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PKING (PKU-KIAA Innovation NSFC Group) Project Held its Kick-off MeetingWed, 2018-11-14On November 12, 2018, the kick-off meeting of the PKING (PKU-KIAA Innovation NSFC Group) project was held at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA), Peking University, with the goal of introducing an overview of the project and launching its execution. |
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3 Postdocs Won the 64th China Postdoctoral Science General GrantTue, 2018-11-13The awardees at KIAA and DoA take 3 out of 10 in the field of astronomy in China. |
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Astronomers Unveil Growing Black Holes in Colliding GalaxiesFri, 2018-11-09A team of researchers led by Michael Koss (Eureka Scientific Inc.), and including Claudio Ricci, long-term visiting professor at KIAA, performed the largest survey of the cores of nearby galaxies in near-infrared light, using high-resolution images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the |
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Weighing planets and asteroids: Pulsar observations enable mass estimates for Ceres and other solar system objectsTue, 2018-10-23A team of scientists from the `International Pulsar Timing Array’ consortium, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has used pulsar timing data to measure the masses of the dwarf-planet Ceres and other asteroids. |
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Discovery of the Largest Protocluster of Galaxies in the Distant UniverseTue, 2018-10-16An international team of astronomers at KIAA-PKU discovered a giant protocluster of galaxies at redshift 5.7, when the Universe was only one billion years old (about 7% of its current age). |
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Scott Tremaine Series Academic Activities Held at PKUWed, 2018-10-10On October 8-9, 2018, ‘Scott Tremaine Series Academic Activities’ was successfully held at Peking University (PKU). |
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New Chairs and Member Join KIAA Governing Board and Science Advisory CommitteeFri, 2018-09-28Qihuang Gong, Sandra Faber, Robert Kennicutt and Michael Kramer join KIAA GB and SAC. |
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KIAA Held its Governing Board MeetingTue, 2018-09-18On September 17, 2018, the KIAA Governing Board (GB) meeting was held at KIAA. |
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Three Faculty Join KIAAMon, 2018-09-10KIAA has recruited three new faculty members, Kohei Inayoshi, Lijing Shao(邵立晶)， and Ke Wang(王科). |
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New Discoveries Double the Number of Changing-look AGNsMon, 2018-09-03A team led by Prof. Xue-Bing Wu, the Associate Director of KIAA, has conducted a survey of changing-look quasars in the last two years. |
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