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2013 Multi-Messenger Transient Astrophysics Workshop
Time: May 6 - May 10, 2013
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing, China
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A Jumble of Exotic Stars
Using the European Southern Observatory's new 4-meter-diameter VISTA
(Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, sited in Chile)
as part of a large-scale survey of the Magellanic Clouds, two of the
closest known galaxies to the Milky Way, an international team of
astronomers snapped a unique set of observations of the globular star
cluster 47 Tucanae. The cluster, which is composed of tens of millions
of stars, is located relatively nearby in our own Milky Way galaxy and
by chance lies in the the foreground of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The
beautiful observations of unprecedented quality form the basis of
exciting research led by Prof. Richard de Grijs and Dr. Peter Anders
at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics on behalf of the
international survey team.
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Peking University Twelfth Young Teachers Competition:
Second Prize Awarded to Thijs Kouwenhoven
M.B.N. (Thijs) Kouwenhoven is a Bairen Research Professor at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. On behalf of the School of Physics of Peking University he participated in the Twelfth Young Teachers Competition for Science and Engineering. The event took place on 16 December 2012 at the campus of Peking University. Thijs Kouwenhoven, a citizen of the Netherlands, is the first foreigner to ever attend the competition, and was awarded the second prize.
Each spring semester, Thijs Kouwenhoven teaches the course "Modern Astronomy" to undergraduate students of all majors at Peking University. The lecture course is very well received by the students, and the number of attending students has gradually grown to almost two hundred. The course is entirely taught in the English language, contributing to Peking University’s continuing internationalization and its aim to become one of the top universities in the world.
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Acting director of KIAA-PKU Professor Xiaowei Liu
has been elected as Vice President of International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Prof. Xiaowei Liu, Acting Director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, has been elected as Vice President of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) at the IAU 28th General Assembly.
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IAU Public Forum
Time: 20:00 - 22:00, August 27, 2012
Speakers: A.S. Brun, C.Y. Tu, S. Solanki, J. Richardson, J. Linsky, H. Takabe
Venue: KIAA Auditorium
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PKU Astrophysics Colloquium 2012
PKU Astrophysics Colloquium 2012, held at KIAA and at Fragrant Hill Hotel on October 19 - 21, 2012, was focused on three topics: pulsar searching and timing with FAST, applications to gravitation/interstellar medium, and neutron-star astrophysics. R. N. Manchester from ATNF, B. J. Rickett from UCSD, and P. Haensel from Copernicus Center were invited to talk on the corresponding subject. Faculty and Postdocs from KIAA and DoA of PKU, as well as some researchers from sister institutes attended this colloquium. Discussions of pulsar study in the FAST era were highlighted. It was agreed that FAST will prompt pulsar studies and the whole radio astronomy significantly. More pulsar people, more software and hardware preparations are needed. This colloquium was organized by R. X. Xu (PKU), D. Li (NAOC) and R. N. Manchester (ATNF).
Time: Oct 19 - 21, 2012
Venue: Xiang Shan, Beijing
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Mini-School of Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies
Formation and evolution of the earliest galaxies is one of the key frontiers of modern astronomy. In this mini-school, we will have a series of lectures presenting how to carry out observational programs to study high-redshift galaxies, discussing what tools are available (ground-based large telescopes, HST, Spitzer, ALMA), how to design a successful program, how to analyze the data, and highlight some of the recent exciting results. We will have lectures presenting theoretical modeling of high-redshift universe. These lectures are aiming at senior undergraduate and graduate students. Learn more ......
Time: Sep 3 - 4, 2012
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing
Lecturers: Prof. Xiaohui Fan (Arizona/KIAA), Dr. Ran Wang (Jansky Fellow, NRAO/Ariona), Dr. Dan Stark (Hubble Fellow, Arizona), Dr. Linhua Jiang (Hubble Fellow, ASU)
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Workshop on Fermi Data Analysis
The goal of the workshop is to introduce the participants to the analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data through hands-on sessions. The LAT, onboard the Fermi satellite, is the most sensitive gamma-ray instrument in the GeV range. In the last 4 years, the LAT has revolutionized gamma-ray astronomy.
