Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
The Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium typically takes place on Tuesdays at 16h in the Grand Lecture Hall of the old Physics Building at Philosophenweg 12. Due to the global Corona pandemic the colloquium is currently held via zoom. The current schedule is available at HePhySTO (https://www.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/index.php?s=event&id=1)
There is a special HJAC youtube channel you can visit. This will always feature the most recent talks plus all previous ones. There is a possibility to subscribe to this channel. The final responsibility for the time of winter semester 2009/2010 to winter semester 2015/2016 goes to H.-G. Ludwig and N. Christlieb, for the period of winter term 2012/2013 to summer term 2016 it goes to C. Dullemond, for the time of winter semester 2016/2017 to summer semester 2019 it goes to R. Klessen, for the time of winter term 2019/2020 to winter term 2020/2021 it goes to D. Kruijssen. Since summer term 2021, the colloquium organisers are R. Tuffs and R. Klessen.
The colloquium is organized jointly by the six astronomical institutes in Heidelberg. These are Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI), Institut für theoretische Astrophysik (ITA), Landessternwarte (LSW), Max-Planck Institute für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck Institut für Kernphysik (MPIK), and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS).
Current Program
Program of the winter term 2022/2023 (copied from HePhySTO):
Testing theories of regulated star formation in clumpy, gas-rich disk galaxies
Professor Deanne Fisher
18 Oct 2022, 16:00
The Sun as a Variable Star
Professor Sarbani Basu
25 Oct 2022, 16:00
How the Sun and its siblings were born as a family but drifted apart
Professor Simon Portegies Zwart
8 Nov 2022, 16:00
Molecular Astrophysics at the Cryogenic Storage Ring
Dr Holger Kreckel
15 Nov 2022, 16:00
Our X-ray view of the Milky Way center, its outflow, and the circumgalactic medium
Dr Gabriele Ponti
22 Nov 2022, 16:00
The connection(s) between galaxies and their gaseous halos
Dr Dylan Nelson
29 Nov 2022, 16:00
Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanet Atmospheres
Dr Hannah Wakeford
13 Dec 2022, 16:00
How heavy is the most massive star?
Professor Jorick Vink
10 Jan 2023, 16:00
Measuring Hubble’s Constant to 1 percent using Pulsating Stars
Dr. Richard Anderson
17 Jan 2023, 16:00
Connecting Exoplanet Properties to Planet Formation: a New Paradigm Emerges
Prof. Ralph E. Pudritz
24 Jan 2023, 16:00
Early galaxies and black holes: the first six months from the JWST NIRSpec GTO programme
Professor Roberto Maiolino
31 Jan 2023, 16:00
Untangling Galaxy Evolution in the New Spectroscopic Era
Professor Allison Strom
7 Feb 2023, 16:00
Theoretical modelling of star forming galaxies and AGN in the JWST and ELT era
Professor Lisa Kewley
14 Feb 2023, 16:00
Past Program
Program of the winter term 2021/2022 (copied from HePhySTO):
Multi-messenger Astronomy with high-energy Neutrinos
Prof. Anna Franckowiak
2 Nov 2021, 16:00
The birth of the first massive galaxies and black holes
Dr. Eduardo Banados
9 Nov 2021, 16:00
Do Habitable Worlds Require Magnetic Fields?
