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Popular talk in Kościan, Poland

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka August 30, 2018

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Today at the Astronomical Observatory of Kościan I gave a popular talk: How can we measure the size of a coin located on the Moon from the Earth? Observations in astronomy are the basic source of information. Over the centuries, the methods of conducting such observations, as well as their reduction and analysis, have undergone tremendous evolution, and...
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VLTI Summer School 2018

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka July 15, 2018

VLTI SummerSchool Lisbon optical interferometry

From the 9th to the 14th of July in Lisbon, Portugal, I participated in the 9th VLTI Summer School organised by the Portuguese VLTI Expertise Centre, the JMMC, the EII, and ESO. The school was set to train the VLTI users. It was very practical and we were introduced to the tools used in observation preparation and VLTI...
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Master thesis of my student defended!

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka June 13, 2018

students thesis symbiotic star UAM

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Today my Master student - Aleksandra Leśniewska - defended her Master Thesis Modeling of symbiotic star SY Mus based on photometric and spectroscopic observations with the best mark! I'm so proud :)...
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Our publication accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka June 11, 2018

publication AA CVs dwarf novae

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Our article has just been accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics: LINK. The work entitled "Testing the disk instability model of cataclysmic variables" was led by Guillaume Dubus (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble, France), in co-operation with Jean-Pierre Lasota (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS and Sorbonne Université, Paris, France and N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland), and myself. The...
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Weekly seminar at our Institute

by Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka June 7, 2018

dwarf novae CVs seminar

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On 7th June, 2018, I gave a seminar talk at our Institute Astronomical Observatory of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: LINK. During the talk I presented my recent publication Testing the disk instability model of cataclysmic variables (Dubus et al. 2018) which is described here: LINK. Although the topics related to cataclysmic variables are not very popular at...
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