Technical support (TS) by students:
Initial Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ______________________________________________________________ BE Eder, Brigitta 6455 502 beder CG Grillo, Claudio 6583 512 cgrillo DM Villegas Mansilla, Daniela KB Boutsia, Konstantina 6614 504 kboutsia ML Lyubenova, Mariya 6143 522 mlyubeno MM Mora, Marcelo RS Smiljanic, Rodolfo 6634 513 rsmiljan SP Pedicelli, Silvia 6620 505 spedicel VS Sommariva, Veronica 6750 522 vsommari ZS Shen, Zhixia _____________________________________________________________ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk _____________________________________________________________
| Month | Day | Speaker | Title | Host | TS | Abstract |
| Sep | 28 | Tom Abel | Making Galaxies: One Star at a Time | USM/AB | SV | |
| Oct | 5 | Ian Smail | Five years on: High redshift submm sources - The dark side of galaxy formation | MPA/LT | RG | |
| Oct | 12 | Michael Murphy | Probing variations in the fundamental constants with quasar absorption lines | ESO/LP | RG | |
| Oct | 19 | Andrew Fruchter (STScI) | Guest Stars and Host Galaxies: Gamma-ray Bursts and the Distant Universe | ESO/WF | RG | |
| Oct | 26 | RG | N/A | |||
| Nov | 2 | Chistoph Wetterich | Early Dark Energy | MPA/GK | JK | |
| Nov | 9 | Giuseppe Bono | Primordial Helium Content: the Stellar Perspective | ESO/LP | JK | |
| Nov | 16 | Rich Mushotzky | A Sensitive All Sky Hard X-ray Survey- AGN results from the first 9 months of Swift BAT data | MPA/MG | JK | |
| Nov | 23 | Eugene Churazov | X-ray view on AGN/gas interaction in M87 | MPA/MG | JK | N/A |
| Nov | 30 | John Kormendy | STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES | USM/AB | JK | |
| Dec | 7 | Francesco Palla | Old Stars in Young Clusters: A Clue to Star Formation from Lithium Age Dating | ESO/LP | FS | |
| Dec | 14 | Roger Ferlet | Evaporation of hot jupiters; observations and models | ESO/WF | FS | |
| Dec | 21 | FS | N/A | |||
| Dec | 28 | Xmas break | FS | N/A | ||
| Jan | 4 | Xmas break | GP | N/A | ||
| Jan | 11 | Guenther Hasinger | The X-ray Wide-Deep Survey in the COSMOS Field | MPE/SK | GP | N/A |
| Jan | 18 | Eva Grebel | Near-field Cosmology With the Local Group | MPA/GK | GP | N/A |
| Jan | 25 | Thomas Henning | From Disks to Planets: Boulders, Gaps, and Traffic Jams | MPE/LT | GP | N/A |
| Feb | 1 | Olivier Le Fevre | Highlights from the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey | ESO/WF | CA | |
| Feb | 8 | Rachel Somerville | The Structural Properties of Galaxies and their Evolution | MPA/GK | CA | |
| Feb | 15 | Francesco Ferraro | Exotic Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters | ESO/LP | CA | |
| Feb | 22 | Lyman Page | Recent results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Future Directions | MPA/GK | CA | |
| Mar | 1 | Ewine van Dishoeck | Spitzer observations of star- and planet-forming regions | MPE/LT | SP | |
| Mar | 8 | Artie P. Hatzes | Extrasolar Planets and Stellar Oscillations of K Giant Stars | ESO/LP | SP | |
| Mar | 15 | Yuri Levin | Geophysics of Neutron Stars | MPA/GK | SP | N/A |
| Mar | 22 | Nikos Prantzos | Origin and evolution of the light nuclides Li, Be and B | ESO/LP | SP | |
| Mar | 29 | Roberto Maiolino | Dust in the early universe | ESO/WF | SP | |
| Apr | 5 | Easter break | N/A | |||
| Apr | 12 | Ofer Lahav | Observing Dark Energy with the Next Generation of Galaxy Surveys | ESO/WF | ZS | |
| Apr | 19 | Leonardo Testi | The role of disks in the formation of stars and planetary systems | ESO/LP | ZS | N/A |
| Apr | 26 | Martin Haehnelt | Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha forest | MPA/GK | ZS | N/A |
| May | 3 | Ralph Wijers | Gamma-ray bursts: Probes of the Extreme and Rare in the Universe | MPA/MG | RS | |
| May | 10 | Bianca Poggianti | High redshift clusters of galaxies | MPA/GK | RS | |
| May | 17 | Ascension | RS | N/A | ||
| May | 24 | Christine Jones | Reflections from Outbursts of Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers of Galaxies | MPA/MG | RS | |
| May | 31 | Sara Seager | Extrasolar Planets: Atmospheres, Interiors, and the Search for Habitable Worlds | MPE/LT | RS | |
| Jun | 7 | Corpus Christi | VS | N/A | ||
| Jun | 14 | Fred Hamann (Univ. Florida) | Quasars and Galaxy Evolution | MPE/SK | VS | |
| Jun | 21 | Paolo Padovani | Blazars: Extreme, Rare, and Interering | ESO/WF | VS | |
| Jun | 28 | Matthia Zaldarriaga | High redshift 21 cm observations : a new window for cosmology | MPA/GK | VS | |
green = confirmed.
? = reserved date TBC
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