Prof. David Brain
16 Nov 2021, 16:00
The Chiral Puzzle of Life
Dr. Noemie Globus
23 Nov 2021, 16:00
Gas dynamics, inflow and star formation in the innermost 3 kpc of the Milky Way
Dr Mattia Sormani
30 Nov 2021, 16:00
Ten months of Perseverance on Mars
Prof. Kenneth Farley
7 Dec 2021, 16:00
Weaving the Milky Way tapestry
Dr. Ana Bonaca
14 Dec 2021, 16:00
Stellar Interactions & Transients
Prof. Silvia Toonen
11 Jan 2022, 16:00
Title to be announced
Prof. Roger Blandford
18 Jan 2022, 16:00
The assembly history and evolution of the Milky Way as seen through the lens of asteroseismic ages
Prof. Andrea Miglio
25 Jan 2022, 16:00
Unveiling the early stages of planet formation
Dr. Myriam Benisty
1 Feb 2022, 16:00
Barred galaxies in LambdaCDM: Deciphering the formation history and dark matter content of Milky Way-type galaxies
Dr. Francesca Fragkoudi
8 Feb 2022, 16:00
The Physics and Astrophysics of Extreme Particle Accelerators
Prof. Felix Aharonian
15 Feb 2022, 16:00
Program of the summer term 2019:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 30 Apr. 2019 | Bryan Gaensler | Dunlap Institute Toronto (CA) | Radio polarimetry and the magnetic universe | movie |
| 7 May 2019 | Frans Snik | Leiden Observatory (NL) | Advanced optical instrumentation for the characterization of habitable planets, including our own Earth | movie |
| 14 May 2019 | Anders Johansen | Lund Observatory (SE) | Planet formation in protoplanetary discs around young stars | |
| 21 May 2019 | Adam Leroy | Ohio State University (US) | Surveying the physical state of cold gas in nearby galaxies in the ALMA era | |
| 28 May 2019 | Karen Meech | University of Hawaii (US) | The story of Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system | |
| 4 Jun 2019 | Brian Metzger | Columbia University (US) | The multi-messenger picture of neutron star mergers | movie |
| 11 Jun 2019 | Nanda Rea | ISS Barcelona (ES) | Strongly magnetic neutron stars and their connection with the most powerful transient events | |
| 18 Jun 2019 | Norbert Langer | Bonn University (DE) | Exciting gravitational waves: Messages from merging black holes | |
| 25 Jun 2019 | Sabine Reffert | Heidelberg University (D) | Exoplanets around stars of different masses and evolutionary stages | |
| 2 Jul 2019 | Pratika Dayal | Kapteyn Institute Groningen (NL) | Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects | |
| 9 Jul 2019 | Maria Bergemann | MPIA Heidelberg (DE) | Reading physics from stellar spectra | |
| 16 Jul 2019 | Andreas Burkert | LMU Munich (DE) | Declining rotation curves, missing baryons, massive clumps and extreme turbulence: the puzzling properties of high-redshift disk galaxies | |
| 23 Jul 2019 | Sui Ann Mao | MPIfR Bonn (DE) | Galactic magnetism: Past, present and future |
Program of the winter term 2018/2019:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 23 Oct 2018 | Cathie Clarke | IoA, Cambridge (UK) | The photoevaporation of protoplanetary discs | movie |
| 30 Oct 2018 | Bruno Leibundgut | ESO, Garching (D) | H0 and the never-ending story of the expansion rate of the universe | movie |
| 6 Nov 2018 | Simon Glover | ZAH, Heidelberg (D) | The role of chemistry in the formation of stars | |
| 13 Nov 2018 | Richard Tuffs | MPIK, Heidelberg (D) | The growth of spiral galaxies over cosmic time | movie |
| 20 Nov 2018 | Patrick Hennebelle | CEA, Saclay (F) | What sets the stellar initial mass function? Why is it so universal? | |
| 27 Nov 2018 | Brian Metzger | Columbia University (US) | Asteroid Vesta and Jupiter’s formation: an astrochemical tale | movie |
| 4 Dec 2018 | Anastasia Fialkov | IoA, Cambridge (UK) | Probing the early universe with neutral hydrogen | movie |
| 11 Dec 2018 | Timothy Beers | University of Notre Dame (USA) | Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars: probes of first-star nucleosynthesis and galaxy assembly | |
| 18 Dec 2018 | Henrik Beuther | MPIA, Heidelberg (D) | Star formation from kpc to hundreds of AU scales | movie |
| 8 Jan 2019 | Lars Hernquist | Harvard University (USA) | The IllustrisTNG Project | |
| 15 Jan 2019 | Claudia Travaglio | INAF Turino (I) |
How
nucleosynthesis can constrain explosions? New perspectives using multi-D supernova models | |
| 22 Jan 2019 | Pieter van Dokkum | Yale University (USA) | Hunting ghostly galaxies with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array | |
| 29 Jan 2019 | Lia Athanassoula | LAM, Marseille (F) | Formation and properties of galactic disks: The N-body view | |
