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Astronomy and astrophysics (Managers: Gelato, S.; Fathi, K.; Björnsson, C.) Astronomy department seminars, thesis defences, and more. General information about Astronomy department seminars, including how to subscribe to/unsubscribe from the announcements mailing list, is available in English and in Swedish.   2013 December 2013 13 Amélie Saintonge (University College London) Molecular gas as a probe of galaxy evolution   12 Multiple Speakers (Stockholm University) Comet ISON - what happened?   06 Annalisa Bonafede (University of Hamburg) Particle acceleration on the largest scales: radio emission in clusters of galaxies   04 Gianni Cataldi (SU) Licentiate seminar: Debris disks from an astronomical and an astrobiological viewpoint   November 2013 29 Marina Battaglia (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland) X-ray and EUV observations of solar flares as diagnostic of chromospheric and coronal plasma parameters   22 Almudena Arcones (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers   19    18 Jan-Pieter Paardekooper (Max Planck Inst. for Extraterrestial Physics) The sources of cosmic reionisation   15 Nina Nowak (Stockholm University) The SINFONI Black Hole Survey   08 Chao-Chin Yang (Lund University) Stumbling Blocks of Planet Formation   01 Greg Ruchti (Lund University) Are there accreted stars in the Galactic disk?   October 2013 25 Edouard Bernard (Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory Edinburgh) Detailed star formation histories in the outskirts of the Andromeda galaxy   19    19    18 Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew (University of Warwick) Transiting extrasolar planets: discovery and characterisation   04 John Conway (Onsala Space Observatory) Science with Square Kilometre Array    September 2013 27 Suman Majumdar (SU) Simulating the Epoch of Reionization: A Comparison between Radiative Transfer and Semi-Numerical Techniques   20 Alaina Henry (NASA Goddard) Low Masses and High Redshifts: The Evolution of the Mass-Metallicity Relation   13 Andreas Svedin (Nordita) Forecasting the future, solar cycle 24 and grand challenges for time-domain astrophysics   04 Lutz Wisotzki (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik & University, Potsdam) Studying the assembly of galaxies with MUSE   02 Janice Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute & Caltech) Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies   June 2013 28 Albino Perego (Darmstadt) The inner workings of core-collapse supernovae   05 Nuria Pinol Ferrer (Stockholm University, Department of Astronomy) PhD Thesis defence: Rearrangement of gas in disc galaxies   May 2013 31 Jörn Warnecke (Nordita & Astronomy Department) PhD Thesis defence: Combining Models of Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Dynamos   29 Atefeh Barekat (Nordita & Astronomy Department) Master's thesis presentation: Hydrodynamic simulations with a radiative surface   24 Jeanette Bast (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research) Hot chemistry and physics in planet forming zones of disks   17 Carina Persson ( Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences) The interstellar medium - new results from Herschel    15 Hannes Jensen (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University) Licentiate seminar: Simulating Observational Probes of Reionization   15 Jamie Bolton (University of Nottingham) Reionisation via the Lyman-alpha line   03 Jörn Warnecke (Nordita, Stockholm University) Combining Models of Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Dynamos   April 2013 26 Kate Rubin (MPIA) Observing Feedback and the Circumgalactic Medium: Pushing Toward the Norm   19 Laura Birzan (Leiden University) Radio-mode AGN feedback   12 Michele Trenti (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University) The first galaxies: bright and faint   05 Kandaswamy Subramanian (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India) Probing the universe using high redshift galaxies   March 2013 22 Moire Prescott (Drak Cosmology Center, University of Copenhagen) Galaxy Formation and Gas Flows in Giant Lya Nebulae   15 Eduardo Guerras Valera (IAC (Instituto Astrofisica de Canarias)) The Possibilities of Gravitational Microlensing in the Extragalactic Domain    08 Emilio Tejeda (SU) Particle motion around a Kerr black hole and applications   01 Sofia Ramstedt (Uppsala University) The 12CO/13CO-ratio in AGB stars - Isotopic ratios as tracers of low-mass late stellar evolution   February 2013 22 Anna Scaife (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton) Radio emission from Low-Mass Young Stellar Objects   21 Nuria Piñol Ferrer (Stockholm) Central kpc of NGC 1097: Migration of a circumnuclear ring and new ALMA results   15 Vasco Henriques (Stockholm, Institute for Solar Physics) PhD Thesis defence: Three-dimensional mapping of the fine structure in the solar atmosphere   08 Dhrubaditya Mitra (NORDITA) Title: Can Planetesimals form by collisional fusion ?   