1. Center for Astronomy

2. 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.

3. Organization and Participants KH Choi SW Kim SY Park Y Byun YW Lee S Yi YC Kim S. Yi YW Lee S Yi YJ Sohn SJ Yoon Galaxies Stellar evolution Space astronomy Survey astronomy

4. 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

5. Research Fields (II) Theoretical astrophysics PI institute of the Y 2 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

6. 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

7. Activities and Outputs Research highlights 1.GALEX UV satellite operation 2.Korea VLA Network on campus 3.YSTAR survey network 4.CTIO 4m Blanco telescope operation 5.Y2 isochrone project 6.Various satellite projects Major publications 1.More than 70 papers publishes in ApJ on various Galex projects 2.Y2 isochrones among the most cited papers in astronomy 3.Each faculty publishes 5.6 major papers per year 4.Four Nature, Science papers published recently

8. Yonsei-Oxford collaboration History Yi 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 project 3.Yi – Sugata Kaviraj on early-type galaxy evolution 4.SH Kim – Dalton on optical instrumentation Papers published via Yonsei-Oxford collaborations 1.11 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 years 1.Oxford scientists (Bureau, Kaviraj, Khochfar, Schawinski, Burnell) visited Yonsei 2.Yonsei scientists (Yi, Jeong, Kimm, Yoon) visited Oxford 3.2 Yonsei graduates are enrolled in the Oxford physics Dphil programme

9. Contact Point Prof. Sukyoung Ken Yi Yonsei University Department of Astronomy Tel: 82-2-2123-4159 E-mail: yi@yonsei.ac.ky Web: http://gem.yonsei.ac.kr