| 5 Feb 2019 | Francoise Combes | Observatoire de Paris (F) | Molecular tori, black hole fueling and feedback in nearby AGN | movie |
Program of the summer term 2018:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 24 April 2018 | Henk Hoestra | Sterrewacht Leiden (NL) | Weak lensing by large-scale structure as an accurate probe of cosmology and much more! | movie |
| 8 May 2018 | Jorrit Leenarts | Stockholms Universitet (S) | Understanding the solar chromosphere | movie |
| 15 May 2018 | Giuliana Fiorentino | INAF Bologna (I) | Pulsating variables as tracers of the galaxy formation | |
| 22 May 2018 | Kate Maguire | University of Belfast (UK) | Type Ia supernovae: From explosions to cosmology | |
| 29 May 2018 | Francois Boulanger | Universite Paris-Sud (F) | The Planck view at the magnetized dusty interstellar medium | |
| 6 June 2018 | Andreas Wolf | MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (D) |
Molecular
interactions in dilute media studied with fast ion beams in the Heidelberg Cryogenic Storage Ring | |
| 12 June 2018 | Karl-Heinz Kampert | Universität Wuppertal (D) | Multi-messenger astronomy with ultra-high energy cosmic rays | movie |
| 19 June 2018 | Mario Trieloff | Universität Heidelberg (D) | Interstellar grains analysed by the Cassini and Stardust space missions | |
| 27 June 2018 | John Kirk | MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (D) | Pulsar winds | movie |
| 3 July 2018 | Lisa Kewley | Australian National University (AU) | Galaxy formation and evolution in 3D | movie |
| 10 July 2018 | Sergio Molilari | INAF Rome (I) |
From
the Galaxy to clumps and back again: a tale of star formation from Galactic plane surveys | movie |
| 17 July 2018 | Cornelis Dullemond | Universität Heidelberg (D) | Protoplanetary disks at high angular resolution | |
| 24 July 2018 | Gabriella de Lucia | INAF Trieste (I) |
Models
of galaxy formation and evolutions: recent progress and open questions – the view from the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) model | movie |
Program of the winter term 2017/18:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 24 Oct 2017 | Paul Barklem | Uppsala Universitet (SE) |
Quantum
mechanics and stellar spectroscopy: towards accurate abundance analysis of late-type stars | slides |
| 14 Nov 2017 | Fabian Walter | MPI für Astronomie, Heidelberg (DE) | Quasars in the epoch of reionization | slides |
| 21 Nov 2017 | Søren Larsen | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (NL) | The chemical composition of globular clusters throughout the Local Group | movie |
| 28 Nov 2017 | Ignas Snellen | Sterrewacht Leiden (NL) | Exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life | movie |
| 5 Dec 2017 | Ewine van Dishoeck | Sterrewacht Leiden (NL) | Zooming in on planet-forming zones of disks around young stars | |
| 12 Dec 2017 | Ariel Goobar | Stockholms Universitet (SE) | Charting new physics territories with time-domain astronomy | movie |
| 19 Dec 2017 | Tilmann Denk | Freie Universität Berlin (DE) | Cassini at Saturn: Mission accomplished | movie |
| 9 Jan 2018 | Maria Lugaro | Konkoly Obszervatorium (HU) | Nucleosynthesis and the origin of stardust grains | movie |
| 16 Jan 2018 | Vernesa Smolcic | Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (HR) | Black hole mass growth across cosmic time: Insights from radio surveys | movie |
| 23 Jan 2018 | Lutz Wisotzki | Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (DE) | The circumgalactic medium of high redshift galaxies in emission | |
| 30 Jan 2018 | Frans Pretorius | Perimeter Institute, Princeton (USA) | Black holes in the era of gravitational wave astronomy | movie |
| 6 Feb 2018 | Alessandra Buonanno | MPI für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam (DE) | Gravitational wave emission and their multi-messenger signatures |
Program of the summer term 2017:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 25 April 2017 | Björn Malte Schäfer | Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg (DE) | Intrinsically aligned galaxies in weak lensing data | movie |
| 2 May 2017 | Andreas Quirrenbach | Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg (DE) | CARMENES: Searching for blue planets orbiting red stars | movie |
| 9 May 2017 | Selma de Mink | Univ. of Amsterdam (NL) |
On the
rare stellar marriages that live happily ever after to eventually merge as binary black holes | movie |
| 16 May 2017 | Genevieve Parmentier | Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg (DE) | Volume-density-driven star formation in the Galaxy | movie |
