Technical support (TS) by students:
Initial Name Ext Room Email 3200- @eso.org ______________________________________________________________ AC Arianna Cortesi 6942 515 acortesi AR Alma Ruiz 6783 512 aruizvel DG Daria Guidetti 6175 502 dguidett FH Frank Heymann 6516 505 fheymann MB Maxime Bois 6936 506 mbois MS Mathieu Van Der Swaelmen 6164 507 mswaelme MW Michael Williams 6857 506 mwilliam OG Oscar Gonzalez 6101 510 ogonzale SD Sebastian Daemgen 6856 510 sdaemgen SU Stefanie Unterguggenberger 6858 501 suntergu US Ulf Seemann 6243 505 useemann _____________________________________________________________ ESO helpdesk 6333 helpdesk _____________________________________________________________
| Month | Day | Speaker | Title | Host | TS | Abstract |
| Sep | 10 | AR | N/A | |||
| Sep | 17 | AR | N/A | |||
| Sep | 24 | Tim de Zeeuw | Recent results from the SAURON project | ESO/MA | AR | |
| Oct | 1 | Pavel Kroupa | Towards a new understanding of star formation in galaxies | USM/TN | DG | |
| Oct | 8 | Phil Hopkins | AGN Feedback and Galaxy Evolution | MPE/RD | DG | |
| Oct | 15 | Adriano Fontana | How do galaxies accrete their mass? Quiescent and star-forming massive galaxies at high redshift. | ESO/MA | DG | |
| Oct | 22 | Antonella Natta | Disks around young stars: new VLTI results | ESO/MA | DG | |
| Oct | 29 | Torsten Naab | The cosmological formation of massive galaxies | MPA/GK | DG | |
| Nov | 5 | Guy Perrin | Understanding the fate of stars: imaging the surface of red giants and supergiants | MPE/RD | SD | |
| Nov | 12 | Rolf Peter Kudritzki | Dissecting Galaxies with the Brightest Stars in the Universe | ESO/WF | SD | |
| Nov | 19 | Stephan Rosswog | New beasts in the transient zoo | MPE/SK | SD | |
| Nov | 26 | Shai Kaspi | Measuring the most massive black holes in the Universe | MPE/SK | SD | |
| Dec | 3 | Lucio Mayer | The role of galaxy mergers in the birth, pairing and merging of supermassive black holes | USM/TN | US | |
| Dec | 10 | Daniel Proga | AGN Feedback via Radiation and Radiation-Driven Outflows | MPA/GK | US | |
| Dec | 17 | Mark Krumholz | The Formation of Massive Stars | MPA/GK | US | |
| Dec | 24 | Xmas break | N/A | |||
| Dec | 31 | Xmas break | N/A | |||
| Jan | 7 | Xmas break | N/A | |||
| Jan | 14 | Filippo Fraternali | Gas accretion and galaxy evolution | ESO/MA | SU | |
| Jan | 21 | Nathan Bastian | Young massive stellar clusters as astrophysical probes | MPA/MA | SU | |
| Jan | 28 | Kees Dullemond | MPA/MA | SU | N/A | |
| Feb | 4 | Megan Urry | Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution | MPE/SK | OG | |
| Feb | 11 | Benedetta Ciardi | IGM Reionization and 21 cm line observations | MPA/GK | OG | |
| Feb | 18 | Olaf Reimer | Deciphering the gamma-ray sky with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope | MPE/SK | OG | N/A |
| Feb | 25 | Willy Benz | What have exoplanets told us about planet formation? | MPE/RD | OG | |
| Mar | 4 | Jonathan Lunine | Saturn's moon Titan: Its methane hydrological cycle and potential for life | ESO/MA | MW | |
| Mar | 11 | Andrei Beloborodov | Mechanism of GRB emission | MPA/MG | MW | N/A |
| Mar | 18 | Alessandro Morbidelli | Formation and evolution of our solar system: some hints for understanding the great diversity of extra-solar systems | ESO/MA | MW | |
| Mar | 25 | Joe Mohr | Initial Results on Galaxy Clusters from the South Pole Telescope Survey | MPA/MA | MW | N/A |
| Apr | 1 | Eastern break | FH | N/A | ||
| Apr | 8 | Chris McKee | The star formation rate in a multiphase interstellar medium | MPE/TN | FH | |
| Apr | 15 | Eckhard Sturm | The Herschel Space Telescope - Europe's new window into the infrared Universe | MPE/RD | FH | |
| Apr | 22 | Nick Gnedin | [Volcanoed out] What we do not yet know about star formation in galaxies | MPA/GK | FH | |
| Apr | 29 | Norbert Langer | MPA/MA | FH | N/A | |
| May | 6 | Zoltan Haiman | The Electromagnetic Counterparts of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries | MPA/MG | AC | |
| May | 13 | Ascension Day | AC | N/A | ||
| May | 20 | Rainer Spurzem | Merging Supermassive Black Holes, Green Supercomputers and other Computer Games | MPE/SK | AC | N/A |
| May | 27 | Andrea Goldwurm | The High-Energy Activity of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Galactic Center | MPE/SK | AC | |
| Jun | 3 | Corpus Christi | N/A | |||
| Jun | 10 | Norbert Christlieb | The metallicity distribution function of the Milky Way halo, as determined from the Hamburg/ESO Survey | MPA/MA | MB | |
| Jun | 17 | Amy Barger | Parallel Lives: The Symbiotic Growth of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes | MPA/MG | MB | |
| Jun | 24 | Dong Lai | Exciting Waves and Modes in Black-Hole Accretion Disks | MPA/MG | MB | N/A |
| Jul | 1 | Avishai Dekel | High-z Galaxy Formation in the Standard Cosmology | MPA/GK | MS | |
green = confirmed.
? = reserved date TBC
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