Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - Annual Report 2007

F. Huisken: Member of the International Advisory Committee
of the “International Symposia on Rarefied Gas Dynamics”
(RGD); Member of the International Advisory Board of
the Romanian Conference Series “romoPto”
K. Jäger:PR-Responsile of the LBT-Board and member of
the LBT PR-Committee
H. Klahr: Member of the MPIA PhD Thesis Advisory
Committee
U. Klaas: Member of the hErsChEl Calibration Steering
Group as representative of the PaCs Instrument Control
Centre Calibration Working Group, Chairman of the
Library Committee
K. K. Knudsen: Member of the Scientific Committee of the
Instrument Center for Danish Astrophysics
M. Kürster: Member of the Organizing Committee for the
Creation of IAU Commission 53, “Extrasolar Planets”
R. Launhardt: Member of the Council of the Ernst Patzer
Stiftung
Ch. Leinert: Member of the VLTI subpanel in the Eso
Science and Technical Committee
R. Lenzen: Member of the MPG Time Allocation Committee
for the 2.2 m telescope at La Silla
A. Pasquali: Member of the Eso panels
H.-W. Rix: Chairman of the Advisory Council of the
Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP); Member
of the Large Binocular Telescope Corporation (LBTC)
Further Activities
In the Advanced Practical Course in Physics at the University
of Heidelberg, Stefan Birkmann, Martin Hennemann
and Jutta Stegmaier were responsible for the experiment
“FP30 – CCD photometry”, Stefan Hippler, Felix
Hormuth, Anders Johansen, and Daniel Meschke were
responsible for FP36 – wavefront analysis with a Shack-
Hartmann sensor”.
The Undergraduate Research Projects (Miniforschungsprojekte)
at the MPIA were organized by Sebastian Wolf,
with the help of numerous colleagues.
Girls’ Day (April 26) at MPIA was organized by Stephan
Birkmann, Eva Meyer, Eva Schinnerer, and Jutta Stegmaier.
Two practical courses for schoolboys and -girls (BOGy)
were organized by Klaus Meisenheimer, with the help of
Nadine Neumayer, Jutta Stegmaier, and many others.
The public lecture series “Astronomy on Sunday Morning”
at MPIA (June 10 – July 29) was organized by Klaus
Jäger, Jakob Staude and Jutta Stegmaier, with the help
of many others.
The “Night in Science” (November 10) at the MPIA organiziert
by Klaus Jäger, Coryn Bailer-Jones, Stephan
Birkmann, Jeroun Bouwman, Helmut Dannerbauer,
Ulrich Grözinger, Martin Hennemann, Tobias Junginger,
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Board and of the Large Binocular Telescope Beteiligungsgesellschaft
(LBTB) Board; Member of the
JWST/nIrsPEC Science Team; Member of the BMBF
Reviewing Committee “Astrophysics and Astroparticle
Physics”; Member of the DFG Fachkollegien; Member
“at large” of the astronEt Infrastructure Roadmap
Working Group
H.-J. Röser: Member of the MPG Time Allocation Committee
for the 2.2 m telescope at La Silla; Member of the MPIA
PhD Thesis Advisory Committe
E. Schinnerer: Proposal Referee for the sPItzEr Space
Telescope (cycle 4); Member of the Erich Patzer Prize
Committee, MPIA
J. Staude: Member of the Jury at the national contest
“Jugend forscht”
F. Van den Bosch: Member of the Science Policy Oversight
Committee for Panstarrs1
S. Wolf: Member of the Selection Committee at the Centro
di Astrofisica de la Universidade de Porto (CauP) for
advanced Postdocs and high-level Researchers; Member
of the Strategic Time Allocation Committee (staC)
at the MPIA; Organizer of the Research Program for
Undergraduate Students (Miniforschung)
F. Walter: Iram Program Committee (chair); NRAO User's
Committee (member); MPIA Strategic Time Allocation
Committee (member)
Oliver Krause, Markus Nielbock, Silvia Scheithauer,
Jutta Stegmaier and many others, as well as by B. Feuerstein
(MPIK) and Holger Mandel (LSW)
In the course of the year, 650 visitors in 26 groups were
given a guided tour through the MPIA (Axel Quetz,
Stephan Birkmann, Cassandra Fallscheer, Patrick Weise,
and others). Klaus Jäger organized several special guided
tours, e.g. for “Baden-Württemberg International, Society
for International Economic and Scientific Cooperation”,
,January 29; Stift Neuburg, February 13; Guests from
subaru Telescope, March 9.; International Max Planck
Research School, August 30; Förderkreis Planetarium
Göttingen, October 28; Advisory Board and Executives
of the Max Planck Society, October 9 (with M Kürster,
T. Herbst, O. Krause, R. Lenzen, and others); Heidelberg
major Bürgermeister Gerner with guests of the Swiss
Rotary Club, November 17.
Ten press releases were published, numerous radio and TV
interviews were given, including to RadioEins/MDR,
ZDF-Heute Journal, Deutsche Welle-TV, and a new flyer
for public outreach was prepared (Klaus Jäger, Axel M.
Quetz, Jakob Staude)
Roland Gredel was Visiting Professor at the Université
Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (July).