Cosmology has, over the last ten years, become a new emerging experimental science in view of the advanced technological breakthroughs in the last half century. For instance, radio astronomy allows observations of cosmic microwave radiation, thus offering a way of detecting the edge of the Universe.

The Taida CosPA Center , or more properly, the “ Research Center for Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics, National Taiwan University.” Launched in 2000, it is a soft-money research center. Originally, it started from a research project on Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics (CosPA) funded by Taiwan Ministry of Education with a grant of about 15 million U.S. dollars over a four year period starting from January 2000. In terms of the research projects, it succeeded by a continuation of the research excellence project on “Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics,” funded by the National Science Council to the amount of five million U.S. dollars for the period from March 2004 to April 2008. In addition, there are other funded projects, such as National Science Council AMiBA project and Academia Sinica key projects. The Center's focus places the primary emphasis on the construction of the Array for Microwave Background Anisotropies, a radio array telescope dubbed "the AMiBA Telescope" while strengthening (1) related experimental particle astrophysics studies, (2) theoretical work on various aspects related to the early Universe and on the large-scale structures, (3) related optical and infrared astronomy studies, and (4) the construction and strengthening of the national astronomical infrastructure.

Office: Rm. 806, 8th Floor, New Physics Building
1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, Taiwan 106, ROC
Tel: (886-2) 33665187, 33665189
Fax:(886-2) 23655473
E-mail: chhuang@phys.ntu.edu.tw
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