Max Planck Institute for Astronomy - Annual Report 2005

150 Conferences
Conferences and Meetings Attended, Scientific Talks and Poster Contributions
C. Afonso: Launch Conference of the International Year of
Phyiscs, Paris, UNESCO Headquarters, January 13 – 15;
PSF Workshop, Buchenbach, May 30 – June 2 (talk);
Xvenaa Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 28 – July
3 (talk); IAU Colloquium 200, »Direct Imaging of
Exoplanets«, Nice, October 3 – 7 (poster) ; Protostars and
Planets, V, Hawaii, October 24 – 28 (poster); Microlensing
Workshop, MPIA, November 5 – 6 (talk)
C. A. L. Bailer-Jones: Brown dwarfs and the Gaia Galactic
survey mission, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Januar
(invited talk); Gaia Science Team meeting, estec
(Netherlands), April 13 – 14; Gaia Classification working
group meeting, Barcelona, April 27 – 28; Brown dwarfs
and the Gaia Galactic survey mission, University of
Potsdam, May (invited talk); Mapping the universe in
six dimensions, Astronomisches Institut der Universitaet
Basel, Switzerland, July (invited talk); Gaia Data Analysis
Coordination Committee meeting, MPIA, October
6 – 7; The impact of Gaia on the future of astrophysics,
University of Potsdam, October (invited talk); The Gaia
challenge, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France,
November (invited talk);
M. Barden: Ringberg meeting »The Role of Wide and
Deep Multi-wavelength Surveys in Understanding Galaxy
Evolution«, March 29 – April 1 st (invited talk); Symposium
»The Origin of the HubbLe Sequence«, Vulcano Island,
Italy, June 6 – 12 (invited talk)
A. Berton: Workshop on Adaptive Optics-assisted Integral-
Field Spectroscopy, La Palma, Spain, May 9 – 11 (contributed
talk); IAU Colloquium 200 »Direct Imaging of
Exoplanets: Science and Techniques«; Villefranche sur
Mer, France, October 3 – 7 (Poster); IAU Symposium
232 »The Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large
Telescopes, Cape Town, November 14 – 18 (talk); Heraeus
Physics School »Extrasolar Planetary Systems«, Bad
Honnef, October 17 – 21
S. Birkmann: IAU Symposium 227 »Massive Star Birth: A
Crossroads of Astrophysics«, Catania, May 16 – 20 (poster)
W. Brandner: IAU Symposium 227 »Massive Star Formation«,
Catania, May (Poster); 2 nd naHuaL Workshop, Segovia,
June (contributed talk); »From T Tauri Stars to the Edge of
the Universe«, Heidelberg, June; »Protostars and Planets,
V«, Hawaii, October 24 – 28 (Poster); Brown Dwarf
Workshop, Hawaii, October
J. M. Cannon: AAS Meeting 205, San Diego, CA, January
(poster); STScI Mini-Workshop »Galactic Flows: The
Galaxy/IGM Ecosystem«, Baltimore, MD, March (poster);
IAU Symposium 227 »Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of
Astrophysics«, Acireale, Italy, May (poster); AAS Meeting
206, Minneapolis, MN, May; »Infrared Diagnostics of
Galaxy Evolution«, spitzer Science Center conference,
Pasadena, CA, November
A. Carmona Gonzalez: »Photochimie des disques protoplanetaires
et la interaction gas-poussière«, Laboratoire
d‘Astrophysique de Marseille, January (poster); Kobe
International School of Planetary Sciences »Origin of
Planetary Systems«, Hawaii, July 11 – 17 (poster); First
External PSF Group Meeting, Buchenbach, May, 30-
June 2 (poster); Workshop in Planet Formation, Kobe,
July 18-19 (talk); IRAM Summer School »Millimeter
Wavelengths Techniques and Applications«, Pradollano,
Spain, September 30 – October 7 (poster); »Protostars and
Planets, V«, Hawaii, October 24 – 28 (poster)
H. Dannerbauer: Workshop »The role of wide and deep multiwavelength
surveys in understanding galaxy evolution«,
Ringberg, March 29 – April 1 (talk); Annual Meeting of
the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Köln, September 29-30
(poster); The spitzer Science Center 2005 Conference:
Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution, Pasadena,
November 14-16 (talk)
R. Gredel: Colloquium, Jena University, February 4;
Colloquium, MPI for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-
Lindau, May, 4; Colloquium, Universidad de Chile, June
13; IAU Symposium 232, »The scientific requirements of
ELTs«, Capetown, November 14 – 18
C. Dullemond: Meeting »From Disks to Planets«, Pasadena,
March 2005 (invited review); meeting »Star Formation«,
nasa-Ames, July 2005 (invited talk); conference
»Protostars and Planets, V«, Hawaii, October (invited review,
with Hollenbach, Kamp, and D'Alessio)
S. Falter: 2. MPIA Students Worshop (talk); Ringberg
Workshop »Distant Clusters of Galaxies«, October 24 – 28
(talk)
Ch. Fendt: Workshop »Jetset-kickoff meeting, node
Heidelberg«, Heidelberg, March 2 (talk); Colloquium at
the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Heidelberg,
June 8 (talk); International Conference »Ultra-Relativistic
jets in Astrophsyics – Observations, theory, simulations«,
Banff, Canada, July 11 – 15 (Invited conference Summary;
two Posters); Workshop »Jetset-kickoff meeting,
node Grenoble«, Grenoble, France, July, 17 – 20, (talk);
Workshop »PPV review team meeting«, Copenhagen,
Denmark, August, 21 – 23; Conference »Protostars and
Planets, V«, Hawaii, October 24 – 28 (Review talk team
member; poster); MPIA Internal Symposium, Heidelberg,
December 8 – 9 (talk)
M. Fernandez: Conference »Protostars and planets, V«,
Hawaii, October 24 – 28 (poster)
W. Gässler: Conference on Multiconjugated Adaptive Optics,
Paris, March 13 – 16 (invited talk)
D. Gouliermis: IAU Symposium 227, »Massive Star Birth: A
Crossroads of Astrophysics«, Acireale, May 16-20 (poster);
Planet and Star Formation Group Workshop, Buchenbach,
May 30 – June 2 (talk); IAU Symposium 232 »The Scientific
Requirements for Extremely LargeTelescopes«, Cape
Town, South Africa, November 14 – 18, (talk); »Stellar
Associations of the Large Magellanic Cloud – A laboratory
for the Initial Mass Function«, Potsdam, Astrophysical
Institute, September 21 (invited seminar)