Colloquia
This week's colloquia are highlighted.
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
17/01 | Jelle Kaastra (SRON, Utrecht) |
A deep look into AGN: accretion and outflow of gas in Mrk 509 | ||
| 24/01 | Vivienne Wild (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews) |
Gas-rich mergers and the growth of the red sequence at 0 |
Jarle | |
| 07/02 | Bas Nefs (Leiden Observatory) |
The Hunt for Red Dwarf Binaries and Hot Planets in the WFCAM Transit Survey [PhD Colloquium] | ||
| 28/02 | Alberto Sesana (Albert Einstein Institute, Max Planck Institute) |
Massive black hole binaries: formation, dynamics and gravitational waves | Rossi | |
| 04/03 Monday | 11:00 | Umut Yildiz (Leiden Observatory) |
Low-mass star formation using high-J CO and O2 lines with Herschel [PhD Colloquium] | Ewine |
| 07/03 | Ted Bergin (University of Michigan) |
Herschel observations of EXtra-Ordinary Sources: Exploring the Molecular Universe with Broad-Band Spectroscopy [NOVA Speaker] | ||
| 14/03 | Steven Rieder (Sterrewacht Leiden) |
Clusters, the Universe and Everything [PhD Colloquium] | SPZ | |
| 21/03 | Andrew King (U. Leicester) |
tbd | SPZ (for now) | |
| 09/04 Tuesday | Moein Mosleh (Leiden Observatory) |
The Stellar Mass-Size Evolution of Galaxies from z=7 to z=0 | Marijn | |
| 11/04 | Douglas Heggie (University of Edinburgh) |
Stellar-mass black holes in globular clusters | SPZ | |
| 18/04 | Henrik Beuther (MPIA, Heidelberg) |
High-mass star formation: From Milky Way structure to small-scale collapse | michiel | |
| 25/04 | Stefan Gillessen (MPE) |
Watching a gas cloud disrupt on its way towards the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre | SPZ (for now) | |
| 02/05 | Avishay Gal-Yam (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
Super Luminous and Unusual Supernovae | SPZ | |
| 07/05 Tuesday | Nick Kaiser (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) |
TBA | Huub | |
| 21/05 Tuesday | Ali Rahmati (Leiden Observatory) |
The cosmic neutral hydrogen distribution and its connection to galactic ecosystems | ||
| 23/05 | George Efstathiou (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University) |
First Cosmological Results from Planck | Joop | |
| 30/05 | Mark Gieles (Surrey University) |
The life cycle of star clusters in a tidal field | SPZ | |
| 06/06 | Kathryn Johnston (Columbia University) |
Dissecting the Galactic Halo [NOVA Speaker] | ||
| 13/06 Siter | Andreas Burkert (U. Munich) |
Watching a small gas cloud falling into the supermassive black hole of the Milky Way | SPZ (for now) | |
| 20/06 | Edith Fayolle (Leiden Observatory) |
From ice to gas: molecule reservoir in star forming regions [PhD Colloquium] | Linnartz | |
| 27/06 | Daniel Szomoru (Leiden Observatory) |
The extraordinary structural evolution of massive galaxies [PhD Colloquium] | ||
| 05/09 | Kuo-Song Wang (Leiden Observatory) |
Small scale kinematics of massive star-forming cores [PhD Colloquium] | Michiel | |
| 21/11 | 00:00 | Paul Crowther (Sheffield) |
tbd | |
| 12/12 | 00:00 | Mike Barlow (University College London) |
dust and molecules in supernovae and supernova remnants |
Unless noted otherwise, colloquia take place at the Oort Building,
Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, in the De Sitter Zaal on the ground floor,
on Thursdays, and start 16:00 sharp! unless noted otherwise.
Tea and coffee is available from 15:45.
For questions and/or suggestions concerning the colloquium series, please
contact Matt Kenworthy (e-mail )
or Simon Portegies Zwart (e-mail )
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