Big News
- 2021: Alex Pettitt has moved to take up an Assistant Professor position at California State University, Sacramento in the USA.
- 2020: Ngan Nguyen graduated from our PhD program, which was also joint-hosted at JAXA in Tokyo.
- 2019: Shohei Ishiki graduated from our PhD program and moves on to a position at Bridgestone.
- 2018: Hikari Shirakata graduated from our PhD program, she will soon start a position at The Technical Research Center, Tadano Ltd.
- 2017: Kazuhiro Shima graduated from our PhD program and will take up a postdoctoral researcher position at the Kyoto theoretical astrophysics group.
- 2016: Yusuke Fujimoto graduated from our PhD program and will soon take up a postdoc position at ANU in Canberra.
- 2016: Elizabeth Tasker has moved to JAXA in Tokyo.
- 2016: Alex Pettitt has been made an Assistant Professor in the group, in a post joint-hosted by the Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education.
Regular Events
Activities that happen regularly in the group
- Thursday 10:30 am: Group Journal Club (Alternate weeks)
- Sci-Tech talks in English (randomly placed through the year)
Upcoming special events
Something slightly less regular
Event Information:
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Fri26Jun20153:00 pm2-904
[ゼミ] Erik Rosolowsky
Stalking the Elusive Molecular Cloud
Erik Rosolowsky, University of AlbertaWe believe that the process of star formation is ultimately guided by the structure in the molecular interstellar medium (ISM). Historically, we have separated the molecular ISM into "clouds" and used this population of molecular clouds to describe the how diffuse ISM becomes new generations of stars. In this talk, I will review some of the successes of this approach in studying cloud evolution in nearby galaxies, highlighting the observational results that constrain the cloud formation process. I will then discuss the shortcomings of these approaches and present new ways to describe the molecular ISM structure that offer new insights. I will focus a new method for cloud identification based on dendrograms and graph theory. This approach offers a way to study the hardest problem in characterizing the molecular ISM, namely uniformly studying the molecular gas in the Milky Way
Hosted meetings
Past workshops and meeting hosted in the department
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- Annual meeting of Astronomical Society of Japan
September 11th-13th, 2017
National meeting of the Astronomical Society of Japan, with talks from a wide range of disciplines over three days.
- Annual meeting of Astronomical Society of Japan
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- The Impact of Galactic Structure on Star Formation
February 16th-21st, 2014
Hokkaido hosted an international conference focussed on how the galaxy morphology and evolution can impact its resultant star formation.
- The Impact of Galactic Structure on Star Formation
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- NAOJ Workshop, 2013
January 26th-28th, 2013
Hokkaido hosted an NAOJ workshop focussing on science with ALMA in celebration of Asao Habe’s 60th birthday. (Website in Japanese only)
- NAOJ Workshop, 2013
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- The Enzo User Workshop, 2012
May 17th-18th, 2012
A Hokkaido hosted workshop for new users for the astrophysical, hydrodynamics code, Enzo.
- The Enzo User Workshop, 2012