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2010
October 2010
01
Angela Adamo (SU)
TBC
September 2010
24
Barbara Ercolano (IoA cambridge)
X-ray irradiation of protoplanetary discs: a dominant dispersal mechanism
17
Lennart Lindegren (Lund)
TBC
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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