Nara, Japan
June 26, 8th meeting of the International Organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers, Singapore
June 6, 3rd International Collaboration Meeting on Antarctic Survey Telescopes, Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China
April 24, Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
April 23, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
April 16, Department of Astronomy, Caltech, Pasadena, U.S.A.
April 15, Department of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, U.S.A.
February 28, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Shanghai, China
2013
November 20: The Life Cycle of Dust in the Universe, Taipei, Taiwan
November 20: Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
October 23: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
October 18: Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, USA
October 17: University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
July 29: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Calgary, Canada
July 1: Australian Astrobiology Meeting, Sydney, Australia
June 6: 50th Anniversary Symposium of Science Faculty, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
March 27: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
March 25: Western University, London, Canada
March 11: Nanjing University, Najing, China
March 8: Purple Mountain Observatory, Nanjing, China
2012
October 8: Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
October 5: Workshop on Radio Stars, Haystack, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
August 29: IAU General Assembly Commission 51 (bioastronomy) science meeting, Beijing, China
August 27: IAU General Assembly Special Session 16, Beijing, China
June 7: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, Calgary, Canada
March 8: Advances in the study for the origin of life and bioastronomy, Osaka, Japan
February 17: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
January 26: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
2011
November 22: International conference on interstellar dust, molecules, and chemistry, Pune, India
November 8: Hong Kong Workshop on Evolved stars, Hong Kong
October 21: Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
October 20: Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
October 18: Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, Korea
July 25, IAU Symposium 283: Planetary Nebulae: an eye to the future, Tenerife, Spain
May 31, IAU Symposium 280: The Molecular Universe, Toledo, Spain
April 15, The 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Lijiang, China
2010
July 9, 7th Annual Meeting of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2010), Hyderabad, India
March 11, Joint Colloquium of KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
2009
November 3, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India
October 16, Chinese Astronomical Society, Kaifeng, China
August 3, IAU General Assembly, Special Session 1 Infrared and Submm Spectroscopy, Rio, Brazil
February 20, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2008
July 2: University of Belfast, Belfast, U.K.
June 27: University of York, York, U.K.
June 26: University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K.
June 24: University of Keele, Keele, U.K.
June 23: Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
2007
October 3, HK University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
July, Hong Kong Physical Society, Hong Kong
June, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
June, Chinese Astronomical Society, Taiwan
January, California Academy of Science, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2006
July, General meeting of the Overseas Chinese Physicists Association
October, Baptist University
2005
December 19, Pacifichem 2005: Astrochemistry - From Laboratory Studies to Astronomical Observations, Honolulu, U.S.A.
December 16, ALMA workshop, Taipei, Taiwan
December 1, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan
November 2, National University of Mexico, Ensenada, Mexico
October 26, National University of Mexico, Morelia, Mexico
October 17, Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
September 21, San Francisco Amateur Astronomers, Randall Museum, San Francisco, California
September 17, East Bay Astronomical Society, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
September 16, Peninsula Astronomical Society, Los Altos, California, U.S.A.
September 14, NASA Ames Research Center, Ames, U.S.A.
May 20, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
May 17, Canadian Astronomical Society, Montreal, Canada
March 8, National Normal University, Taiwan
February 3, Chinese Physics Society, Kaoshing, Taiwan
January 17, Sigma Xi, Calgary, Canada
January 14, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
January 14, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Kingston, Canada
2004
December 11, Hu Shih memorial lecture, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
November 16, Submillimeter Array Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii, U.S.A.
October 15, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
September 23, Onsala Space Observatory, Onsala, Sweden
September 21, University of Heidelberg , Heidelberg, German
June 25, National Observatory of China, Beijing, China
June 24, Beijing University, Beijing, China
June 22-23, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
June 18, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong/p>
May 25, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
April 20, University of Wisconsin , Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
April 19, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.
April 18, NorthEast Astronomy Forum, Suffern, New York, U.S.A.
March 12, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
February 26, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
January 9, Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
2003
Nov 24, Gemini Observatory, Hilo, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Nov 24, 2003 , Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, Weimea, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Nov. 2003, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
October 7, Paris Observatory, Paris, France
September, National TsingHua University, Taiwan
May 5, NASA Ames Research Center, Ames, U.S.A.
May 1, Texas Star Party,Texas, U.S.A.
March 20, Calgary Science Center, Calgary, Canada
February 10, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Edmonton, Canada
February 5, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto, Canada
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