Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

100 Staff / Departments
14.–18. Nov.; Adrian Glauser, AEI, 14.–18. Nov.; Yixiong
Wang, Eso, 20.–22. Nov.; A. Segura, Harvard Cfa, 20.–25.
Nov.; Ben Moster, 21.–23. Nov.; Camilla Pacifici, ETH,
21.–25. Nov.; Jose M. Ibanez, Univ. California, 21.–25.
Nov.; Sijme-J. Paardekooper, Caltech, 21.–26. Nov.;
Matilde Fernandez, Univ. Hertfordshire, 25. Nov.; Simone
Weinmann, 25.–26. Nov.; Chris Brook, 27. Nov.–1. Dec.;
John Tobin, 27. Nov.–3. Dec.; Michele Fumagalli, 6.–9.
Dec.; Pierre Cox, 7.–8. Dec.; Felicitas Mokler, 8.–16. Dec.;
Mark Westmoquette, 12.–13. Dec.; Sijacki Debora, 14.
Dec.; Peter Hofner, 14.–16. Dec.; Adrian Glauser, 14.–16.
Dec.; Steve Beckwith, 14.–18. Dec.; Dominik Richers,
18.–21. Dec.; Elias Brinks, 18.–23. Dec.
Short-term Scholarships: Antonuccio (14.6. until 27.7.),
Burtscher (1.6. until 31.12.), Dalcanton (23.6. until 21.7.),
El-Kork (27.6. until 06.8.), Fedele (3.7. until 30.7.), Jin
(1.12.), Kostogryz, Main Astronomical Observatory of NAS
of Ukraine (1.8. until 30.9.), Lang (2.7. until 02.8.), Natta
Departments
Department: Planet and Star Formation
Director: Thomas Henning
Infrared Space Astronomy: Oliver Krause, Zoltan Balog,
Marc-André Besel, Thomas Blümchen, Jeroen Bouwman,
Örs Hunor Detre, Ulrich Grözinger, Rory Holmes, Ulrich
Klaas, Hendrik Linz, Friedrich Müller, Markus Nielbock,
Jan Pitann, Silvia Scheithauer, Anika Schmiedeke, Jürgen
Schreiber, Amy Stutz
Star Formation: Henrik Beuther, Angela Adamo, Tobias
Albertsson, Miriam Benisty, Adrianus Bik, Paul Boley,
Miwa Egner (parental leave), Min Fang, Markus Feldt,
Siyi Feng, Mario Gennaro, Thomas Gerner, Dimtrios
Gouliermis, Katharine Johnston, Jouni Kainulainen,
Ralf Launhardt, Roger Lee, Huabai Li, Rainer Lenzen,
Nils Lippok, Maria Elena Manjavacas Martinez, Johan
Olofsson, Sarah Ragan, Boyke Rochau, Markus Schmalzl,
Dmitri Semenov, Aurora Sicilia Aguilar, Bernhard Sturm,
Jochen Tackenberg, Roy van Boekel, Antonin Vasyunin,
Tatiana Vasyunina, Wei Wang, Yuan Wang, Miaomiao
Zhang, Svitlana Zhukovska
Brown Dwarfs/Exoplanets: Reinhard Mundt, Carolina
Bergfors, Beth Biller, Mickaël Bonnefoy, Wolfgang
Brandner, Gael Chauvin, Guo Chen, Michaela Döllinger,
Bertrand Goldmann, Felix Hormuth, Sarah Kendrew,
Rainer Köhler, Natalia Kudryavtseva, Luigi Mancini,
Maren Mohler, Victoria Rodriguez Ledesma, Tim Schulze-
Hartung, Johny Setiawan, Zhao Sun, Christian Thalmann,
Matthias Zechmeister, Neil Zimmerman
(15.6. until 15.7.), Panic (15.5. until 30.6.), Pavlyuchenkov
(15.4. until 14.5.), Richards (1.8. until 31.8.), Roccatagliata
(3.7. until 30.7.), Segura (1.7. until 31.7.), Simcoe (27.6.
until 29.7.), Smith (6.6. until 04.8.), Toth (1.7. until 31.8.),
Walmsley (15.6. until 15.7.), Wang Wei (1.9. until 30.9.),
Weaver (1.1. until 04.2.), Weisz (28.6. until 26.7.)
Due our regular international meetings and workshops further
guests visited the institute, not listed here individually.
Calar Alto Observatory Almeria, Spain
Astronomy Coordination: Thiele
Telescope Technology and Data Processing: W. Müller
Theory (SP): Hubertus Klahr, Hassnat Ahmad, Bennoit
Commerçon, Karsten Dittrich, Natalia Dziourkevitch, Mario
Flock, Mykola Malygin, Christoph Mordasini, Ludovic
Petitdemange, Nathalie Raettig, Ana Uribe
Laboratory Astrophysics: Friedrich Huisken, Abel Brieva,
Yvain Carpentier, Cornelia Jäger, Sergey Krasnokutskiy,
Karsten Potrick, Gael Rouillé, Toulou Sabri, Torsten
Schmidt, Mathias Steglich
Frontiers of Interferometry in Germany (FrInGe): Thomas
Henning, Uwe Graser, Rainer Köhler, Ralf Launhardt, Roy
van Boekel
Adaptive Optics: Wolfgang Brandner, Guo Chen, Casey
Dean, Markus Feldt, Dimitrios Gouliermis, Stefan Hippler,
Felix Hormuth, Natalia Kudryavtseva, Christian Thalmann,
Pengqian Yang
MPG Junior Research Group: Cornelis Dullemond, Tilmann
Birnstiel, Martin Ilgner, Christian Ormel, Paola Pinilla,
Zsolt Sandor, Fredrik Windmark, Andras Zsom
MPG Junior Research Group: Thomas Robitaille
MPG Minerva Group: Cristina Afonso, Balasz Csak,
Maximiliano Moyano, Nikolai Nikolov
Emmy-Noether-Group: “Charakterisierung extrasolarer
Planeten”: Lisa Kaltenegger, Yan Yves Betremieux, Yamila
Miguel, Siddarth Hegde, Hiroyuki Kurokawa