December 2015: The tight sub-giant branch of the intermediate-age star cluster NGC 411 implies a single-aged stellar population, Li C., de Grijs R., Bastian N., Deng L., Niederhofer F., Zhang C., 2016, ApJ, submitted for publication
28 December 2015: An in-depth interview with Richard de Grijs appeared in Future Magazine (December 2015, p. 28)
December 2015: The VMC Survey. XX. Classical Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Ripepi V., Marconi M., Moretti M.I., Clementini G., Cioni M.-R.L., de Grijs R., Emerson J.P., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Piatti A.E., 2016, ApJS, submitted for publication
17 December 2015: Richard de Grijs was awarded a Star Guest Facilitator badge following his active role in facilitating the AuthorAID Online Course in Research Writing (October to November 2015)
December 2015: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of November 2015 (New developments offer a boost to extragalactic distance determination), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January 2016, in press (in Chinese; English version)
December 2015: W Ursae Majoris stars as tools to measure the distance to NGC 188, Chen X., Deng L., de Grijs R., Zhang X.B., Xin Y., Wang K., Luo C.Q., Yan Z.Z., Tian J.F., Sun J.J., Liu Q., Zhou Q., Luo Z.Q., 2016, AJ, re-submitted for publication
November 2015: Richard de Grijs was invited to speak at the 15th Annual Academic Postgraduate "Lushan Forum" at Hunan Normal University on 27 November 2015. News coverage
November 2015: Formation of new stellar populations from gas accreted by massive young star clusters, Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., Geller A.M., Xin Y., Hu Y., Faucher-Giguère C.-A., 2015, Nature, accepted for publication!
November 2015: The star cluster mass-galactocentric radius relation: Implications for cluster formation, Sun W., de Grijs R., Fan Z., Cameron E., 2016, ApJ, 816, 9; arXiv:1511.04490
November 2015: The VMC Survey. XVIII. Radial dependence of the low-mass, 0.57-0.82 M☉ stellar mass function in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae, Zhang C., Li C., de Grijs R., Deng L., Bekki K., Zaggia S., Rubele S., Piatti A.E., Cioni M.-R.L., Emerson J., For B.-Q., Ripepi V., Marconi M., Ivanov V.D., Chen L., 2015, ApJ, 815, 95; arXiv:1511.02993
October 2015: Bolvormige sterrenhopen, de LEGO-blokjes van het heelal (Globular clusters, basic building blocks of the Universe), de Grijs R., Zenit, December 2015, in press (in Dutch; invited)
October 2015: The VMC survey - XVII. The proper motion of the Small Magellanic Cloud and of the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae, Cioni M.-R.L., Bekki K., Girardi L., de Grijs R., Irwin M.J., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Oliveira J.M., Piatti A.E., Ripepi V., van Loon J.T., 2015, A&A, accepted for publication; arXiv:1510.07647
October 2015: The VMC Survey. XIX. Identification of new Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Moretti M.I., Clementini G., Ripepi V., Marconi M., Rubele S., Cioni M.-R.L., Muraveva T., Groenewegen M.A.T., Cross N.J.G., Ivanov V.D., Piatti A.E., de Grijs R., MNRAS, submitted for publication; arXiv:1510.08522
October 2015: New quasars behind the Magellanic Clouds. Spectroscopic confirmation of near-infrared-selected candidates, Ivanov V.D., Cioni M.-R.L., Bekki K., de Grijs R., Emerson J., Gibson B.K., Kamath D., van Loon J.T., Piatti A.E., For B.-Q., 2015, A&A, accepted for publication; arXiv:1510.05504
October 2015: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of September 2015 (Einstein revisited: Searching for the elusive "gravitational waves"), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, November 2015, p. 18; (in Chinese; English version)
October 2015: Conference proceedings of the IAU General Assembly in Hawaii submitted: The dynamical importance of binary systems in young massive star clusters (de Grijs R., Li C., Geller A.M., Proc. Symp. 316) and The East Asian Office of Astronomy for Development (de Grijs R., Zhang Z., He J., Astronomy in Focus, vol. 1)
August 2015: The VMC survey - XVI. Spatial variation of the cluster formation activity in the innermost regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Piatti A.E., de Grijs R., Ripepi V., Ivanov V., Cioni M.-R.L., Marconi M., Rubele S., Bekki K., For B.-Q., 2015, MNRAS, 454, 839; arXiv:1509.00827
August 2015: My exciting AuthorAID story, which was a runner-up in the 2015 AuthorAID writing competition, was reworked by a science writer and has now been published: Beyond the niche: how AuthorAID has expanded my academic horizons (Office of Astronomy for Development's guest blog); another copy was published here, on the Institute of Physics blog.
July 2015: The latest East Asian Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (EA-ROAD) Newsletter is out: No. 2, July 2015; pdf
July 2015: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of July 2015 (The search for life beyond Earth is heating up!), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, September 2015, p. 18 (in Chinese; English version)
July 2015: Richard de Grijs has been awarded one of 10 Honorable Mentions by the jury of the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2015, based on his submission titled Asian scientists prepare to reach for the stars
July 2015: Our group member, Chengyuan Li, received a Peking University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, an honour shared with his supervisor, Richard de Grijs.
June 2015: An in-depth interview with Richard de Grijs appeared in the EURAXESS (Researchers in Motion) June 2015 Newsletter (No. 62, p. 9); direct link.
