Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - Annual Report 2007

146 Conferences
StageS workshop, MPIA, November 5 – 7 (Eric Bell and
Anna Gallazzi)
Retreat of the Galaxies and Cosmology Department, Schloss
Ringberg, December 3 – 6 (Jelte de Jong)
External retreat of the Scientific Advisory Committee,
Edesheim, Dezember 10 – 11 (Klaus Jäger)
Other Conferences Organized:
Coryn Bailer-Jones: Second Meeting of the gaia Data
Processing and Analysis Consortium Coordination
Unit 8 (Astrophysical Parameters), Uppsala, June 14 – 15
(Chair); Third meeting of the gaia Data Processing and
Analysis Consortium Coordination Unit 8 (Astrophysical
Parameters), Athens, December 13 – 14 (Chair)
Eric Bell: “A New Zeal for Old Galaxies”, New Zealand,
March (SOC), “Formation and Evolution of Galaxy
Disks”, Rome, October 1 – 5 (SOC)
Conferences and Meetings Attended, Scientific Talks and Poster Presentations
M. Arnold: International Conference on Molecules in Space
& Laboratory, Paris, May 14 – 18 (poster)
Coryn Bailer-Jones: 2 nd Meeting of the gaia Data
Processing and and Analysis Consortium Executive meeting,
Brussels, January 26 – 27; “Data analysis, machine
learning and applications” conference, Freiburg, March
7 – 9 (talk); 3 rd meeting of the gaia Data Processing and
Analysis Consortium Executive meeting, Heidelberg,
May 17 – 18; “Astronomical Data Analysis Software and
Systems” conference, London, September 23 – 26 (talk,
three posters); 4 th meeting of the gaia Data Processing
and and Analysis Consortium Executive meeting, Torino,
October 1 – 2
Eric Bell: German-Israeli Foundation Network on Galaxies
workshop, 11 – 16 April; StageS collaboration meetings,
Nottingham, June 18 – 20, MPIA, November 5 – 7,
PanStarrS collaboration meeting, Baltimore, July 30 –
Aug 2
Stephan Birkmann: Conference “Massive Star Formation”,
September 10 – 14, MPIA, Heidelberg; JWST Partner
Workshop, June 11 – 12, Dublin; SPIE Optics and Photonics,
San Diego, California, August 26 – 30 (talk)
Kris Blindert: “Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Clusters
of Galaxies: Six Years Later” Sesto, Italy, 25 – 29 June
(talk); “Galaxy Growth in a Dark Universe” Heidelberg,
July 16 – 20 (talk)
Steve Boudreault: Annual Meeting of the Astronomical
Society, Würzburg, September 24 – 28 (Poster)
Jeroen Bouwman: pacS Consortium Meeting no. 29, MPE,
Garching, Jan 19; PSF group Workshop, Dornburg/
Jena, Oct 14 – 17 (talk); 5 th Planet Formation Workshop,
Braunschweig, September 19-21 (talk); pacS Consortium
Meeting no. 31, MPE, Garching, Germany, Nov 7; Workshop
“Environnement des systemes stellaires jeunes”,
UJF, Grenoble, December 5 (talk)
Thomas Henning: Darwin Meeting, Orsay, December
6–7
Ralf Launhardt: IAU Symposium 248 “A Giant Step:
from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry”, Shanghai,
15 – 19 (SOC member)
Anders Johansen coorganised the Pencil Code User Meeting
2007 in Stockholm, August 14 – 17
Eva Schinnerer: 4 th Spitzer Science Conference “The
Evolving ISM in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies”
Jürgen Steinacker: SOC member of the eSo workshop n. 12
“Questions on Star and Massive Star Cluster Formation”,
Garching, July 3 – 6
Fabian Walter: splinter meeting “The Evolution of the ISM
through Cosmic Times” at the Annual Meeting of the
AG, Würzburg, September 24 – 28
José Caballero: II. Workshop AstroCAM, JÛvenes astrofÌsicos
de la Comunidad de Madrid, Villaviciosa de OdÛn,
Madrid, September 19 – 21 (Poster)
Andres Carmona Gonzalez: The 24 th . Jerusalem Winter
School in Theoretical Physics: The Lives of Low-mass
Stars and their Planetary Systems, Jerusalem, December
27 – January 5 (talk); VLTI Summer School on Circum-
stellar Discs and Planets at Very High Angular Resolution,
Porto, May 28 – June 8 (poster); IAU Symposium 249
“Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics”,
Suzhou, China October 22 – 26 (poster)
Helmut Dannerbauer: Conference: “The origin of galaxies:
exploring galaxy evolution with the new generation
of infrared-millimetre facilities”, Obergurgl, Germany,
March 24 – 29 (talk): pacS Consortium Meeting no. 30,
IFSI, Frascati, Italy, Jul 6 – 7; Conference: “From iraS to
HerScHel / planck: Cosmology with infrared and submillimetre
surveys”, London, July 9 – 11; Conference:
“Galaxy Growth in a Dark Universe”, Heidelberg, July
16 – 20 (poster); AG Tagung, Würzburg, September
24 – 28 (poster); Miri European Consortium Meeting
CD no. 10, MPIA, Heidelberg, October 24 – 26
Jelte de Jong: SDSS collaboration meeting, Philadelphia,
March 29 – April 1 (talk); Conference “The Milky Way
Halo – Stars and Gas”, Bonn, May 29 – June 2 (talk)
Cornelis Dullemond: Conference in Chamonix on Structure
formation in the universe, May (talk); Jahrestagung der As-
tronomischen gesellschaft, Würzburg, September; Planet
Formation Workshop, September (talk)
Sebastian Egner: Workshop “Science with Laser Guide
Stars”, October 28 – November 2, Ringberg Castle (talk);
Seeing Symposium, March 22, Mauna Kea Weather
Center, Kona, Hawaii (poster)
Christian Fendt: IAU Symposium 243, “Star-Disk Interaction
in Young Stars”, Grenoble, May; Workshop: “MHD