Annual Report 2011 Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

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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)
Luigi Mancini: “The search for extrasolar planets: successes, limits and future prospects”, ASI Science Data Center, Frascati, Rome, Italy, 20. Dec. (Colloquium) Nicholas Martin: Department of Astronomy, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1. Sep. (Colloquium); ETH, Institute for Astronomy, Zürich, Schweiz, 11. Oct. (Colloquium) Klaus Meisenheimer: “The Impact of the VLTI on Galactic Nuclei and supermassive Black Hole studies”, Workshop of the AGN/Gal. Center working group of the European Interferometry Initiative. Lissabon, Portugal 28. – 30. Nov. (Lecture) Christoph Mordasini: Alexander von Humboldt Sino- German frontiers of science–symposium, Berlin, 21. Apr. (Lecture); Strange new worlds, naSa conference, Jackson Hole, USA, 16. Sep. (Lecture); Pas de deux Gaia workshop, Paris, 11. Oct. (Lecture) Johan Olofsson: “Planet Formation in Action”, ipaG institute, Grenoble, France, Apr. (Colloqium) Natalie Raettig: “How Can the Baroclnic Instability Help Planet Formation”, Weekly seminar of the Astronomy Department at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA, 15. March (Lecture) Sarah Ragan: “herScheL and high-resolution sub- millimeter studies of the early phases of cluster formation”, iram, Grenoble, France, 22. Feb. (Gäste- Colloquium) Hans-Walter Rix: Colloquium, Innsbruck, Austria, 1. Feb.; eSo Seminar, Munich, Sep.; Colloquium, IAP Paris, France, 9. Dec. Gaël Rouillé: “Laboratory astrophysics in Jena: From spectroscopic characterization of large molecules and grains to low temperature chemistry”, NWO Astrochemistry Workshop: Molecular Networks Connecting the Universe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 18. – 20. Apr. (Lecture) Karin Sandstrom: eSo Santiago, 9. Sep. (Colloquium) Eva Schinnerer: Star Formation in Galaxies: The herScheL Era, Ringberg Castle, 19. – 24. June (Lecture); MW – The Milky Way in the herScheL Era: Towards a Galaxy-Scale View of the Star Formation Life-Cycle, Rome, Italy, 18. – 23. Sep (Lecture); CEA/Saclay, Saclay, France, 14. Apr. (Colloquium) Kasper Borello Schmidt: “Watching Galaxies Grow Up”, Ringberg Castle, 5. – 9. Dec. (Lecture) Dmitry A. Semenov: “Molecular Universe”, IAU Symposium 280, Toledo, Spain, 29. May – 3. June (Lecture); Vienna Observatory, Vienna, Austria, 28. Nov. (Kolloqium); “The first 10 million years of the Solar System – a Planetary Materials Approach”, 2. Colloquium of the SPP 1385, Mainz, 17. – 18. Oct. (Lecture) Jürgen Steinacker: “The 3D barrier in star formation”, Colloqium for Physics and Astronomy, University of Ghent, Belgium, 26. Jan; “The Coreshine-Effect”, ipaG, Grenoble, France, 4. Nov. (Lecture) Jochen Tackenberg: NRC Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada, 20. Oct. (Colloquium) Conferences, Scientific, and Popular Talks 115 Roy van Boekel: “Surveys & Simulations – The Real and the Virtual Universe” Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Heidelberg, 19. – 24. Sep.; (Lecture) Remco van den Bosch: “Single and double black holes in galaxies”, Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 22. – 25. Aug Fabian Walter: Ringberg Workshop on Galaxy Formation, Ringberg Castle, April (Lecture); Colloquium Leiden, The Netherlands, June (Lecture); Ringberg Workshop on Star Formation in Galaxies: The herScheL Era, Ringberg Castle, June (Lecture); CCAT Meeting, Cologne University, Oct. (Lecture) Laura Watkins: Teneriffa, Spain, 22. July (Seminar) Yujin Yang: “Theoretical Astrophysics Center Seminars”, University of California Berkeley, USA, 7. Nov. (Seminar) Xianyu Zhang: “First laboratory results with the Lincnirvana high layer wavefront Sensor”, Linc-nirvana MPIA Weekly Meetings, MPIA Heidelberg, 5. July (Lecture); “High order AO correction for Lincnirvana”, Galaxy and Cosmology Retreat, Neuwied, 17. Oct. (Lecture) Svitlana Zhukovska: STSci, Baltimore, USA, 6. May (Lecture); Hauskolloqium, MPIA Heidelberg, 17. June (Lecture) Talk Series Friedrich Huisken: “Oxidative reactions of group IIA and IIIA elements in helium droplets”, 482 nd Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar: “Helium Nanodroplets – Confinement for Cold Molecules and Cold Chemistry,” Bad Honnef, 30. May – 1. June (Lecture) Lisa Kaltenegger: SpaSa summer school, Sao Paolo, Brasilien, Dec. (Lecture) Dietrich Lemke: “Ballon-Astronomie”, Universität Stuttgart, 20. Jan. (Lecture) Andrea V. Macciò: “Structure formation in the Universe”, Salerno University, Italy, March (Lecture) Dmitry A. Semenov: “Astrochemistry with aLma”, aLma Summer School, Bologne, Italy, 13. – 17. June (Lecture) Arjen van der Wel: “Galaxy Evolution”, eLixir meeting, CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 5. Oct. (Lecture) Popular Talk Series During the Lectures of “Uni(versum) für alle! Halbe Heidelberger Sternstunden” in the Universitätskirche/ Peterskirche Heidelberg the following talks have been given: Henrik Beuther: “Die Geburt der Sonne”, 27. May Christian Fendt: “Astronomische Zeitskalen: Von Millisekunden zu Gigajahren”, 24. May Roland Gredel: “Warum brauchen die Astronomen ein Teleskop mit 42 m Durchmesser”, 17. May
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