07 Michael Kesden (New York University) New astrophysical probes of black-hole spin   07 Mathias Garny (DESY) Towards a quantum treatment of leptogenesis   07 Tomi Koivisto (University of Oslo) Cosmologies with a new coupling   06 Valeria Pettorino (University of Geneva) CANCELED: Probing the Dark Universe with present and future generations of experiments   06 Cristiano Germani (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Cosmological and Astrophysical consequences of non-standard gravitational interactions   06 Jesús Zavala Franco (University of Waterloo) Testing dark matter physics at the scale of dwarf galaxies   01 Ivan Zalamea (Dept of Astronomy, Stockholm University) Powering GRBs: Blandford-Znajek mechanism Vs. neutrino heating   January 2013 25 Inga Kamp (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands) Water in protoplanetary disks: Herschel observations and their implications for planet formation   2012 December 2012 20 Jean Paul Walker (Rutgers University) Evolution of Ly-alpha Emitting Galaxies in the Millennium-II Simulation   14 Heidi Korhonen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen) Stellar activity and exoplanets   07 Claudio Grillo (DARK) Strong gravitational lensing at different physical scales   07 Simon Candelaresi (Nordita) Magnetic helicity in astrophysical dynamos.   05 Andreas Sandberg (Dept of Astronomy, Stockholm University) Licentiate Seminar: Observations of neutral gas flows in nearby Lyman alpha emitting galaxies   November 2012 23 Sangeeta Malhotra (Arizona State University) Ly-alpha galaxies --- What are they, where do they come from, where are they going?   22 Florent Duval (Dept of Astronomy, Stockholm University) Licentiate Seminar: Lyman-alpha radiative transfer in star burst galaxies   16 Jaime de la Cruz (Institute for Physics & Astronomy, Uppsala University) Heating of the magnetic chromosphere   14 Fabio Del Sordo (Nordita & Astronomy Department) PhD Thesis: From irrotational flows to turbulent dynamos   09 Rodolfo Montez (Rochester Institute of Technology) ChanPlaNS: A survey of X-ray emission from planetary nebulae with the Chandra X-ray Observatory    02 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm (University of Oslo) Magnetic tornadoes on the Sun   October 2012 26 Koen Kemel (Nordita) PhD thesis defence: From mean-field hydromagnetics to solar magnetic flux concentrations   19 Joan Feynman (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) The Centennial Gleissberg Cycle in Solar Activity   12 Fabio del Sordo (Nordita/SU) From irrotational flows to turbulent dynamos   05 Bruce Balick (Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle) Planetary Nebulae: New Tricks of Old Stars   September 2012 28 Simon Candelaresi (Nordita/ SU) Magnetic Helicity in Astrophysics    25 Robert Fesen (Dartmouth College) The Cassiopeia Supernova Remnant: A Window into Core-Collapse Supernova Explosion Dynamics   24 Natalia Lundqvist (SU) PhD thesis defence: Supernova remnants and their pulsar wind nebulae    21 Ted Gull (Astrophysics Science Division Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt USA) Eta Carinae and the Homunculus: New Results and New Directions   14 Jes Jørgensen (Center for Star and Planet Formation, Copenhagen) The Earliest Stages of Star and Planet Formation in the ALMA era   12 Koen Kemel (Nordita/SU) Towards a new way to understand sunspot formation: the negative effective magnetic pressure instability   07 Jan Bergman (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala) Space-based Ultra-long wavelength Radio Observatory (SURO) - opening the last unexplored radio frequency regime for astronomy and space science – from the Dark Ages to the space weather   04 Melina Bersten (IPMU, University of Tokyo) Hydrodynamical models for SN Type IIb 2011dh    August 2012 29 Takashi Moriya (IPMU, University of Tokyo) Superluminous Supernovae   24 Claes-Erik Rydberg (SU) Licentiate Seminar: Hunting for the first stars and galaxies   10 Neal Turner (JPL/Caltech and MPIA Heidelberg) Shadows round the campfire: what young stars' infrared variability reveals about protostellar disks   June 2012 13 Javier Blasco Herrera (SU) PhD thesis defence: Where stars are