The 9th Kazakhstan-China-Korea (KCK) workshop on stellar dynamics and related fields (star clusters, stellar evolution, gravitational waves, black holes in galaxies, planetary systems) took place Dec 20-22, 2017, in Seoul, Rep. of Korea (hosted by Seoul National University, Dept. of Astronomy, and ＫＡＳＩ, co-organized by Hyung Mok Lee (SNU), Rainer Spurzem (NAOC/KIAA), and Chingis Omarov (NCSRT). For links to the program and conference picture see 9th KCK Workshop . The Korea-China-Kazakhstan workshop takes place every year since 2009, it started as a Korea-China workshop to foster regular exchange between the teams of Hyung Mok Lee (SNU) and Rainer Spurzem (NAOC).
The 8th Kazakhstan-China-Korea (KCK) workshop on stellar dynamics and related fields (star clusters, stellar evolution, gravitational waves, black holes in galaxies) took place Dec 19-21, 2016, in Kunming, Yunnan (hosted by YNAO, and co-organized by Jinming Bai (YNAO), Hyung Mok Lee (SNU), Rainer Spurzem (NAOC/KIAA), and Chingis Omarov (NCSRT). For links to the program and conference picture see 8th KCK Workshop . The Korea-China-Kazakhstan workshop takes place every year since 2009, it started as a Korea-China workshop to foster regular exchange between the teams of Hyung Mok Lee (SNU) and Rainer Spurzem (NAOC).
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The First South Africa-China Bilateral Astronomy Conference “Cosmology with Large Surveys” was held in Durban, South Africa, Dec. 19-26, 2016; see NAOC link here . It was hosted by Prof. Ma Yinzhe of UKZN (University of KwaZulu-Natal), see their conference home page here. The detailed program and many talk slides can be direcly downloaded , including the talk of Rainer Spurzem presenting the Silk Road Project and "Black Holes and gravitational waves from dense star clusters" (3.2 MB).
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The current list of 500 fastest supercomputers in the world shows for the first time two Chinese supercomputers on the two top spots - number 2 is the already well known Tianhe-2 Supercomputer using Intel processors and accelerator. But the new number 1 system is the Taihu Supercomputer, which solely uses Chinese processor technology, reaches 125 Pflop/s with more than ten million cores, and puts a considerable distance in performance to the still fastest US supercomputer. See this link for the news on Taihu, and this link on the top 500 list.
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The 7th Korea-China-Kazakhstan Workshop (organized by Hyung Mok Lee, Rainer Spurzem, Chingis Omarov) took place at NAOC Dec. 14-16. For conference picture (low res) (high res), links to talks, program see http://silkroad.bao.ac.cn/web/index.php/conferences/7th-korean-chinese-meeting (Pictures Riko Schadow)
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