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PKU Astrophysics Colloquium 2011
Attended by approximately 40 researchers, the PKU Astrophysics Colloquium 2011, LSST and opportunities of PKU astrophysics, was successfully held at Jin Chi Mang Shan conference center (金池蟒山会议中心) , Changping, Beijing, and at KIAA-PKU on December 3 - 6, 2011, under the scientific directorship of Prof. Xiaowei Liu from KIAA- and DoA-PKU and Xiao-hui Fan from University of Arizona. LSST president Professor Anthony Tyson from UC Davis, Member of LSST Board of Directors and Chairman of LSST Science Collaborations Professor Michael A. Strauss from Princeton University, and Project Scientist of LSST Data Management Dr. Tim Axelrod attended the colloquium and presented an overview, science as well as operation and data management of the LSST project. Faculty members and postdoctoral research fellows from KIAA- and DoA-PKU as well as from sisters institutes presented talks highlighting their recent research results and potential synergy with LSST. Potential collaboration with the LSST project was discussed in depth.
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State-of-the-art Graduate Textbook on Distance
Determination in Astronomy Completed at the KIAA
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VISTA Finds 96 Star Clusters Hidden
Behind Dust
Using data from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO's Paranal
Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered 96 new
open star clusters hidden by the dust in the Milky Way. These tiny and
faint objects were invisible to previous surveys, but they could not
escape the sensitive infrared detectors of the world's largest survey
telescope, which can peer through the dust. This is the first time so
many faint and small clusters have been found at once.
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ISIMA 2011: Star and Planet Formation
Time: June 27 - August 5, 2011
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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MHD and Kinetic Processes in Laboratory, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Time: May 30 - June 9, 2011
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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Data collection of the Xuyi Schmidt Telescope CCD Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anti-center successfully completed
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Observational Astronomy Summer School 2011
Time: October, 2-18, 2011
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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The 1st Telescope Access Program (TAP) Workshop for Optical-IR Astronomy in China
Time: February, 16-17, 2011
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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Common-envelope workshop 2011
Time: 27th March--1st April 2011
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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Workshop on Multi-Messenger Astronomy of Cosmic Rays
Time: April, 11-14, 2011
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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A mini-worshop on pulsars
Time: November 12, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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PKU Astrophysics Colloquium 2010
Atttended by more than 40 researchers, the PKU Astrophysics Colloquium 2010 was
successfully held at Wo Fo Shan Zhuang, Xiang Shan, Beijing, on October 15 -
17, 2010, under the scientific directorship of Profs. Xiaowei Liu and Xue-bing
Wu. In addition to scientific talks featuring research highlights from PKU
astronomy faculty and postdocs, guest lectures by leading astronomers from
sister institutes, PAC2010 also held a number of special discussion sessions on
"Large facilities and the roles of PKU astrophysics".
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Pulsars, black holes, dark matter, and the interstellar medium in the Galaxy --- A joint symposium between KIAA-PKU and the University of Sydney
A delegation of astronomers from University of Sydney visited KIAA-PKU on October19, 2010. A mini workshop was held at KIAA. More than 30 astronomers and students from the University of Sydney, Department of Astronomy and KIAA at PKU attended the workshop.
In addition to a group of contributed talks about the topics of the pulsars, black holes, dark matter and the interstellar medium, the astronomers from these two universities also intensely discussed the research collaboration of both in the future.
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N-body training workshop by Sverre Aarseth (University of Cambridge)
The N-body training workshop, held from 10 to 21 October 2010, is aimed at undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students in the fields of astrophysical N-body simulations. Sverre Aarseth will
provide a thorough background knowledge, and introduce the latest developments in the field of N-body computational astrophysics. The participants will work on various programming exercises, and have the opportunity carry out their own research projects.
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Undergraduate Research Symposium
Time: September 19, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU Beijing, China
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Mini workshop on high energy astrophysics
Time: September 16 -September 21, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU and DoA-PKU, Beijing, China
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MODEST-10: Encounters and interactions in dense stellar systems - modeling, computing and observations
Time: August 30 - September 3, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU and NAOC, Beijing, China
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First Results from the Chinese Guoshoujing Telescope (LAMOST)
A team of astronomers led by members from Peking University, have published two Editor's Recommendation articles in the latest issue of Research
in Astronomy and Astrophysics, reporting the very first scientific results obtained with the newly constructed Chinese Guoshoujing Telescope
(GSJT; formerly named the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope - LAMOST) using the early commissioning data. One of the
articles, Yuan et al, 2010, RAA, 10, 599, reports the discovery of dozens planetary nebulae in the
Andromeda Galaxy (M 31), some of them out to nearly 40 kpc (130,000 light years) from the center of M 31, possibly relics of satellite galaxies
engulfed by M 31 during its formation. The other, Huo et al, 2010, RAA, 10, 612,
reports the discovery in the vicinity of the Andromeda Galaxy of over a dozen background quasars - the brightest beacons in the universe and excellent
tracers of the chemistry and dynamics of the interstellar/intergalactic medium along the line of sight.
