Jess McIver from Caltech visited Prague and gave two talks: “Astrophysics with LIGO and gravitational waves” and “Gravitational-wave astrophysics: a new era of discovery”. In addition, she outline some of the problems of contemporary physics including diversity and representation of the population and discussed these issues with the students. The visit was supported by small grant “Role models in physics” from the US Embassy in Prague.
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Observing techniques, instrumentation and science for metre-class telescopes II
Michał Pawlak gave a talk at Tatranská Lomnica on ASAS-SN and our efforts to combine it with the APOGEE survey.
Mass loss from binary stars
Congratulations to Dominika Hubová for successfully defending her bachelor thesis “Mass loss from binary stars”, focusing predominantly on gas stream from the vicinity of outer Lagrange point L2!
ESO Workshop: A revolution in stellar physics with Gaia and large surveys
Michał Pawlak will talk about combining ASAS-SN with APOGEE.
IAU General Assembly in Vienna
Michał Pawlak is representing us at the IAU General Assembly in Vienna.
Cool Stars 20
Michał Pawlak is now at Cool Stars 20 conference at CfA (Boston), where he gave a table talk poster.
ERC Starting grant for our group
Very pleased to announce that our research on binary stars and transients was awarded ERC Starting grant with project Cat-In-hAT: Catastrophic Interactions of Binary Stars and the Associated Transients.
Starting in Fall, we will be looking for postdocs and PhD student in the general areas of computational astrophysics, numerical modeling, (magneto)hydrodynamics, radiation transport etc. Stay tuned for more information.
Talk on supernova cosmology
Tomás Müller from University of Southampton gave a talk on “Type Ia Supernova Cosmology: infrared light as a new window” during our regular science coffee time slot.
Conference on shocking supernovae
Attending conference Shocking Supernovae: surrounding interactions and unusual events at Stockholm with Petr Kurfürst.
“Gaia fest” at Science coffee
To celebrate Gaia DR2 (where Michał Pawlak played a role as a member of Gaia team), we made special science coffee with a Gaia cake (Galactic plane and LMC & SMC – apricots, dark matter substructure – baked-in cherries).