Project title: Regional School on Astrophysical Data Reduction Project leader: Prof. Binil Aryal Tribhuvan University has been offered opportunity to carry out research work in Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) since 2006 at the Central Department of Physics (CDP), Kathmandu, Nepal. To date 84 MSc thesis have been completed in the various areas of Astrophysics. About […]
Category Archives: TF1 funded projects
Project title: West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers Project leader: Dr Bonaventure Okere The NASRDA Centre for Basic Space Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, in collaboration with the Dunlap Institute at the University of Toronto, the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and Institute for Science and Engineer Educators’ (ISEE) at the University of […]
Project title: Sustainment of the development of astrophysics in Vietnam at the Master/PhD level in the radio astronomy domain Project leader: Prof. Pierre Darriulat The proposed project is to invite three foreign astronomers to spend a week in Hanoi (Vietnam) and give lectures and/or seminars on astrophysics, specifically in the field of radio astronomy. Two […]
Project title: Institute Twinning between the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and the Leiden Observatory Project leader: Dr. Rafael Martínez-Galarza Website: https://sites.google.com/site/astrotwincolo/meetings/2014-2nd-meeting In the context of the IAU Strategic Plan, and in parallel to the creation of an Andean Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (Andean ROAD), the Astronomy undergraduate program at the University of Antioquia (UofA) […]
Project title: Joint Exchange Development Initiative for Africa Project leader: Dr. Nadeem Oozeer Astronomy has grown significantly in recent years and the amount of scientific data available online has exploded. Astronomers have been doing data mining for centuries, characterizing the known, assigning the new and discovering unknowns. These skills are more critical than ever especially […]