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Tue, 2015-04-21The Xingjiang Qitai Radio Telescope (QTT), designed to be a fully steerable 110-m single dish telescope capable of high frequency observations, is now officially in the planning phase.
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Tue, 2015-04-14KIAA’s Science Advisory Committee (SAC) held a two-day face-to-face meeting on March 28-29, 2015. In attendance were SAC chair Simon D. M. White (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics), Tom Abel (KIPAC/Stanford), Richard S. Ellis (CalTech), Martha P.
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Thu, 2015-03-05The KIAA will host a workshop entitled “Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei over Cosmic Time”, March 17-20, 2015.
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Thu, 2015-03-05The 2015 KIAA-SHAO Bilateral Workshop, the first workshop with the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), will take place at KIAA on May 18 and 19, 2015.
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Mon, 2015-03-02KIAA is co-sponsoring the 2015 Nanjing-Beijing Bilateral Astrophysics Workshop, held jointly with the PKU Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University, and Purple Mountain Observatory. The workshop will be held on 2-3 April and will be hosted by Nanjing University.
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Sat, 2015-02-28An international team led by Xue-Bing Wu, the associate director of Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) and a professor at Department of Astronomy of Peking University, discovered a new quasar with a central black hole mass of 12 billion solar masses and a luminosity of 430 trillio
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Tue, 2015-01-20KIAA is co-sponsoring the meeting "Probing Active Galactic Nuclei with Radio techniques", which will be held during May 21-25, 2015 in Yining, a city in northwestern Xinjiang Province in China. Yining is the seat of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture.
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Wed, 2014-12-31Dr. Z. Lucas Uhm, a postdoctoral researcher at the KIAA, has been awarded the 2014 Peking University Outstanding Postdoc Award.
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Fri, 2014-12-19Using Hubble Space Telescope observations of a 2 billion-year-old Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster, KIAA PhD student Chengyuan Li and his supervisor, Richard de Grijs, showed that the recent paradigm shift from star clusters as single-age stellar populations to complex populations may need a majo
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Mon, 2014-11-10The theme of 2014's KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum, held on November 2-4, 2014, was "Thirty Meter Telescope in China: Scientific and Technological Frontiers". The meeting was jointly organized by KIAA and NAOC.
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