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)	AXA’s Hayabusa2 mission	zoom
	14/10	16:00	Celine Peroux (ESO)	The Comic Baryon and Metal Cycles	SPZ
	21/10 zoom	11:15	Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR)	Supernova Remnants in Radio Wavelengths (tentitive)	spz
	18/11	16:00	Steven Balbus (Oxford University)	Time-dependent Kerr discs and tidal disruption events	spz
	25/11	11:15	Michael Wise (SRON)	Space, the final frontier	spz
	16/12	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 the talks that start at 11:15 tea and coffee will be served before and a simple lunch after the colloquium. For those talks that start at 13:15 a simple lunch will be served before the colloquium (no thee and coffee afterwards).

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