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Wed, 2016-04-13The European Astronomical Society (EAS) has announced the awardees of its 2016 prizes. The 2016 MERAC Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Observational Astrophysics has been awarded to Yingjie Peng(彭影杰).
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Wed, 2016-03-23With pleasure we announce the upcoming 2016 Beijing-Nanjing Bilateral Astrophysics Workshop.
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Fri, 2016-02-26The discovery of the most luminous quasar with an ultramassive black hole in the distant Universe, made by a team led by Associate Director of KIAA Xue-Bing Wu, originally published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2015, has been selected as one of Top 10 Advances in Science in 2015 in China(20
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Thu, 2016-01-28Astronomers had long thought that the old, dense swarms of stars known as globular clusters formed their millions of stars in bulk at around the same time, with each cluster's stars having very similar ages.
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Sat, 2016-01-23The discovery of the most luminous quasar with an ultramassive black hole in the distant Universe, made by a team led by Associate Director of KIAA Xue-Bing Wu, originally published in the journal Nature on February 26, 2015, has been selected as one of the Top 10 Achievements in Science and Technol
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Mon, 2016-01-18The KIAA Governing Board held the first board meeting on January 16, 2016 at KIAA. In attendance were Jie Wang, Robert E. Williams, Luis C. Ho, Anthony N. Lasenby, Simon D. M. White, Xiaolin Chen, Miyoung Chun and Xuebing Wu.
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Fri, 2016-01-15Stunned astronomers have witnessed a cosmic explosion about 200 times more powerful than a typical supernova—events which already rank amongst the mightiest outbursts in the universe—and more than twice as luminous as the previous record-holding supernova.
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Tue, 2016-01-12KIAA has recruited one new faculty member,Yingjie Peng（彭影杰）.He received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2012, and then became a research associate at Cavendish Laboratory and a postdoctoral fellow at Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge.
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Wed, 2015-12-02KIAA Director and University Chair Professor Luis Ho was featured in the Dec 1, 2015 edition of the New York Times. The article, "Luis Ho Pushes China Into World Astronomy Club" (带领中国进入世界天文学俱乐部的何子山), excerpted an interview of Director Ho by New York Times reporter, Claudia Dreifus.
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Tue, 2015-11-17On Nov 16-17, 2015, KIAA hosted the second annual KIAA-PKU Astrophysics Forum, with this year's topic being "Optical and Infrared Facilities for Chinese Astronomy". The workshop was open to the entire Chinese astronomical community, and had over 70 participants.
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