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Ad Valvas - Seminars at the Institute of Astronomy

Date Time Place Speaker Title
16/09/2011 15.00h IvS Joris De Ridder Seminar Trophy 2010-2011
07/10/2011 14.00h 200B.00.18 Paul Beck Fast-core rotation in red giants
14/10/2011 14.00h 200B.00.05 Joris De Ridder Red giant seismology
21/10/2011 14.00h 200B.00.05 Jeroen Vandersteen MAIA - science, design and preliminary test results
25/10/2011 20.30h PDS 01.30 Stephen Hawking Origin of the Universe  (organized by ITF)
26/10/2011 14.45h 200M.00.07 Clio Gielen Nobel prize colloquium: The accelerating expansion of
the Universe observed through distant supernovae
26/10/2011 14.00h BETH 00.08 Gert Raskin Public PhD Defence: Hermes: a fiber-fed high-resolution
spectrograph for the Mercator telescope
28/10/2011 14.00h 200B.01.05 Master students Thesis presentations
04/11/2011 14.00h 200B.01.18 Thomas Kallinger Granulation in A-type stars: a new interpretation
08/11/2011 13.30h TI 01.02 Elvire De Beck Public PhD Defence: Molecular diagnostics of the circumstellar
envelopes of asymptotic giant branch stars: mass loss and chemistry
11/11/2011 -- -- -- No seminar: Armistice
18/11/2011 14.00h 200B.00.07 CPA highlight:
Tom Van Doorsselaere
Seismology of solar coronal oscillations
25/11/2011 14.00h 200B.01.16 Clio Gielen The accelerating expansion of the Universe observed through
distant supernovae
01/12/2011 14.00h 200B.01.14 Univ. Amsterdam
highlight: Sera Markoff
Our Galactic supermassive black hole Sgr A*: the ideal testbed
for theories of accretion and block hole life cycles (organized by CPA)
02/12/2011 14.00h 200B.00.05 Master students Thesis presentations
07/12/2011 14.00h 200B.00.18 Univ. Maryland highlight:
Santiago Andres Triana
Inertial waves in a laboratory model of the Earth's core
09/12/2011 14.00h 200B.00.05 BIRA highlight: Nadia This The International Space Station
16/12/2011 14.00h 200B.00.05 Robin Lombaert Milky Way's very own Antartic: OH127.8+0.0
23/12/2011 13.30h KAST.01.07 Els Van Aarle Public PhD Defence: The optically bright post-AGB population of
the Large Magellanic Cloud
06/01/2012 -- -- -- No seminar: Friday after Xmas break
13/01/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Villanova Univ. highlight:
Andrej Prsa

Hot off the press: Kepler mission harvest of circumbinary planets

20/01/2012 14.00h 200B.01.07 Eva Bauwens MIRI @ JWST: First test results
27/01/2012 14.00h 200B.00.05 Steven Bloemen Kepler's treasure chest of eclipsing binary stars
03/02/2012 -- -- -- No seminar: bridging day after Candlemas
10/02/2012 -- -- -- No seminar: mid-year break
17/02/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Sara Regibo The debris disk of beta Pictoris
24/02/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Pieter Degroote

MESA: an open-source state-of-the art stellar evolution code

02/03/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Master students Thesis presentations
09/03/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Nick Cox New views on star formation with Herschel: cores and filaments
in the Chamaeleon and Musca dark clouds
16/03/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 KMI highlight: Roeland
Van Malderen
Water vapour in the climate system
23/03/2012 14.00h 200B.00.05 Kristof Smolders Spitzer spectroscopic results of S-type AGB stars
30/03/2012 14.00h 200B.00.05 Nadya Gorlova The HERMES binary star project: latest results
06/04/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Master students Thesis presentations
13/04/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Peter Papics TBD
20/04/2012 14.00h 200B.00.05 Wim Pessemier Dependability aspects of the Mercator Telescope control system
24/04/2012 15.00h 200A.00.225 ROB highlight: Alex Lobel Quantitative spectroscopy of massive hot stars
27/04/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Michel Hillen

The dynamic atmospheres of Mira stars: comparing the CODEX
models to PTI time series

04/05/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Jonathan Menu TBD
11/05/2012 14.00h 200B.01.07 Master students Practice thesis defence
18/05/2012 -- -- -- No seminar:  bridging day after Ascension Day
25/05/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 -- No seminar: NAC conference
01/06/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Ben de Vries TBD
08/06/2012 14.00h 200B.00.18 Kenneth De Smedt TBD
15/06/2012 14.00h 200B.01.18 Maria Luisa Alonso TBD
22/06/2012 14.00h 200B.00.07 Joris Vos TBD
29/06/2012 14.00h IvS Joris De Ridder Seminar Trophy 2011-2012
         
05/10/2012 14.00h TBD Leen Decin TBD

 

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