About – Ondřej Pejcha

We are organizing Science coffee every Tuesday and Thursday at 3pm in KVAS room at ITP. We discuss new papers from astro-ph or elsewhere, similarly to events at Ohio State and Princeton.

We are members of All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN).

Our research is currently supported by the ERC Starting grant Cat-In-hAT. In the past, we have been supported by Czech-American collaboration grant for ASAS-SN from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, and by the Primus award PRIMUS/SCI/17 from the Charles University. We also received Small grant from the US Embassy in Prague to help with visits of several women role models in physics.

About

We are interested in connecting theory, observations, and data modelling of time-domain phenomena in astronomy. This includes transients such as core-collapse supernovae and stellar mergers, persistent variable sources such as eclipsing binaries and pulsating stars, and stellar dynamics. We do (radiation)(magneto)hydrodynamics on supercomputers, semi-analytic models, and machine learning of astronomical data. Come meet us at Science coffee every Tuesday and Thursday at 2.30pm in KVAS room at ITP.

We are supported by the ERC Starting grant Cat-In-hAT to develop new computational methods to study binary star mergers, common envelope, and the associated transients. We are also support by Czech Science Foundation to study mass transfer in binaries. In the past, we received Czech-American collaboration grant from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports to participate in the ASAS-SN survey and the Primus award PRIMUS/SCI/17 from the Charles University.