23 June 2021
New X-ray map reveals the growing supermassive black holes in next-generation survey fields
One of the largest X-ray surveys using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space observatory has mapped nearly…
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27 November 2020
IDIA Senior Researcher Wins Exceptional Young Researchers Award
For the first time in the institution’s history, the University of Pretoria (UP) held its annual Academic Achievers’…
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21 October 2020
Driving the 4th industrial revolution through astronomical data
An SAAO Special Edition of NRF Science Matters Magazine Vol 3 Issue 3 was released by the National Research Foundation.…
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21 August 2020
IDIA “processMeerKAT” Pipelines v.1.1 release
The IDIA Pipelines team is pleased to announce V1.1 of the IDIA Pipeline. The package uses CASA/MPICASA to do the…
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12 August 2020
IDIA/ilifu MeerKAT Open Time Projects 2020
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) invites proposals from researchers at IDIA partner…
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22 July 2020
First MIGHTEE paper finds that clusters and groups of galaxies show the same correlation between X-ray and radio emissions.
A group of international researchers from South Africa, Germany, the United States of America, Finland, the United…
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17 June 2020
Growing IDIA During the Lockdown
We are excited to announce that we are once again joined by a new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Sthabile Kolwa, who will…
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7 June 2020
IDIA Associate Director Shortlisted for Science Oscars
University of the Western Cape (UWC) veteran scholar, Associate Professor Carolina Ödman, has been shortlisted for this…
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25 March 2020
SPU hosts Ilifu Big Data Hackathon 2020
Sol Plaatje University hosted the Ilifu Big Data Hackathon from 12 – 13 March 2020. The Ilifu Human Capital Development…
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18 March 2020
IDIA Welcomes New Postdoc
We are excited to announce that we will be joined by a new postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Francesco Cavallaro, who will…
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