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October 2018: Massive star cluster formation and
evolution in tidal dwarf galaxies, Fensch J., Duc P.-A., Boquien M.,
Elmegreen D.M., Elmegreen B.G., Bournaud F., Brinks E., de Grijs R., Lelli F.,
Renaud F., Weilbacher P.M., 2018, A&A, submitted for publication
4--5 October 2018: Richard was an invited
keynote speaker at the
Open
Forum 2018 of the Sri Lanka Academy of Young Scientists
October 2018: The VMC Survey. XXXII. Pre-main sequence
populations in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Zivkov V., Oliveira J.M.,
Petr-Gotzens M.G., Cioni M.-R.L., Rubele S., van Loon J.T., Bekki K., Cusano F.,
de Grijs R., Ivanov V., Marconi M., Niederhofer F., Ripepi V., Sun N.C., 2018,
A&A, accepted for publication;
arXiv:1810.03917
September 2018: The VMC Survey. XXXIII. The Tip of the
Red Giant Branch in the Magellanic Clouds, Groenewegen M.A.T., Cioni M.-R.L.,
Girardi L., de Grijs R., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Muraveva T., Ripepi V., van
Loon J.T., 2018, A&A, re-submitted for publication
17 September 2018: Interview with
Armenia News TV1 in relation to the
conference
in honour of the 110
th anniversary of Viktor Ambartsumian at Byurakan
Astrophysical Observatory (Armenia);
YouTube version
September 2018: We are advertising for a new
PhD position jointly at
the
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam (Germany)
and at Macquarie University; deadline: 1 November 2018
September 2018: (i)
My Chinese experience, de Grijs R., 2018,
Physics World,
Careers
highlight (and feature article in the magazine's 2018 China Special);
(ii)
An
Astronomer's Encounter with Beijing, interview by Ling Xin:
Bulletin of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (
BCAS),
32(2), pp. 93--97 (2018)
August 2018: Structure and kinematics of Type II Cepheids
in the Galactic bulge based on near-infrared VVV data, Braga V.F., Bhardwaj A.,
Contreras Ramos R., Minniti D., Bono G., de Grijs R., Minniti J.H., Rejkuba M., 2018,
A&A, accepted for publication;
arXiv:1808.10838
21 August 2018: Forge
successful, productive careers, interview with
The Statesman (India)
14 August 2018: Top
tips for building and maintaining international collaborations,
Nature
careers feature
14 August 2018: Hey, thanks for making me a scientist,
This Week at Macquarie
10 August 2018: Today is an important day: We filed our
application for Australian permanent residency through the employer-sponsored route!
2 August 2018: Australia
Is Betting High On Engineers, interview with
Business World India
2 August 2018: Benefits
of space research trickle down into our everyday lives, interview with the
Press Trust of India;
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8
31 July 2018: Australia
Is A Safe, Inclusive Country For Indian Students: Official, interview with
NDTV India
30 July 2018: Richard formally witnessed the
signing of
a Memorandum of Understanding for student and staff exchange, workshops and
joint research with the IIT Delhi today (
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9): looking forward to strengthening
our engagement!
photos
July 2018: An intuitive 3D map of the Galactic
warp's precession traced by classical Cepheids, Chen X., Wang S., Deng L.,
de Grijs R., Liu C., Tian H., 2018, Nat. Astron., submitted for publication
27 July 2018: Read about tomorrow morning's total
lunar eclipse in my
bite-sized
explanation for
The Lighthouse.
July 2018: An internally consistent distance
framework in the Local Group, de Grijs R., Bono G., 2018, in: Stellar
Populations and the Distance Scale, eds Jensen J., Rich R.M., & de Grijs R.,
Peking University (China), September 2017, Astron. Soc. Pac. Conf. Ser., 514,
p. 103;
arXiv:1711.03228
July 2018: Blue straggler stars beyond the Milky Way. III.
A survey of evolved blue straggler stars in clusters of the Magellanic Clouds,
Li C., Deng L., Bekki K., Hong J., de Grijs R., For B.-Q., 2018, AJ, 156, 110;
arXiv:1807.07679
July 2018: Isaac Thuret: celebrated craftsman denied
intellectual credit, de Grijs R., 2018: my submission to the HOPOS "invisible
technician" competition (no longer active);
arXiv:1807.03489
July 2018: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Catalog of Periodic Variable Stars, Chen X.D., Wang S., Deng L., de Grijs R.,
Yang M., 2018, ApJS, 237, 28;
arXiv:1807.03448;
full data set;
AAS
NOVA digest
July 2018: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of
April--June 2018 (Gaia's second data release: a genuine treasure trove for star
hunters), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, August 2018, p. 26 (in Chinese;
English version)
June 2018: I am pleased to have been elected as Vice President
of the International Astronomical Union's Division C (Education, Outreach and Heritage)
for the period 2018--2021:
announcement
June 2018: Blue straggler stars beyond the Milky Way. II.