Time: August 16 - 17, 2012
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing
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A Workshop on Magnetohydrodynamics and Energetic Particles
in Laboratory, Space and Astrophysical Plasmas
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and energetic particles play an important role in
various laboratory, space and astrophysics plasma environments. In recent years,
in-situ measurements and observations have opened up new research areas in
connection fluid scale physics together with kinetic scale physics. Through this
workshop, we hope to bring together active researchers in different fields to
present their latest results, identify key challenges and foster future collaborations.
This workshop is jointly sponsored by the Fusion Simulation Center at Peking
University (FSC) and the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at
Peking University (PKU).
Time: July 4 - 6, 2012
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing
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Quasar Science with Large Surveys
Prof. Xue-Bing Wu (DoA-PKU) and Prof. Xiaohui Fan (KIAA-PKU/University of Arizona) are organizing an informal internal workshop on quasar and AGN science using large survey data. We will discuss how to use a number of new and upcoming surveys, in particular SDSS-III/DR9, WISE, SCUSS and LAMOST, to address a number of critical areas in quasar/AGN research, including survey statistical completeness, quasar/galaxy coevolution, AGN unification and quasar/IGM connections.
Time: June 25 - 27, 2012
Venue: KIAA-PKU, Beijing
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New KIAA Visitors Program (VP)!
Designed as an international research center of excellence and a forum for global scientific exchange, KIAA-PKU invites scientists of all levels for short- and long-term visits to the Institute, to carry out collaborative research, organize workshops and conferences, and interact with students.
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KIAA-DoA Visiting Collaborators Program (VCP) initiated!
To facilitate collaborations between PKU astronomers (DoA and KIAA) and researchers at other institutes,
KIAA has initiated a new Visiting Collaborators Program (VCP).
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Prof. Richard de Grijs has been appointed as the
Deputy Editor of the Astrophysical Journal Letters
Richard de Grijs (何锐思), professor and associate director of the Kavli
Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University, has been
formally appointed by the Publications Board and Council of the American
Astronomical Society (AAS) as Deputy Editor of the Astrophysical Journal
(Letters). The Astrophysical Journal (Letters) is the flagship
professional journal of the AAS, as well as the highest-impact scholarly
journal in the field of astrophysics internationally. Following six
years as scientific editor of the Astrophysical Journal (main journal),
Prof. de Grijs will commence his appointment in this senior role on 1 January
2013, when the journal's current editorial team will be replaced in
full. He will serve for an initial term of five years, in association
with the journal's new editor, Prof. Frederic A. Rasio, Joseph Cummings
Professor of Physics at Northwestern University (USA).
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The 2012 Kavli Prizes Have Been Awarded to Seven Pioneering Scientists in the World
On May 31, 2012 , seven pioneering scientists have been named this year’s recipients of the Kavli Prizes for their seminal advances in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. The prize includes a cash award of one million dollars in each field.
The Astrophysics Prize is shared between David C. Jewitt (UCLA), Jane X. Luu (MIT) and Michael E. Brown (CalTech), as they have made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the outer solar system. The Nanoscience Prize is given to Mildred S. Dresselhaus (MIT) for her elucidating the differences in material properties between nano- and larger scales. The Neuroscience Prize is shared between Cornelia Isabella Bargmann (Rockefeller Univ.), Winfried Denk (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) and Ann M. Graybiel (MIT), because they explained how the brain receives and responds to sensations such as sight, sound and touch.
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The 2nd Telescope Access Program Workshop
Time: March 16 - 17, 2012
Venue: NAOC, Beijing
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New Kavli Institute Announced at the
University of Tokyo
Issued by the University of Tokyo, Japan - February 8, 10:00am JST. The University of Tokyo (Todai) announced today the establishment of an endowment by The Kavli Foundation for the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU).
The Institute, which will now be known as the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), seeks answers to the biggest questions in cosmology through collaborative research conducted by a wide range of scientists, including mathematicians, theoretical physicists, experimental physicists and astronomers. Together, they focus on topics such as dark matter and dark energy, which make up nearly 96 percent of the universe but today are completely unknown, and the possibility of a single unified theory that can explain the cosmos at the smallest and largest scales.
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Black Hole Growth of the Universe
Time: Sep 3 - Sep 7, 2012
Venue: NAOC, Beijing
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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
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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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