Shanghai Astronomical Observatory,Chinese Academy of Sciences

About

	Brief Introduction
	History
	Directors
	Organization
	Research Groups
	Scientific Progress
	Seminars
	Colloquia
	CAS Members
	Experts
	Faculty

Research Fields

	Center for Astro-geodynamics
	Center for Galaxy and Cosmology
	VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometery)
	High Technology Laboratories

News

CAS Announces 2009 Award for International Cooperation in Science and Technology	(02.08)
MPA Partner Group at SHAO Passes Mid-term Evaluation	(02.01)
Chang’E-1 Orbiter Is Blazing a New Trail in China’s Planetary Exploration	(11.13)
Science review article highlighted Shanghai astronomical observatory's research on testing general relativity	(11.12)
Galactic center workshop 2009 was held in Shanghai	(10.28)

Seminars

The Quest for B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background Ra...	[2010.03.15]
Gravitational Waves from Spinning Compact Objects Orbiting a Supermassi...	[2010.03.11]
The Accretion Process in Neutron-star Low-mass X-ray Binaries	[2010.01.19]
Demography of supermassive black holes over the cosmic time	[2010.01.08]
Toward understanding the origin of hypervelocity stars	[2010.01.08]
Searching for the Missing Baryons	[2009.12.28]
HETDEX and 2-D Nearby Galaxy Survey	[2009.12.24]
Probing The Early Phases Of Galaxy Evolution	[2009.12.18]

Colloquia

Galileo - Xu Guangqi meeting (First) October 26-30, 2009 Shanghai,China

Galactic center workshop 2009 (Oct.19-23,2009,Shanghai,China)

The Fourth Meeting On Hot Subdwarf Stars And Related Objects (2009-07-20)

New Technologies for Probing the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets (2009-07-19)

The 8th Sino-German workshop (Feb.23-28,2009,Kunming,Yunnan) (2009-02-23)

2009 International Workshop on Parallel Algorithm (2009-02-16)

East Asia VLBI Mini-Workshop(Nov.25-26,2008,Shanghai) (2008-11-20 )

The 10th Asian-pacific Regional Meeting of The International Astronomical Union (2008-08-03 )

Introduction

SHAO was formally established in 1962 following the amalgamation of the former Xujiahui (originally spelt Zi-Ka-Wei) and Sheshan (Zỏ-Sẻ) observatories, which were founded by the French Mission Catholique in 1872 and 1900 respectively.

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