born: Kinematics and photometry of starburst and post-starburst galaxies   01 Genoveva Micheva (SU) PhD thesis defence: Unveiling the nature of blue compact galaxies   May 2012 31 Joachim Harnois-Deraps (University of Toronto) Improving the calculation of uncertainty on dark energy   30 Francesco Taddia (SU) Licentiate Seminar: Observations of unusual type II supernovae   11 Elisabet Leitet (SU) A novel approach to find Lyman continuum leaking galaxies   04 Rene Liseau (Onsala) One thousand and one nights of Herschel   April 2012 27 Stephane Sacuto (Institute for Physics & Astronomy, Uppsala University) The power of Optical Long Baseline Interferometry for the study of evolved AGB stars   20 Ricky Nilsson (SU) PhD thesis defence: Circumstellar Debris Disks: Observational Studies of Cold Dust and Gas Emission in Planetary Nurseries   13 Genoveva Micheva (SU) Deep multiband surface photometry on 45 star forming blue compact galaxies   March 2012 23 Wouter Vlemmings (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers) Evolved stars: probing the effect of binaries and magnetic fields   16 Sven Olofsson (SU) PhD thesis defence: Extinction in Molecular Clouds   16 Kristen Kraiberg Knudsen (Onsala) Massive starburst galaxies during the first few billions years of the Universe   09 Martina Friedrich (SU) Simulations of Cosmic Reionization    06 Jonathan Mackey (Argelander Institute for Astronomy, Bonn) Models for the circumstellar medium of runaway massive stars: possible application to Betelgeuse.   February 2012 24 Peter Laursen (SU/DARK) Interpreting Lyman α emission from absorption-selected galaxies   10 Sven Olofsson (SU) extinction in molecular clouds    03 Oliver Gressel (NORDITA) Magnetised turbulence in protostellar discs - consequences for planet formation   January 2012 27 Mats Carlsson (Oslo) Modeling the solar chromosphere   13 Natalia Lundqvist (SU) Multiwavelength studies of young pulsar-powered supernova remnants   2011 December 2011 16 Anders Jerkstrand (SU) PhD thesis defence: Spectral modeling of nebular-phase supernovae   15 Jesper Rasmussen (DARK Cosmology Centre) Characterizing the missing baryons in the Universe: Prospects for ALMA   09 Ricky Nilsson (SU) VLT imaging of the β Pictoris gas disk   November 2011 18 Vasco Henriques (SU) Structure of the Sun's photosphere: convection versus magnetic fields through the eyes of the SST   11 Juan Gonzalez (ESO) Gravitational lensing and its applications in Galaxy Formation Models   04 Eric Gaidos (University of Hawaii) It's a small world: On the nature of the planets around the coolest Kepler stars   October 2011 28 Andrew Zirm (DARK) Tracing the history of (compact) massive galaxies from z~2   21 Anna Gallazzi (DARK Cosmology Centre) Charting the evolution of massive galaxies through their stellar populations   14 Mats Holmström (IRF Kiruna) Characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres, magnetospheres and stellar winds from energetic neutral atom observations    10 Laia Mencia Trinchant (SU) PhD thesis defence: Distant supernovae and galaxies in the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey   07 Javier Blasco Herrera (SU) Kinematics of star formation: from HII regions to starburst galaxies   06 Sergey Zharikov (UNAM) Radiation efficiencies of the pulsars detected in the optical range   05 Anestis Tziamtzis (SU) PhD thesis defence: Observations of young core collapse supernova remnants   September 2011 23 Anders Jerkstrand (SU) Spectroscopic modeling of nebular-phase supernovae   09 Axel Brandenburg (Nordita) Magnetic Helicity in the Solar Wind   June 2011 10 Josefin Larson (SU) New light on Supernova 1987A   01 Teresa Riehm (SU) PhD thesis defence: Investigating the Dark Universe through Gravitational Lensing   May 2011 25 Anestis Tziamtzis (SU) Observations of young core-collapse supernova remnants   24 Alexis Brandeker (Dept. of Astronomy, SU) Docent Lecture: Homochirality and Implications for Life in the Universe   20 Jens Melinder (SU) PhD thesis defence: The Frequency of Supernovae in the Early Universe   10 Mark Phillips (LCO) OKC seminar: Type Ia Supernovae as Cosmological Probes: Successes and Problem   06 Jörn Warnecke (Nordita, Stockholm University) Licentiate Defense: Flux emergence: flares and coronal mass ejections driven by dynamo action underneath the solar surface   April 2011 29 Jonathan Braithwaite (Bonn University) Magnetic relaxation in ICM bubbles and the magnetic flux problem in star formation   15 Seppo Mattila (UTU) Revealing the hidden supernova population in luminous infrared galaxies   08 Laia Mencia Trinchant (Stockholm University) The Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey: catalogues, SNe and host galaxies.   