Welcome to CosKASI
News at CosKASI
- 2 PhD positions in the cosmology group (to start in fall 2025) (link)
CosKASI in Media
- 2025-03-31 : Sungwook Hong's work on "Emergence of the Galaxy Morphology–Star Formation Activity–Clustercentric Radius Relations in Galaxy Clusters" (ApJ) was featured in KASI Press Release.
- 2025-03-24 : Kushal Lodha, William Matthewson, Arman Shafieloo, and David Parkinson's contribution to DESI DR2 BAO analysis and work led by CosKASI on "Extended Dark Energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements" (arXiv) was featured in KASI Press Release, covered by media Donga Science (in Korean).
- 2025-03-19 : Arman Shafieloo's work on "understanding the evolution of dark energy in the light of recent observations" (arXiv) was discussed in Scientific American.
- 2025-03-02 : Sabine Hossenfelder covered Arman Shafieloo's work on "hemispherical asymmetry in Planck PR4 temperature CMB data" (arXiv) in her YouTube video.
- 2024-11-14 : David Parkinson wrote an article discussing his work on "Detection of an orthogonal alignment between parsec-scale AGN jets and their host galaxies" (Nat. Astron.) in The Conversation.
- 2024-04-15 : Kushal Lodha, Rodrigo Calderon, Arman Shafieloo, William Matthewson, and Sangwoo Park's contribution to DESI DR1 BAO analysis and work led by CosKASI on "DESI 2024: reconstructing dark energy using crossing statistics with DESI DR1 BAO data" (JCAP) and "DESI 2024: Constraints on physics-focused aspects of dark energy using DESI DR1 BAO data" (PRD) were featured in NST Press Release, and KASI Press Release.
- 2024-01-05 : Sangwoo Park gave a public talk about "5000 Eyes: Mapping the Universe with DESI" at the D-Light Daejeon Science Night festival, featured in KASI Press Release.
- 2023-10-19 : Arman Shafieloo's work on "Ruling Out New Physics at Low Redshift as a Solution to the H0 Tension" (PRL) was featured in KASI Press Release, covered by media Science, and Donga Science (in Korean).
Upcoming Workshops and Events
- 11th Korea Astronomy Machine Learning Meeting "LSST with AI", organised by KASI in Seoul, May 13 - 14 (2025)
Past Workshops and Events
- 9th Korea Japan-Workshop on Dark Energy, hosted at Yonsei and supported by KASI, November 14 - 18 (2022)
- DESI Korea local workshop, hosted at KASI, June 3 (2022)
- 7th Korea Japan-Workshop on Dark Energy, hosted at KASI, December 7 - 10 (2020)
- 6th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy, Nagoya University, December 3 - 6 (2019)
- CosKASI-ICG-NAOC-YITP Workshop , KASI, September 23-27 (2019).
- CosKASI conference III “The Correlated Universe”, Jeju, April 23-27 (2019).
- EAO Subaru Science Workshop 2019, KASI, January 16-18 (2019).
- 5th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy, KASI, Aug. 6-10 (2018)
- 4th Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy, Nagoya University, Aug. 28 - 30 (2017)
- CosKASI conference II "Cosmological Quests for the Next Decade" Apr 17 - 21 (2017)
- CosKASI-ICG-NAOC-YITP Workshop Sep 5-9 (2016)
- Future Sky Surveys and Big Data, April 25-29 (2016)
- 3rd Korea-Japan Workshop on Dark Energy, April 4-8 (2016)
First Mover Research Group
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute has initiated the FMRG Program in 2015 for the promotion of research groups which are aiming to perform pionneering research of world-class level. CosKASI was appointed as the first FMRG in 2015, and be awarded with the total $6M research support for 9 years from 2015 to 2022.
Participation in DESI (Dark Energy Spectrocopy Instrument)
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion of the universe. It will obtain optical spectra for tens of millions of galaxies and quasars, constructing a 3-dimensional map spanning the nearby universe to 10 billion light years.
DESI will be conducted on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory starting in 2018. DESI is supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science to perform this Stage IV dark energy measurement using baryon acoustic oscillations and other techniques that rely on spectroscopic measurements.
Cosmology group at KASI plans to take part in DESI as an associated member institute. We provide an apportunity for young researchers to meet challenges for next decades.