报告题目7  The Laboratory for Space Research

报告时间：2023年12月1日（星期五） 上午9:00

报告题目8  The Importance of Remote Sensing and Hyperspectral Imaging for Agricultural Management

报告时间：2023年12月4日（星期一） 上午9:00

报告人：Prof. Quentin A Parker（Hong Kong University）

报告地点：西校区农科楼二楼国家重点实验室报告厅（263）

专家简介：Quentin Parker obtained a PhD from the University of St. Andrews in 1986 and joined the faculty at the University of Hong Kong in March 2015 to take up the Headship of the Department of Physics (2016-2016). In 2017 he became Associate Dean (Global) of the Faculty of Science (2017-2020) and Director of the Laboratory for Space Research (see https://www.lsr.hku.hk/, 2018- present). Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh (1999-2002) and then in joint position with the AAO and Macquarie University (2002-2015) where he developed and was director of the MQ research centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics growing membership from 2 staff when he arrived to 50 when he left. Research activities are mainly but not exclusively associated with Wide Field Astronomy (including being PI for the UKST H-alpha survey), large-scale redshift surveys, Galactic Archaeology, supernova remnants and especially Planetary Nebulae where he has discovered more PNe than anyone in history of the field. He leads the Hong-Kong/AAO/Strasbourg H-alpha PNe project. He has also extensive experience as an instrumentalist with multi-object fibre-optic spectrographs and narrow-band filters.  He has published more than 563 papers and articles of which 247 are refereed and has more than 18116 citations and  h-index of 63.Quentin also has a long-term interest in Chinese Bronze artifacts and cultural heritage, interdisciplinary studies and science pedagogy.