Center for Astronomy

Vision & Objectives

Maintain the number 1 status in Korea.

Aim to be a world-class astronomy institute.

Regarding Yonsei-Oxford collaboration• Tight collaborations between Yonsei and Oxford already exist in

Astronomy• Each year, multiple collaborative papers are being published and

personnel are exchanged to boost the research activities on both.• We are certain that our case sets a good example/standard for the

Yonsei-Oxford university level collaboration.

Organization and Participants

Research Fields (I)

Survey and observational astronomy•Official partner of GALEX UV survey mission•Co-operating CTIO 4m Blanco telescope•Hosting a 21m KVN radio telescope on campus•YSTAR global survey network PI institute•Collaborate with Oxford on Sauron and Galex

projects

Research Fields (II)

Theoretical astrophysics•PI institute of the Y2 Isochrones (world’s most

used stellar evolution models)•The largest stellar evolution model database•Hydrodynamic models for stellar convection•Formation and evolution of galaxies•Population synthesis models

Research Fields (III)

Space instrumentation and operation•Korea’s best satellite tracking institute•Automatic mirror polishing process•Space optics projects•Currently in collaboration with Rutherford

Appleton Lab and Oxford University

Activities and Outputs

•Research highlights1. GALEX UV satellite operation2. Korea VLA Network on campus3. YSTAR survey network4. CTIO 4m Blanco telescope operation5. Y2 isochrone project6. Various satellite projects

•Major publications1. More than 70 papers publishes in ApJ on various Galex

projects2. Y2 isochrones among the most cited papers in

astronomy3. Each faculty publishes 5.6 major papers per year4. Four Nature, Science papers published recently

Yonsei-Oxford collaboration

• HistoryYi was a former lecturer of Oxford Physics (astrophysics), supervising 3

PhD students (Kaviraj, Schawinski, Brown)• Current Yonsei-Oxford collaborations

1.Yi – Martin Bureau on Sauron-Galex early-type galaxy studies (Royal Society funded)

2.Yi – Joseph Silk on Hubble space telescope Wide Field Camera 3 project3.Yi – Sugata Kaviraj on early-type galaxy evolution4.SH Kim – Dalton on optical instrumentation

• Papers published via Yonsei-Oxford collaborations1.11 top journal papers for the last 3 years 2.Including Nature paper: Schawinski, Yi, et al. 2006, Nature, 442, 888

“Suppression of star formation in early-type galaxies by feedback from supermassive black holes”

3.Including Science paper: Schawinski, Yi et al. 2008, Science, 321, 223, “Supernova Shock Breakout from a Red Supergiant”

• Visiting each other in the last 3 years1.Oxford scientists (Bureau, Kaviraj, Khochfar, Schawinski, Burnell)

visited Yonsei2.Yonsei scientists (Yi, Jeong, Kimm, Yoon) visited Oxford3.2 Yonsei graduates are enrolled in the Oxford physics Dphil programme

Contact Point

Prof. Sukyoung Ken YiYonsei University Department of AstronomyTel: 82-2-2123-4159E-mail: yi@yonsei.ac.kyWeb: http://gem.yonsei.ac.kr