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Faculty Positions and Postdoctoral Research Positions AvailableMon, 2019-10-07 KIAA invites applications for faculty positions and postdoctoral research positions. |
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KIAA Held the Second Forum on Gas in GalaxiesMon, 2019-09-16 The second KIAA Forum on Gas in Galaxies (KFGG): Multiple-phase ISM—Probing the Activities and Power Engines from Local to Distant Universe was successfully held from 9 to 13 September. The forum accepted more than 100 attendees, more than half of which have |
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2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics will be awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope CollaborationSat, 2019-09-07 The 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics will be awarded to EHTC, for “the first image of a supermassive black hole, taken by means of an Earth-sized alliance of telescopes”. |
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Pulsar emission map thanks to EinsteinFri, 2019-09-06 Kejia Lee from Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University joined the international collaboration and has used radio observations of the source PSR J1906+0746 to reconstruct the polarised emission over the pulsar’s magnetic pole and to |
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Siyao Xu Awarded the 2019 IUPAP Young Scientist PrizeTue, 2019-08-20 Siyao Xu was awarded the 2019 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize for the Commission on Astroparticle Physics (C4) at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Madison, USA. |
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ALMA Dives into Black Hole’s ‘Sphere of Influence’Fri, 2019-08-16 New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) provide an unprecedented close-up view of a swirling disk of cold interstellar gas rotating around a supermassive black hole. This disk lies at the center of NGC 3258, a massive elli |
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An Investigation Group Led by PKU Vice President Gang Tian Visited KIAAMon, 2019-07-15 On July 12, 2019, an investigation meeting of PKU Astronomy was held at KIAA. The investigation group was led by PKU Vice President Gang Tian, consisting of 15 leaders from various university offices. |
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PKU Astronomy Held the Mid-term Self-evaluation of the Double First-rate Discipline ConstructionMon, 2019-07-15 On July 11, 2019, the mid-term self-evaluation of the Double First-rate Discipline Construction of PKU Astronomy was held at KIAA. |
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3 Postdocs Won China Postdoctoral Science GrantTue, 2019-05-07 Dohyeong Kim, Kai Wang and Ravi Joshi. |
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Former PhD Student at PKU awarded 2019 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in AstrophysicsThu, 2019-04-25 On April 24th 2019, Siyao Xu（徐思遥）was awarded the 2019 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics. This award was established by the Division of Astrophysics (DAP) of the American Physical Society (APS) and is funded by Heising-S |
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