Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

114 Conferences, Scientific, and Popular Talks
Roland Gredel: KIS Freiburg, 8. Dec. (Colloquium)
Brent Groves: “From Dust to Galaxies”, IAP, Paris France,
27. June – 1. July
Thomas Henning: Transport Processes and Accretion
in YSOs, Ringberg Castle, 7. – 11. Feb. (Lecture);
herScheL and the Characteristics of Dust in Galaxies,
Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands, 28. Feb. – 4. March
(Lecture); Star Formation across Space and Time:
Frontier Science with the LBT and other Large Facilities,
Tucson, USA, 31. March – 2. Apr. (Lecture); Molecular
Networks: Connecting the Universe, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 18. – 20. Apr. (Lecture); Frontier Science
Opportunities with the James Webb Space Telescope,
Baltimore, USA, 6. – 8. June (Lecture); “From Dust
to Galaxies”, IAP-SAP Colloquium, Paris, France,
24. June – 1. July (Lecture); “Star Formation across
the Universe”, Summer School, Alpbach, Österreich,
19. – 23. Jul1 (Invited Talk and Discussions); European
Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics, Paris, France,
26. – 30. Sep. (Lecture); International Conference on
Interstellar Dust, Molecules, and Chemistry, Pune, India,
22. – 25. Nov. (Lecture); Formation of Massive Stars,
University of Vienna, Austria, 27. June (Colloquium);
From Protoplanetary Disks to Extrasolar Planets,
Littrow Lecture, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Wien,
Austria, 12. Oct. 2012. (Colloquium); Protoplanetary
Disks: From Dust to Gas, Berkeley, USA, 27. Oct.
(Colloquium)
Friedrich Huisken: “Optical properties of silicon-based
nanomaterials: Ensemble and single particle spectroscopy
of silicon nanocrystals and silicon oxide nanoparticles”,
Korean Institute of Energy Research,
University of Daejeon, South Korea, 28. March
(Seminar); “Photoluminescence studies on size-selected
silicon nanocrystals”, School of Materials Science and
Engineering, University of Ulsan, South Korea, 29.
March (Seminar); “Laboratory Experiments for the
Interpretation of Astrophysical Phenomena”, Seminar
des Sonderforschungsbereichs 956, I. Physikalisches
Institut der Universität zu Köln, 7. Nov. (Lecture)
Klaus Jäger: “Astrophysik mit dem hubbLe-Welt raumteleskop”,
Physikalisches Kolloquium der Universität
Mannheim, 14. Apr.; “Astronomy/Physics meets
Business – Job Careers for Astronomers and Physicists”,
Naturejobs Career Expo, European Molecular Laboratory
(EMBL), Advanced Training Centre, Heidelberg, 9. May
Knud Jahnke: “Galaxy Mergers in an Evolving Universe”,
Hualien, Taiwan, 23. – 28. Oct. (Lecture); “Watching
Galaxies Grow Up”, Ringberg Castle, 4. – 9. Dec.
(Lecture); „Scaling relations between galaxies and
their central black holes: Facts and fiction”, Univ.
Southampton, USA, 4. May (Colloquium)
Lisa Kaltenegger: UMass Amherst, USA, Jan.; University
of Bern, CH, March; “Spectral evolution of an Earthlike
planet, Search for signs of life, Super-Earths and
Life”, MPI für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Apr. (Lecture);
Weltrauminstitute Graz, Österreich, Apr. (Lecture)
Alexander Karim: iram visitors Colloquium, iram,
Grenoble, 8. March (Lecture); Ringberg workshop
“Watching galaxies grow up”, Ringberg Castle, 5. Dec.
(Lecture)
Hubert Klahr: “Role of turbulence in the formation of
planets”, Turbulent Mixing and Beyond, Trieste, Italy,
21. – 28. Aug. (Review-Lecture); “The Nature and Role
of Turbulence in Planet Formation: Magnetorotational
and Baroclinic Instability”, KITP Workshop: “The
Nature of Turbulence”, Santa Barbara, 7. Feb. – 3. June;
“Rayleigh Benard Convection in Rotating Shear Flows”,
KITP Workshop: “The Nature of Turbulence”, Santa
Barbara, 7. Feb. – 3. June; “From thermal Convection
in Protoplanetary Accretion Disks to Baroclinic
Instability”, Ringberg Workshop on Geophysical and
Astrophysical Fluid flow: Baroclinic Instability and
Protoplanetary Accretion Disks, Ringberg Castle, 14. –
18. June (Review-Lecture); “The Role of Turbulence in
Planet Formation”, Colloquium, Univ. Braunschweig,
10. Jan. (Colloquium); “The Role of Turbulence in
Planet Formation”, Colloquium, Univ. Zürich, Schweiz,
14. Apr. (Colloquium); “Gravoturbulent Planetesimal
Formation”, Colloquium at the National Astronomical
Observatories of China (NAOC), Bejing, China, 30.
Nov. (Colloquium); “The Role of Turbulence in Planet
Formation – From colliding boulders to migrating
planets”, Colloquium, KIAA Institute, Bejing Univ.
Bejing, China, 1. Dec. (Colloquium); “Planet Formation
from Dust to Planetesimals” Colloquium, Institute
of Process Engineering (IPE), Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Peking, China, 2. Dec. (Colloquium)
Oliver Krause: “Exoplanet Characterization Observatory –
Instrumental concept”, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon,
March (Lecture); “Light echoes of Core Collapse
Supernovae”, Stockholm University, August (Lecture);
“The Exoplanet Characterization Observatory EChO”,
Department of Astronomy, Universität Göttingen, April
(Colloquium)
Dietrich Lemke: “Infrarot-Weltraum-Teleskope – Ent deckun
gen im kalten Kosmos”, Jahrestagung der Deutschen
Ge sellschaft für Angewandte Optik, Ilmenau, 17. June
(Lecture)
Hua-Bai Li: Star Formation through Spectroimaging at
High Angular Resolution, ASIAA, Taipei, Taiwan, 20. –
24. June (Lecture)
Hendrik Linz: “NRAO Socorro Colloquium”, NRAO
Socorro, New Mexico, USA, 4. March (Colloquium)
Andrea V. Macciò: “Dark matter distribution in galaxies”
Tevpa conference (Lecture); “DE simulations with
baryons” (Lecture); The dark Universe Conference;
Physics Colloquium, Lancashire University, UK,
3. Apr. (Colloquium); Astronomy Colloquium, Trieste
Observatory, Trieste, Italy, 24. May (Colloquium);
TeV particle astrophysics conference, Stockholm,
Sweden, 1. – 5. Aug. (Review-Lecture); The Dark
Universe Conference, Heidelberg, 4. – 7. Oct. (Review-
Lecture)