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Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
The Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays at 17:15 in the large auditorium of the Physikalisches Institut at Philosophenweg 12. The colloquium is organized jointly by the five astronomical institutes in Heidelberg, namely Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI), Institut für theoretische Astrophysik (ITA), Landessternwarte (LSW), Max-Planck Institute für Astronomie (MPIA), and Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik (MPI-K). Some of the talks are organized together with the particle physicists at the University of Heidelberg. These talks are marked by a yellow background in the program below.Program of the summer term 2010:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2010 | Stefan Schael | RWTH Aachen | The search for dark matter with AMS on the ISS (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Jordan/ARI |
| 27 April 2010 | Ansgar Reiners | University of Göttingen | Rotation and activity in cool stars (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Quirrenbach/LSW |
| 04 May 2010 | Eva Schinnerer | MPIA Heidelberg | The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) (podcast) | |
| 11 May 2010 | David Southwood | ESA | ESA's cosmic vision (abstract) (podcast) | Krautter/LSW |
| 18 May 2010 | Guy Perrin | Observatoire de Paris/LESIA | Understanding the fate of stars: imaging the surface of red giants and supergiants (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Pott/MPIA |
| 25 May 2010 | Giovanna Tinetti | University College London | Exploring extrasolar worlds: from gas giants to terrestrial habitable planets (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Afonso/MPIA |
| 01 June 2010 | Timothy Beers | Michigan State University and ZAH | The metallicity distribution function(s) of halo stars as revealed by SDSS/SEGUE (abstract) (podcast) | Christlieb/LSW |
| 08 June 2010 | Lister Stavely-Smith | University of Western Australia | Supernova remnant 1987A after 23 years (abstract) (podcast) | Kirk/MPI-K |
| 15 June 2010 | Dieter Lutz | MPE, Garching | First results from the Herschel deep extragalactic surveys (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Klaas/MPIA |
| 22 June 2010 | Zeljko Ivezic | University of Washington, Seattle | Reaching for the sky with SDSS and LSST (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Beers/LSW |
| 29 June 2010 | Zoë Leinhardt | Cambridge | Forming protoplanets from planetesimals (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Klahr/MPIA |
| 06 July 2010 | Rainer Schödel | Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada | Continually evolving: our understanding of the Galactic center (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Pott/MPIA |
| 13 July 2010 | Gary Zank | University of Alabama in Huntsville | The interaction of the Solar and stellar winds with the interstellar medium (abstract) | Reville/MPI-K |
| 20 July 2010 | 11th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC XI) | |||
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