A binary origin for blue straggler stars in Magellanic Cloud clusters, Sun W.,
Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2018, ApJ, 862, 133;
arXiv:1806.04805
May 2018: Nuclear starburst activity induced by elongated
bulges in spiral galaxies, Kim E., Kim S.S., Choi Y.-Y., Lee G.-H., de Grijs R.,
Lee M.G., Wang H.S., 2018, MNRAS, 479, 562;
arXiv:1806.04353
29 May 2018: A happy and proud day today: two of my PhD
students at Peking University successfully defended their theses --
Ma Chao:
Star clusters and their host galaxy nuclear rings and
Sun Ningchen:
Hierarchical star formation in the Magellanic Clouds;
photo
May 2018: My first official outbound delegation for engagement
with Thai universities went really well: see
1,
2,
3
and
4
23 May 2018: Today I received my Australian Federal Police
clearance, so now I am officially a volunteer with the
Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling
Harbour/Pyrmont Bay, Sydney. You'll find me at the museum one day a weekend for 2
out of 3 weekends when I am in town!
May 2018: The MALATANG Survey: II. The
LGAS -- LIR Correlation on Sub-Kiloparsec
Scale in Six Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies as Traced by HCN J = 4--3 and
HCO+ J = 4--3, Tan Q.-H., Gao Y., Zhang Z.-Y., Greve T.R.,
Jiang X.-J., Wilson C.D., Yang C.-T., Bemis A., Chung A., Matsushita S., Shi Y.,
Ao Y.-P., Brinks E., Davis T.A., de Grijs R., Ho L.C., Imanishi M., Kohno K.,
Lee B., Parsons H., Rawlings M.G., Rigopoulou D., Rosolowsky E., Bulger J., Chen
H., Chapman S.C., Eden D., Gear W.K., Gu Q.-S., He J.-H., Jiao Q., Liu D.-Z., Liu
L.-J., Li X.-H., Michalowski M.J., Nguyen-Luong Q., Qiu J.-J., Smith M.W.L.,
Violino G., Wang J.-F., Wang J.-Z., Yeh S., Zhao Y.-H., Zhu M., 2018, ApJ, 860,
165;
arXiv:1805.05619
May 2018: The VMC survey. XXXI. The spatially
resolved star formation history of the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud,
Rubele S., Pastorelli G., Girardi L., Cioni M.-R.L., Zaggia S., Marigo P., Bekki K.,
Bressan A., Clementini G., de Grijs R., Emerson J., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D.,
Muraveva T., Nanni A., Oliveira J., Ripepi V., Sun N.-C., van Loon J.T., 2018, MNRAS,
478, 5017;
arXiv:1805.04516
3 May 2018: Burst of newborns in young star cluster
puzzles astronomers, Macquarie University
news release about our recent
article
in
The Astrophysical Journal;
NAOC
release;
China West Normal
University release;
YNAO
release
April 2018: The VMC Survey. XXX. Stellar proper motions
in the central parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Niederhofer F., Cioni M.-R.L.,
Rubele S., Schmidt T., Bekki K., de Grijs R., Emerson J., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M.,
Oliveira J.M., Petr-Gotzens M.G., Ripepi V., van Loon J.T., Zaggia S., 2018, A&A
Letters, 613, L8;
arXiv:1804.04689
April 2018: Book review: Bloody Saturday:
Shanghai's Darkest Day (Paul French; Penguin Shorts, 2018), de Grijs R.,
New Orleans Review,
web
feature
April 2018: An extremely low mid-infrared
extinction law toward the Galactic Center and 4% distance precision to 55
classical Cepheids, Chen X.D., Wang S., Deng L., de Grijs R., 2018,
ApJ, 859, 137;
arXiv:1804.06807
April 2018: Optical--Mid-Infrared Period--Luminosity
Relations for W UMa-type Contact Binaries Based on Gaia DR 1: 8% Distance
Accuracy, Chen X., Deng L., de Grijs R., Wang S., Feng Y., 2018, ApJ,
859, 140;
arXiv:1804.04801
April 2018: Impact of distance determinations on
Galactic structure. I. Young and intermediate-age tracers, Matsunaga N., Bono
G., Chen X.D., de Grijs R., Inno L., Nishiyama S., 2018, Space Sci. Rev., 214,
74;
arXiv:1804.04931
April 2018: New insights into the formation of the
blue main sequence in NGC 1850, Yang Y., Li C., Deng L., de Grijs R., Milone
A.P., 2018, ApJ, 859, 98;
arXiv:1804.03948
April 2018: The VMC Survey. XXIX. Turbulence-controlled
Hierarchical Star Formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Sun N.-C., de Grijs
R., Cioni M.-R.L., Subramanian S., van Loon J.T., Bekki K., Bell C.P.M., Ivanov V.D.,
Marconi M., Muraveva T., Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V., Rubele S., 2018, ApJ, 858, 31;
arXiv:1804.01652
March 2018: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
of March 2018 (Standard sirens: listening to gravitational waves),
de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, May 2018, p. 19 (in Chinese;
English version)
23 March 2018: Richard was quoted in an article in
Nature Index
entitled
China's science ministry gets power to attract more foreign scientists
20 March 2018: Some of Richard's thoughts on the non-political
(that is, environmental) outcomes of China's recent legislative meetings, in response to
a request from china.org.cn for comments:
Foreign scholars'
views on [the] Two Sessions
16 March 2018: Macquarie astronomers were asked for their thoughts
on the passing of Stephen Hawking; see this highlight from
This week at Macquarie:
Vale
Stephen Hawking
9 March 2018: Richard was featured in
This week at Macquarie:
Faculty
of Science and Engineering welcomes new Associate Dean (Global Engagement)
9 March 2018: Richard was
quoted
in an INASP blog headlined
AuthorAID launches new research collaboration forum
to catalyse international research partnerships; see also
this link
March 2018: Connections Between Star Cluster
Populations and Their Host Galaxy Nuclear Rings, Ma C., de Grijs R., Ho L.C.,
2018, ApJ, 857, 116;
arXiv:1803.01501
5 March 2018: Richard started his new appointment at
Macquarie University! And -- surprisingly -- he was
quoted
in the media (see [09:25]) on day one with his new affiliation...
