KAPTEYN COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
The year 2004
January 19
Neil Nagar
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
The Not-So-Silent Majority:
Accretion in Nearby 'Normal' Galaxies
January 26
Ole Moeller
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Not all that glitters is gold:
the search for the "Golden Lens" and why it failed
February 2
Magda Arnaboldi
INAF, Osservatorio Astronomio, Torino, Italia
The Polar Ring Galaxies
February 9
NOVA colloquium
Sandra Faber
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Recent Results from the DEEP survey
February 12
thursday, 4pm; Nijenborgh 4, zaal 5111.0080
RUG Physics Seminar
John Heise
SRON Utrecht
Ashes to ashes:
a new type of nuclear explosions on neutron stars
February 16
George Hau
ESO, Garching, Germany
The kinematics and stellar populations
of the giant haloes of brightest cluster galaxies
February 23
NOVA colloquium
Alex Szalay
Dept. Physics, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, USA
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey:
Mapping the Cosmic Large Scale Galaxy Distribution
March 1
Hans Kloeckner
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Extragalactic Hydroxyl
March 8
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden
Properties of Mpc-Scale Diffuse Radio Emission
and the Galaxy Clusters that Harbour it
March 15
NOVA colloquium
Zoltan Haiman
Dept. Astronomy, Columbia University, New York, USA
Reionization History of the Universe
March 22
NOVA colloquium
Paul Schechter
MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Flux ratio anomalies in lensed quasars:
micro-lensing or milli-?
March 25
!!! thursday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Sukyoung Yi
Dept. Astronomy, Univ. Oxford, UK
On the star formation history of early-type galaxies
derived from GALEX observations
March 29
Peter Barthel
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
To be or not to be active
April 6
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Jacco Vink
SRON, Utrecht
X-ray studies of Cassiopeia A:
Exposing Core Collapse to the Core
April 12
no colloquium:
Easter
April 15
!!! thursday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Marijn Franx
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden
Evolved Galaxies at High Redshift
April 19
Harm Habing
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden
Maser stars and the inner Milky Way Galaxy (MWG)
April 21
!!! wednesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Montse Villar-Martin
Instituto de Astrofica de Andalucia, Granada, Espana
Giant Nebulae around Distant Radio Galaxies
April 27
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Kapteyn Seminar Special
Wolfhard Schlosser
Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany
The Sky Disc of Nebra
April 28
!!! wednesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Art Wolfe
Center Astrophys. Space Sciences, Univ. California, San Diego, USA
CII* Absorption in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems:
A new Window on the Star Formation History of the Universe
May 3
no seminar
May 10
Peter Hoyng
SRON Utrecht, Utrecht
The magnetic field of the Earth, Sun and planets
May 17
Ana Achucarro
Lorentz Institute, Univ. Leiden, Leiden
The virtues of defects
May 24
Siebren van der Werf
KVI, RUG, Groningen
The Novaya Zemlya effect
May 25
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Charles Lada
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard, Cambridge, USA
A History of Star Formation Research:
From Aristotle to Ambartsumian
May 26-28
Conference Info
Dutch Astronomer's Conference
Strandhotel Seeduyn, Vlieland
May 30
no colloquium:
Pentecost
June 1
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
NOVA colloquium
Donald Goldsmith
Berkeley, California, USA
Popularization of Astronomy in the US
June 7
Hayley Bignall
JIVE, Dwingeloo
Interstellar Telescope:
a probe of microarcsecond-scale structure in quasars
June 15
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
NOVA colloquium
Norm Murray
CITA, Toronto, Canada
Extrasolar Planets
June 21
Joeri van Leeuwen
Sterrenkundig Instituut, Univ. Utrecht, Utrecht
Drifting subpulses and why pulsars shine
June 28
NOVA colloquium
Jim Houck
Dept. Astronomy, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, USA
Star Formation at Low Metallicity
a window on the early Universe ?
