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New MeerKAT result: Direct detection of faint hydrogen signal from the distant Universe
IDIA members elected to IAU Commissions
The International Astronomical Union recently held its elections for…
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…
IDIA Highlights Brochure – June 2021
We have put together a short IDIA Highlights Brochure for June 2021.…
CARTA v2.0 released
The CARTA development team is excited to announce that CARTA v2.0 is…
New paper: The Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey: A Faraday Depth Survey of the Northern Sky Covering 1280-1750 MHz
The Galactic interstellar medium hosts a significant magnetic field,…
IDIA language project and more in uwc 360º Perspectives Magazine
In an issue packed with retrospectives and news from UWC’s 60th…
New paper: HELP: The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project
The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP) collates, curates,…
Virtual Reality and Immersive Collaborative Environments: the New Frontier for Big Data Visualisation
The IDIA Vislab team has published a paper on their immersive…
New paper on machine learning to characterise radio galaxies
Classification of radio galaxies is looking at their shape, their…
IDIA Senior Researcher Wins Exceptional Young Researchers Award
For the first time in the institution’s history, the University of…
Universities join forces in big data science – IDIA is renewed for 5 years
The agreement forming the Inter-University Institute for Data…
Dr. Brad Frank joins IDIA as Associate Director, Astronomy Operations
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Brad Frank in…
MIGHTEE-HI: The HI emission project of the MeerKAT MIGHTEE survey
In this new paper, the observations of neutral hydrogen in the…
New paper on galaxy evolution
A new multi-wavelength analysis of 620 galaxies attempts to…
Driving the 4th industrial revolution through astronomical data
An SAAO Special Edition of NRF Science Matters Magazine Vol 3 Issue 3…
Announcement: SEADS Seminar
In our continuing Science Engagement And Development Seminar series,…
Federating Research Cloud resources: IDIA and EGI join forces
As the scale of data and complexity of processing capabilities needed…
New paper: Mapping neutral hydrogen with MeerKAT to understand the distribution of matter in the Universe
In the early universe, most matter as we know it was in the form of…
IDIA supports remote Big Data Hackathon
A hackathon is a fun, fast-paced, strenuous, yet highly rewarding…
Bioinformatics workshop hosted on ilifu
An initiative by Dr. Ryan Daniels at the Forensic DNA laboratory in…
IDIA “processMeerKAT” Pipelines v.1.1 release
The IDIA Pipelines team is pleased to announce V1.1 of the IDIA…
Data Ecosystems and Gateways to Foster Research Community Networks Across Africa
This is the name of a panel discussion organised by the U.S. National…
IDIA/ilifu MeerKAT Open Time Projects 2020
The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA)…
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…