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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 six astronomical institutes in Heidelberg, namely Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI), Institut für theoretische Astrophysik (ITA), Landessternwarte (LSW), Max-Planck Institute für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik (MPI-K), and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS).Preliminary program of the summer term 2011:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 April | Michael Kramer | MPIfR Bonn | The Square Kilometer Array (abstract) (podcast) | Schinnerer/MPIA |
| 26 April | Piero Rosati | ESO | Testing the LCDM paradigm with the mass distribution and abundance of massive galaxy clusters out to z=1.4 (abstract) (podcast) | Bartelmann/ITA |
| 03 May | Andreas Seifahrt | UC Davis | Detection and characterization of extrasolar planets in the near infrared (abstract) (podcast) | Pott/MPIA |
| 10 May | Thorsten Naab | MPA | Galaxy collisions (abstract) (podcast) | Klessen/ITA |
| 17 May | Sheila Kannappan | UNC Chapel Hill | The dependence of gas richness and disk building on galaxy mass (abstract) | Lisker/ARI |
| 24 May | Harald Kuntschner | ESO Garching | Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Lisker/ARI |
| 31 May | Stephan Rosswog | Jacobs University Bremen | Compact binary mergers (abstract) (podcast) | Springel/HITS |
| 07 June | Victor Debattista | U Central Lancashire | The dynamics of dark and visible matter in galaxies (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Tuffs/MPI-K |
| 14 June | Barbara Ercolano | Universitäts-Sternwarte München | Ionisation feedback in star formation (abstract) (podcast) | Springel/HITS |
| 21 June | Zoltan Haiman | Columbia University | The formation of the first supermassive black holes (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) | Glover/ITA |
| 28 June | Eve Ostriker | U Maryland | Understanding galactic-scale star formation (abstract) (podcast) | Klessen+Shetty/ITA |
| 05 July | Simon Portegies Zwart | U Leiden | Ecology of star clusters (abstract) (podcast) | Spurzem/ARI |
| 12 July | Rolf Kudritzki | IfA, Hawai'i | Stellar spectroscopy unleashed–ELTs and red supergiants in the Coma cluster (abstract) (podcast); Hawai'i Aloha | Schinnerer/MPIA |
| 19 July | Tim Beers | Michigan State University, JINA, and ZAH | Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in the halo system of the Galaxy and their link with high-redshift damped Lyman alpha systems (abstract) (podcast); Take Four, Observatory Blues | – |
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