July 5
Matt Fleenor
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
The Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster:
Large-Scale Structure and Dynamics
July 26
Martin Smith
Jodrell Bank Observatory, Univ. Manchester, United Kingdom
Gravitational microlensing within the local group
August 30
Russ Shipman
SRON, Groningen
The Rosette Nebula:
Those Dirty Details
September 6
Clovis Hopman
Fac. Physics, Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
The Swansong of Stars orbiting
Massive Black Holes
September 7
!! tuesday, 4pm: nonstandard seminar day !!
Igor Karachentsev
Special Astroph. Observ., Karachaevo-Cherkesia, Russia
The Local Universe:
population, structure, velocity field
September 9
!! thursday, 4pm: nonstandard seminar day !!
Antonella Maselli
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italia
Proximity Effect Around High-redshift Galaxies
September 13
Ad van den Berg
KVI, Groningen
From Nuclear to Particle Astrophysics
September 21
!! tuesday, 4pm: nonstandard seminar day !!
Arlette de Waard
Leiden Institute of Physics, Leiden
miniGRAIL,
the first spherical gravitational wave detector
September 27
Helen Fraser
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden
CO'ded' messages ?
What can we learn about Star Forming Regions from Surface Chemistry
September 28
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Oort Professor Colloquium
Rashid Sunyaev
Max Planck Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching, Germany/
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Cosmic Microwave Background:
Clusters of Galaxies and Cosmology
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September 29
!!! wednesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Emilio Romano-Diaz
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Probing cosmic velocity flows in the Local Universe
October 4
NOVA colloquium
Eva Grebel
Astron. Institut, Univ. Basel, Switzerland
The Violent Local Group:
A History of Accretion and Survival
October 5
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Victor Flambaum
Dept. Theor. Physics, Univ. New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Effects of variation of fundamental constants
from Big Bang to atomic clocks
October 11
Peter Woitke
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden
Multi-dimensional models for dust-driven AGB star winds
October 12
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
NOVA colloquium
Luis Ho
Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, USA
Nuclear Activity in the Local Universe
October 18
NOVA colloquium
Massimo Stiavelli
STScI, Baltimore, USA
the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
October 25
Blaauw Professor Colloquium
Ken Freeman
Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australia
Galactic Disks
November 1
Blaauw Professor Colloquium
Joe Silk
Dept. Astron., Univ. Oxford, UK
Some Current Issues in Star and Galaxy Formation Theory
November 4
!!! thursday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Julio Navarro
Dept. Physics & Astron., Univ. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada/
Max-Planck Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching
Cold Dark Matter, Galaxy formation and the Formation of the Galaxy
November 8
David Teyssier
ESA/SRON Groningen
Carbon chemistry in Photo-Dominated regions
November 12
!!! friday, 3 pm: nonstandard seminar day and time !!!
Joe Silk
Dept. Astron., Univ. Oxford, UK
Blackboard Colloquium:
The First Stars
November 15
Bram Achterberg
Sterrenkundig Inst., Univ. Utrecht, Utrecht
Origin of Highest Energy Astroparticles
November 22
Kapteyn Seminar Special
Freek Beekman
University Medical Center, Utrecht
Single Photon Emission Tomography in Men and Mice
November 29
Vincent Icke
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden
Oscillating Giant Stars
December 7
!!! tuesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Huib Henrichs
Sterrenkundig Instituut, UvA/VU, Amsterdam
Magnetic fields in Massive Stars
December 9
!!! thursday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Floris van der Tak
Max Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
The earliest stages of High-mass Star Formation
December 13
Bernhard Brandl
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden
Starburst Studies with the Spitzer Space Telescope
December 15
!!! wednesday, 4 pm: nonstandard seminar day !!!
Kambiz Fathi
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
Morphology and Dynamics
in the Inner Regions of Spiral Galaxies
December 16
!!! thursday, 12:30 -- nonstandard seminar day and time!!!
Johan Knapen
Astronomy Research Group, Univ. Hertfordshire, UK
Fuelling starbursts and AGN