Very happy that Petr Kurfürst moved to Prague to work with us full-time on (radiation) hydrodynamics of transients.
Petr Kurfürst moved to Prague
Visit of Bernhard Müller
We had a pleasure to host Bernhard Müller from Monash University who gave a special relativistic seminar on “Unravelling the mysteries of exploding massive stars”.
Workshops in Paris
Most of our team moved for couple to Paris to attend two meetings nearly coincident in space and time: Ondřej went to the LISA Astrophysics Working group workshop and Michał attended Gaia consortium meeting. Found a little bit of time to visit the grave of Urbain Le Verrier, one of the discoverers of Neptune.
ERC-Funded Postdoctoral Research Positions in Computational Astrophysics – deadline extended to February 10 2019
We invite application for 1-2 postdoctoral positions in the area of computational astrophysics in the research group of Dr. Ondrej Pejcha at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. The successful candidates will lead development of new computational abilities to understand multi-dimensional evolution of catastrophic interactions of binary stars (mergers, common envelope, compact objects), and the associated radiation signatures (transients). The work will be performed within the project “Cat-In-hAT” funded by the ERC Starting Grant to our group.
Colloquium in Amsterdam
I briefly visited University of Amsterdam and gave a colloquium on “Cool and luminous outbursts from merging binary stars”. Had a great time.
Seminar in Warsaw
Michał Pawlak talked about variable stars in ASAS-SN at a seminar at University of Warsaw.
9th OPTICON Gaia Science Alerts workshop
Michał Pawlak talked about ASAS-SN.
Jess McIver visit in Prague
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.
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!