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KIAA–MPE Bilateral Workshop​ held at KIAA

Tue, 2025-09-16  KIAA hosted the KIAA–Infrared (IR) group at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) Bilateral Workshop from September 9 to 12, 2025.

KIAA welcomes Feng Long as our newest faculty member

Tue, 2025-09-09  KIAA welcomes Dr. Feng Long as our newest faculty member. Dr. Long is a leading young researcher in the field of protoplanetary disks and the observational aspect of planet formation. Dr. Long obtained her PhD in 2019 at Peking University under the supervisio

Public Talk: BLACK HOLES – SCIENCE FICTION OR REALITY?

Fri, 2025-09-05  19:00 – 20:30, Wednesday, September 10, 2025; Siyuan Multi-functional Hall, Room 301 West, School of Physics, Peking University

KIAA Professor Ruobing Dong Elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada

Fri, 2025-09-05  Prof. Ruobing Dong of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University was elected as a member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada, the pre-eminent body of independent scholars, researchers and creative individuals in Ca

An ultra-high-energy neutrino: evidence that the highest energy cosmic rays are emitted by high energy transients?

Mon, 2025-09-01  For decades, very high-energy neutrinos were thought to be produced by interactions between ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and photons from the cosmic microwave background. These so-called cosmogenic neutrinos should produce a diffuse, ultra-high-energy neutri

Astronomers discover hundreds of protoplanetary disk candidates in the Galactic Center

Thu, 2025-05-15  Are We Alone? And Where Do We Come From? An international team of researchers led by Peking University PhD student Fengwei Xu has conducted a most sensitive, highest-resolution, and dual-band survey of three distant molecular clouds in the Milky Way Galactic c

Six postdocs at PKU astronomy awarded Boya Postdoctoral Fellows

Wed, 2025-04-23  PKU awarded six incoming astronomy postdocs as Boya Postdoctoral Fellows, from a competitive pool of over 50 candidates. Five of the postdocs, Suyeon Son, Anindya Saha, Logan Fries, Kan Chen, and Dan Qiu, are affiliated with KIAA, while one, Zhao Li, is affili

Kohei Inayoshi awarded the "The Young Scientists’ Award” from MEXT of Japan

Tue, 2025-04-22  Prof.Kohei Inayoshi at KIAA was awarded the "The Young Scientists’ Award” from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, a prestigious honor that recognizes and encourages exceptional young researchers in the fields

Astronomers use LAMOST to find over 1,300 new quasars behind Galactic plane

Mon, 2025-04-21  A group of astronomers has found over 1,300 new quasars behind the Galactic plane by using China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), and the scientists said the results shed new light on some hot issues of cosmic research.

A new Max Planck Partner Group is formed between KIAA and MPE

Tue, 2025-04-01  Recently, the Max Planck Society (MPG) approved the establishment of a new Max Planck Partner Group led by Dr. Jinyi Shangguan, an Assistant Professor at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking University. The group will focus on “
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