STRW local: Colloquia

Colloquia

This week's colloquia are highlighted in red.

LunchDateTimeSpeakerTitleHost
 02/09
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11:15
Jason Hessels
(UvA/ASTRON)
 Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time SPZ
 09/09
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11:15
Silvia Toonen
(UvA)
 Stellar interactions & transients spz
 20/09
Monday
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Edwin Bergin
(univ michigan)
 diversity and excellence hiring practices Hodge
 23/09
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11:15
Sergei Klioner
(Lohrmann Observatory, TU Dresden)
 The acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry
 30/09
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14:00
Priyamvada Natarajan
(Yale)
 DISENTANGLING NATURE AND NURTURE: TRACING THE ORIGIN OF SEED BLACK HOLES spz
 07/10
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11:15
Elisabeth Tasker
(JAXA)
 JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission: the search for the start of habitability zoom
 14/10
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11:15
Celine Peroux
(ESO)
 The Comic Baryon and Metal Cycles SPZ
 21/10
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11:15
Natasha Hurley-Walker
(ICRAR)
 An ultra-long period magnetar with periodic radio emission spz
 04/11
16:00
Harish Vedantham
(Kapteyn institute/ASTRON)
 Radio flashes from plasma storms around exoplanets spz
 18/11
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11:15
Steven Balbus
(Oxford University)
 Time-dependent Kerr discs and tidal disruption events spz
 02/12
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Abel Mendez
(University of Puerto Rico)
 Modeling Planetary Habitability spz
 09/12
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Anthony Mezzacappa
(Joined Institute for Computational Science)
 Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Assessing Progress, Future Challenges spz
 27/0111:15
Michael Wise
(SRON)
 Space, the final frontier spz
 24/0216:15
Jacques Kluska
(University of Leuven)
 Disks around evolved binaries: do they form second-generation planets? SPZ
 03/0316:16
Peter H Johansson
(Helsinki University)
 Simulating black hole dynamics and gravitational wave emission in galaxy formation simulations spz
 10/0316:15
Claudia Maraston
(Portsmouth)
 Evolutionary population synthesis models SPZ
 24/0311:15
Michael Lewis
(British Museum)
 The Significance of Halley's Comet in the Bayeux Tapestry
 07/0411:00
Heather Cegla
(Warwich University)
 Harnessing the power of stars to unveil planets and our place in the cosmos spz
 14/04
de sitter		16:00
Masaru Shibata
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
 Neutron-star mergers, nucleosynthesis, and electromagnetic counterparts spz
 19/0516:00
Heino Falcke
(RU)
 Studying nearby supermassive black holes at the event horizon scale spz

Colloquia take place in the de Sitter room on the ground floor of the Oort Building, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, and start at 13:15 sharp. For talks that start at 11:15, tea and coffee will be served before, and a simple lunch after the colloquium. For talks that start at 13:15, a simple lunch will be served before the colloquium (no tea or coffee afterwards).

For questions and/or suggestions concerning the colloquium series, please contact Simon Portegies Zwart (e-mail ) and Ian Roberts (e-mail )