中国科学院院士景益鹏教授来访

Prof. Yipeng Jing, Academician of CAS, visited SWIFAR

5月16-17日，应中国西南天文研究所邀请，中国科学院院士，上海交通大学天文与物理学院院长景益鹏教授到校访问。

访问期间，景益鹏院士与刘晓为教授进行了座谈，就天文学一流学科重点项目1.6米多通道测光巡天望远镜的进展以及中国西南天文研究所学术平台建设等问题，进行了深入的交流。

访问期间，景益鹏院士作了题为“下一代大型星系光谱巡天”的学术报告。景院士简要回顾了星系光谱巡天的发展过程以及在星系与宇宙学研究中的作用，并重点介绍了目前的主要科学问题以及即将开展的PFS和DESI巡天。研究所及天文系的50余名师生参加了报告会，并与景院士进行了热烈的讨论。

景益鹏教授简介：

景益鹏，天体物理学家，上海交通大学讲席教授，中国科学院院士，天文与天体物理研究中心主任。现任教育部科技委数理学部副主任、国家基金委数理学部咨询专家、上海交通大学物理与天文学院院长等，曾任国家重点基础研究发展计划（973计划）“宇宙大尺度结构和星系形成与演化”项目首席科学家、国家自然科学基金委“星系形成和星系活动”创新团队负责人等。获国家自然科学二等奖、上海市自然科学一等奖等科技奖项和荣誉。

At the invitation of SWIFAR, Prof. Yipeng Jing, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the director of School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, visited our institute on May 17th, 2018.

Prof. Jing had an in depth discussion with Prof. Xiaowei Liu, and provided insightful suggestions about the future development of SWIFAR, and the ongoing Mephisto project.

In the afternoon, Prof. Jing gave a colloquium on "Next generation of galaxy spectroscopic surveys". He reviewed the development of the field, and how such surveys revolutionized our understandings about the Universe and galaxies therein. The spectroscopic oberservations of galaxies can provide not only their redshift information but also, more importantly, the knowledge of their physical properties. With the next generation of spectroscopic surveys, such as PFS and DESI, the constraints on cosmological parameters and on the galaxy evolution can be dramatically improved. About 50 faculty members and students from SWIFAR and Department of Astronomy participated in the colloquium, and had active discussions with Prof. Jing.

Personal Information:

Yipeng Jing obtained his Ph.D. degree from USTC and SISSA, Italy in 1992. From 1993 to 2000, he worked as a research scholar at University of Arizona, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics at Garching, Germany, and Tokyo University, respectively. Prof. Jing joined Shanghai Astronomical Observatory in 1998, and moved to Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2012. He is the founding director of the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and is now the director of the School of Physics and Astronomy there. He has received numerous awards for his excellence in research. He was elected as the Academician of CAS in 2015.