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