Kapteyn Astronomical Institute - Colloquia
  Colloquium Schedule for the year 2006
  (For recent years colloquia klick here)

  Organizers: Amina Helmi, Eline Tolstoy & Saleem Zaroubi
  Email Address: kc@astro.rug.nl


Monday, 4:00 p.m., Zernike Gebouw 161  
( Coffee and Tea 15 min before the colloquium)  


Date Speaker Affiliation Title
Abstract
January 23 Eric Bell MPIA Heidelberg
Eight billion years of early-type galaxy evolution
[Abstract]
January 30 Kim-Vy Tran Leiden
The Origin of Early-Type Galaxies in Rich Clusters
[Abstract]
February 6 Michael Pohlen Kapteyn Institute
Studying the Structure of Galactic Disks
[Abstract]
February 13 Edo Noordermeer University of Nottingham
The distribution of Gas, Stars and Dark Matter in early-type disk galaxies
[Abstract]
February 20 Pascale Jablonka Observatoire de Geneve & Observatoire de Paris-Meudon
Spiral galaxies : the benefit of chemico-tree-sph simulations and of high spatial resolution observations
[Abstract]
February 27 Ole Moeller MPA, Garching
Stories from 1001 Lenses: what could we learn ?
[Abstract]
March 9 (Thursday!!) Filippo Fraternali Oxford
Gaseous haloes: linking galaxies to the IGM
[Abstract]
March 13 Raffaella Morganti Astron & Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
The importance of gas in gas-poor galaxies
[Abstract]
March 20 Gijs Nelemans Nijmegen
Binaries and the Galaxy
[Abstract]
March 27 Antonaldo Diaferio University of Torino
Mass and Light in the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters
[Abstract]
April 3 Steve Shectman
Nova Speaker
Carnegie Observatories
The Giant Magellan Telescope
[Abstract]
April 10 Yuri Levin Leiden Observatory
Young stars near SgrA*
[Abstract]
April 17 Easter - No Colloquium

[Abstract]
April 24 Steve Doty Denison University, Ohio
Toward comprehensive models of star-forming regions
[Abstract]
May 1 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
Nova Speaker
Department of Astrophysics
American Museum of Natural History

Control of Star Formation in Galaxies by Gravitational Instability and Supersonic Turbulence
[Abstract]
May 8 Colloquium Cancelled

May 15 Robert Laing ESO
Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxies
[Abstract]
May 22 Ralf Klessen Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Heidelberg

Gravoturbulent Star Formation
[Abstract]
May 29 Andrea Ferrara SISSA, Trieste
First Cosmic Light
[Abstract]
June 5 No Colloquium
Whit Monday


June 6 (tuesday!) Christoph Keller Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht
Solar Faculae Explained with Numerical MHD Simulations
[Abstract]
June 12 Gianni Bernardi Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Foregrounds: from the CMB to the 21cm EoR experiments
[Abstract]
June 19 Gustavo Bruzual
Nova Speaker
Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia (CIDA), Merida, Venezuela
Studying stellar populations at high spectral resolution
[Abstract]
June 28
Wednesday!!
Govind Swarup NCRA, Pune University
GMRT, Recent Results and Its Proposed Upgrade Fivefold
[Abstract]
August 30
(Wednesday!!)
Mark Dijkstra University of Melbourne
Ly-alpha Radiative Transfer and its Application to Galaxy Formation & Black Hole Growth and 21cm Emission
[Abstract]
September 4 Colin Norman The Johns Hpkins Univ., Baltimore
& Kapteyn Astronomical Institute

Structure And Evolution Of The Interstellar Medium
[Abstract]
September 11 Alex de Koter Universiteit van Amsterdam
Exotic evolution of the most massive stars
[Abstract]
September 18
CANCELLED
Floris van der Tak SRON, Groningen
Submillimeter observations of high-mass star formation
[Abstract]
September 25 Ciska Kemper Univesity of Virginia, Charlottesville
Dust evolution in galaxies
[Abstract]
October 3
Tuesday!!
Carlos Frenk Durham
The broken hierarchy of galaxy formation
[Abstract]
October 9 Henrik Spoon Cornell University
Probing the nuclei of deeply obscured ULIRGs with the Spitzer Space Telescope
[Abstract]
October 16 Ofer Lahav University College London
Cosmology with the new generation of photometric redshift surveys
[Abstract]
October 23 Luca Ciotti University of Bolonga
Black-Hole accretion models & feedback impact on galaxy formation
[Abstract]
November 3
(3PM Friday !!)
Brad Gibson University of Central Lancashire
Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud?
[Abstract]
November 6 Floris van der Tak SRON, Groningen
Submillimeter observations of high-mass star formation
[Abstract]
November 13 Olaf Scholten KVI, Groningen
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic ray and Neutrino Physics using the Moon
[Abstract]
November 20 Ravi Sheth
NOVA speaker
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Environment and galaxy formation
[Abstract]
November 22
Wednesday 4PM !!
Bjorn Emonts University of Columbia, New York
Nearby Radio Galaxies: The interplay of gas, star formation and active nucleus
[Abstract]
November 27 Rachel Somerville
NOVA speaker
MPIA, Heidelberg
The mass assembly and star formation history of the Universe from z~6 to the present
[Abstract]
December 4 Luca Tornatore Trieste
Chemical enrichment of ICM and IGM in numerical simulations
[Abstract]
December 11 Sera Markoff UvA, Amsterdam
Constraining the Physics of Outflows from Accreting Black Holes
[Abstract]
December 18 Roelof de Jong Space Telescope Science Institute
The Stellar Populations in the Outer Banks of Massive Disk Galaxies
[Abstract]

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