Astro Seminars 2008 - 2009

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
18.09.08 T. Wilson
(ESO, Garching)
ALMA and Protoplanetary Disks
Benz
02.10.08
R. Teyssier
(Uni ZH, CEA Saclay)
Galaxy formation: what do we learn from simulations?
Hahn
09.10.08
T. Ray
(Dublin Institute, Ireland)
Solving the Stellar Angular Momentum
Problem: Do Jets Have a Role?
Güdel
23.10.08
S. Bridle
(UCL London)
Quantifying Dark Energy with Cosmic Lensing
Amara
30.10.08
L. Pozzetti
(Bologna)
Tracing the galaxy stellar mass assembly history over the cosmic time
Oesch
06.11.08
M. Walmsley
(INAF, Italy)
Initial Conditions for Protostar
Benz
13.11.08
T. J. Ponman (Univ. of Birmingham)
Groups, feedback and galaxy evolution
Cibinel
20.11.08 L. Fletcher
(Univ. of Glasgow)
Particle acceleration in solar flares: progress and problems
Battaglia
27.11.08 R. I Davies
(Max-Planck-Institut, Garching)
Exploring the Starburst-AGN Connection on 10pc scales with Adaptive Optics
Carollo
18.12.08 D. Alexander
(Durham University)
Towards a Complete Census of AGN activity and Black Hole Growth in the Universe
Silverman
SPRING SEMESTER
22.01.09 Phil Colella
(LBNL, Berkeley)
High-order accurate finite volume methods on structured grids
Miniati
19.02.09 N. Foerster Schreiber
(MPE, Munich)
Resolving the dynamics and physical properties of z~2 star-forming galaxies
Oesch
26.02.09 Andy Taylor (Edinburgh)
Recent Developments in Weak Lensing
Amara
05.03.09 Hans Boehringer (MPE)
Astrophysics and Cosmology of X-ray Clusters of Galaxies
Miniati
26.03.09 Cecilia Ceccarelli
(Grenoble)
Hot corinos: the retail shops of complex organic molecules in space
Staeuber
!EASTER HOLIDAYS!
23.04.09 Ivan Baldry
(Liverpool John Moores Univ)
Accounting for stellar and baryonic mass in the galaxy population: Checks and balances
Kovac
07.05.09 C. Clarke
(Cambridge)
The Planet-Disc Connection: Results and Prospects
Meyer
28.05.09 S.Doty
(Denison University)
Massive Star Forming Regions:  Models and Implications for Future Observations Benz
!SUMMER BREAK!
EXTRA!
11.06.09
HIT J43.1!!
B. Brandl (Leiden Observatory) Infrared Views of Starburst Clusters Meyer
EXTRA!
18.06.09
M. McElwain (Princeton) Exoplanetary Science: Instrumentation, Observations, and Expectations Meyer
EXTRA!
25.06.09 HIT J43.1!!
N. Bastian (Cambridge) Massive star clusters and extragalactic star formation Meyer

Seminars 2002/2003
Seminars 2003/2004
Seminars 2004/2005
Seminars 2005/2006
Seminars 2006/2007
Seminars 2007/2008