8th Kazakhstan-China-Korea (KCK-8) workshop on stellar dynamics and related fields (star clusters, stellar evolution, gravitational waves, black holes in galaxies) was held in Kunming (China), Dec 19-21.

Dr. Na Wang will visit FAPHI on December 02, where at 11 a.m., she will give a talk about the research held at XinJiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute was awarded Science Leader Award 2016 from National Center for Scientific and Technical Information and Thomson Reuters, as the most cited scientific organization in Kazakhstan during 2011-2015.

On September 13, 2016, at 14:00, we have a lecture by Klim Ivanovich Churyumov, who will talk about the results of the Rosetta mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, discovered in 1969 at Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute. UPD: Video is available (see inside).

On September 07, at 12:00, we will have a seminar by colleagues from Shamakhi Astrophysical Observatory. They will talk about research methods and instruments at Shamakhi Observatory.

On July 20, at 11:30, we have a seminar by Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev, where he will report on the progress of his PhD thesis at Astronomisches Rechen-Institute (Heidelberg). The seminar title is "Improving The Survival Likelihood Of Star Clusters After Instantaneous Gas Expulsion".

On May 27, at 11:00, we have a seminar by Dr. Nasridin Minikulov from the Astrophysical Institute (Dushanbe). He will talk about the photometry and polarimetry of UX Ori-type stars, and about the monitoring of space debris at Sanglok Observatory.