28 February 2018: "Two
sessions" are a chance to address science and environment, Richard de
Grijs, china.org.cn opinion article (editor's pick)
13 February 2018: china.org.cn
asked Richard,
"What
do you think of Spring Festival?" (
in Chinese)
9 February 2018: Richard is quoted in an article in
Het
Financieele Dagblad (the Dutch Financial Daily),
'Wokpan'
speurt naar buitenaards leven;
local copy
(.pdf)
February 2018: No Evidence of Chemical Abundance
Variations in the Intermediate-age Cluster NGC 1783, Zhang H., de Grijs R.,
Li C., Wu X.H., 2018, ApJ, 853, 186;
arXiv:1712.08161
February 2018: Elsevier has
announced
that Richard de Grijs is among the "most highly cited Chinese scholars in 2017",
a list of names (75 in astronomy, earth and planetary sciences) that includes 94 faculty
members at Peking University
February 2018: An unexpected detection of bifurcated
blue straggler sequences in the young globular cluster NGC 2173, Li C.,
Deng L., de Grijs R., Jiang D., Xin Y., 2018, ApJ, 856, 25:
arXiv:1802.02307;
Nature Astronomy
News and Views
commentary
January 2018: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
of January 2018 (Stellar refugees on galactic scales--just blame gravity!),
de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2018, p. 18 (in Chinese;
English version)
January 2018: The VMC survey - XXVIII. Improved
measurements of the proper motion of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae,
Niederhofer F., Cioni M.-R.L., Rubele S., Schmidt T., Bekki K., de Grijs R.,
Emerson J., Ivanov V.D., Oliveira J.M., Petr-Gotzens M.G., Ripepi V., Sun N.-C.,
van Loon J.D., 2018, A&A, 612, A115;
arXiv:1801.07738
21 January 2018: Richard tendered his letter of resignation
from Peking University, effective from 5 March 2018. A new chapter is about to
start! Check out the new
postdoc
position on offer.
17 January 2018: Richard is quoted in a new article
published as part of the
Nature Career Guide,
The ups and downs of
moving to China;
Chinese
version..
January 2018: "Marvailous Cures": Sympathetic Medicine
Connecting Europe and China, Vuillermin D., de Grijs R., Hektoen Int'l,
Essays
in History, Winter 2018
January 2018: The Near-infrared Optimal Distances
Method applied to Galactic Classical Cepheids Tightly Constrains Mid-infrared
Period-Luminosity Relations, Wang S., Chen X.D., de Grijs R., Deng L., 2018,
ApJ, 852, 78;
arXiv:1711.06966
15 January 2018: How to establish productive research
collaborations, de Grijs R., 2018, AuthorAID
advice column
January 2018: The NGC 7742 star cluster luminosity
function: A population analysis revisited, de Grijs R., Ma C., 2018, Res.
Astron. Astrophys., 18, 13 (editor's recommendation);
arXiv:1712.00007
January 2018: Not-so-simple stellar populations in
nearby, resolved massive star clusters, de Grijs R., Li C., 2018, Physica
Scripta, 93, 024001 (review article);
arXiv:1711.06079
January 2018: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines
of November 2017 (Preparations for
James Webb Space Telescope operations
offer tantalizing prospects of major breakthroughs), de Grijs R., The Amateur
Astronomer, January 2018, p. 27 (in Chinese;
English version)
29 December 2017: Richard received a
2017 Peking
University Outstanding Undergraduate Instructor Award
News from previous years: 2017;
2016;
2015;
2014;
2013
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