JAC Speakers 2013-2014


Calendar: 2013 2014
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Initials Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ------------------------------------------------------------ AGU Adrien Guerou 6638 514 aguerou FYA Fei Yan 6612 515 fyan GCS Gergely Csépány 6891 501 gcsepany JAL Julian Alvarado 6672 524 jalvarad JPF Joel Pfeffer 6935 505 joel.pfeffer KVO Karina Voggel 6614 524 Karina.Voggel RCH Roxana Chira 514 rchira SDH Suhail Dhawan 6143 522 sdhawan SAN Suryashree Aniyan 512 saniyan SZA Sarolta Zahorecz 6404 502 szahorec TSB Tullia Sbarrato 6610 509 tsbarrat ------------------------------------------------------------ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk ------------------------------------------------------------
Month Day Speaker Title Dates of the visit Host TS Abstract
Sep 19 Scott Tremaine Are planetary systems flat?   MPA/GK FYA
Sep 26 Simon White The formation and evolution of the galaxy population   MPA/GK FYA
Oct 03 German Unity N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Oct 10 Simon Lilly What the population tells us   MPE/NFS TSB
Oct 17 Andrea Miglio Asteroseismology of stellar populations in the Milky Way   MPA/GK TSB
Oct 24 Anne Dutrey Imaging of Protoplanetary disks at mm/submm wavelengths   ESO/MRO TSB
Oct 31 Sugata Kaviraj Early-type galaxies: the last 10 billion years   ESO/MRE TSB
Nov 07 Pedro Ferreira Testing Gravity with Cosmology: a new Golden Age?   USM/JM KVO
Nov 14 Gwen Rudie The Gaseous Environments of High-Redshift Galaxies: The CGM and ISM of Star-Forming Systems 2   MPE/NFS KVO
Nov 21 Elisa Resconi High energy neutrinos from the Cosmos? Recent results from the IceCube Neutrino Telescope   MPE/AM KVO
Nov 28 Stephane Charlot Constraining galaxy physical properties from multi-wavelength observations: where do we stand?   ESO/MRE KVO
Dec 05 Gianfranco Bertone The Quest for Dark Matter   ESO/MRO JAL
Dec 12 Sandra Savaglio Galaxies as seen through the most energetic explosions in the universe   MPE/AM JAL
Dec 19 Ryan Hickox Black holes and galaxy evolution: Does AGN activity follow or prevent star formation?   MPE/AM JAL
Dec 26 Christmas Break N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jan 02 Christmas Break N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jan 09 Ortwin Gerhard Dynamics and Origin of the Milky Way Bulge   MPA/GK JPF
Jan 16 Emannuel Lellouch Probing the physical properties of Kuiper Belt Objects   MPE/NFS JPF
Jan 23 Debora Sijacki Simulating galaxy formation: numerical and physical uncertainties   MPA/GK JPF
Jan 30 Ariel Sanchez Cosmological implications of the clustering of galaxies in BOSS   USM/JM JPF
Feb 06 Laura Pentericci Probing the end of the reionization epoch with the most distant galaxies   ESO/MRO AGU
Feb 13 Juri Poutanen Fermi observations of blazars and constraints on the location of the gamma-ray emission region   MPA/MG AGU
Feb 20 Gijs Nelemans Type Ia supernova progenitors: what do we know and what not?   MPA/MG AGU
Feb 27 Zeljko Ivezic What did we learn about the Milky Way during the last decade, and what shall we learn using Gaia and LSST?   ESO/MRE AGU
Mar 06 Melvyn Davies The Astrophysics of Stellar Clusters   MPE/NFS RCH
Mar 13 Fabrizio Fiore AGN feedback though the cosmic times   MPE/AM RCH
Mar 20 Alberto Sesana Massive black holes: dynamics, spin evolution and gravitational wave detection   MPA/GK RCH
Mar 27 Fabian Schmidt Probing the Primordial Universe with Galaxy Clustering and Shapes New ESO Auditorium MPA/GK RCH
Apr 03 Enrico Ramirez Ruiz Characterizing Massive Black Holes through Stellar Tidal Disruption   MPE/AM SZA
Apr 10 Taddy Kodama Future prospects of the cosmic noon: mapping and resolving galaxy formation at its peak epoch   MPE/NFS SZA
Apr 17 Easter N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Apr 24 Jay Farihi Archaeology of Exo-Terrestrial Planetary Systems   MPE/NFS SZA
May 01 May Day N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
May 08 Omer Blaes Accretion Disk Outbursts: MHD Simulations (Finally) Confront Reality   MPA/MG SDH
May 15 George Chartas Relativistic Winds in Quasars   MPE/AM SDH
May 22 Pierre Kervella Cepheids as standard candles: a 1% distance scale for cosmology?   ESO SDH
May 29 Ascension Day N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jun 05 Adi Nusser The structure of the Universe in the last 1 Gyr   MPA/MG SAN N/A
Jun 12 Marco Limongi Presupernova evolution, explosion and nucleosynthesis of rotating massive stars at various metallicities   ESO SAN
Jun 19 Corpus Christi N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jun 26 Eva Schinnerer Regulation of Star Formation in the Molecular Gas Disks of Spiral Galaxies   ESO SAN
Jul 03 Guinevere Kauffmann Atomic and molecular gas properties of galaxies: constraints on galaxy formation models   USM/JM GCS

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