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Mon, 2015-03-02 KIAA 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 Univer
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Sat, 2015-02-28 An 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 sola
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Tue, 2015-01-20 KIAA 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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Fri, 2014-12-19 Using 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 population
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Mon, 2014-11-10 The 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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Tue, 2014-09-23 The China Lijiang IFU (CHILI) project's inaugural "cook-off" meeting was held at KIAA-PKU on November 15, 2014. Over 50 active scientists and engineers met to discuss CHILI's science capabilities and execution plans.
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Wed, 2014-09-10 New KIAA faculty member Yue Shen and KIAA Director Luis Ho have solved a two-decade long mystery in quasar research. Namely, what drives the diverse properties of quasars into a well-defined main sequence, known as "Eigenvector 1" (EV1).
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Wed, 2014-09-10 KIAA has recruited two new faculty members. Yue Shen, an expert on quasars and active galaxies, and Linhua Jiang, whose research interests include high-redshift quasars and galaxies and observational cosmology.
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Fri, 2014-08-15 An 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 coopera
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Thu, 2014-07-31 In 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
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