NSPO has the great honor to invite Prof. Roberto Battiston and Prof. Giovanni Ambrosi for special talks at NSPO on July 2 (Monday) and July 3 (Tuesday), respectively.  Both of them are primary scientists at INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics) & Perugia University in Italy and key research fellows of the AMS-2 team.  Prof. Battiston also serves as the AMS-2 Deputy Spokesperson; his talk highlights the theory and some on-orbit space data to detect the forthcoming earthquakes.  And Prof. Ambrosi’s talk highlights the development and implementation of the precision instruments of AMS-2.  Figure 1 shows Prof. Battiston and Director General G-S Chang et al. at NSPO and Figure 2 shows Prof. Ambrosi and Chief Scientist J-Y Liu et al. at NSPO.  AMS-2 (Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2) , founded by the prestige Nobel Prize winner – Prof. Samuel Ting, is a state-of-the-art particle physics detector designed to operate as an external module on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for antimatter and dark matter while performing precision measurements of cosmic rays composition and flux. The AMS-02 observations will help answer fundamental questions, such as “What makes up the universe’s invisible mass?” or “What happened to the primordial antimatter?”  Prof. Battiston and Prof. Ambrosi along with Prof. Samuel Ting et al. are attending the opening ceremony of the AMS-2 POCC （Payload Operations Control Center）in CSIST (Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology). This is the only AMS-2 POCC site in Asia that has direct link to the ISS (International Space Station).  The AMS-2 will continue to conduct experiment at ISS for the next 20 years.

Figure 1: Prof. R. Battiston and Director General Chang et al. at NSPO

Figure 2: Prof. G. Ambrosi and Chief Scientist J-Y Liu et al. at NSPO