Technical support (TS) by students:
Initials Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ______________________________________________________________ AFE Anna Feltre 6631 525 afeltre AFM Anja Feldmeier 6188 302 afeldmei CMA Carlo Manara 6282 524 cmanara DWY Dominika Wylezalek 6309 501 dwylezal FNI Florian Niederhofer 6320 302 fniederh GCO Grannie Costigan 6321 507 gcostiga JSA Joel Sanchez 6404 502 sanchezj LFE Leticia Ferreira 6614 524 lferreir LYO Lee Youngdae 6851 503 PSC Peter Scicluna 6635 506 psciclun _____________________________________________________________ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk _____________________________________________________________
| Month | Day | Speaker | Title | Dates of the visit | Host | TS | Abstract |
| Sep | 15 | Chris Evans | Massive stars: From the VLT to the ELTs | N/A | USM/BE | DWY | |
| Sep | 22 | James Bullock | Dark Matter, Dwarf Galaxies, and Massive Failures in the Halo of the Milky Way | N/A | MPA/MA | DWY | |
| Sep | 29 | Konrad Dennerl | Comets, charge exchange, and a novel look at the X-ray universe | N/A | MPE/RD | DWY | |
| Oct | 6 | Scott Chapman | High redshift ULIRGs and the formation of massive galaxies | N/A | USM/BE | CMA | |
| Oct | 13 | Alicia Soderberg | A Holistic Study of Supernovae | N/A | MPA/MA | CMA | |
| Oct | 20 | Cancelled [Simona Mei] | N/A | ESO/MRo | N/A | ||
| Oct | 28 | Martin Elvis [@11 am, it's a Friday!] | Quasar Death | N/A | ESO/MRo | CMA | |
| Nov | 3 | Joanna Dunkley | Cosmology from ACT: the small-scale CMB | N/A | USM/BE | PSC | |
| Nov | 10 | Marta Volonteri | Tracing the growth of the first black holes | N/A | MPE/AM | PSC | |
| Nov | 17 | Henk Spruit | The Sun's magnetic surface | N/A | MPA/MA | PSC | |
| Nov | 24 | Giovanni Miniutti | Astronomy at the very edge of black holes | N/A | MPE/AM | PSC | |
| Dec | 1 | Piercarlo Bonifacio | Observational constraints on the critical metallicity for low mass star formation | N/A | ESO/MRo | LFE | |
| Dec | 8 | Rachel Mandelbaum | Weak lensing: revealing the dark side of the universe | N/A | MPA/MA | LFE | |
| Dec | 15 | Marc Reid | Measuring the Cosmos | N/A | MPE/RD | LFE | |
| Dec | 22 | Xmas break | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Dec | 29 | Xmas break | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Jan | 5 | Xmas break | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Jan | 12 | Cancelled [Paola Caselli] | N/A | ESO/MRo | N/A | ||
| Jan | 19 | Jennifer Lotz | Galaxy Mergers through Cosmic Time | 18-20.01.12 | MPE/RD | AFE | |
| Jan | 26 | Rychard Bouwens | Galaxy Build-up and Evolution at z>=7: Results from ultra-deep WFC3/IR observations over the HUDF, GOODS, and CANDELS fields | N/A | MPE/AM | AFE | |
| Feb | 2 | Conny Aerts | The power of gravity-mode oscillations to probe the physics of stellar cores | MPA/GK | AFM | |
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| Feb | 9 | Stéphane Udry | Super-Earths and Neptune-mass planets from the HARPS surveys: a window to planetary-system diversity | MPE/RD | AFM | |
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| Feb | 16 | No JAC: IMPRS Workshop | AFM | ||||
| Feb | 23 | Stefan Gillessen | A gas cloud on its way towards the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre | MPE/RD | AFM | |
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| Mar | 1 | Friedrich Roepke | Thermonuclear supernovae from different progenitor systems | MPA/GK | FNI | |
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| Mar | 8 | Jerry Ostriker | Feedback from Accreting Black Holes: The Importance of Momentum Driving | MPA/GK | FNI | |
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| Mar | 15 | Chris Done | Using stellar mass black holes to understand AGN | MPE/RD | FNI | |
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| Mar | 22 | Dave Jewitt | Three Freaks of the Solar System (And Why They Matter) | MPA/GK | FNI | |
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| Mar | 29 | Chris Carilli | The Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization | ESO/MRe | FNI | |
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| Apr | 5 | Easter Break | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Apr | 12 | Todd Thompson | Feedback Processes in Rapidly Star-Forming Galaxies | MPE/AM | JSA | ||
| Apr | 19 | Bozena Czerny | Dusty nature of quasars | ESO/MRe | JSA | |
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| Apr | 26 | Cancelled [Yannick Mellier] | N/A | USM/BE | JSA | ||
| May | 3 | Risa Wechsler | The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Mass and Time | USM/BE | GCO | |
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| May | 10 | Christoffel Waelkens | Debris disks in the Herschel era | ESO/MRe | GCO | |
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| May | 17 | Ascension Day | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| May | 24 | Joao Magueijo | Matters of gravity: modified gravity and the Lisa Pathfinder mission | ESO/MRo | GCO | |
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| May | 31 | Heino Falcke | Towards Imaging the Event Horizon in the Galactic Center | MPE/RD | GCO | |
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| Jun | 7 | Corpus Christi | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Jun | 14 | Fabio Bresolin | A modern look at galactic abundance gradients | ESO/MRo | LYO | |
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| Jun | 21 | Henk Heokstra | Looking at the dark side: weak lensing by large scale structure | MPE/AM | LYO | |
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| Jun | 28 | Siegfried Bethke | The Large Hadron Collider Project: status, highlight results and future prospects | MPA/MG | LYO | |
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