The members of the Institute, and in particular all students and postdocs, meet every Friday from 13:00-14:00 in the 2nd Floor Coffee Room, to discuss interesting recent science papers and exciting new astrophysics discoveries, while having free, slightly unhealthy, food. Please contact Maria Kopsacheili or Raphael Skalidis to lead a discussion. The schedule for the coming weeks follows:
- Friday 6 Dec. 2019 - Theo Tsantirakis
"A 40-billion solar mass black hole in the extreme core of Holm 15A, the central galaxy of Abell 85"
Presentation: [PDF file] - Friday 13 Dec. 2019 - Maria Kopsacheili
"A wide star–black-hole binary system from radial-velocity measurements"
Presentation: [PDF file] - Friday 20 Dec. 2019 - Konstantinos Kovlakas
"First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time"
Presentation: [PDF file] - Friday 17 Jan. 2020 - Dmitry Blinov
"Early-type Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae. II. Evidence for Luminosity Evolution in Supernova Cosmology" - Friday 31 Jan. 2020 - Raphael Skalidis
"Mapping the Magnetic Interstellar Medium in Three Dimensions over the Full Sky with Neutral Hydrogen" - Friday 7 Feb. 2020 - Nikos Mandarakas
"Origin of a massive hyper-runaway subgiant star LAMOST-HVS1 – implication from Gaia and follow-up spectroscopy"