01 Rasmus Voss (Utrecht) Single degenerate progenitors of type Ia supernovae   March 2011 25 Teresa Riehm (SU) Investigating the Dark Universe through Gravitational Lensing - Cluster Lensing   22 Mark Dijkstra (MPA) Probing the Epoch Reionization with Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies   18 Juri poutanen (University of Oulu) Fermi observation of blazars and implications for the origin of gamma-rays   16 Gautam Narayan (SU) PhD dissertation (Imaging spectropolarimetry of solar active regions)   01 Sadegh Khochfar (Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) Modeling galaxy formation from high to low redshifts   February 2011 18 Angela Adamo (SU) PhD Thesis defence: Super Star Clusters in Blue Compact Galaxies: Evidence for a near-infrared flux excess and properties of the starburst phase   17 Richard de Grijs (Kavli Institute, Peking) Achievements and challenges in star formation   11 Lucia Guaita (SU) Lyman alpha and UV emission from star forming galaxies in the 3 Gyr Universe   11 Simon Candelaresi (NORDITA) Licentiate thesis: Magnetic Helicity Fluxes and their Effects in Dynamo Theory   09 Fabio del Sordo (NORDITA) Licentiate dissertation: Generation of magnetic fields on galactic scales   04 Niccolò Bucciantini (Nordita) Pulsar Wind Nebulae: a successful marriage of observations and simulations   January 2011 28 Christian Struve (Onsala Space Observatory) The Role of Neutral Hydrogen in the Evolution of Nearby Radio Galaxies   18 Saleem Zaroubi (Groningen) The End of the Universe's Dark Ages   14 Maximillian Stritzinger (SU) The Carnegie Supernova Project   2010 December 2010 10 Gabriel Altay (Durham) Damped Lyman Alpha systems in Cosmological Simulations   November 2010 26 Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez (Astronomy department / SU) PhD-defence: "Measuring the solar atmosphere"   19 Anders Johansen (Lund Observatory) From pebble to planetesimal   12 Bengt Gustafsson (Physics and Astronomy/UU) Is the Sun any special?   05 Michael Blomqvist (SU) Phd-thesis defence: Inhomogeneous cosmologies with clustered dark energy or a local matter void   October 2010 27 Angela Adamo (SU) The Young Star Clusters in blue compact galaxies: Evidence for a NIR excess and starburst properties   26 Glenn van de Ven (MPIA, Heidelberg) Dynamics of galaxies and globular clusters unraveled with two-dimensional kinematics   22 Arjan Bik (MPIA Heidelberg) Dissecting high-mass star-forming regions; tracing back their complex formation history   21 Brian Boyle (SKA Director, Australia/NZ, CSIRO) The Square Kilometre Array and the Australian SKA Pathfinder    15 Torgny Karlsson (Sydney) Uncovering the chemical signatures of the first star clusters in the universe   08 Bob Sanders (Kapteyn Institute) Who discovered dark matter in galaxies?   September 2010 24 Barbara Ercolano (IoA cambridge) X-ray irradiation of protoplanetary discs: a dominant dispersal mechanism   22 Erik Zackrisson & Claes-Erik Rydberg () PhD project presentation: Detecting the first stars and galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope   22 Göran Östlin & Florent Duval () PhD project presentation: Understanding Lyman alpha emission from starburst galaxies    17 Lennart Lindegren (Lund) Scanning space astrometry: An update on the Gaia project   15 Nurio Piñol Ferrer () PhD Seminar: Molecular gas at the centre of NGC 1097    10 Aleks Scholz (Dublin) The spindown of stars: from the ONC to the Sun   03 Inma Martinez-Valpuesta (MPE garching) Disk Galaxies. A bar perspective   August 2010 27 Mordecai Mac Low (American Museum of Natural History, New York) The Formation of Molecular Clouds and Massive Stars   June 2010 11 Markus Janson (University of Toronto) Imaging and spectroscopy of extrasolar planetary systems   04 Michael Blomqvist (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University) Probing inhomogeneous cosmological models with supernovae   02 Ray Jaywardhana (University of Toronto) Chasing Weather on Brown Dwarfs   May 2010 19 Martina Friedrich () PhD Astro Seminar: Topology of Cosmological Reionization   07 Göran Olofsson (SU) Smoke rings around Vega (!) and beta Pictoris (?)   