On behalf of our group, Süleyman Fişek attended to the “Active Galaxies and Quasars” international conference in Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Armenia. Süleyman Fişek presented his work about AGNs in BCGs as an oral presentation “AGN Activity in Brightest Cluster Galaxies“.
The conference webpage is:
https://www.bao.am/meetings/meetings/MA90/
On behalf of our group, F. Korhan Yelkenci attended to the AIA2019 (Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy) at ESO, Garching, Germany. F. Korhan Yelkenci presented his work about galaxy classification by machine learning algorithms as an oral presentation “Comparing Performance of Machine Learning Algorithms for Galaxy Classification“.
The workshop webpage is:
https://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2019/AIA2019.html
Our group has started to collaborate with Dr. Tomotsugu Goto and his group from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Thanks to our group leader Dr. Sinan Aliş’s initiative and the support of Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), Dr. Goto also visited our Astronomy Dept. and gave a talk named “Revealing cosmic star formation history and black hole accretion history with the AKARI space telescope and the Subaru telescope’s new Hyper-Suprime Camera”.
Our group and Dr. Goto’s group has started to work together on evolution of galaxies in galaxy cluster by using Subaru HSC-SSP survey obtained from Subaru Telescope which is located in Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Our new collaboration will continue with some new researches on extra-galactic astronomy and will give the groups to do some graduate students exchanges as well.
Our group member Müge Görücüoğlu finished her master thesis in July 2019. The title of her thesis is “Investigation the Number Density of Interacting Elliptical Galaxies“.
She has identified the merging elliptical galaxies and investigated the interactions of elliptical galaxy pairs by using CFHTLS – W1 field.