Time-domain astronomy group at Charles University, Prague
Two-day meeting at Hamburg Observatory full of technical and scientific discussions about Time Domain Telescope – one of the bidders for the next great capability of the European Southern Observatory in 2040s.
We are happy to welcome Amelia Cordwell, who started postdoc with us. She is joining us after PhD at Cambridge University.
Our PhD students Mara, Marco and Chad and Master student Jan participated in 21st Heidelberg Summer School on Cosmic Multiplicity: Evolution and Fate of Binary Stars organized by IMPRS for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics at the University of Heidelberg.
It has been a great honor to become a member of the Learned Society of the Czech Republic. Looking forward to participate in the society life.
We welcome two starting PhD students: Mara Čutura is joining us from Geneva University and Cheuk Nam Chong from Chinese University of Hong Kong.
This July, we had the honor to host two summer students. Krzysztof Król from University of Warsaw worked on 3D simulations of circumbinary decretion disks with Athena++. Jakub Hadač (our own recent Bachelor graduate) explored applications of automatic differentiation in Astrophysics with JAX.
Our group recently graduated two new Bachelor students. Jakub Hadač defended his thesis on Simulations of mass transfer in binary star systems with the effect of radiation pressure. Jakub will continue with Master studies in Astronomy at Heidelberg University. Šimon Brunovský also defended his thesis on Circumbinary disks around stellar mergers. Congratulations to both!
Our group participated at the annual meeting of the European Astronomical Society in Lausanne. Ondřej Pejcha gave a contributed talk and chaired one of the plenary sessions and Marco Laversveiler presented a poster.
The workshop was held in Cheb, Czech Republic, and I gave an invited talk on the Evolution of binary stars leading up to high-energy sources.
I spent the past week at IAUS406: Future landscape of astrophysical transients, where I gave a contributed talk on Luminous Red Novae, met many new people, and did not fall off the boat.
