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Fri, 2014-08-15An article highlighting KIAA appears in the August 2014 issue of the Asia Pacific Physics Newsletter (APPN), a publication devoted to "reporting frontier discoveries in physics, research highlights, and news to facilitate interaction, collaboration and cooperation among physicists in Asia Pacif
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Thu, 2014-07-31In a paper recently published in the July 24 issue of Physical Review Letters, KIAA-CITA Joint Postdoctoral Fellow Hao-Ran Yu and his colleagues investigated the potential of using future radio surveys of dense hydrogen clouds to make a direct measurement of the Universe's acceleration.
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Tue, 2014-07-22The 2014 KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum will focus on the topic, "Thirty Meter Telescope in China: Scientific and Technological Frontiers". It will be held November 2-4, 2014 at the KIAA at PKU, and co-hosted by the KIAA, PKU, and the NAOC.
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Tue, 2014-07-22The International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium No. 312 on "Black Holes and Star Clusters Across Cosmic Time" will take place in Beijing, Aug. 25-29, 2014. The lead organizers for this IAU Symposium are two KIAA faculty, Rainer Spurzem and Fukun Liu.
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Tue, 2014-07-22The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) has initiated the Kavli Visiting Scholars program. The program supports astrophysicists across the Kavli network to spend a meaningful period of time (2 to 4 weeks) in residence at KIAA situated at Peking University (PKU).
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Tue, 2014-07-15KIAA Postdoctoral Fellows, Alberto Rebassa Mansergas and Haibo Yuan, have been awarded the 7th Postdoctoral Special Fund. This is the most prestigious and competitive fund offered by the China Postdoc Foundation.
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Wed, 2014-06-25The Meeting on GRB Cosmolgy under the 973 Project of GRBs and Relevant Physical Problems was held at KIAA-PKU on June 23-24, 2014.
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Fri, 2014-06-20During July 15-18, 2014, the 6th High School Astronomical Summer Camp will take place at KIAA-PKU. This summer camp is jointly held by Peking University, Beijing Normal University, NAOC-CAS, and the Beijing Planetarium.
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Thu, 2014-05-29The 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics has been awarded to Alan H. Guth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Andrei D. Linde, Stanford University, USA, and Alexei A. Starobinsky, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia.
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Wed, 2014-04-23A pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another have been discovered by Prof. Fukun Liu of the Department of Astronomy and the KIAA, and his colleagues. This is the first time such a pair have been found in an ordinary galaxy.
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