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NAMES OF THE 2010 KAVLI PRIZE RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED
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RAVE survey ventures beyond our immediate home
A team of astronomers, including a leading member from Peking University, has determined the distances to tens of
thousands of nearby stars in the Milky Way. Read more... |
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Kepler mystery resolved over KIAA coffee
It started over coffee in China.
Last month, a group of visiting astronomers at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University were talking about the latest “hot” topic—the curious case of two small but high temperature objects found orbiting around a pair of distant stars.
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Destiny of Hot Jupiters - Press release
The atmosphere of a planet WASP-12b, which orbits a nearby star, is
reported to pull away by the gravity of its Sun at a staggering rate of
six billion metric tons per second. This is the first time astronomers
have witnessed the ongoing disruption and death march of a planet. The
discovery was made by an international group of astrophysics, primarily
working at the recently established Kavli Institute for Astronomy and
Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University. The research findings have been
published in Nature. READ MORE |
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Theme Issue 'Star clusters as tracers of galactic star-formation histories' compiled and edited by Richard de Grijs -- Philosophical Transactions A
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Summer school and workshop on galactic studies with the LAMOST surveys
Time: July 5 - 23, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Program on the frontier on interstellar medium
Time: June 6 - 10, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Program on dynamics of astrophysical disks
Time: May 10 - 21, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Spring school on computational astrophysics
Time: May 21 - May 28, 2010
Venue: KIAA-PKU
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Winter workshop on planetary astrophysics
Time: Dec 12 - 18, 2009
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Program on massive black hole binaries and their coalescence in galactic nuclei
Time: July 20 - July 25, 2009
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Program on multiwavelength studies on high redshift quasars
Time: May 25 - June 6, 2009
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Program on GRB physics
Time: May 4 - June 19, 2009
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Compact stars in the QCD phase diagram II (CSQCD II)
Time: May 20-24, 2009
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Program on LSS and galaxy formation with LAMOST
Time: Apr 12-17, 2009
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Winter school on nbody simulation
Time: Dec 5 -12, 2008
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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The KIAA-Cambridge Joint Workshop on Near-Field Cosmology and Galactic Archeology
Time: Dec 1-5, 2008
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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Workshop on Accretion Disks
Time: Nov 23-30, 2008
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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HST takes images of the "Bird's Nest Nebula"
This is an image made from very recent Hubble Space Telescope data.
A team of astronomers at NASA Ames Research Center (California), Peking University,
and University College London were inspired by the Beijing Olympics
to create this colorful picture in the Chinese national colors red and yellow.
Also the shape looks like the letter 'O' obviously for 'Olympics'.
In the Olympic spirit, they call this the "Bird's Nest Nebula"
after the splendid National Olympic Stadium.
The astronomical object is a planetary nebula with the less
colorful catalog-type name M1-42.
It is common for astronomers to find a resemblance to various
forms for many planetary nebulae. This has given rise to such names that include
the Cat's Eye Nebula, the Turtle Nebula, the Helix Nebula, and the
Dumbbell Nebula.
Prof. Xiaowei Liu (Peking University), one of the team members,
points out that with
further imagination, the central cavity even has the shape of a bird.
Scientifically, he and his colleagues have been particularly interested
in researching this object. These new Hubble images will help decipher
some crucial unanswered questions.
The Birds Nest Nebula is located in the constellation Sagittarius
at a distance of nearly 25000 light years.
Other members of the team are Robert Rubin (NASA/Ames) who
is visiting Peking University to work with Liu and to see
the Olympics, Michael Barlow and Yiannis Tsamis (University
College London).
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Frontiers of Astronomy and Astrophysics
-- an opening symposium of the KIAA-PKU
Dates: June 27-29th, 2008
Venue: KIAA-PKU
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News release (PKU Net)
Media reports: Reuters
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Science Times
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KIAA Summer School and Workshop on Cosmic Reionization
 Cosmic Reionization -- the Formation & Evolution of Stars, Galaxies and Black Holes
Dates: July 1 - 11, 2008
Venue: KIAA-PKU
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Beizhao renovation project completed
The project, started in August 2007, was formally completed on July 18 2008.
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