June 2015: Turning off the lights: Supernova SN1987A 30 years on, de Grijs R., 2015, Nature Physics, 11, 623; arXiv:1507.08770
June 2015: Richard de Grijs has been invited to attend the 2015 Kyoto Prize ceremony (the "Japanese Nobel Prize") in the presence of the Japanese royal family, in November 2015.
12 June 2015: Richard de Grijs has formally been appointed as Discipline Scientist affiliated with the International Space Science Institute-Beijing.
June 2015: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of May 2015 (The oldest Milky Way "globular" star clusters finally give up their secrets!), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, July 2015, p. 18 (in Chinese; English version)
June 2015: Following in-depth peer review (3 reviewers), Richard de Grijs has been offered a contract to write a 300-page monograph in the new Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society e-book series, titled Longitude at sea: Navigation in the 17th Century, with a preliminary deadline of 31 December 2017.
31 May 2015: Richard de Grijs was honoured with an appointment as Visiting Professor at Qiannan Normal College for Nationalities in Duyun City (Guizhou), with the aim to assist the College to establish an astronomy programme in support of skills development in Guizhou province.
27 May 2015: Our group member, Li Chengyuan, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, Not-so-simple stellar populations in massive star clusters, on 27 May 2015
11 May 2015: Richard de Grijs was interviewed today by Grace Brown, reporter for CCTV America, about his work and life in China -- and in particular as regards his views about the process to obtain a Chinese "green card". The interview was aired on 1 June 2015.
8 May 2015: We have just been notified that 30% (7 of 23) of the peer-reviewed articles by KIAA scientists from 2014 that qualified for a publication "bonus" in the form of a research grant were published by my group!
May 2015: Thirty Meter Telescope Detailed Science Case: 2015, Skidmore W., et al. (incl. de Grijs R.), 2015; arXiv:1505.01195
April 2015: Ten Simple Rules for Establishing International Research Collaborations, de Grijs R., 2015, PLoS Comput. Biol., 11, e1004311 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004311)
April 2015: The International Astronomical Union's Executive Committee approved to establish a new Inter-Division Commission on Stellar Clusters throughout Cosmic Space and Time: see this pdf or this page. Richard de Grijs will be its first President (from August 2015).
April 2015: Asian scientists prepare to reach for the stars, de Grijs R., 2015, submitted to the Asian Scientist Writing Prize 2015
April 2015: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of March 2015 (Cosmological insights from our backyard: the "missing satellite problem" solved?), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, May 2015, p. 18 (in Chinese); English version
April 2015: Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or correlated measurements? III. The Small Magellanic Cloud, de Grijs R., Bono G., 2015, AJ, 149, 179; arXiv:1504.00417
March 2015: The VMC survey. XV. The Small Magellanic Cloud-Bridge connection history as traced by their star cluster populations, Piatti A.E., de Grijs R., Rubele S., Cioni M.-R.L., Ripepi V., Kerber L., 2015, MNRAS, 450, 552; arXiv:1503.06656
March 2015: Different Dynamical Ages for the Two Young and Coeval LMC Star Clusters NGC 1805 and NGC 1818 Imprinted on their Binary Populations, Geller A., de Grijs R., Li C., Hurley J.R., 2015, ApJ, 805, 11; arXiv:1503.05198
February 2015: Elsevier has announced that Richard de Grijs is among the "most influential Chinese scholars in 2014", a list of 1651 names that includes 84 faculty members at Peking University; see this PKU news release (6 February 2015)
February 2015: Perspectives from an AuthorAID mentor: Ambition. Inspiration. Satisfaction., de Grijs R., 2015, Runner-up in the Call for exciting AuthorAID stories
February 2015: Book review - Libraries of Western learning for China: Circulation of Western books between Europe and China in the Jesuit Mission (ca. 1650 - ca. 1750). 1. Logistics of book acquisition and circulation; 2. Formation of Jesuit libraries (Leuven Chinese Studies XXIII and XXVI, Leuven University Press 2012/2013), de Grijs R., 2015, in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 25, Series 3, p. 538; doi:10.1017/S1356186315000127; pdf version
January 2015: The VMC Survey. XIV. First results on the look-back time star-formation rate tomography of the Small Magellanic Cloud, Rubele S., Girardi L., Kerber L., Cioni M.-R.L., Piatti A.E., Zaggia S., Bekki K., Bressan A., Clementini G., de Grijs R., Emerson J.P., Groenewegen M.A.T., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Marigo P., Moretti M.I., Ripepi V., Subramanian S., Tatton B.L., van Loon J.Th., 2015, MNRAS, 449, 639; arXiv:1501.05347
January 2015: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of January 2015 (New insights into the structure of the nearest galaxies in our Local Group), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, March 2015, p. 23 (in Chinese); English version
January 2015: How West met East in Chinese astronomy, de Grijs R., 2015, Physics World, p. 35 (feature article); online version
January 2015: Star cluster disruption in the starburst galaxy Messier 82, Li S., de Grijs R., Anders P., Li C., 2015, ApJS, 216, 6; arXiv:1411.2704
January 2015: AstroTalk: Behind the news headlines of November 2014 (Star clusters as "not-so-simple" stellar populations), de Grijs R., The Amateur Astronomer, January 2015, p. 30 (in Chinese); English version
