Technical support (TS) by students:
Initial Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ______________________________________________________________ AR Raiter, Anna 6468 524 araiter BE Eder, Brigitta 6455 502 beder CA A. De Oliveira, Catarina 6839 504 coliveir CG Grillo, Claudio 6583 512 cgrillo CJH Hansen, Camilla Juul 6864 524 cjhansen CS zyszka, Cezary 6578 503 cszyszka DM Villegas Mansilla, Danielao 6577 509 dvillega FA Allouche, Fatme 6175 502 fallouch GP Van Der Plas, Gerrit 6169 508 gvanderp GV Ventimiglia, Giulia 6889 515 gventimi KB Boutsia, Konstantina 6614 504 kboutsia KL Lind, Karin 6672 524 klind ML Lyubenova, Mariya 6143 522 mlyubeno MM Mora, Marcelo 6492 524 mmora RG Gobat, Raphael 6783 512 rgobat RS Smiljanic, Rodolfo 6634 513 rsmiljan SP Pedicelli, Silvia 6620 505 spedicel VS Sommariva, Veronica 6750 522 vsommari ZS Shen, Zhixia 6622 519 zshen _____________________________________________________________ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk _____________________________________________________________
| Month | Day | Speaker | Title | Host | TS | Abstract |
| Sep | 20 | Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann | The Feeding of Supermassive Black Holes in the Nuclei of Galaxies -- Observational Signatures | MPE/SK | CG | N/A |
| Sep | 27 | Craig Hogan | The New Science of Gravitational Waves | MPA/GK | CG | N/A |
| Oct | 4 | Robin Ciardullo | The Mass Distribution of Spiral Disks | ESO/MA | SP | |
| Oct | 11 | Sergio Colafrancesco | Clusters of Galaxies: the largest laboratories for AstroParticle Physics | MPE/SK | SP | N/A |
| Oct | 18 | Lars Hernquist | Co-Evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies | MPA/GK | SP | N/A |
| Oct | 25 | Eric Emsellem | Fast and slow rotators : the build-up of the red sequence | MPA/USM | SP | |
| Nov | 1 | All Saints' Day | BE | N/A | ||
| Nov | 8 | Max Pettini | The First Stars: Clues from Damped Lyman alpha Systems and Lyman Break Galaxies | USM/TN | BE | N/A |
| Nov | 15 | Romain Teyssier | Baryon physics and cosmic structure formation | MPA/GK | BE | N/A |
| Nov | 22 | Bernd Vollmer | GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE VIRGO CLUSTER | MPE/RD | BE | |
| Nov | 29 | Marc Davis | The Universe at Redshift one | MPA/GK | BE | N/A |
| Dec | 6 | Alessandro Marconi | The black hole mass ladder: weighing black holes from zero to high redshift. | MPE/RD | KB | N/A |
| Dec | 13 | Dick Bond | Inflation and its Cosmic Probes: Now and Then | MPA/GK | KB | N/A |
| Dec | 20 | KB | N/A | |||
| Dec | 27 | Xmas break | KB | N/A | ||
| Jan | 3 | Xmas break | CJH | N/A | ||
| Jan | 10 | Connie Aerts | The current status of asteroseismology | MPA/GK | CJH | |
| Jan | 17 | Riccardo Cesaroni | Disks, toroids, and the formation of high-mass stars | ESO/WF | CJH | |
| Jan | 24 | Andrea Merloni | Cosmological growth of Supermassive Black Holes: a synthesis model for accretion and feedback | MPE/SK | CJH | N/A |
| Jan | 31 | Ferdinando Patat | Pinning down the nature of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors | ESO/MA | CJH | |
| Feb | 7 | Andy Fabian | Feedback in cool core clusters | USM/TN | RG | |
| Feb | 14 | Raffaella Morganti | The continuing formation of early-type galaxies: an HI perspective | ESO/MA | RG | N/A |
| Feb | 21 | Michael Kramer | Fundamental physics with pulsars: from now to the SKA | MPE/SK | RG | |
| Feb | 28 | Matt Jarvis | Current and future multi-wavelength studies of galaxy formation and evolution | ESO/MA | RG | |
| Mar | 6 | Amina Helmi | Cosmology with the Galaxy | ESO/MA | GP | |
| Mar | 13 | Linda Tacconi | Dynamical Evolution of High-Redshift Mergers | MPE/RD | GP | |
| Mar | 20 | Eastern break | GP | N/A | ||
| Mar | 27 | Brad Gibson | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud? | MPA/GK | GP | |
| Apr | 3 | Re'em Sari | Binaries, rubble piles, tidal evolution & YORP | MPE/RD | CS | |
| Apr | 10 | Joachim Wambsganss | Gravitational Lensing as a useful astrophysical tool: Exoplanets, Arcs and extreme time delays | MPA/TN | CS | N/A |
| Apr | 17 | Joan Centrella | Binary Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Numerical Relativity | MPE/SK | CS | |
| Apr | 24 | Jim Stone | Turbulence and Transport in Accretion Flows | USM/TN | CS | N/A |
| May | 1 | May Day | FA | N/A | ||
| May | 8 | Richard Ellis | The Case for a Significant Population of Sub-Luminous Star Forming Galaxies at Redshift 10 | ESO/WF | FA | |
| May | 15 | David Merritt | Black Holes and Galactic Nuclei | MPE/SK | FA | N/A |
| May | 22 | Corpus Christi | FA | N/A | ||
| May | 29 | Alexey Vikhlinin | Dark Energy Constraints from Growth of Structure: Results from the 400 deg2 X-ray Cluster Survey | MPA/MG | FA | N/A |
| Jun | 5 | Simon White | The (very) small-scale structure of dark matter halos | MPA/GK | GV | |
| Jun | 12 | Lia Athanassoula | Dynamical evolution of barred galaxies | MPA/GK | GV | |
| Jun | 19 | Leon Koopmans | Gravitational Probes of Galaxies: Gravitational Lensing & Stellar Dynamics | MPE/RD | GV | |
| Jun | 26 | Dimitrios Psaltis | New Tests of Strong-Field General Relativity with Black Holes and Neutron Stars | MPA/MG | GV | |
green = confirmed.
? = reserved date TBC
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