AAPPS-DPP2020 Poster Award Winners Abhijit Sen Chair, Selection Committee The AAPPS-DPP annual conference has celebrated good poster presentations since 2018. AAPPS-DPP20 attracted a large number (45) of very high quality poster presentations on the various sub-topics of the conference. A selection committee, comprising of eminent international experts (A. Sen (Chair), ZM Sheng, SSH Chen, S. Sengupta, H. Shiraga, V. Tikhonchuk, T. Murphy, R. Hatakeyam, C. Chang, H. Akatsuka, K. Takahasshi, A. M
Abhijit Sen
Radio Waves: Another Eye to View the Universe Taehyun Jung Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, 776 Daedeok-daero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34055, Republic of Korea In April of last year, a black hole at the center of the supergiant elliptical galaxy M87 in the constellation Virgo was revealed to the world for the first time ever by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Albert Einstein's general relativity theory had been confirmed for the first time in 1919, when British astronomer Sir Arthur
Taehyun Jung
Social Distancing: An Anthropological History Hanson Park Department of Anthropology, College of Social Science, Seoul National University 1 Gwanak-Ro, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea COVID-19 (referred to as "Corona-19" in Korea) is spreading with little sign of stopping and is making a severe impact not only on the world's medical establishments and public health, but across a broad spectrum of life, including the economy, society, culture, politics, and diplomacy. No one knows when
Hanson Park
We Are Not Prepared SUNGSIL MOON MICROBIOLOGIST (Illustration by Min-jeong Kim) September 2 (Off the western coast of Africa) "Fine day and sea like glass. Quite a gloom was cast round the cabin as soon as we were up when three deaths were reported on board. The burials took place at 11am and there were 4 burials. The Colonel read the service and it was quite a touching scene. This afternoon two more burials took place and there is another death. The other ships are also busy with burials. One
Sungsil Moon
How Do Novel Viruses Threaten Humankind? KANG-SEUK CHOI AVIAN DISEASES LAB, COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY 1 GWANAK-RO, GWANAK-GU, SEOUL 08826, REPUBLIC OF KOREA Viruses: The Overlords of Earth's Living Organisms The world has been gripped with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) panic since early 2020. We are still under the dark shadow of COVID-19 even though five months have passed since the virus emergence in China. What has made it possible for a virus to totally upend
Kang-Seuk Choi
Quantum Computer and Quantum Supremacy CHONG YONUK KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND SCIENCE A hundred years after the invention of quantum mechanics, the field is once again the center of discussion, drawing the attention of both scientists and the general public. In particular, this is said to be the dawn of a "second quantum revolution" touched off by the area of quantum information, or the processing and transmission of information through quantum mechanical principles. Whereas last
Chong Yonuk
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