Colloquia

This week's colloquia are highlighted in red.

Lunch	Date	Time	Speaker	Title	Host
	02/09 zoom	11:15	Jason Hessels (UvA/ASTRON)	Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time	SPZ
	09/09 zoom	11:15	Silvia Toonen (UvA)	Stellar interactions & transients	spz
	20/09 Monday zoom	14:00	Edwin Bergin (univ michigan)	diversity and excellence hiring practices	Hodge
	23/09 zoom	11:15	Sergei Klioner (Lohrmann Observatory, TU Dresden)	The acceleration of the Solar System from Gaia astrometry
	30/09 zoom	14:00	Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale)	DISENTANGLING NATURE AND NURTURE: TRACING THE ORIGIN OF SEED BLACK HOLES	spz
	07/10 zoom	11:15	Elisabeth Tasker (JAXA)	JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission: the search for the start of habitability	zoom
	14/10 zoom	11:15	Celine Peroux (ESO)	The Comic Baryon and Metal Cycles	SPZ
	21/10 zoom	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 zoom	11:15	Steven Balbus (Oxford University)	Time-dependent Kerr discs and tidal disruption events	spz
	02/12 zoom	11:15	Abel Mendez (University of Puerto Rico)	Modeling Planetary Habitability	spz
	09/12 zoom	16:00	Anthony Mezzacappa (Joined Institute for Computational Science)	Core Collapse Supernova Modeling: Assessing Progress, Future Challenges	spz
	16/12 zoom	11:00	Floris van der Tak (RUG)	The carbon footprint of astronomy research in the Netherlands	spz
	27/01	11:15	Michael Wise (SRON)	Space, the final frontier	spz
	24/02	16:15	Jacques Kluska (University of Leuven)	Disks around evolved binaries: do they form second-generation planets?	SPZ
	03/03	16:16	Peter H Johansson (Helsinki University)	Simulating black hole dynamics and gravitational wave emission in galaxy formation simulations	spz
	10/03	16:15	Claudia Maraston (Portsmouth)	Evolutionary population synthesis models	SPZ
	24/03	11:15	Michael Lewis (British Museum)	The Significance of Halley's Comet in the Bayeux Tapestry
	07/04	11:00	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
	19/05	16:00	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 )