Technical support (TS) by students:
Initial Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ______________________________________________________________ AG Galametz, Audrey 6386 508 agalamet BJ Jalali, Behrang 6330 507 bjalali CN Nunez, Carolina 6614 504 cnunez FH Heymann, Frank 6516 505 fheymann GS Santangelo, Gina 6233 515 gsantang IM Misgeld, Ingo 6858 501 imisgeld KB Brogaard, Karsten 6243 505 kbrogaar KL Lind, Karin 6672 524 klind LF Feng, Lu 6329 505 lfeng LR Ricci, Luca 6635 503 lricci TP Penuela, Tania 6583 502 tpenuela YR Jaffe Ribbi, Yara 6845 509 yjaffe _____________________________________________________________ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk _____________________________________________________________
| Month | Day | Speaker | Title | Host | TS | Abstract |
| Sep | 11 | Mitch Begelman | The First Supermassive Black Holes? | MPA/GK | GS/KB | |
| Sep | 18 | Daniel Thomas | The puzzling formation history of early-type galaxies | MPA/GK | GS/KB | |
| Sep | 25 | Ralf Klessen | Star Formation Now and Then | USM/TN | GS/KB | |
| Oct | 2 | Claudia Maraston | Stellar population models | MPA/GK | BJ | |
| Oct | 9 | Joop Schaye | Simulating the formation of galaxies | MPA/GK | BJ | |
| Oct | 16 | BJ | N/A | |||
| Oct | 23 | Johan Fynbo | Gamma-ray bursts: sign posts for star-formation throughout the Universe | USM/TN | BJ | |
| Oct | 30 | Anatoly Spitkovsky | The Physics of Collisionless Shocks | MPA/GK | BJ | |
| Nov | 6 | Joe Silk | Dark Matters | USM/TN | KL | |
| Nov | 13 | Maxim Markevich | Chandra results on hydrodynamics of galaxy clusters | MPA/MG | KL | |
| Nov | 20 | Niel Brandt | Recent Results from the Deepest X-ray Surveys: Adventuring Through the Distant X-ray Universe | MPA/MG | KL | |
| Nov | 27 | Raffaella Schneider | Cosmic pollution: metals and dust from the first stars | ESO/WF | KL | |
| Dec | 4 | Pieter van Dokkum | The complex history of massive galaxies | MPA/GK | AG | |
| Dec | 11 | Ken Freeman | Galactic Disks | ESO/MA | AG | |
| Dec | 18 | AG | N/A | |||
| Dec | 25 | Xmas break | N/A | |||
| Jan | 1 | Xmas break | N/A | |||
| Jan | 8 | Xmas break | N/A | |||
| Jan | 15 | Jesper Sommer-Larsen | Missing Galactic Baryons, Disk Galaxy Formation and Ly-alpha Properties of Young Galaxies | ESO/MA | FH | |
| Jan | 22 | Ric Davies | Exploring the Starburst-AGN Connection on 10pc scales | MPE/RD | FH | |
| Jan | 29 | Hans-Walter Rix | Do the Milky Way's Outskirts Live up to Expectations? | ESO/WF | FH | |
| Feb | 5 | Adam Leroy | MPA/GK | IM | N/A | |
| Feb | 12 | Jochen Weller | Shedding light on dark energy | USM/TN | IM | N/A |
| Feb | 19 | Thomas Preibisch | Infrared interferometry of young stellar objects: new insights into the innermost regions of protoplanetary accretion disks | USM/TN | IM | N/A |
| Feb | 26 | Francoise Combes | MOND and the Galaxies | ESO/MA | IM | |
| Mar | 5 | Stuart Wyithe | Redshifted 21cm Radiation and Reionization | MPA/GK | YR | |
| Mar | 12 | Nahum Arav | Measuring Kinetic luminosity of quasar outflows: results from VLT observations, and implications to AGN feedback | MPE/SK | YR | |
| Mar | 19 | Sylvain Veilleux | Galaxy Mergers, Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, and Quasar Activity | MPE/RD | YR | |
| Mar | 26 | Francesca Matteucci | From chemical abundances to formation and evolution of galaxies | ESO/MA | YR | N/A |
| Apr | 2 | Christy Tremonti | Empirical Evidence for Quasar Feedback | MPA/GK | CN | |
| Apr | 9 | Eastern break | N/A | |||
| Apr | 16 | Matthew Colless | The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey | MPE/RD | CN | |
| Apr | 23 | Lutz Wisotzki | Quasars and the Cosmic Ultraviolet Background | ESO/MA | CN | |
| Apr | 30 | Charlie Lada | Dark Nebular Cores and the Origin of Stellar Masses | USM/TN | CN | |
| May | 7 | Bill Harris | The Formation History of Globular Clusters and the New Mass/Metallicity Relation | ESO/WF | LR | |
| May | 14 | Ian McHardy | X-ray Variability of AGN and Relationship to X-ray Binaries | MPE/SK | LR | |
| May | 21 | Ascension | N/A | |||
| May | 28 | Peter Schneider | Weak cosmological lensing -- an update | MPE/RD | LR | |
| Jun | 4 | Riccardo Giovanelli | ALFALFA: z=0 HI Cosmology with the Arecibo Telescope | ESO/WF | TP | |
| Jun | 11 | Corpus Christi | N/A | |||
| Jun | 18 | Martin Asplund | Does the sun have a sub-solar metallicity? | MPA/GK | TP | |
| Jun | 25 | Bruce Elmegreen | Star formation in High Redshift Galaxies | USM/TN | TP | |
| Jul | 2 | Andrey Kravtsov | Galaxy clusters: the crossroads of astrophysics and cosmology | MPA/GM | TP | |
green = confirmed.
? = reserved date TBC
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