Astro Seminars 2009 - 2010

The ETH-Hoenggerberg Astrophysical Seminars take place in HIT H42,
on Thursdays, at 16.45 (unless otherwise specified).

Tea with the Speaker is served at 16.15 in HIT J43.1

FALL SEMESTER
Date Speaker Title Host
17.09.09 S. Els Extremely Large Telescopes - new observing tools on the horizon
Schmid
24.09.09
P. Caselli (Leeds) Chemical diagnostics of the initial conditions of star formation
Wampfler
01.10.09
J. Weller
(Excellence Cluster)
Constraining Models of Cosmic Acceleration with Galaxy Cluster Counts
Amara
08.10.09 H. Nussbaumer
(ETHZ)
The discovery of the expanding universe Lilly
22.10.09
P. Abraham The discovery of new warm debris disks around F-type stars
Quanz
29.10.09
M. Hogerheijde (Leiden)
The molecular content of planet-forming disks
Bruderer
05.11.09
L. Amendola
(ITP Heidelberg)
(INAF/Obs. Ast. Roma)
Dark Energy: Ten Years After
Amara
12.11.09
M. Kasper (ESO)
ESO Adaptive Optics Instrumentation for Brown Dwarf and Exoplanet Research: From the VLT to the E-ELT.
Schmid
19.11.09 R. Bouwens
(Lick)
Galaxy Build-up and Evolution at z ≥ 7: Early results from ultra-deep WFC3/IR observations of the HUDF and ERS fields
Oesch
26.11.09 O. Gingerich
(Harvard)
Four famous myths of the Copernican revolution
Nussbaumer
03.12.09
(cancelled)
S. Driver
Galaxy And Mass Assembly
Cameron
10.12.09 O. Ilbert
(OAMP)
The galaxy stellar mass assembly by type in the COSMOS and CFHTLS deep fields Bschorr
SEMESTER BREAK - EXTRA TALKS
18.02.10 A. Natta (Florence)
Disks around young stars: the path to planets
Meyer
SPRING SEMESTER
25.02.10 Friedrich Wyrowski (MPIfR)
Early phases of massive star formation
Carolin Dedes
11.03.10 N.Drory (MPE)
The Bimodal Galaxy Stellar Mass Function in the COSMOS Survey to z~1: A Steep Faint End and a New (Old) Galaxy Dichotomy
Katarina Kovac
18.03.10 S. Goodwin (University of Sheffield) Star cluster formation Maddalena Reggiani
25.03.10 M. Asplund (MPA Garching) Does the Sun have a subsolar metallicity? Richard Wenzel
08.04.10 J. Brinchmann
(Leiden)
The gas content of SDSS galaxies - time to modify the Kennicutt-Schmidt law? Simon Lilly
15.04.10 Emeric Le Floc'h (CEA-Saclay) Luminous galaxies at 1< z< 3: constraining the co-evolution of dusty starbursts and obscured active nuclei in the golden era of galaxy formation Thomas Bschorr
23.04.10
FRIDAY!
2.30pm

E. van Dishoeck
S. Krucker
M. Güdel
Mini-Symposium: Hot and Cool: Astro-physical gas and plasma processes from radio to X-rays. Program
Susanne Wampfler
28.04.10
WEDNESDAY!
1.45pm
J. Danziger
(Trieste)
Dust in Supernovae with emphasis on SN1987A Marcella Carollo
29.04.10 F. Matteucci
(Trieste)
From chemical abundances to formation and evolution of galaxies Marcella Carollo
20.05.10 Sebastian Wolf High-resolution observations and modeling of protoplanetary disks Hans Martin Schmid
27.05.10 S. Driver
(St Andrews)
Galaxy and mass assembly Ewan Cameron
03.06.10 J-L. Starck
(CEA Saclay)
TBD Amara

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