Spending this week at EWASS 2018 in Liverpool listening to talks on supernovae, hypernovae, GRB, and novae. EWASS is followed by weekend workshop on recurrent novae.
The ASAS-SN Catalog of Variable Stars I: The Serendipitous Survey
Michał Pawlak helped create the first catalog of variable stars from ASAS-SN. Full version of the paper led by Tharindu Jayasinghe is available as arXiv:1803.01001. More variable stars are coming soon!
La Silla Paranal Users Workshop
Michał Pawlak participated at La Silla Paranal Users Workshop at ESO Garching.
Visit by Jim Fuller
In the past couple days we hosted Jim Fuller from Caltech, who gave talks at our departmental seminar and at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Seminar at DESY Zeuthen
Visited DESY Zeuthen where I was hosted by Anna Franckowiak and her group. Spoke at Astroparticle seminar.
Observing time on X-SHOOTER
Seminar at University of Delaware
Spent the last couple days at University of Delaware giving a seminar about supernovae and stellar mergers, and talking to Stan Owocki and others.
Visit at Ohio State University
Spent the last week at Ohio State University discussing stellar evolution, transients, binary stars, asteroids, ASAS-SN, and meeting up with Michał Pawlak, who is visiting OSU for a longer period.
Visit at Columbia University
At Columbia today, discussing shocks and dust in stellar mergers, novae and supernovae with Brian Metzger and Elad Steinberg.
Computing time awarded
We are happy to have been awarded CPU time on the Czech national supercomputing center IT4Innovations to study transients from merging stars. Excited to use the fastest supercomputer in the country Salomon, currently ranking 87th in the world.