JAC Speakers 2010-2011

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Initials Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ______________________________________________________________ AIR Alvaro Iribarrem 6329 505 BSA Barbara Sartori 6175 502 bsartori CLA Carina Lagerhorm 6672 524 clagerho EBR Eli Bressert 6858 501 ebresser GDR Guillaume Drouart 6783 512 gdrouart MBO Margherita Bonzini 6516 505 mbonzini MLA Masha Lakicevic 6936 506 mlakicev NLU Nora Lützgendorf 6935 317 nluetzge PLA Pierre-Yves Lablanche 6426 508 plablanc THE Thies Heidecke 6398 524 theideck _____________________________________________________________ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk _____________________________________________________________
Month Day Speaker Title Host TS Abstract
Sep 23 Paul Nandra The Astrophysics of Black Hole Growth: Current Status and New Horizons MPE/SK NLU
Sep 30 Alexander Schekochihin A thermally stable magnetized intracluster medium: from microphysics to global profiles MPA/MG NLU
Oct 7 Magda Arnaboldi Diffuse light and galaxy interactions in the core of nearby clusters MPE/SK MBO
Oct 14 Canceled [Nick Gnedin]     MBO N/A
Oct 21 Genevieve Graves Galaxy Evolution in 3D: Mass, Dissipation, and Truncation MPE/RD MBO
Oct 28 Francesco Haardt The cosmic ultraviolet background MPA/MG MBO
Nov 4 Jim Pringle Chaotic star formation and the misalignment between planetary orbits and stellar spins USM/JW PLA N/A
Nov 11 Andy Taylor What we learn about Dark Matter and Dark Energy from Weak Lensing USM/JW PLA N/A
Nov 18 Cesare Barbieri Results of prototypes of a 'quantum' photometer for the E-ELT ESO/MA PLA
Nov 25 Roger Davies Towards a new paradigm for early type galaxies ESO/MA PLA N/A
Dec 2 Smita Mathur Where are the baryons?: hide and seek in the Universe MPE/SK CLA
Dec 9 Avi Loeb How did the first stars and galaxies form? MPA/MG CLA
Dec 16 Giovanni Losurdo The search for Gravitational Waves ESO/MR CLA
Dec 23 Xmas break N/A N/A N/A N/A
Dec 30 Xmas break N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jan 6 Xmas break N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jan 13 Will Percival Answering Cosmological Questions with Galaxy Surveys USM/JW THE
Jan 20 Dave Alexander Tracing the Growth of Black Holes in the Distant Universe MPE/RD THE
Jan 27 Barbara Ercolano Radiation feedback in high and low mass star and planet formation USM/JW THE
Feb 3 João Alves An empirical view on the formation of stellar clusters: self-triggering USM/JW EBR
Feb 10 Dieter Breitschwert Evolution of the Turbulent Interstellar Medium in Star Forming Galaxies USM/JW EBR
Feb 17 Nabila Aghanim   MPA/MG EBR N/A
Feb 24 Mark Swinbank Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope MPE/RD EBR
Mar 3 Michael Meyer A Universal Stellar Initial Mass Function: A Critical Look at Variations ESO/MA BSA
Mar 10 Dan Stark Early Star Forming Galaxies and the Reionization of the Universe MPE/RD BSA
Mar 17 Pepi Fabbiano Chandra Observations of Galaxies: X-raying galaxy evolution ESO/MR BSA
Mar 24 Vasily Belokurov The Mass and the Mess in the Milky Way Halo MPA/MG BSA
Mar 31 Manfred Schüssler Solar magnetism: complexity, simplicity, and a bad conscience MPA/MA BSA N/A
Apr 7 Masahiro Teshima Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy with the MAGIC telescope MPA/MA MLA N/A
Apr 14 Natascha Förster Schreiber   MPE/RD MLA N/A
Apr 21 Easter break N/A N/A N/A N/A
Apr 28 Volker Bromm The First Stars and Galaxies MPA/MA MLA N/A
May 5 Markus Kissler-Patig Intermediate mass black holes MPA/MA GDR N/A
May 12 Simon Portegies Zwart What is wrong with the binary millisecond pulsar J1903+0327? MPE/RD GDR
May 19 Albert Zijlstra Stars: The End ESO/MA GDR
May 26 Ramesh Narayan Measuring Black Hole Spin MPA/MG GDR N/A
Jun 2 Christi Himmelfahrt N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jun 9 Paolo Padoan The Turbulent-Fragmentation Model of Star Formation ESO/MR AIR
Jun 16 Richard de Grijs Achievements and challenges in star formation MPE/RD AIR
Jun 23 Fronleichnam N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jun 30 Cancelled [Paola Caselli] [The initial conditions for star and planet formation] [ESO/MR] AIR N/A

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