April 2010 16 Ross Church (Lund Observatory) The spatial offsets of short gamma-ray bursts   March 2010 19 Sebastian Muller (OSO, Chalmers) Molecular absorption in galaxies at intermediate redshifts   16 Daniel Schaerer (Observatoire de Genève) Searches for and properties of the most distant galaxies   12 Andreas Korn (Uppsala University) Lithium - from the Big Bang to T Tauri stars   09 Daniele Malesani (DARK) Gamma-ray bursts: a sample approach   02 Pavel Kroupa (Argelander Institute for Astronomy (AIfA) University of Bonn) Towards a new understanding of star formation in galaxies   February 2010 26 Matteo Monelli (IAC) The LCID project: star formation history of isolated, Local Group dwarf galaxies   19 Eric Stempels (Uppsala University) Young eclipsing binary stars   05 Stas Barabash (IRF, Kiruna) The Moon, solar wind, and water   January 2010 29 Kanan Datta (SU) HI as a Probe of the Large Scale Structure in the Post-Reionization Universe   19 Rens Waters (Astronomical Institute Amsterdam and Leuven) Proto-planetary disks surrounding intermediate mass young stars   18 PhD Defense: Matthias Maercker   15 Gustav Taxén (VIC-Sthlm, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH.) Recent trends in scientific visualization   08 Ronnie Jansson (New York University) The Galactic magnetic field and Centaurus A as a UHECR source   2009 December 2009 16 Boris Dintrans (Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse) Direct numerical simulation of internal wave attractors   04 Remon Cornelisse (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) The Bowen Survey; detecting donor star signatures in low mass X-ray binaries   November 2009 20 Morgan Fouesneau (Strasbourg Observatory) Properties of unresolved star clusters: the effect of Stochastic Fluctuations   17 Reynier Peletier (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen) Galactic Bulges   13 Pamela Klaassen (European Southern Observatory) Molecular Gas Dynamics in Massive Star Forming Regions   05 Karen Meech (University of Hawaii, NASA Astrobiology Institute) Activity in Distant Comets - Ice Condensation Temperatures in the Early Solar System   October 2009 30 Hans Rickman (Uppsala Observatory) The Oort Cometary Cloud -- Fact or Fiction?   23 Nils Ryde (Lund Observatory) *CANCELLED* How was our bulge formed?   16 John Conway (Onsala Space observatory / Chalmers) The hidden beauty of Arp220; star birth and death in an extreme environment    13 Marcel Haas (Leiden University) Nature and nurture in galaxy formation simulations   09 Ingo Berentzen (Inst. for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg) Dynamical Evolution of Massive Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclei   02 Oct 2009 02 Oct 2010    02 Ernst Paunzen (University of Vienna) The current status of open cluster research   September 2009 18 Paolo Padovani (ESO Garching) The sub-mJy radio source population: star-forming galaxies or active galactic nuclei?   14 Matteo Cantiello (Utrecht University) Long Gamma-Ray Bursts Progenitors   11 Hubert Klahr (Heidelberg) The role of turbulence in the formation of planets   04 Gautam Narayan (SU) Study of small scale magnetic features in the Solar photosphere   August 2009 28 Stefan Larsson (SU) Fermi LAT observations of Blazars and X-ray binaries   June 2009 16 Greg Laughlin (Lick Observatory) Extrasolar Planets -- Spitzer Takes the Heat   12 Charles Dermer (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) Black-Hole Jets of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays: Clues from Auger and Fermi   11 Andrew MacFadyen (New York University) Gamma-ray burst jets: multidimensional simulations and observational signatures   10 Amir Levinson (Tel Aviv University) Convective instability of relativistic, decelerating ejecta : an origin of magnetic fields in the early afterglow phase?    09 Miguel Angel Aloy (Univ. of Valencia) Local simulations of the magnetized KH-instability in neutron star mergers   08 Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel) Supernovae shock breakouts and their possible relation to gamma-ray bursts and X-ray flashes    05 Gamma-ray burst emission mechanisms (Juri Poutanen)   05 Thomas Bensby (ESO) Chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge as traced by microlensed dwarf and subgiant stars   04 Tsvi Piran (The Hebrew University) Inhomogeneity in the Supernova Remnants as a Natural Explanation of the PAMELA Observations   04 PhD Defense: Sofia Ramstedt   02 () comets in IR region   01 - 03 Physics of Relativistic Flows: An Observational View   May 2009 29 Boris Stern, Juri Poutanen, Lukasz Stawarz ( ) Supercritical phenomena in relativistic flows   29 Carina Persson (Onsala Space Observatory) Searches for primordial spectral lines from the cosmic dark ages   28 Serguei Komissarov (Leeds University) Magnetic acceleration of relativistic jets   28 Yizhong Fan (NBIA, Copenhagen) The gamma-ray burst outflow: hot or cold?   27 Supercritical phenomena in relativistic flows   25 Jonathan Granot (University