Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

110 Conferences, Scientific, and Popular Talks
Thomas Henning: “Surveys & Simulation – The Real
and the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG,
Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep. (Lecture); PS1. Consortium
meeting, Harvard, USA, 16. – 20. May; hopS Consortium
meeting, Rochester, USA, 18. May; diGit Consortium
meeting, Pasadena, USA, 11. – 15. July
Stefan Hippler: Gravity Consortium meeting, eSo
Garching, 31. Mar. – 1. Apr.; metiS Team meeting: MPE
Garching, 27. – 29. June; Ten years of VLTI: From First
frinGes to Core Science, Conference, eSo Garching,
24. – 27. Oct. (Poster)
Jacqueline A. Hodge: German aLma Early Science
Community Day, Bonn, 16. – 17. Feb.; Multiwavelength
Views of the ISM in High-Redshift Galaxies, Santiago,
Chile, 27. – 30. June (Lecture); Galaxy Mergers in an
Evolving Universe, Hualien, Taiwan, 23. – 28. Oct.
(Lecture)
Rory Holmes: SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, USA,
12. – 14. Aug. (Poster)
Annie Hughes: “MW2011. The Milky Way In The
herScheL Era: Towards A Galaxy-Scale View Of The
Star Formation Life-Cycle”, Rome, Italy, 19. – 23. Sep.
(Lecture and Poster); “Formation and Development of
Molecular Cloud – prospects for high resolution spectroscopy
with CCAT”, Cologne, 5. – 7. Oct. (Poster)
Cornelia Jäger: “Formation of GemS from interstellar silicate
dust.” 2 nd Annual meeting of the SPP 1385, Mainz, 17. –
19. Oct. (Lecture); “UV-VIS spectroscopy of astrophysically
relevant PAHs”, 23 nd International Symposium on
Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (ISPAC23), Münster,
September 4. – 8. Sep. (Poster)
Klaus Jäger: Meeting of the Rat Deutscher Sternwarten
(RDS), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik,
Garching, 23. March, meeting of the LBT-associated company
(LBTB), Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie,
Bonn, 12. Apr.; Naturejobs Career Expo, European
Molecular Laboratory (EMBL), (Lecture), Advanced
Training Centre, Heidelberg, 9. May; Meeting of the
scientific council of the “International Summer Science
School Heidelberg”, Palais Graimberg, Heidelberg, 26.
May; Meeting of the Rat Deutscher Sternwarten (RDS),
Heidelberg University, 19. Sep.; “Surveys & Simulation
– The Real and the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of
the AG, Heidelberg, 19. – 24. Sep.; Meeting of the scientific
council of the “International Summer Science School
Heidelberg”, Palais Graimberg, Heidelberg, 13. Oct.; Visit
of the German-Japan Round Table at the MPIA/HdA,
Heidelberg, 1. Dec. (Lecture).
Katharine G. Johnston: German aLma Early Science
Community Day, Bonn, 16. – 17. Feb.; Formation and
Development of Molecular Cloud – prospects for high
resolution spectroscopy with CCAT, Cologne University,
5. – 7. Oct.
Jouni Kainulainen: The Milky Way in the herScheL Era,
Rome, Italy, 19. – 23. Sep. (Lecture and Poster)
Vesselina Kalinova: 1 st project meeting of caLifa survey,
Almeria, Spain, Apr. (Lecture); Conference Galaxy evo-
lution, Durham University, UK, July (Poster); Galaxy
coffee, MPIA Heidelberg, Aug. (Lecture); Winter School
of Astrophysics “Secular Evolution of Galaxies”, Puerto
de La Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, 14. – 25. Nov. (Poster); 2 nd
project meeting of caLifa survey, La Laguna, Tenerife,
Spain, 29. Nov. – 2. Dec. (Lecture)
Lisa Kaltenegger: Lecture Board of Trustees, 11. Oct.;
EChO meeting, Paris, France, Apr.; metiS meeting, MPE,
Garching, June; teSS meeting, MIT, Boston, USA, Oct.;
GMT meeting, CfA, Boston, USA, Oct.
Alexander Karim: annual coSmoS collaboration meeting,
ETH Zürich, 17. June (Lecture); Public outreach splinter
of the annual meeting of the AG, Heidelberg, 22. Sep.
(Lecture); High redshift star formation splinter of the annual
meeting of the AG, Heidelberg, 21. Sep. (Lecture)
Sarah Kendrew: Gravity science meeting, Paris, France,
3. – 4. Jan; SciFoo conference, Googleplex, Mountain
View, California, USA, 12. – 14. Aug. (invitation-only);
The multi-wavelength view of the Galactic Centre workshop,
Heidelberg, 17. – 20. Oct.
Ulrich Klaas: pacS ICC meeting #37, Garching, 8. – 10.
Feb.
Hubert Klahr: Transport Processes and Accretion in YSO’s,
Ringberg Castle, 7. – 11. Feb. (Lecture)
Rainer Köhler: “Astronomy with Long-Baseline Inter ferome
try”, Socorro, New Mexico, USA, 28. – 31. March
(Poster); “Surveys & Simulations – The Real and
the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG,
Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep. (Poster); “Formation and
Early Evolution of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown
Dwarfs”, eSo Garching, 11. – 14. Oct. (Poster)
Serge A. Krasnokutski: “Reactions of Si atoms and clusters
in helium nanodroplets”, 482 nd Wilhelm and Else
Heraeus Seminar: Helium Nanodroplet – Confinement
for Cold Molecules and Cold Chemistry, Bad Honnef,
30. May – 1. June (Poster)
Oliver Krause: Sofia Community day, University Stuttgart,
Feb.; Conference Exploring Strange New Worlds,
Flagstaff, USA, May (Poster); Binary Pathways to type
Ia Supernova explosions – IAU Symposium 281: Padua,
Italy, June (Poster);
The Third Subaru International Conference on Galactic
Archaeology, Shuzenji, Japan, Nov. (Lecture)
Natalia Kudryavtseva: Paris Gravity science team meeting,
Paris, France, Feb. (Lecture); “Ten years of VLTI”,
Garching Conference, Garchin, Oct. (Poster)
Martin Kürster: Scientific Project Management, Max Planck
House Heidelberg, 14. Feb. (with M. Perryman)
Ralf Launhardt: The Milky Way in the herScheL Era,
Rome, Italy, 19. – 23. Sep. (Poster)
Roger Lee: “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and
the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG,
Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep.
Christian Leipski: New Horizons for High Redshift,
Cambridge, UK, 25. – 29. July (Attendee); The Central
Kiloparsec in Galactic Nuclei, Bad Honnef, 29. Aug. – 2.
Sep. (Lecture)