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Tue, 2021-12-28The annual “KIAA/DoA Postdoc Science Days” took place on December 22-23 at the KIAA Auditorium. The Postdoc Science Days is an in-house conference for postdoctoral researchers to share their research with all members of PKU astronomy.
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Fri, 2021-12-10The KIAA Governing Board welcomes new chair Ru Huang, Vice President of Peking University. Prof. Huang replaces Prof. Qihuang Gong, Executive Vice President of Peking University, who provided strong oversight during his term. The Governing Board also welcomes new members Zhanwen Han, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, former Director of Yunnan Observatory of CAS, and Yuanning Gao, Dean of School of Physics at PKU.
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Tue, 2021-12-07KIAA postdoc Yu Qiu won a PKU Outstanding Postdoc Award, while incoming postdoc Lin Wang won the PKU Boya Fellowship.
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Tue, 2021-11-23Gregory Herczeg was invited by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for an interview with the Senior Lead Editor of the AAS Journals, Prof. Frank Timmes.
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Tue, 2021-11-23KIAA welcomes Dr. Lile Wang, an expert in numerical simulations of exoplanets and their formation, to PKU as a new faculty member.
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Fri, 2021-11-26KooGiG-Junior is an annual forum on the role of gas and dust in galaxies from low to high redshift. The forum aims to bring together active astronomers, especially early career scientists, for the purpose of exchanging recent progress and discussing future frontiers.
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Thu, 2021-10-28EPTA is a scientific collaboration bringing together teams of astronomers around the largest European radio telescopes, as well as groups specialized in data analysis and modelling of gravitational wave (GW) signals. It has published a detailed analysis of a candidate signal for the since-long sought gravitational wave background (GWB) due to in-spiraling supermassive black-hole binaries. Although a detection cannot be claimed yet, this represents another significant step in the effort to finally unveil GWs at very low frequencies, of order one billionth of a Hertz. In fact, the candidate signal has emerged from an unprecedented detailed analysis and using two independent methodologies. Moreover, the signal shares strong similarities with those found from the analyses of other teams. The results were made possible thanks to the data collected over 24 years with five large-aperture radio telescopes in Europe.
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Tue, 2021-10-19Si-Yue Yu (余思悦) has been awarded a prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers after the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's selection committee meeting in 2021.
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Mon, 2021-09-06Imagine that you could go back in time and ask Albert Einstein if people could directly detect gravitational waves, the extraordinarily faint ‘ripples’ in space-time, it must be hard for him to admit that people could make it come true about 100 years after his prediction. However, if you ask Mr. Yacheng Kang and Ms. Chang Liu right now, an undergraduate and a PhD student respectively in Prof. Lijing Shao’s group, the prospects for detecting exoplanets with gravitational-wave observations, they will have a slightly more positive attitude toward it and show more details about that.
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Fri, 2021-09-03Jing Wang, faculty of KIAA at Peking University, was invited by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for an interview as part of the AAS Journal Author Series with the Senior Lead Editor of the AAS Journals, Prof. Frank Timmes.
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