Colloqia
This week's colloquia are highlighted in red.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
19/01 | Dainis Dravins (Lund Observatory) |
Intensity Interferometry and Imaging of Stellar Surfaces | Keller | |
| 09/02 | Peter Schilke (U Cologne) |
High-Mass Star Formation - Status and Challenges | Brandl | |
| 16/02 | Imke de Pater (University of California, Berkeley) |
Peering through Jupiter's Clouds with Keck and the VLA | Brandl | |
| 21/02 Tuesday | 11:00 | Reinout van Weeren (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
Exciting Physics with Merging Galaxy Clusters | Kuijken |
| 23/02 | Yuri Levin (Monash University, Melbourne) |
The secret life of magnetars | NOVA/spz | |
| 02/03 | Mario Tafalla (Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Madrid ) |
ALMA observations of protostellar jets. Trying to understand the mechanism of outflow acceleration | Hogerheijde | |
| 09/03 | Sebastiano Cantalupo (ETH Zürich) |
A 3D View of the Dark Universe: Illuminating intergalactic gas with fluorescent Lyman-alpha emission | Schaye | |
| 16/03 | Amélie Saintonge (University College London) |
The role of gas flows in regulating galaxy evolution | Bouwens | |
| 21/03 Tuesday | 11:00 | Ricardo Herbonnet (Leiden Observatory) |
From shapes to science | Henk |
| 23/03 | Lennart Lindegren (Lund University) |
Towards Gaia DR2: The astrometric solution | Brown | |
| 30/03 | Pratika Dayal (Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen) |
The first billion years of galaxy formation in Cold and Warm Dark Matter Cosmologies | Kuijken | |
| 06/04 | Roland Wester (Inst. fuer Ionenphysik, Uni Innsbruck) |
On the coming and going of interstellar negative ions | Linnartz | |
| 13/04 | François Mernier (Leiden Observatory) |
From supernovae to galaxy clusters: Observing the chemical enrichment in the hot intra-cluster medium (PhD colloquium) | Kaastra | |
| 20/04 | Jean-Michel Désert (Universiteit van Amsterdam) |
Characterizing Exoplanets’ Atmospheres to Reveal Planetary Origins, Climate and Habitability | Kenworthy | |
| 04/05 | Stephen Pompea (NAOA) |
Astronomy Public Engagement: Six Essential, But Not Easy Lessons | TBD | |
| 18/05 | Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta, (Dep. of Physics, Sapienza, University of Roma, Italy) |
Compact Massive Objects in galaxies | SPZ | |
| 30/05 Tuesday | Heather Andrews (Leiden Observatory) |
Shining Light on PAHs in Space (PhD colloquium) | Tielens | |
| 01/06 | Paola Caselli (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching) |
Chemistry at the dawn of star formation and links to our Solar System | Hogerheijde | |
| 12/06 Monday | 11:00 | Margot Brouwer (Leiden Observatory) |
From galaxies to the cosmic web: Studying dark matter with gravitational lensing (PhD colloquium) | Kuijken |
| 15/06 | Clément Bonnerot (Leiden Observatory) |
Dynamics and Radiation from Tidal Disruption Events (PhD Colloquium) | Rossi | |
| 22/06 | Stella Offner (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
Towards a Unified Model for Star Formation: Forging Order from Randomness | Hogerheijde | |
| 07/08 Monday | Wolfgang Gieren (Universidad de Concepcion) |
Towards a 1% Hubble constant: a sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids | Lub | |
| 05/09 Tuesday | Jens Hooymaker (Sterrewacht) |
Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres | Snellen | |
| 07/09 | Susanne Pfalzner (MPG) |
Disk destruction processes in young star clusters | SPZ | |
| 14/09 | 15:45 | Michiel Brentjens (Astron) |
Aperture holography with phased array telescopes | Huub |
| 26/09 Tuesday HL211 | Marijke Segers (Leiden Observatory) |
Metals in and around galaxies (PhD colloquium) | Schaye | |
| 28/09 | 15:45 | Dario Izzo (ESA) |
Machine learning for interplanetary trajectories | SPZ |
| 05/10 | Amaury Triaud (University of Birmingham) |
The Plurality of Worlds | Matt | |
| 12/10 | 15:45 | Andrea Ferrara (Scuola Normale Superiore) |
The Interstellar Medium of High Redshift Galaxies | SPZ |
| 19/10 | 15:45 | Maria Lugaro (Konkoly Observatory, Budapest) |
Radionuclides from cosmochronology to habitability | SPZ |
| 02/11 | 15:45 | Carole Jackson (Astron) |
tbd | Huub? |
| 09/11 | Thomas Henning (MPIA) |
From Protoplanetary Disks to Exoplanet Atmospheres | TBD | |
| 23/11 | Hans van Winckel (KU Leuven) |
Protoplanetary discs around evolved binaries | Brandl | |
| 30/11 | 15:45 | Raymond Pierrehumbert (Oxford) |
TBD | TBD |
| 14/12 | Duncan Farrah (Virginia Tech) |
TBD | Brandl |
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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