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Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium

The Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays at 17:15 in the large auditorium of the Physikalisches Institut at Philosophenweg 12.

The colloquium is organized jointly by the five astronomical institutes in Heidelberg, namely Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI), Institut für theoretische Astrophysik (ITA), Landessternwarte (LSW), Max-Planck Institute für Astronomie (MPIA), and Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik (MPI-K). Some of the talks are organized together with the particle physicists at the University of Heidelberg. These talks are marked in blue.

Preliminary program for the winter term 2009/10:

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Host Watch
20 Oct 2009 Tom Abel Stanford Formation of the first stars Christlieb/LSW
27 Oct 2009 Isobel Hook Oxford The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) Christlieb/LSW
03 Nov 2009 Hendrik Schatz Michigan State Rare isotopes in cosmic explosions and in accelerators on Earth Klahr/MPIA
10 Nov 2009
17 Nov 2009
24 Nov 2009 Mike Gladders U Chicago Bright arcs around optically selected clusters: from a handful to hundreds Wambsganß/ARI
01 Dec 2009 Kandaswamy Subramanian Pune Magnetic fields in the early Universe Klessen/ITA
08 Dec 2009
15 Dec 2009
22 Dec 2009 Klaus Hübner Heidelberg Der 150. Geburtstag der Astrophysik durch Kirchoffs Spektroskopie der Sonne –
12 Jan 2010
19 Jan 2010 Lucio Mayer ETH Zürich Galaxy formation Klessen/ITA
26 Jan 2010 Saleem Zaroubi Groningen The first LOFAR observations Bartelmann/ITA
02 Feb 2010 Richard Davies MPE Star formation in the central regions of AGN Meisenheimer/MPIA
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