JAC Speakers 2012-2013


Calendar 2012 2013
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Initials Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ------------------------------------------------------------ AMI Anna Mioltello 6992 413 amiotell BNI Bitten Nielsen 6858 501 bnielsen EGA Elisabeth Gall 6237 512 egall FUR Fernanda Urrutia 506 furrutia JMS Johannes Mueller-Seidlitz 6468 304 jmueller LHU Leo Huckvale 6601 525 lhuckval LIN Laura Inno 6521 510 linno MBU Mattia Bulla 413 mbulla MDP Marco De Pascale 6401 503 mdepasca YWA Yue Wang 6689 505 ywang ------------------------------------------------------------ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk ------------------------------------------------------------
Month Day Speaker Title Dates of the visit Host TS Abstract
Sep 27 Charlie Conroy From the IMF to the S-Process in Early-Type Galaxies   MPE/NFS JMS
Oct 04 Joe Hennawi Probing the Circumgalactic Medium   MPA/GK BNI
Oct 11 Raffaele Gratton Multiple populations in globular clusters   ESO/MRE BNI
Oct 18 Anna Frebel Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old stars   ESO/MRE BNI
Oct 25 Cathie Clarke The Clearing of Discs around Young Stars   USM/BE BNI
Nov 01 All Saints' N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Nov 08 Shep Doeleman The Event Horizon Telescope: Observing Black Holes with Schwarzschild Radius Resolution   MPE/NFS AMI
Nov 15 Jelle Kaastra A deep look into AGN: accretion and outflow of gas in Mrk 509   MPE/AM AMI
Nov 22 Jenny Greene Galaxy Nuclei, Galaxy Outskirts   MPE/AM AMI
Nov 29 Andrew Pontzen The universal dark matter density profile and its destruction   MPA/GK AMI
Dec 06 Lisa Kaltenneger What spectral Fingerprints of Exoplanets reveal   USM/BE MBU
Dec 13 Bret Lehmer The Formation and Evolution of Accreting Binaries: Insight from Multiwavelength Observations of Galaxies Both Near and Far!   MPA/MG MBU
Dec 20 Stefano Borgani Galaxy Clusters: tools for cosmology and laboratories for astrophysics   ESO/MRO MBU
Dec 27 Xmas break N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jan 03 Xmas break N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jan 10 Paul Crowther The Most Massive Stars in the Local Universe   ESO/MRE LHU
Jan 17 Eiichiro Komatsu Critical Tests of Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background   MPA/GK LHU
Jan 24 Jamie Bolton Reionisation via the Lyman-alpha line   MPA/GK LHU
Jan 31 Dan Maoz New clues to the type-Ia supernova progenitor puzzle   MPA/MG LHU
Feb 07 Paola Caselli Chemical and physical processes in the earliest phases of star formation   ESO/MRO FUR
Feb 14 Maciej Konacki The Solaris Project: A Timing Survey For Cricumbinary Planets Around Eclipsing Binary Stars   MPE/NFS FUR
Feb 21 Hilke Schlichting Recent insights into Planet Formation   MPA/GK FUR
Feb 28 Rob Fender Extreme Astrophysics with Revolutionary Radio Telescopes   MPE/AM FUR
Mar 07 Piero Rosati Using massive clusters to probe structure formation and the first galaxies in the Universe: the CLASH project   MPA/MG MDP ----
Mar 14 Hans-Walter Rix How the Milky Way Built its Disk   MPA/GK MDP
Mar 21 Ken Freeman The Galactic Bulge   MPE/NFS MDP
Mar 28 Easter Break N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Apr 04 Helene Courtois Cosmic Flows Project, Voyage to the Great Attractor   ESO/MRE LIN
Apr 11 George Efstathiou/Jim Bartlett "Planck bonanza"   USM/BE LIN
Apr 18 Francesco Ferraro Terzan 5: the remnant of a pristine fragment of the Galactic Bulge?   ESO/MRO LIN
Apr 25 Martin Bureau Molecular gas and star formation in early-type galaxies   MPE/NFS LIN
May 02 Anne-Marie Lagrange Direct imaging of exoplanets   ESO/MRO EGA
May 09 Ascension Day N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
May 16 Karl-Heinz Kampert Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies   ESO/MRE EGA
May 23 Frank Verbunt Neutron stars in globular clusters: catch and loose 21-25.05.13 MPA/MG EGA
May 30 Corpus Christi N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Jun 06 Caleb Scharf Epic Astrobiology   MPA/GK YWA
Jun 13 Shri Kulkarni Booms, Burps & Bangs: The Dynamic Universe 12-14.06.13 MPE/AM YWA
Jun 20 Ewine van Dishoeck Water in space: from interstellar clouds to planet-forming disks   MPE/AM YWA
Jun 27 Eve Ostriker Self-Regulated Star Formation: From the Solar Neighborhood to High-Redshift Disks   MPE/NFS YWA
Jul 04 Fiona Harrison A New View of the High Energy Sky From The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)   MPA/GK

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