Exploring the Milky Way with LAMOST Survey

Gang Zhao （赵 刚）

National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Abstract: As our host galaxy, the structure, formation and evolution of the Milky Way have always been cutting-edge fields in contemporary astrophysical research. With the continuous implementation of high-precision photometric surveys in space and large-scale spectroscopic surveys on the ground, rare opportunities have been provided for deep studies of the Milky Way. This talk will focus on introducing the new picture of the Milky Way presented based on the LAMOST survey. Starting from the basic structure and formation process of the Milky Way, it reveals some of our latest understandings of the Milky Way, as well as the breakthrough achievements made in the study of the Milky Way with LAMOST spectroscopic survey.

Bio: Gang ZHAO, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) , Professor of the National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Chairman of LAMOST Science Committee. He has successively received the China Youth Scientist Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, the Hong Kong Qiushi Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Group Award, etc. He is also the PI of the Basic Science Center project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D program "Research on the Milky Way Based on LAMOST Survey". His research interests are stellar abundances, NLTE analysis of late-type stars, searching and analysis of exoplanets, formation and evolution of the Milky Way, and laboratory astrophysics. These researches have been selected into China’s annual top 10 astronomical advances for several times. The study on exploring the chemical evolution of the Milky Way with stellar abundances has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award of China.