of Hertfordshire, UK) High-Energy Emission from gamma-ray bursts: expectations and first results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope   22 Dimitrios Giannios (Princeton University) Signatures of a Thermal Component in Shock-Accelerated Electrons in GRBs   20 Evgeny Derishev (Institute of Applied Physics, N. Novgorod, Russia) Constraints on the parameters of efficiently radiating relativistic jets    20 Kostas Glampedakis (University of Tübingen) Superfluid Instabilities in Neutron Star Dynamics   19 Lukasz Stawarz (KIPAC, Stanford University, USA) Physics and observations of the extragalactic jets    18 Andrzej Zdziarski (CAMK, Warsaw, Poland) The peculiar X-ray binary Cygnus X-3    15 Ian Jones (University of Southampton) Gravitational wave emission from neutron stars   15 Henrik Hartman (Lunds universitet) Eta Carinae: an astrophysical laboratory   14 Krzysztof Nalewajko (CAMK, Warsaw, Poland) Relativistic reconfinement shocks   13 Shiho Kobayashi (Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK) Gamma-ray burst outflows and early afterglows     11 Giancarlo Ghirlanda (INAF - Osservatorio Astron. di Brera, Italy) Gamma-ray bursts as cosmological probes    08 Matthias Maercker (SU) Getting intimate with AGB stars: the chemistry, dynamics and evolution of CSEs   07 Lukasz Stawarz (KIPAC, Stanford University, USA) A Role and a Structure of the Magnetic Field in Jets, Hotspots and Lobes of Radio Galaxies   06 Dmitry Khangulyan (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg) Gamma-ray binary systems    05 Jan Conrad and Joakim Edsjö (Stockholm University) First fermi results on cosmic ray electrons + intepretation   April 2009 28 Ioannis Bitsakis (University of Athens & the Embassy of Greece) Antikythera   24 Roald Schnerr (SU) Magnetic fields in stars   17 Sofia Feltzing (Lunds universitet) Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies - A changing Landscape   03 Karin Öberg (Leiden Observatory) Ice evolution during low-mass star formation - from atoms to complex organics   March 2009 27 Mark Pearce (Dept. of Physics, KTH) Studies of cosmic antiparticles with PAMELA   20 Sofia Ramstedt (Stockholms universitet) Circumstellar molecular abundances of AGB stars   18 Jim Dale (Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague) Feedback, triggered star formation and cluster disruption   13 Nik Piskunov (Uppsala Universitet) The race for finding Earth-like exoplanets with radial velocities   06 Piyali Chatterjee (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Solar cycle prediction   February 2009 27 Chunglee Kim (Lunds universitet) Double-Neutron-Star Systems and Prospects for the Detection of Gravitational Waves   25 Violeta Gonzalez Perez (Barcelona) Massive, red galaxies in a hierarchical universe: Extremely Red Objects properties   13 Karl-Heinz Rädler (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam) Dynamo theory and its experimental validation   January 2009 30 Daniel Sauer (Stockholms universitet) Theoretical models of type Ia supernova - what can we learn from observed spectra and light curves?   27 Thomas Greif (Inst. for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Heidelberg) The Formation of the First Galaxies   20 Stephen Smartt (Belfast University) Progenitors of core-collapse supernovae (NB. Tuesday)   16 Ralph Wijers (Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam) Gamma-ray bursts: How does Mother Nature do it?   09 Olov Amelin (The Nobel Museum) Demand pull or technology push? Qualitative leaps in early modern astronomy with focus on Galileo Galilei   08 Invigning av AlbaNovas teleskop   2008 December 2008 16 Willy Benz (University of Bern) Giant impacts and the formation of terrestrial planets   15 PhD Defense: Miguel de Val Borro   05 Oleg Kochukhov (Uppsala University) Asteroseismology of magnetic A stars - towards a 3-D view of stellar atmospheres   04 PhD Defense: Per Gröningsson   November 2008 21 Michael Way (NASA) A Brief History of the Prediction and Detection of the Expansion of The Universe and the CMB   14 Clas Hätterstrand (Stockholm University, Geology Department) The Muonionalusta meteorites in northern Sweden - a unique marker horizon in the terrestrial landscape evolution   October 2008 31 Chris Done (University of Durham) Accreting black holes   30 PhD Defense: Magnus Axelsson   24 Wilfred Frieswijk (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) Early stages of clustered star formation throughout the Galaxy   21 Lou Allamandola (NASA-Ames Research Center) From IR Astrophysics to Astrobiology   17 Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (ESO, Garching) Dust