Visitors in May

We were happy to host for a week Yuan-Sen Ting from Australian National University who gave a special seminar “On Modelling Complex Systems in Astronomy”. For the Friday walk we were joined by Sandor Kruk from MPIE.

We are interested in connecting theory, observations, and data modelling of time-domain phenomena in astronomy with a focus on binary stars. This includes transients such as stellar mergers and core-collapse supernovae, 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 Consolidator grant ROGALLO to develop new methods for studying processes in binary stars. We are also support by Czech Science Foundation to study mass transfer in binaries. In the past, we received ERC Starting grant Cat-In-hAT to common envelope evolution and the associated transients, Czech-American collaboration grant from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports to participate in the ASAS-SN survey and the Primus award from the Charles University.