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SAAO Cape Town Open Night
January 13 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This week’s speaker: Prof. Oleg Malkov
The SAAO Open Nights in Cape Town take place on the second and fourth Saturday of every month at 20:00.
Please email enquiries@saao.ac.za if you have any queries regarding bookings and tours for Cape Town Open Nights.
Speaker: Prof. Oleg Malkov
Oleg Malkov was born in Moscow in 1961. In 1978 he entered the Physics Faculty of Moscow State University (Astronomy Department) and graduated in 1984. Since March 1984 he has been working at the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, currently as Head of the Department of Physics of Stellar Systems. He also conducted scientific research and taught at academic institutions and observatories in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, China, Ethiopia, and several other countries. In 2004 he maintained a thesis in Astrophysics titled “Binary stars and the initial mass function”, and received the degree of Doctor of Sciences. He is the author of about 300 scientific papers. Oleg Malkov is a professor of astronomy at Moscow State University.
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