properties in AGN   14 Professor Chris Done (University of Durham) QPO's in X-ray binaries and AGN   10 Per Gröningsson (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University) The ejecta-ring collision of SN 1987A   03 Jens Melinder (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University) The Stockholm VIMOS Supernova survey - first results   September 2008 19 Jane Greaves (University of St Andrews) Planet Formation in Action   05 Gwendolyn Meeus (Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam) Disc and dust evolution around young objects   August 2008 29 Tomas Dahlén (Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore) The Rates of Type Ia and Core Collapse SNe from the HST Supernova Survey   22 Ignacio Trujillo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias) New Insights on galaxy size evolution   14 Licentiate defense: Natalia Lundqvist "THE YOUNG PULSAR PSR B0540-69.3 AND ITS SURROUNDINGS"   01 Jonathan Braithwaite (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics) Formation and evolution of magnetic fields in massive stars and compact stars   June 2008 13 Ray Jayawardhana (University of Toronto) Unraveling the Origins of Brown Dwarfs   05 Professor Ramesh Narayan (Harvard) Measuring Black Hole Spin   04 PhD Defense: Magnus Gålfalk   03 Caroline Hyll () Global density oscillations in non-isothermal Be star disks   May 2008 30 Susanne Aalto (Onsala, Chalmers) Molecules in active galaxies - probing the nature of the central engine   23 Juri Poutanen (University of Oulu) Photon breeding as a novel particle acceleration mechanism and the high-energy emission from relativistic jets   09 Professor Abraham C.-L. Chian (National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil) Order and chaos in the plasma universe   07 PhD Defense: Adam Peplinski   April 2008 29 Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas) Do Extragalactic Cosmic Rays induce cycles in fossil diversity?   28 PhD Defense: Jacob Trier Frederiksen   18 Alessandro Romeo (Onsala, Chalmers) Discreteness Effects in Lambda Cold Dark Matter Simulations: A Wavelet-Statistical View   10 Michel Mayor (Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genève) Exoplanets : The road to Earth twins   04 Annick Pouquet (NCAR, Boulder) The role of modeling in MHD turbulence   March 2008 28 Peter Lundqvist (Stockholm Observatory) The origin of Type Ia supernovae    14 Johan Warell (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory) Mercury: Old planet in new light   February 2008 29 Anita Sundman (Stockholm Observatory) Visualizing space in the 20th century.   22 Claire Moutou (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille) Transiting planets in the CoRoT era   15 Jennifer Simmerer (Lund Observatory) CANCELLED: Heavy Element Abundance Variations and Stellar Substructure in the Solar Neighborhood   08 Roland Jesseit (University Observatory Munich) What do elliptical galaxies reveal of their history? Mock observations of N-Body merger remnants   January 2008 18 Michael Way (NASA Ames Research Center) Bringing Astronomers and Computer Scientists Together: New Methods for Calculating Galaxy Photometric Redshifts in The Sloan Digital Sky Survey   2007 December 2007 14 Pasi Hakala (Tuorla Observatory, Turku) X-ray light curve inversion of ultracompact binaries   07 Hans-Thomas Janka (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany) How do core-collapse supernovae explode?   November 2007 30 Ulrike Heiter (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory) Gaia - physical parameters for one billion stars   16 Jim Dale (Lund Observatory) Stellar Collisions in the Galactic Centre   09 Christer Sandin (AIP, Potsdam) The value of physical detail and numerical precision: how do steady dust-driven winds form?   October 2007 19 Margrethe Wold (Inst. for Theor. Astrophys., Univ. of Oslo) Active galaxies: supermassive black holes and variability   17 Andrej Kuutmann (Stockholm Observatory) Master's thesis presentation: Photo-evaporation of Globulettes   17 Lars Samuelsson (Nordita) Dynamical modelling of Neutron stars   12 Jeff Linsky (JILA, Univ. Colorado) New Results Concerning the Local Interstellar Medium: Structure, Dynamics, and Radio Scintillation   05 Susanne Höfner (Uppsala Astronomical Observatory) "M" for "Mystery": What drives the winds of M-type AGB stars?   04 Melvyn B. Davies (Lund Observatory) The Astrophysics of Stellar Clusters   September 2007 20 Matthew Lehnert (Observatoire Paris-Meudon) The properties of intensely star-forming galaxies 1 Gyr after the Big Bang   07 Katrien Kolenberg (Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna, Austria) The centenary of the Blazhko effect: Is the solution in sight?   