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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)
S. Hanke: MPIA Student Workshop, Oberau, Austria, March (talk) B. Häußler: Winter school »Surveying the Universe – Spectroscopic and Imaging Surveys for Cosmology«, Obergurgl, February 12 – 19 (poster); Gems meeting, Baltimore, March 17 – 19 (talk); conference »The Role of Wide and Deep Multi-wavelength Surveys in Understanding Galaxy Evolution«, Ringberg, March 29 – April 1 (poster); sisco meeting, Edinburgh, September 14 – 17; Gems meeting, Heidelberg, November 7 – 11 (2 talks) Th. Henning: Meeting »miri Consortium Science Team«, Zürich, Januar 6 (invited talk); Braunschweig University, February 1 (Physics colloquium talk); Tübingen Universität, February 2 (Physics colloquium talk); Meeting »From Young Disks to Planets: New Observations, Models and Theories«, Pasadena, March 7 – 10 (invited talk); meeting »The Power of Optical/IR Interferometry: Recent Scientific Results and 2 nd Generation VLTI Instrumentation«, Garching, April 4 – 8 (invited talk); »8 th Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles«, Salobreña, Granada, May 16 – 20 (invited talk); Oort Workshop on Protoplanetary Disk Evolution, Leiden, July 7 – 8 (invited talk); Sapporo Universiity, August 6 – 10 (Astronomical colloquium); IAU Symposium 231 »Astrochemistry throughout the Universe: Recent Successes and Current Challenges«, Asilomar, USA, August 29 – September 9 (invited talk); Heraeus Physics School »Extrasolar Planetary Systems«, Bad Honnef, October 17 – 21 (two invited talks); Conference »Protostars and Planets, V«, Hawaii, October 24 – 28 (invited talk); »Planets Network Meeting«, Leiden, November 14 – 18 (invited talk). T. Herbst: Jenam 2005 »Distant Worlds«, Liege, July 4 – 7; »Instrumentation for Extremely Large Telescopes«, Schloss Ringberg, July 25 – 29; »The Scientific Requirements for Extremely Large Telescopes«, Cape Town, November 14 – 18; Dome C Meeting, MPIA, April 11, Jenam 2005, Liege, July 7 (invited talk); MPIA Kuratorium, September 15 (instrumentation progress report); Linc-nirvana Post- FDR Update, Presentation to LBT Observatory Staff, September 29; Linc-nirvana Project Overview and LBT Issues, Presentation to LN Consortium Meeting, October 27; LBT Telescope and Instrument Status Report, LBTB Meeting (presented by K. Jäger), November 15; Lincnirvana Update of the Science Case, Presentation to LN Consortium Meeting, November 15; Linc-nirvana Project Overview, Presentation to LBT Observatory Staff, November 28; Linc-nirvana Update of the Science Case, Presentation at LN Science Team Meeting, December 7. S. Hippler: Design Review Meeting »Rayleigh laser beacon for the 4.2m William HerscHeL Telescope« of the Isaac Newton Group on La Palma, Spain, January 27 – 28; invited Colloquium »Adaptive Optics in Astronomy – Current trends and future prospects« at the Institute for Technical Physics, DLR, Stuttgart, September 14; oWL conceptual design review meeting, eso, Garching, November 2 R. Hofferbert: European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium, Luzern, September 21 – 23 (talk) K. Jäger: Dritte Münchener Runde der CPTS, München, Juli 11-12; Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Köln, 26. September 26 – October 1 A. Johansen: meeting »Principles of Magnetohydrodynamics«, Leiden, March (invited talk); »Pencil Code Workshop«, Copenhagen, June (talk); conference »Protostars and Planets, V«, Hawaii, October 24 – 28 (two posters); pLanet network meeting, Leiden, November (talk) J. de Jong: SDSS collaboration meeting, Portsmouth, June 18 – 21; Universitätssternwarte München, October 11 (invited colloquium); Institut für Astrophysik, Universität Göttingen, November 10 (invited colloquium); Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, December, 19 (invited colloquium) K. Kornet: IAU Colloquium 200, »Direct Imaging of Exoplanets: Science and Techniques« (talk); 79 th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Splinter Meeting: Formation of brown dwarfs (talk); pLanet School and Network meeting, Leiden (talk); Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw (colloquium) H. Klahr: Bad Honnef, Heraeus Sommerschule (lecture); Annual Meting of the AG (talk); »Disks to Planets« meeting in Pasadena (talk); Aspen Conference on Planet Formation and Detection (talk); Protostars and Planets, V, Hawaii (seven posters); Protoplanetary disk evolution in Leiden (invited talk) U. Klaas: »fir Spectroscopy – 10 Years After«, Abingdon, Oxon U.K., October 10 – 11 K. Kraiberg Knudsen: Workshop »Legacy Surveys with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope«, Leiden, January 24 – 26; Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, February 7 (colloquium); Laboratoire d‘Astrophysique de Marseille OAMP, February 18 (colloquium); Workshop »The role of wide and deep multi-wavelength surveys in understanding galaxy evolution«, Ringberg, March 29 – April 1 (talk); Workshop »Science Requirements for a Far- Infrared Mission«, Leiden, October 17 – 19; Workshop »The study of Near-IR selected high redshift galaxies«, Leiden, November 2 – 4 (talk); »The spitzer Science Center 2005 Conference: Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution«, Pasadena, CA, November 14 – 16 (poster) E. Krmpotic: Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft, Köln, September 26 – 30 (poster); Summer School »Millimeter Wave Observing Techniques and Applications«, Pradollano, Spain, September 30 – October 7 (talk) J. Kurk: meeting »Open Questions in Cosmology: the First Billion Years«, Garching, August 22 – 26; meeting »IR Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution«, spitzer Science Center, Pasadena, CA, November 14 – 16 (talk) M. Kürster: »From T Tauri stars to the Edge of the Universe«, June 30 – July 1; MPIA Internal Symposium, December 8 – 9, (talk) Ch. Leinert: Workshop »The power of optical/infrared interferometry: recent results and 2 nd generation instruments«, eso, Garching, April (talk); »Protostars and Planets, V«, Hawaii, October (invited talk, co-author) Conferences 151
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Contents Preface ..................
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