Pizza Discussion

On Tuesdays, KIAA has an astro pizza discussion, led each week by postdocs at KIAA or DoA (Only postdocs can join this discussion).

The topic could be one's own research, or any question or material the speaker finds appropriate to discuss in this forum.  Unlike a lunch talk, the speaker is not expected to make a presentation; relevant figures are printed and passed around, and a white board is used if necessary. The event takes place on the second meeting room of the KIAA building on Tuesdays at 12.00 h.

 

Contact persons: Chun Wang (wchun[_at_]pku.edu.cn); Hassen Yesuf (hyesuf[_at_]pku.edu.cn)

Past Pizza Discussion

Place
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 12:00PM Michael Anthony Gully-Santiago
Inference techniques for stellar spectroscopy
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 12:00PM Sungsoon Lim
The first light instruments of TMT and GMT
KIAA-PKU
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 12:00PM Alexander Kolodzig
Past and future X-ray surveys - a brief and biased overview
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 12:00PM Petchara Pattarakijwanich
Large Surveys in Astronomy (with Particular Focus on SDSS and LSST
KIAA-PKU
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 12:00PM Youjun Lu (NAOC)
Radiative efficiency of Quasars
KIAA-PKU (Pizza discussion)
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 12:00PM Chao Liu (NAOC)
The secular evolution of the Milky Way disk
KIAA-PKU (Pizza discussion)
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 12:00PM Yan-Fei Jiang
How do massive stars get their super-Eddington luminosity?
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 12:00PM Thijs Kouwenhoven
Volcanism on Venus
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 12:00PM Stephen Justham (NAOC)
Escaping the explosion: understanding fast and slow runaways from type Ia supernovae
KIAA-PKU (Pizza discussion)
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 12:00PM Song Huang (Kavli IPMU)
Hyper-Suprime Camera Survey: Trailer and the First Year
KIAA-PKU (Pizza discussion)
Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 12:00PM Doug Johnstone (National Research Council Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics)
From Cloud Cores to Protostars (Facts, Fiction, and Speculation)
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 12:00PM James Taylor (University of Waterloo)
The Efficiency of Galaxy Formation on the Smallest Scales: Lessons from Virgo
KIAA-PKU (Pizza discussion)
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 12:00PM Haoran Yu
Cosmic velocity field
KIAA-PKU
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 12:00PM Hsiao-Wen Chen (Chicago)
Mining the SDSS spectroscopic archive
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 12:00PM Yohai Meiron
Mars
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 12:00AM Daniel Fabrycky (Chicago)
Circumbinary Planets
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 - 12:00PM Ran Wang
Herschel study of high-z weak line quasars
KIAA-PKU
Friday, December 19, 2014 - 12:00PM Munan Gong
Prestellar Core Formation, Evolution, and Accretion
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 - 12:00PM Fupeng Zhang
Testing the Kerr Metric of the Massive black hole in the galactic center using stellar orbital motion.
KIAA-PKU
Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 12:00PM Richard de Grijs
The search for longitude: Preliminary insights from a 17th Century Dutch perspective
KIAA-PKU