Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Colloquia

2012
Title Speaker Date
Feedback from Accreting Black Holes: The Importance of Momentum Driving Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton 17 May, 2012
The disks of dawn: setting the stage for the formation of planetary systems Leonardo Testi (ESO) 10 May, 2012
Chaos, order and triggered star formation due to AGN feedback in the Milky Way and quasars Sergei Nayakshin, Leicester 3 May, 2012
The origin of OB runaways and the Astronomical Multipurpose Software Environment Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden) 15 March, 2012
Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars Professor Julianne Dalcanton 8 March, 2012
Eddington Lecture: Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington 8 March, 2012
Constraints on the neutron star EoS and black hole formation from the Galactic Bulge Survey Peter Jonker, SRON, Netherlands 1 March, 2012
Galaxy growth in 1 and 2D: 1st results from the CALIFA survey Roberto Cid Fernandes (UFSC, Brazil & IAA, Spain) 23 February, 2012
The ISM of high redshift galaxies Patrick Petitjean, IAP 16 February, 2012
Massive Stars - From the VLT to the E-ELT Chris Evans (ATC, Edinburgh) 9 February, 2012
Massive Molecular Outflows and Negative Feedback in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies Eckhard Sturm, MPE 2 February, 2012
A molecular deep field Chris Carilli, NRAO 26 January, 2012
From the first stars to the first galaxies Michele Trenti, KICC 19 January, 2012
2011
Title Speaker Date
Tuning stellar cores from gravity modes detected in CoRoT and Kepler data of various types of stars Conny Aerts, Leuven 1 December, 2011
Decoding black hole variability Phil Uttley (University of Southampton, University of Amsterdam) 24 November, 2011
Star clusters: links between stellar and galactic astrophysics Søren S. Larsen, Utrecht University 17 November, 2011
Sackler Lecture, Present and Future Far Infrared Extragalactic Astronomy: Herschel and Beyond Matt Griffin, Cardiff University 3 November, 2011
Young star clusters near the Galactic centre - their orbital motion and mysterious formation Andrea Stolte, Bonn 27 October, 2011
Core-collapse supernovae: progenitors and dust production Rubina Kotak, Queen's University Belfast 20 October, 2011
Mapping the Universe with Lensing and Spectroscopic Redshift Surveys Jean-Paul Kneib, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille 13 October, 2011
The most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way and its dwarf galaxy satellites John Norris, The Australian National University 6 October, 2011
Finding An Unexpected Order to Galaxy Structure Dennis Zaritsky (University of Arizona) 16 June, 2011
Shocking news from galaxy cluster outskirts Marcus Brueggen, Jacobs University Bremen 9 June, 2011
Tracing the Growth of Black Holes in the Distant Universe Dave Alexander, Durham 2 June, 2011
The impact of, and evidence for, stellar migration in disk galaxies Victor Debattista, University of Central Lancashire 26 May, 2011
Group behavior: The case of galaxies Marcella Carollo, Zurich ETH 19 May, 2011
There will be no Colloquium on this date Speaker to be confirmed 12 May, 2011
A Tale of Two Epochs: Galaxy Formation at z=6 and Today Ben Oppenheimer, Leiden 5 May, 2011
The GOODS-Herschel view on Main Sequence galaxies, compact starbursts and buried AGNs David Elbaz, CEA Saclay, Service d'Astrophysique 28 April, 2011
Star Formation: Now and Then Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg ITA 17 March, 2011