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New Discoveries Fill the Gap of Quasar Color Selection

Tue, 2017-04-25  A team at KIAA carried out the first systematic z ~ 5.5 quasar survey.

Announcing the KIAA 10th Anniversary Symposium

Mon, 2017-04-10  The KIAA 10th Anniversary Symposium will be held on May 4, 2017 at KIAA.

Will a New Discovery Fast-track Our Understanding of the Origins of Galaxies and Gargantuan Black Holes?

Fri, 2017-03-10  The Kavli Foundation recently spoke with three astrophysicists about how this haul of ultra-distant quasars will transform what we know about the early universe.

Announcing the BHOLE Group 3 Workshop on May 23-24, 2017

Fri, 2017-03-10  We are pleased to announce that the first BHOLE Group 3 workshop will be held in the week of May 23-24, 2017.

The Influence of Environment on the Chemical Evolution of Low-mass Galaxies

Wed, 2017-03-01  Astronomers from KIAA at PKU have found a mass dependent star formation timescale of early-type galaxies (ETGs) across a wide mass range.

KIAA-PUC Bilateral Workshop on AGN and Galaxies Held at KIAA

Mon, 2017-02-20  On Feb 13-17, 2017, KIAA hosted the Bilateral Workshop between KIAA-PKU and the Instituto de Astrofisica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile on AGNs and Galaxies.

Siyao Xu Awarded the 2017 Hubble Fellowship

Tue, 2017-02-14  The PhD student Siyao Xu(徐思遥) of DoA, has been awarded the 2017 Hubble Fellowship, which is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Space Telescope Science Institute.

KIAA-UWA Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship Program on Radio Astronomy Approved by CSC

Tue, 2017-01-17  A proposal for the KIAA-UWA (University of Western Australia) Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship Program on radio astronomy was formally approved by the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) on January 4, 2017.

Announcing the KIAA-PUC bilateral workshop on AGN and galaxies

Mon, 2016-12-19  This is the first announcement that we will hold a bilateral astrophysics workshop between KIAA-PKU and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile(PUC) on topics of AGNs and galaxies and other related topics. The workshop will be held on Feb 13-17 2017 at KI

Revealing the Orbital Shape Distributions of Exoplanets with China’s LAMOST Telescope

Wed, 2016-12-14  Using data from China’s LAMOST telescope, a team of astronomers have derived how the orbital shapes distribute for extrasolar planets. The work is recently published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Ame