Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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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 evolution, 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)
Dietrich Lemke: “400 Jahre Sternwarten in Heidelberg und der Kurpfalz – Vom Universitätsgarten in der Plöck zum Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie auf dem Königstuhl”, Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Workshop Astronomie-Geschichte, Mannheim, 19. Sep. (Lecture) Rainer Lenzen: metiS Calibration, Universität Leuven, Belgium, 21. Jan.; Gravity progress meeting, MPE Garching, 31. May – 1. Apr.; metiS progress meeting, MPE Garching, 28. – 29. June; Carmenes Preliminary Design Review, CSIC headquarters, Madrid, Spain, 18. – 21. July; carmeneS FDR Preparation meeting, TH Zürich, Schweiz, 4. – 7. Oct.; Conference on Polarimetry with the E-ELT, Universität Utrecht, The Netherlands, 29. – 30. Nov; carmeneS meeting, IAA Granada, Spain, 12. – 14. Dec. Hendrik Linz: atLaSGaL Consortium meeting, MPIfR Bonn, 18. May; herScheL/pacS ICC meeting, MPE Garching, 1. May – 1. June; “Resolving the Future of Astronomy with Long-Baseline Interferometry”, Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometry Workshop New Mexico Tech, Fidel Center, Socorro, New Mexico, USA, 28. – 31. March (Poster); Conference MW2011: The Milky Way in the herScheL Era “Angelicum” Congress Centre, Rome, Italy, 19. – 23. Sep. (Lecture); Retreat of the PSF Department of MPIA, Boppard, 17. – 19. Oct.; herScheL/pacS ICC meeting, IFSI Rome, Italy, 17. – 18. Nov. Nils Lippok: The Milky Way in the herScheL Era, Rome, Italy, 19. – 23. Sep. (Poster); Formation and Early Evolution of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs, eSo Garching, 11. – 14. Nov. (Poster) Mariya Lyubenova: caLifa Busy Week 2, IAC, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, 29. Nov. – 2. Dec. (Lecture) Andrea V. Macciò: Galaxy Formation, Durham, UK, 18. – 22. July (Poster) Luigi Mancini: XV International Conference on Gravitational Microlensing, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, 20. – 22. Jan. (Lecture); “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG, Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep.; Exoplanetary Science with harpS-N, Padova, Italy, 28. – 29. Nov. (Lecture) Nicholas Martin: PAndAS Collaboration meeting, Toronto, Canada, 28. – 30. March (Lecture); “Assembling the Puzzle of the Milky Way”, Le Grand Bornand, France, 18. – 22. Apr. (Lecture); Pan-StarrS 1. Science Consortium meeting, Boston, USA, 18. – 20. May (Lecture); American Astronomical Society meeting, Boston, USA, 23. – 27. May 23.-27. (Lecture); Pan- StarrS 1. Science Consortium – Key Project 5. Summer meeting, Heidelberg, 4. – 5. July (Lecture); “Galaxy Formation”, Durham, UK, 18. – 22. July (Lecture); The Third Subaru International Conference, Shuzenji, Japan, 1. – 4. Nov. Klaus Meisenheimer: “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG, Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep. Conferences, Scientific, and Popular Talks 111 Yamila Miguel: “Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar Extrasolar Planets: Towards Comparative Planetology beyond the Solar System”, Bad Honnef, 5. – 8. June (Poster); “WG3. Nitrogen in planetary systems: The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets”, Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC), Barcelona, Spain, 21. – 23. Sep. (Lecture); “German- Japan Round Table: From the Early Universe to the Evolution of Life”, Heidelberg University, 1. – 3. Dec. (Poster); “SpaSa: SaoPaulo Advanced School of Astrobiology”, Universidade de Sao Paulo. Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas:, Sao Paulo, Brasilien, 11. – 20. Dec. (Poster) Maren Mohler: Planet formation and evolution, Göttingen, 14. – 16. Feb. (Poster); 14 th eSpri science team meeting, Heidelberg, 26. – 27. May; “Extrasolar Planet – Towards comparative planetology beyond the Solar System”, Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar, Bad Honnef, 6. – 8. June (Poster); “Characterizing extrasolar planet atmospheres”, Summerschool, Heidelberg, 1. – 5. Aug.; “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG, Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep.; PSF retreat, 17. – 19. Oct. (Boppard, Lecture); eSpri science team meeting, Garching, 7. Nov. Christoph Mordasini: EChO workshop, Paris, France, 24. March (Lecture); Extreme Solar Systems II conference, Jackson Hole, USA, 16. Sep. (Lecture); German-Japan Round Table meeting, Heidelberg, 5. Dec. (Lecture) Helen Morrison: “Planet Formation and Evolution” Göttingen, 14. – 16. Feb. (Poster) André Müller: MPIA PSF group retreat, Boppard am Rhein, 17. – 19. Oct. (Lecture); MPIA PSF-Seminar, 27. July (Lecture) Reinhard Mundt: 217 th AAS Meetin Seattle, WA, 9. – 13. Jan. (Poster); “carmeneS technical meeting on NIR channel interfaces”, MPIA Heidelberg, 9. – 10. Feb.; carmeneS Preliminary Design Review, Madrid, Spain, 18. – 21. July; 1 st carmeneS technical meeting for FDR preparation, LSW, Heidelberg, 4. – 7. Oct.; First carmeneS Science meeting, Göttingen, 5. – 7. Oct. Markus Nielbock: herScheL pacS ICC meeting, MPE, Garching, 8. – 10. Feb. (Lecture); MPG Science Management Seminar, NH Hotel, Hamburg, 11. March, herScheL Calibration Steering Group meeting, eStec, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 12. Apr. (Lecture); herScheL: In Orbit Performance Review, eSoc, Darmstadt, 24. May; herScheL pacS ICC meeting, MPE, Garching, 31. May – 1. June (Lecture); herScheL Calibration Steering Group meeting, MPE, Garching, 9. Sep. (Lecture); “Surveys & Simulation – The Real and the Virtual Universe”, Annual Meeting of the AG, Heidelberg, 19. – 23. Sep.; herScheL pacS Photometer Calibration Colocation, MPIA Heidelberg, 6. Oct.; MPIA PSF Group Retreat, Boppard, 17. – 19. Oct.; herScheL pacS ICC meeting, IFSI, Rome/Frascati, Italy, 17. – 18. Nov. (Lecture); herScheL Pointing Working Group meeting, eSoc, Darmstadt, 29. – 30. Nov.
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