We are excited to announce that we will be joined by a new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Francesco Cavallaro, who will be based at the University of Cape Town. Dr. Cavallaro will be working with the ThunderKAT, MIGHTEE and MeerLICHT projects on research into stellar radio emission. Dr. Cavallaro joins us from Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Catania, Sicily, … Read More
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive and the Astronomy Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) will host Dr Ugo Becciani from the Catania Astrophysical Observatory, Italian Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) in Catania (Sicily). As part of the visit Dr. Becciani will give a talk at the UCT entitled “Towards Astronomical Big Data Analysis – Visual Analytics, Machine Learning … Read More
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous explosions in the cosmos. These explosive events last several seconds and during that time they they release in 10 seconds in gamma rays as much energy as the sun will emit in its 10-bilion year life. Such extreme amounts of energy can only be released during catastrophic events like the death of a … Read More
Astrophysicist Carolina Ödman was born in Switzerland, earned her PhD at Cambridge University, and has worked all over the world – but it’s in South Africa that she’s found her true home. Her work in pushing science outreach and education in the country (and beyond) has earned her a nomination for AfricaCom Female Innovator of the Year 2019. “The nomination … Read More
We are pleased once again to welcome another international visitor, Prof. Jayanne English from the University of Manitoba, a university in Winnipeg, Canada. Prof. English is visiting IDIA from 31 October to 10 November 2019, and will be hosted by the University of Cape Town. Prof. English is a long time acquaintance of Prof. Russ Taylor, the Director of IDIA. … Read More
We are excited once again to announce that IDIA is proud to welcome a new Postdoctoral Fellow who will be joining the University of Pretoria. Since joining the partnership in 2018, the University of Pretoria has grown its research, researchers and science in the IDIA-supported project “Artificial Intelligence enhanced wide-field VLBI surveys: precursor science to the full SKA”. Dr. Jack … Read More
Prof. Sue Harrison is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Internationalisation at the University of Cape Town. Prof. Harrison has 30 years experience in research in bioprocess engineering in the industrial and academic arenas. She holds a BSc (Chemistry & Microbiology) and BSc Hons (Microbiology) from the University of Cape Town; and a PhD from Cambridge University. She holds the … Read More
Astronomers from India and South Africa descended upon the Kruger National Park to kick off the superMIGHTEE Workshop from 05 – 07 June 2019. superMIGHTEE is the joint exploration of the Deep Sky with uGMRT and MeerKAT, and evolved from a series of joint workshops co-sponsored by India’s Department of Science and Technology and South Africa’s National Research Foundation bilateral, … Read More
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy welcomes Dr. Matt Prescott, our new postdoctoral researcher, based at University of the Western Cape. Dr. Matt Prescott joins us under joint Fellowship between the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the Centre for Radio Cosmology at theUniversity of the Western Cape. He shall be under the guidance of both Prof. Mario Santos and Prof. Russ Taylor. … Read More
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy is pleased to announce visitors from the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) in Catania, Italy. This cohort of researchers include Grazia Umana, Corrado Trigilio, Adriano Ingallinera and Francesco Cavallaro. The researchers will be visiting the University of Cape Town (Tuesday, 21 May 2019 and Thursday, 23 May 2019), University of the Western Cape (Wednesday, … Read More
