Sterrewacht Science Day 2009
The annual Observatory Science Day was held on Thursday, 3 September. The main goal of this day was to remind ourselves that the people working here are doing interesting research, and not just attending meetings, writing proposals, fighting with computers,... Secondary goals are:
- Coax the permanent staff out of their offices into the harsh light of day.
- Introduce the staff and senior students to the incoming third year bachelor students, and vice versa
Time Speaker Title 
09:00 Michiel Hogerheide Welcome 
09:05 Xander Tielens Astromaterial Sciences 
09:40 Hendrik Hildebrandt Using lensing magnification as a cosmological tool 
10:00 Jordy Bouwman Shining light on PAHs in interstellar ices/td> 
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee, tea, refreshments 
11:00 Sarah Kendrew METIS 
11:20 Demerese Salter Dust and Gas Diagnostics for Proto-planetary Disks 
11:40 Tim Schrabback 3D weak lensing with COSMOS 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch in Gorlaeus Lab (offered by Observatory) 
13:30 Nadine Wehres A combined experimental/observational study on the Red Rectangle nebula 
13:50 Jan-Pieter Paardekooper Reionisation Simulations on Unstructured, Dynamic Grids 
14:10 Lars Kristensen JCMT/IRAM observations of protostars 
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee, tea, refreshments 
15:00 Simon Portegies Zwart Recent insights from massive numerical simulations 
15:40 Reinout van Weeren Diffuse radio emission from merging galaxy clusters 
16:00 Marcel Haas Physical properties of simulated galaxies 
16:20 - 16:40 1 slide presentations MANY 
16:40 
Closing
17:00 Drinks (HL/Oort Hall)