August 2007 30 Maria Kallery (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Teaching Physics and Astronomy in the Early Years   23 Juri Toomre (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder) Unfolding the sources of solar magnetism with helioseismology and simulations   June 2007 15 Alan Boss (Carnegie Institution of Washington) A Heretic's Approach to Solar System Formation   01 Helen Fraser (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK) Mapping Ices on 1000 AU Scales in Pre-Stellar Cores    May 2007 30 Helen Fraser (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK) There's life Jim....but we don't KNOW it (yet): a journey through the chemically controlled cosmos from star birth to the formation of life   25 Matthew Hayes (Stockholm Observatory) Lyman-alpha emission: from local starbursts to cosmological populations   15 Gregor Morfill (MPI für Extraterrestriche Physik, Garching) 2007 Alfvén Lecture: Complex Plasmas - a new state of matter with unusual properties   15 Gerald Fishman (NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama) High-Energy Astrophysics Overview   14 Ilian Iliev (CITA, Toronto, Canada) Simulating Cosmic Reionization: Character, Observability and Feedback on Galaxy Formation   11 René Liseau (Stockholm Observatory) Gl 581c - smart PR-trick or a place to move to?   10 Mitchell Begelman (JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder) Black Holes, Feedback, and Structure Formation in the Universe   09 - 11 New Trends in Radiation Hydrodynamics   April 2007 20 Michele Pestalozzi (University of Hertfordshire) Methanol masers to study high-mass star formation   18 Andrew Levan (University of Warwick, UK) Gamma-ray bursts - progenitors to probes   March 2007 30 Sergei Fabrika (Special Astronomical Observatory, Russia) Supercritical accretion disk in SS433 and ultraluminous X-ray sources   21 Jacco Vink (Inst. of Astronomy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Evidence for efficient cosmic ray acceleration by supernova remnants   16 Thomas Bensby (Dept. of Astronomy, Univ. Michigan) Hercules stream stars and the metal-rich tail of the Galactic thick disk   15 Claes Fransson (Stockholm Observatory) What we have learned from SN 1987A about supernova explosions   02 Paul Barklem (Dept. of Astronomy and Space Physics, Uppsala University) Inelastic Atomic Processes in Stellar Atmospheres: A Key to Understanding Stars, the Galaxy and the History of the Chemical Elements   February 2007 23 Ross Church (Lund Observatory) Modelling Stellar Clusters   23 Dr. Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm Observatory) Planets in Disks   21 Jeanette Bast (Stockholm University) SiS line emission as a probe of chemistry and grain formation in circumstellar envelopes of AGB stars   16 Torgny Karlsson (NORDITA) A Cosmic Hide-and-seek: The Chemical Remains of the First Stars   09 Sijme-Jan Paardekooper (DAMTP Cambridge) Planet Migration in non-isothermal Disks   06 Marceau Limousin (Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute) Mapping Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters: From Weak Galaxy-Galaxy lensing to Cluster lensing.   02 Petri Käpylä (NORDITA) Solar cycle: modeling and predicting   January 2007 26 Anders Johansen (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg) Planetesimal formation in turbulent protoplanetary discs   25 Thomas Martinsson (Stockholm University) Monsters or lens lice? - An investigation of unusually bright Lyman Break Galaxies   2006 December 2006 11 John C. Mather (NASA-GSFC) From the big bang to the Nobel prize   05 Ms. Sofia Sivertsson () Accurate calculations of the WIMP halo around the Sun and prospects for gamma ray detection   04 Mr. Anestis Tziamtzis (Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University) The Nature of the Crab Nebula   01 Johan Knapen (IAC and University of Hertfordshire) Star formation in the central regions of galaxies   November 2006 24 Computational astrophysics group meeting   22 Student presentations   21 Student presentations   20 Student presentations   17 Dr. Jesús Falcón Barroso (ESA/ESTEC) Linking kinematics and stellar populations in spiral galaxies   October 2006 27 Göran Olofsson () Odin - still in action   20 Kambiz Fathi () From large-scale galaxy dynamics down to the fueling of supermassive black holes   13 Andreas Korn () Diffusion in old stars   06 Garrelt Mellema () Simulations of Large Scale Reionization

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