MPIA Visitors' Seminar

MPIA Visitors' Seminar 2008



Seminars held in 2008

DATE TIME SPEAKER / AFFILIATION TITLE
January 24th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Pierluigi Monaco
DAUT - Department of Astronomy - University of Trieste
Galaxy formation: highlights from the MORGANA model
Feb 7th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Ted Bergin
University of Michigan
Spitzer Studies of Star Formation and its Effects
Apr 23rd 2008
Wednesday
11:00 Ulrike von Luxburg
MP for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen
An Introduction to Spectral Clustering
June 18th 2008
Wednesday
16:15 Vernesa Smolcic
Caltech
A radio view of the sky: The cosmic history of star-forming and AGN galaxies
June 19th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Daniela Carollo
Australian National University
Structural and kinematic parameters of the two halo components of the Milky Way
June 23rd 2008
Monday
16:00 David Wilner
CfA
Submillimeter Studies of Protoplanetary Disks
June 30th 2008
Monday
16:00 Rene Plume
The JCMT Legacy Surveys
July 3rd 2008
Thursday
16:15 John Norris
Australian National University
The Chemical Enrichment of Omega Centauri
July 10th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Arjen van der Wel
Johns Hopkins University
The Constantly Evolving Early-Type Galaxy Population
July 22nd 2008
Tuesday
11:00 Tom Shanks
Durham
XMS - Extreme Multiplex Spectrograph for CAHA 3.5m
July 24th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Doug Johnstone
NRC-Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and University of Victoria
Understanding How Star Formation Proceeds in the Perseus and Ophiuchus Molecular Clouds
August 19th 2008
Tuesday
14:00 Ken Nomoto
University of Tokyo
Nucleosynthesis in Pop III Supernovae and Hypernovae, and the Abundance Patterns of Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
September 11th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Mohsen Ramezanpour
Sharif University of Technology, Teheran, Iran
Development of Iranian Virtual Observatory
September 15th 2008
Monday
15:00 Morten Anderson
SSC/Caltech
Shock Processed Dust: Spitzer MIPS SED and IRS observations
September 18th 2008
Thursday
11:00 Andreas Seifahrt
University of Goettingen
Measuring radial velocities with CRIRES
September 18th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Kalliopi Dasyra
SSC/Caltech
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September 26th 2008
Friday
11:00 Satoshi Yamamoto
University of Tokyo
Carbon Chains in Molecular Clouds
September 26th 2008
Friday
14:00 David Weldrake
Harvard CfA
EPOXI: Ultra-precise Photometry of Transiting Exoplanets
October 30th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Andreas Koch
UCLA
Complexity in small-scale dwarf spheroidal galaxies
November 6th
Tuesday
14:00 Luca Cortese
University of Cardiff
Transitions between the blue and red sequence and AGN feedback
December 4th 2008
Thursday
16:15 Subo Dong
Ohio State
Chasing High-Magnification Microlensing Events to Hunt for Extrasolar Planets: Discoveries, Surprises and Challenges
December 16th 2008
Tuesday
14:00 Hoersaal Dimitri Gadotti
MPA
Studying galaxy structure with image decomposition: challenges and benefits
December 17th 2008
Wednesday
11:00 Hoersaal Yang-Shyang Li
Groningen
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December 17th 2008
Wednesday
14:00 Seminarraum Kevin Schawinski
Yale
Observing AGN Feedback in Action