MPIA Visitors' Seminar

MPIA Visitors' Seminar 2002



Seminars held in 2002

DATE TIME SPEAKER / AFFILIATION TITLE
07 Feb 2002
Thursday
15:15 Marco Barden
MPI für extraterrestrische Physik
The Tully-Fisher Relation at z~1: Clues From Halpha Rotation Curves
28 Feb 2002
Thursday
11:30 Ralf Klessen
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
From Clouds to Stars: The Formation of Stellar Clusters
07 Mar 2002
Thursday
15:15 Niranjan Sambhus
IUCAA, India
Dynamical Modeling of the Stellar Nucleus of M31
14 Mar 2002
Thursday
15:15 Hiroyuki Hirashita
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
Radiative and Chemical Effects of Dust on Galaxy Evolution
28 Mar 2002
Thursday
15:15 Marina Rejkuba
European Southern Observatory, Garching
Stellar populations and globular clusters in NGC 5128
11 Apr 2002
Thursday
15:15 Daniel Pisano
CSIRO ATNF, Epping, Australia
The State of Galaxy Formation at z=0
15 Apr 2002
MONDAY
15:15 Simon Pustilnik
Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia
The Hamburg/SAO Survey for low-metallicity Blue Compact Galaxies
06 Jun 2002
Thursday
15:15 Avishai Dekel
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Galaxy Formation in CDM Cosmology: Crises and Possible Solutions
10 Jun 2002
MONDAY
14:15 Fabian Heitsch
University of Colorado, Boulder
Fast Reconnection in a Two-Stage Process
20 Jun 2002
Thursday
15:15 Chip Kobulnicky
University of Wisconsin, Madison
[Seminar room instead of auditorium]
From Classical Gas to Heavy Metal: Tracing the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies at HIgh Redshift
27 Jun 2002
Thursday
15:15 Andreas Korn
Universitätssternwarte München
HIPPARCOS-consistent gravities for cool stars
09 Jul 2002
TUESDAY
11:15 José Franco
UNAM, Mexico
The Star Formation Efficiency and High-Mass Star Formation
11 Jul 2002
Thursday
15:15 Jim Liebert
Stewart Observatory, Tucson
Luminosity Function of Cool White Dwarfs
18 Jul 2002
Thursday
15:15 Bob O'Dell
Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Knots in Nearby Planetary Nebulae: Ubiquitous Reservoirs of Neutral Material
23 Jul 2002
TUESDAY
11:15 Volker Bromm
CfA, Cambridge
The End of the Dark Ages: The First Stars in the Universe
25 Jul 2002
Thursday
16:15 Leonid Pilyugin
Main Astrophysical Observatory, Kiev
Oxygen and Nitrogen Abundances in Galaxies
30 Jul 2002
TUESDAY
15:15 Jim Hough
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Direct observation of extrasolar planets with Polarimetry
08 Aug 2002
Thursday
16:15 Doug Geisler
Universidad de Concepción, Chile
The NGC 1399 Globular Cluster System
22 Aug 2002
Thursday
16:15 Rafael Rebolo
IAC, La Laguna
Baryonic Dark Matter
30 Aug 2002
FRIDAY
11:15 Vladimir Grinin
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
The dusty disk winds in young binary systems and UX Ori-type stars
19 Sep 2002
Thursday
16:15 David Martínez-Delgado
IAC, La Laguna
Destruction of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies in the Galactic Halo
08 Oct 2002
TUESDAY
15:15 Andrew Sheinis
CfAO, UCO/Lick Observatory, UCSC, Santa Cruz
New insights in the properties of QSO host galaxies: Interpreting Keck telescope spectra with population synthesis models
10 Oct 2002
Thursday
16:15 Ken Powell
The University of Michigan
A Parallel, Solution-Adaptive Technique for Modeling the Solar Wind
29 Oct 2002
TUESDAY
14:00 Catrina Hamilton
Wesleyan University, Middletown
The Unique System KH 15D: The Rosetta Stone for Planetary Formation?
12 Dec 2002
Thursday
16:15 Linda Sparke
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Multiply Barred and Lopsided Galaxies