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Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (IAA)

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Astronomical dome The dome is open from 7 PM on Wednesday when the sky is clear. An answering machine (02 6503098) informs you from 5 PM on Wednesday whether the dome will be open on that evening Open Astronomy Courses Wednesdays from 6 to 7pm, Lecture room H1309, Solbosch Campus. The next cycle will start on 2011 September 28.

Research interests

Our research interests cover various fields, among which nucleosynthesis, nuclear astrophysics, stellar evolution and chemical composition, binary stars, neutron stars...

Publications

Latest research papers of the IAA staff members referenced in

• SPIRES
• ADS
  

Recent Ph.D. theses:

• E. Pasquato, Effects of stellar surface inhomogeneities on astrometric accuracy (2011)
• T. Dermine, Binary Evolution in the Light of Barium and Related Stars (2011)

For the publications of the post-docs and PhD students, see our Staff webpage

For ULB students

• BA3 , MA1 and MA2 work/theses topics
  
  

Open Astronomy Courses

• Wednesdays from 6 to 7pm, Lecture room H1309, Solbosch Campus.
  The next cycle will start on 2011 September 28.
  Agenda available here
  
  

Astronomy in Belgium

• Publication of the Federal Science Policy Office (in French) (Belspo)
• Universe Awareness in Belgium
  
  

Latest news

• [9/9/2011] Cosmic Crashes Forging Gold

• [3/7/2011] A prize from the international Wernaers fund for research and public outreach (FNRS) goes to 3 researchers (A. Jorissen, D. Pourbaix, S. Van Eck) from IAA-ULB.
  
  

• [23/6/2011] The flames of Betelgeuse

New image reveals vast nebula around famous supergiant star...

• [6/6/2011] Nicolas Chamel honoured by the Adolphe Wetrems prize 2011 for Mathematical and Physical Sciences from the Royal Academy of Belgium for his study of extreme conditions in the interiors of supernovae and neutron stars
  
  

• [1/6/2011] A cosmic firewheel blown by the wind