Interstellar and intergalactic insights:
exploring the energetic Universe with multi-messengers
The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.
Carl Sagan
We are excited to announce the upcoming workshop, Interstellar and intergalactic insights: exploring the energetic Universe with multi-messengers, scheduled to take place at NTNU (National Taiwan Normal University, department of physics) on December 19 and 20. Preceding the workshop, there will be two insightful pre-lectures on December 14 and December 15.
The pre-lectures will be given by Prof. Kinwah Wu, who is an excellent lecturer and a Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London (MSSL, UCL). Particle astrophysics, unlike electromagnetic radiative processes and gravitational wave physics, is not in standard postgraduate curricum in Taiwan, and the pre-workshop lectures aim to fill the gap. We hope the topics covered in the pre-lectures will be beneficial to students and junior researchers who are interested in high-energy astrophysics and astro-particle physics.
Please visit the webpage for registration for the events (pre-lectures and workshop)!
The workshop is hosted by NTNU and NTHU.
Location for the pre-lectures and workshop:
F104, department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University, Gongguan Campus

Pre-Lecture 1: Dec 14 (Thu) 14:00-16:00
– Multi-messenger astronomy
– Particle “zoology”
– Fermi I and Fermi II accelerations
– Plasma accelerations
– Formation of power-laws in stochastic processes
Pre-Lecture 2: Dec 15 (Fri) 14:00-16:00
– Cosmic rays
– Hadronic interactions
– Neutrino physics and astrophysics
– Advection-diffusion equations
* For participants, please send an email to hypu@gapps.ntnu.edu.tw if you would like to access the recordings and slides of the prelectures.
Dec 19 | Dec 20 | |
9:25-9:30 | opening | |
high energy, gravity, black hole | particle, dark matter | |
9:30-10:00 | Hsiang-Kuang Chang (NTHU) title: Gamma-ray Transients Monitor (GTM) onboard Formosat-8B | Chuan-Ren Chen (NTNU) title: Impacts of axion-like particle on dark photon searches |
10:00-10:30 | Britt Jeter (ASIAA) title: How to Weight Supermassive Black Holes | Yen-Hsun-Lin (ASIoP) title: Detecting afterglow signatures from light dark matter boosted by supernova neutrinos |
10:30-11:00 | coffee break | |
11:00-11:30 | Olmo Piana (NTNU) title: High-redshift supermassive black holes and their jets | Janus C. Aban (NTNU) title: Implications of Gamma Ray Burst GRB221009A for Extra Dimensions
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11:30-12:00 | Kinwah Wu (UCL/MSSL) title: The covariant transport of relativistic particles in black hole environments – Two Case Studies | Hung-Yi Pu (NTNU) title: Radiative Transfer in Curved Spacetime |
12:00-13:30 | lunch | |
gravitational wave | polarization | |
13:30-14:00 | Kuo-Chuan Pan(NTHU) title: Gravitational wave and neutrino signals from Core-Collapse Supernova
| Alvina On (NCTS) title: Seeing intracluster magnetic fields through polarized radio glasses
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14:00-14:30 | He-Feng Hsieh (NTU) title: Gravitational Waves from Rotating Core-Collapse Supernovae
| Jane Yap (NTHU) title: The spectro-polarimetry approach and its application to test Blazar models |
14:30-15:00 | coffee break | |
neutrino and cosmic ray physics | joint discusson | |
15:00-15:30 | Meng-Ru Wu (ASIoP) title: Neutrinos in stellar explosions: collective flavor oscillations and role of neutrino annihilation | |
15:30-16:00 | Jane Sinan Long (UCL/MSSL) title: Neutrino Emission from the final stage of Neutron Star Mergers | |
16:00-16:30 | Paul Chong Wa Lai (UCL/MSSL) title: Tracking the gas distribution in the Galactic Centre through neutrino imaging | |
16:30-17:00 | Qin Han (UCL/MSSL) title: Effects of large-scale magnetic fields on the observed composition of ultra high-energy cosmic rays | closing remarks |

Workshop Organization
SOC: Hung-Yi Pu, Kinwah Wu
LOC: Guan-Hong Li, NTNU Hung-Yi Pu
*This workshop is sponsored by Yusan Young Scholar program, ” iCAG program of Higher Education Sprout Project” of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), and the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan.