Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

Yan Betremieux: “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and
the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG,
Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep.; PSF retreat, MPIA, Oct.
Henrik Beuther: Jenam, St. Petersburg, Russia, 4. – 8.
July (Lecture); Sofia Community days, Stuttgart, Feb./
March, iram large program consortium meeting, Paris,
France, June (Lecture)
Arjan Bik: Star Formation Across Space and Time: Frontier
Science with the LBT and Other Large Telescopes”,
Tucson, Arizona, USA, 31. Mar. – 2. Apr. (Lecture);
“Stellar Clusters & Associations: A RIA Workshop on
Gaia”, in Granada, Spain, 23. – 27. May (Lecture)
Tilman Birnstiel: “Planet Formation and Evolution”,
Göttingen, 14. – 16. Feb. (Lecture); eSo Headquaters,
Garching, Jan. (Lecture); MPIK, Heidelberg, Feb.
(Lecture); ILTS, Sapporo, Japan, Feb. (Lecture);
University of Nagoya, Japan, Feb. (Lecture); University
of Kyoto, Japan, Feb. (Lecture); USM, Munich, May
(Lecture)
Paul Boley: “Resolving the future of astronomy with longbaseline
interferometry”, Socorro, NM, USA, 28. –
31. March (Poster); “Physics of Space: 40 th Scientific
Conference for Students” Kourovka, Russia, 31. Jan. – 4.
Feb. (Lecture)
Mickaël Bonnefoy: Conference Exploring Strange New
Worlds, Flagstaff, USA, 1. – 6. May (Poster)
Mauricio Cisternas: “2011. coSmoS Team meeting”, Zürich,
Schweiz, 15. June (Lecture); “Galaxy Mergers in an
Evolving Universe” Hualien, Taiwan, 23. Oct. (Lecture)
Michelle Collins: The Third Subaru International
Conference on Galactic Archaeology, Shuzenji, Japan,
1. – 4. Nov. (Poster)
Blair Conn: Assembling the puzzle of the Milky Way, Le
Grand-Bornand France, 17. – 22. Apr. (Poster); “Surveys
& Simulation – The Real and the Virtual Universe”,
Annual Meeting of the AG, Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep.
(Lecture); The 3 rd Subaru Annual Conference, Shuzenji,
Japan, 1. – 4. Nov. (Poster)
Albert Conrad: Adaptive Optics Real-time Control System
Workshop, Durham, UK, 13. – 14. Apr. (Lecture);
Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes II
(AO4ELT2), Victoria, BC, Canada, 25. – 30. Sep.
(Poster); European Planetary Science Congress and
the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American
Astronomical Society (EPSC-DPS) Joint meeting,
Nantes, France, 3. – 7. Oct. (Poster)
Neil Crighton: “The Cosmic Odyssey of Baryons: accreting,
outflowing and hiding” Conference, Marseille,
France, 20. – 24. June (Poster)
Elisabete da Cunha: 3D-HST meeting, Leiden, The
Netherlands, 4. March (Lecture); 3D-HST meeting, Yale,
US, 9. – 12. May (Lecture); “Multiwavelength Views of
the ISM in High-Redshift Galaxies”, eSo Conference,
Santiago, Chile, 27. – 30. June (Lecture); “The Spectral
Energy Distribution of Galaxies”, IAU Symposium,
Preston, UK, 5. – 9. Sep. (Lecture); 3D-HST meeting,
Leiden, The Netherlands, 10. – 14. Oct. (Lecture); MPIA
Conferences, Scientific, and Popular Talks 109
Galaxies & Cosmology department retreat, Schloss
Engers, 17. – 19. Oct. (Lecture); “Watching Galaxies
Grow Up”, Ringberg Workshop, Ringberg Castle, 5. – 9.
Dec.
Roberto Decarli: Bridging electromagnetic astrophysics
and cosmology with gravitational waves, Milano,
Italy, 28. – 30. March (Lecture); Narrow line Seyfert 1.
Galaxies and their place in the Universe, Milano, Italy,
4. – 6. Apr. (Lecture); Pan-StarrS Consortium meeting,
Cambridge, USA, 18. – 21. May; “Single and dual black
holes in galaxies”, Ann Arbour, USA, 22. – 25. Aug.
(Lecture)
Karsten Dittrich: HGSFP Winter School, Obergurgl,
Österreich, 16. – 20. Jan. (Poster); Plant Formation and
Evolution, Göttingen, 14. – 16. Feb. (Poster); Saas Fee
Advanced Course, Villars-sur-Ollon, Schweiz, 3. – 9.
Apr.; Baroclinic Discs, Ringberg Castle, 14. – 18. June
(Lecture); “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and
the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG,
Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep.; SPP Treffen, Mainz, 17. – 19.
Oct. (Lecture)
Markus Feldt: “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and
the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG,
Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep. (Lecture)
Wolfgang Gässler: arGoS consortium meeting, OAA,
Florence, Italy, 22. – 23. March (Lecture); arGoS consortium
meeting, LBTO, Tucson, USA, 11. – 12. Aug.
(Lecture); arGoS meeting on Tip/Tilt sensor, MPIA,
Heidelberg, 12. – 13. Sep.; arGoS software meeting,
MPE, Garching, 14. – 16. Nov; arGoS software meeting,
OAA, Florence, Italy, 12. – 14. Dec.
Mario Gennaro: Stellar Clusters & Association – A RIA
workshop on Gaia, Granada, Spain, May (Lecture)
Bertrand Goldman: “Surveys & Simulation – The Real
and the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG,
Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep. (Poster, Lecture)
Brent Groves: “DF-SPP: Physics of the Interstellar
Medium”, Freising, 2. – 3. March (Poster); “herScheL
and the Characteristics of Dust in Galaxies”, Lorentz
Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands, 28. Feb. – 4. March
(Lecture); “KinGfiSh Team meeting, IAP, Paris, France,
3. – 5. July (Lecture); “IAU Symp. 284: The Spectral
Energy Distribution of Galaxies”, UCLan, Preston, UK,
5. – 9. Sep. (Lecture)
Siddharth Hegde: “Extrasolar Planets: Towards
Comparative Planetology beyond the Solar System”,
483. Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef,
5. – 8. June; Characterizing Exoplanet – From Formation
to Atmospheres”, 6 th Heidelberg Summer School “,
Heidelberg, 1. – 5. Aug.; “Characterizing Extrasolar
Planet – from Giant to Rocky Planets”, Annual Meeting
of the AG, Heidelberg, 19. – 24. Sep. (Poster); “From
the Early Universe to the Evolution of Life”, German-
Japan Round Table Conference, Heidelberg, 1. – 3. Dec.
(Poster); “Sao Paulo Advanced School of Astrobiology
(SpaSa)”, Summer School, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 11. – 20.
Dec. (Poster)