MPIA Visitors' Seminar

MPIA Visitors' Seminar 2007



Seminars held in 2007

DATE TIME SPEAKER / AFFILIATION TITLE
January 11th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Stijn Wuyts
Leiden
Stellar populations of distant galaxies
January 25th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Richard Alexander
University of Colorado
The evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary disks
January 30th 2007
Tuesday
11:00 Pawel Pietrukowic
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Poland
Searching for dwarf novae in Galactic globular clusters based on Cluster AgeS Experiment (CASE) data
February 1st 2007
Thursday
16:15 Michiel Min
University of Amsterdam
Probes for astronomical dust processing in various environments
February 15th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Silvia Leurini
ESO
High-resolution observations of the high-mass proto-cluster IRAS 05358 -- News from the APEX telescope
February 22nd 2007
Thursday
16:15 Andrea Isella
Arcetri
Probing the structure and the dynamics of the HD 163296 protoplanetary disk through millimeter imaging
March 9th 2007
Friday
14:00 Seminarraum Daniel Angerhausen
University of Cologne
NIR imaging spectroscopy of extrasolar planets
March 12th 2007
Monday
10:30 Jose Miguel Rodriguez Espinosa
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC): Getting ready for First Light
March 12th 2007
Monday
15:00 Yutaka Hayano
Subaru
Status report - laser guide star system at the Subaru Telescope
March 15th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Elmar Koerding
University of Southampton
Determining the kinetic energy function of jets from accreting black holes
March 22nd 2007
Thursday
16:15 Erica Ellingson
University of Colorado
The Red Sequence Cluster Survey: Cluster Properties and Galaxy Populations
May 24th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Alan McConnachie
University of Victoria
CMDs and CDM: Understanding galaxy evolution in the Local Group
June 6th 2007
Wednesday
16:15 Armin Rest
Light Echoes of Supernovae
June 14th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Romeel Davé
Steward Observatory
The impact of galactic outflows across cosmic scales
June 21st 2007
Thursday
16:15 Harinder P. Singh
University of Delhi
The Indo-US Stellar Spectral Library and beyond
June 26th 2007
Tuesday
11:30 Lukasz Wyrzykowski
University of Cambridge
Microlensing, Variable Stars and other projects with the OGLE Project
June 27th 2007
Wednesday
11:30 *multifunktionsraum* Jason Rowe
Vancouver University
The MOST satellite and an extrasolar planets search with the transit method
June 28th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Tom Megeath
University of Toledo
Star Formation in the Nearest Kiloparsec, The View from Spitzer
August 9th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Manuel Guedel
Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
X-rays in young stars and star formation
August 16th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Julianne Dalcanton
University of Washington
First Results from the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury Program: 11 months of ANGST
August 23rd 2007
Thursday
16:15 Daniel Harbeck
University of Wisconsin
The WIYN One Degree Imager
October 18th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Andrey Sobolev
Astronomical Observatory, Ural State University, Russia
Star Formation in S 235
October 23rd 2007
*Tuesday*
14:00 Hans-Rainer Kloeckner
An overview of the square kilometre array (SKA) and SKA-design study
November 2nd 2007
*Friday*
11:00 Masa Imanishi
NAO, Japan
Luminous buried AGNs in the local universe
November 8th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Dan McIntosh
UMass
Massive Galaxy Mergers in the Present-day Universe
November 12th 2007
Monday
11:00 Rob Wittenmyer
University of Texas
A Search for Multi-Planet Systems
November 20th 2007
Tuesday
11:00 *Seminar Room* Dr. Katherine Inskip
University of Sheffield
Triggering activity in active galaxies
November 22nd 2007
Thursday
16:15 Dr. Christian Thalmann
ETH Zürich
SPHERE/ZIMPOL: Direct Detection of Exoplanets by Polarimetry
November 27th 2007
Tuesday
11:00 Daniel Zucker
University of Cambridge
TBD
December 13th 2007
Thursday
16:15 Nanda Kumar
Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Radiative Transfer modelling of IR counterparts of massive protostars