Colloqia
This week's colloquia are highlighted in red.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
25/01 | Mehmet Ali Alpar (Sabanci University) |
Neutron star dynamics | Alessandro Patruno | |
| 01/02 | Dale Frail (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) |
Multi-Messenger GW-EM Astronomy: A Radio View | Intema | |
| 08/02 | Cameron Mackie (Leiden Observatory) |
The Anharmonic Infrared Spectra of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PhD colloquium) | Candian | |
| 15/02 | Michael Cushing (University of Toledo) |
Hunting for Cool Brown Dwarfs with WISE | Kenworthy | |
| 19/02 Monday HL414 | 15:30 | Allison Hill (Leiden Observatory) |
Some Assembly Required: The Structural Evolution and Mass Assembly of Galaxies at z<5 (PhD colloquium) | Franx |
| 22/02 | Sascha Zeegers (Leiden Observatory) |
The X-ray View of Interstellar Dust (PhD colloquium) | Costatini | |
| 05/03 Monday HL414 | Anna Miotello (Leiden Observatory) |
The puzzle of protoplanetary disk masses (PhD colloquium) | van Dishoeck | |
| 08/03 | David Kipping (Columbia University) |
Hunting for Exomoons and Other Cool Worlds | Kenworthy | |
| 29/03 | David Wilner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics) |
New Views of Debris Disks with Millimeter Interferometry (NOVA colloquium) | Hogerheijde | |
| 12/04 | Jonathan Tan (Chalmers University of Technology & University of Virginia) |
Inside-Out Planet Formation | Hogerheijde | |
| 19/04 | Junjie Mao (Leiden Observatory) |
Astrophysical plasma modeling of the hot Universe: Advances and challenges in high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy (PhD colloquium) | Kaastra | |
| 03/05 | Amaury Triaud (University of Cambridge) |
The Plurality of Worlds | Kenworthy | |
| 17/05 | Michela Mapelli (University of Innsbruck and Astronomical Observatory of Padova) |
Black hole demography in the era of gravitational-wave astronomy | spz | |
| 22/05 Tuesday | 11:00 | Kirstin doney (Sterrewacht / PhD colloquium) |
Infrared spectroscopy of astrophysically relevant hydrocarbons | Linnartz |
| 24/05 | Bianca Poggianti (Padova Observatory) |
GAS STRIPPING and STAR FORMATION IN GALAXIES: THE GASP SURVEY | TBD | |
| 29/05 Tuesday | 11:00 | Ko-Ju Chuang (Sterrewacht / PhD colloquium) |
The formation of complex organics in dense clouds - sweet results from the laboratory | Linnartz |
| 05/06 Tuesday | Pablo Castellanos Nash (Leiden Observatory) |
Breaking & entering: PAH photodissociation and top-down chemistry (PhD colloquium) | Linnartz/Tielens | |
| 07/06 | Roberto Decarli (MPIA Heidelberg) |
The interstellar medium at high redshift | Hodge | |
| 12/06 Tuesday | 11:00 | Chris Barber (Leiden Observatory) |
Monsters in the Deep: Using simulations to understand the unexpected mass in the centres of high-mass, early-type galaxies (PhD colloquium) | Joop |
| 14/06 | Ann-Sofie Bak Nielsen (Leiden Observatory) |
Spin evolution of accreting and radio pulsars in binary systems (PhD colloquium) | Patruno | |
| 19/06 Tuesday HL106/109 | 11:00 | Mike Wilby (Sterrewacht) |
Painting with Starlight: Developing optical techniques for the high-contrast imaging of exoplanets (PhD colloquium) | Keller |
| 26/06 Tuesday | 11:00 | Jorryt Matthee (Sterrewacht) |
Identifying the origins of galaxy formation | Huub |
| 13/09 HL211 | 00:00 | Anne Archibald (Anton Pannekoek Instituut) |
testing General Relativity Using a Pulsar in a Triple System | Rossi |
| 18/10 HL411 | 11:00 | Jorick Vink (Armagh Observatory) |
Mass loss and stellar superwinds | TBA (SPZ) |
| 25/10 C4/C5 | 00:00 | Andre Moitinho de Almeida (Lissabon) |
tba | Anthony |
| 01/11 C1 | 11:00 | Karin Obserg (CFA) |
Chemistry of Planet Formation | Harold |
| 08/11 | 00:00 | Eva Ostriker (Princeton) |
TBA | TBD |
| 29/11 HL211 | 11:00 | Samaya Nissanke (Radboud University) |
follow the chirp: seeing and listening to the violent Universe with compact object mergers | TBD |
Unless noted otherwise, colloquia take place at the Oort Building,
Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, in the De Sitter Zaal on the ground floor,
on Thursdays, and start 16:00 sharp!
Tea and coffee is available from 15:45.
For questions and/or suggestions concerning the colloquium series, please
contact Michiel Hogerheijde (e-mail )
or Simon Portegies Zwart (e-mail )
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