On April 28, 2026, the launch meeting and implementation plan evaluation meeting of the National Key R&D Project "Quasars Survey and Related Scientific Research Based on LAMOST and Other Telescopes " were held at KIAA. More than 40 people, including leaders from the School of Physics and the Office of Scientific Research at Peking University, the leading unit of this project, experts from the project expert group, and representatives from 6 participating units, attended the meeting.
Group photo of the participants
Prof. Qi Zhaoxiang, an expert in charge of the project and deputy director of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Xiao Yunfeng, dean of the School of Physics of Peking University, Prof. Zhang Yan, deputy director of the Office of Scientific Research of Peking University, Prof. Zhang Huawei, chair of the Department of Astronomy of School of Physics, and Prof. Jiang Linhua, deputy director of KIAA, respectively delivered speeches to congratulate the launch of the project, and look forward to the project team making more achievements in the research of quasar surveys with LAMOST and other telescopes. The chair of project expert group, Prof. Wang Tinggui from the University of Science and Technology of China, presided over the project implementation plan review meeting. The project and sub-project leaders, Prof. Wu Xuebing of Peking University, Prof. Fan Junhui of Guangzhou University, Research Prof. Zhu Hongming of the National Astronomical Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Research Prof. Liao Shilong of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported the implementation plans of the project and four sub-projects respectively. The members of the expert group, Xu Ye, a research professor at Purple Mountain Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Yang Xiaohu and Prof. Zhang Pengjie of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Prof. Shu Chenggang of Shanghai Normal University, Prof. Li Cheng of Tsinghua University, and Prof. Gao Jian of Beijing Normal University, gave guidance and suggestions on the implementation plan.
Speeches of leaders from PKU units
Four group leaders of the project give reports of the implementation plans
In the afternoon, project members had internal academic discussions. 18 oral presentations (including reports from 9 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) covered the research results and latest developments in four areas: quasar candidate selections and large sample spectroscopic surveys, quasar multi-band properties and optical variability studies, cosmological applications and astrometric applications of large quasar samples.
Members of the project give presentations
Finally, Prof. Wu Xuebing, the project leader, summarized the meeting. He sincerely thanks all the leaders and experts for their kind guidance and strong support to the project. He hopes that all project team members will complete the research tasks on time and achieve internationally influential research results on quasar surveys and applications of large quasar samples.
