Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - Annual Report 2007

150 Conferences
Anna Pasquali: ASU in Tempe/Arizona (invited talk)
Paola Re Fiorentin: University of Ljubljana, Dept. Mathematics
and Physics, June 6 (invited lecture)
Dominik A. Riechers: 80 th Annual Scientific Meeting of
the Astronomische Gesellschaft: “Cosmic Matter”,
Würzburg, September 24 – 29 (invited talk); Conference
“Galaxy and Black Hole Evolution: Towards a Unified
View”, Tucson, USA, November 28 – 30 (invited talk)
Hans-Walter Rix: Conference “Dynamics of Galaxies”, St.
Petersburg, August 6 – 9 (invited talk); “Spectroscopy of
Lensed Arcs”, nIrsPEC IST Meeting, Lyon, Frankreich,
November 19 – 20 (invited talk)
Florian Rodler: Institute for Astronomy, University of
Vienna, January 30 (invited lecture)
Marc Schartmann: “The Impact of AGN feedback on galaxy
formation: theoretical modelling and observational signatures”,
Ringberg Castle, May 20 – 26 (invited talk)
Eva Schinnerer: Workshop “The Impact of AGN Feedback
on Galaxy Formation”, Ringberg (invited talk)
Dmitri A. Semenov: ITA seminar, January 17, Heidelberg
(talk); Ledien Observatory, December 6, (talk)
Kester W. Smith: 10 th Italian Korean meeting on relativistic
Astrophysics, Pescara, June 25 – 30 (invited talk)
Jürgen Steinacker: Conference “New Trends in Radiation
Hydrodynamics”, Stockholm, May 10 (invited talk);
Workshop “Tracing Dust in Spiral Galaxies: radiative
transfer studies in the dawn of a new generation of
observing facilities”, Ghent, May 14 (invited talk);
Eso Workshop on 12 Questions on Star and Massive
Star Cluster Formation, Garching, July 4 (invited talk);
Conference “Massive Star Formation: Observations
Lecture Series
Hubert Klahr: VLTI Summerschool “On the frInGE”,
Porto, May 28 – June 8
Martin Kürster: “Extrasolar Planets: Observations”, Split
International Winter School of Astrophysics (sI wa ), Split
(Croatia), 19-24 February
Popular Talks
Helmut Dannerbauer: “Sternentstehung im jungen Universum”,
Lecture Series “Astronomy in the Afternoon”,
Planetarium Mannheim, November 20
Cornelis Dullemond: “Geburtsstätten der Planeten: Gas-
und Staubscheiben um junge Sterne”, MPIA Lecture
Series “Astronomy on Sunday Morning”, June 10
Roland Gredel: “Riesenteleskope – Neue Giganten für den
Blick ins All”, MPIA Lecture Series “Astronomy on
Sunday Morning”, July 22
Maiken Gustaffson: “Formation of Stars and Planets”,
Fysikshow Workshop for High School students, Aarhus
University, Aarhus, Denmark
confront Theory”, Heidelberg, 11 September (invited
talk); Grand Challenge Problems in Computational
Astrophysics Reunion Conference II, Lake Arrowhead,
13 December (invited talk)
Frank Van den Bosch: Kavli Institute for Cosmological
Physics, February 7 (colloquium); Center for Cosmology
and Particle Physics, NYU, New York, February 9
(colloquium); Chicago Conference “Clusters of
Galaxies as Cosmological Probes”, Aspen Center for
Physics, February 12 – 16 (invited talk); Observatoire
Strassbourg, March 23 (colloquium); GIf Workshop
“Galaxy Formation”, Jerusalem & Haifa, Israel, April
12 – 15 (invited talk); Workshop “Modeling Galaxy
Clustering” Aspen Center for Physics, June 11 – 29
(invited talk); Aspen Center for Physics, Colorado,
June 28 (colloquium); Conference “Galaxy Growth in a
Dark Universe”, Heidelberg July 16 – 20 (invited talk);
Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, November 2 (seminar)
Fabian Walter: Cambridge Colloquium, February (invited
talk); NRAO 50 th Anniversary, Charlottesville, June
(invited talk); “Galaxies in the Local Universe”, Sydney,
July (invited talk); “Gas Accretion and Star Formation in
Galaxies' MPA/Eso, Garching, September (invited talk)
Sebastian Wolf: Technical University Berlin (Colloquium);
Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics
(asIaa), Taiwan (Colloquium); Landessternwarte Heidelberg
(Colloquium); Astronomisches Recheninstitut,
Heidelberg (Colloquium); University of Heidelberg,
Faculty of Physics (Habilitationsvortrag); University
Kiel (Colloquium)
Sebastian Wolf: Summer School “Circumstellar Disks
and Planets” in the frame of the EU Marie Curie
Research Training Network “On the frInGE”, Porto,
June (Co-Organization and Teaching); Seminar Series on
“Extrasolar Planets”, International Academy VIII of the
“Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”, Rot an der Rot,
July (Co-Organization and Teaching)
Boris Häußler: “Vom Urknall bis heute”, Planetarium
Mannheim, May 22
Thomas Henning: “Extrasolare Planetensysteme: Die
Entdeckung neuer Welten” MPIA Lecture Series
“Astronomy on Sunday Morning”, July 8
Stefan Hippler: “Warum funkeln die Sterne? – Astronomie mit
den modernsten Teleskopen der Welt.”, Gießen University,
February 17; talk at the Planetarium Mannheim, February
23; Rotary Club, Mosbach, August 6; Robert-Mayer-
Volks- und Schulsternwarte Heilbronn, December 14
Klaus Jäger: “Galaxien und Terabytes – Optische Astronomie
im Zeitalter moderner Großteleskope”, BOGy, MPIA,