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Activities in 1989-1990
From the Report for Academic Year 1989-1990
of the Institute for Advanced Study
PIET HUT spent the academic year 1989-90 on sabbatical in Japan and
Holland, visiting the astronomy department at the universities of
Tokyo and Utrecht. In Tokyo he was involved in large-scale simulations
of the evolution of dense star systems in collaboration with Japanese
colleagues, using a supercomputer at the Institute for Supercomputing
Research. One of the most important results of these simulations was a
statistical description of the migration processes of primordial
double stars through a star cluster. In Utrecht he taught a course on
the evolution of globular star clusters. His research in Holland
focused on observational aspects of star cluster evolution,
especially those connected to low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond
pulsars.
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