| 23 May 2017 | Steve Shore | University of Pisa (I) | Comic test ban violators: classical novae across the spectrum | movie |
| 30 May 2017 | Kevin Heng | University of Bern (CH) | Exoplanetary atmospheres | movie |
| 6 June 2017 | Dominik Schwarz | Universität Bielefeld (De) | Do we understand the cosmic dipole? | |
| 13 June 2017 | Michele Cappellari | University of Oxford (UK) | Studying galaxies in three dimensions | movie |
| 20 June 2017 | Isabelle Baraffe | University of Exeter (UK) | On the front of exoplanet modelling | movie |
| 27 June 2017 | Annalisa Pillipich | MPI für Astronomie, Heidelberg (De) |
IllustrisTNG:
The new frontier to understand the co-evolution of dark-matter and galaxies with cosmological simulations of structure formation | movie |
| 4 July 2017 | Joss Bland-Hawthorn | University of Sydney (Australia) | The archaeology of large-scale structure | movie |
| 11 July 2017 | Sadegh Khochfar | University of Edinburgh (UK) | The first billion years of galaxy evolution | movie |
| 18 July 2017 | James Osborne | University of Durham (UK) | Characterising atmospheric turbulence for advanced optical astronomical observations | movie |
| 25 July 2017 | John Magorrian | University of Oxford (UK) | The centre of M31 | movie |
Program of the winter term 2016/17:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 25 Oct 2016 | Ellen Zweibel | University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) | Cosmic ray feedback: Written on the wind | movie |
| 8 Nov 2016 | Hendrik Hildebrandt | Argelander Institut, Bonn (DE) | Weak gravitational lensing by large-scale structure | movie |
| 15 Nov 2016 | Steve Longmore | John Moores University, Liverpool (UK) | The Galactic Centre: a template for understanding star formation and feedback in a high-pressure environment | movie |
| 22 Nov 2016 | Misato Fukagawa | Natl. Astron Observatory of Japan, Osawa (Japan) | Unveiling the structure of planet-forming disks | movie |
| 29 Nov 2016 | Simon Albrecht | Aarhus University (DK) | Exoplanets@SAC: System architectures of exoplanet systems | movie |
| 6 Dec 2016 | Ian Smail | Durham University (UK) | ALMA studies of dust-obscured starbursts in the distant Universe | movie |
| 13 Dec 2016 | Jochen Weller | LMU, München (DE) | Cosmology with clusters of galaxies | movie |
| 20 Dec 2016 | Stefan Jordan | Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg (DE) | Physik und Astronomie in Entenhausen (in German) | |
| 10 Jan 2017 | Linda Tacconi | MPE, Garching (DE) | Molecular gas, star formation and galaxy dynamics from z~2.5 – 0 | movie |
| 17 Jan 2017 | Else Starkenburg | AIP, Potsdam (DE) | Galactic archaeology to its limits | movie |
| 24 Jan 2017 | Sherry Suyu | MPA, Garching (DE) | Shedding light on the dark cosmos through gravitational lensing | movie |
| 31 Jan 2017 | Adrianne Slyz | University of Oxford (UK) | From gas to stars in galaxies | movie |
| 7 Feb 2017 | Ulrich Bastian | Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg (DE) | Gaia 1992-2017: Twenty-five years of kinks & bends – and always uphill | movie |
Program of the summer term 2016:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 26 April 2016 | Harald Krüger | MPS Göttingen | The Rosetta/Philae mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko | movie |
| 3 May 2016 | Ian Roederer | UMich | Rare Elements from the First Stars to Today | movie |
| 10 May 2016 | Richard Ellis | ESO/Caltech | Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies in the Reionisation Era | movie |
| 17 May 2016 | John Wise | GATech | Simulating Cosmic Dawn: Predictions for JWST | movie |
| 24 May 2016 | Georges Meynet | Uni Geneve | Stellar rotation across the cosmic history: from first stars to present day star-planet interactions | movie |
| 31 May 2016 | Benedetta Ciardi | MPA | Cosmic Reionization: Theoretical Modeling and Challenging Observations | movie |
| 7 June 2016 | Simona Vegetti | ESO | Gravitationally imaging dark matter with strong gravitational lensing | movie |
| 14 June 2016 | Andrew Gould | Ohio State/MPIA | Space-Based Microlensing: From Planets to Black Holes | movie |
| 21 June 2016 | Romain Teyssier | Uni Zürich | From large to small scales and back: the challenges of computational cosmology and galaxy formation | movie |
| 28 June 2016 | Julien Lesgourgues | RWTH Aachen | TBD | movie |
| 5 July 2016 | Andrew King | Uni Leicester | Supermassive Black Holes: Feeding and Feedback | movie |
| 12 July 2016 | Mark Vogelsberger | MIT | The Era of Large-Scale Cosmological Simulations: exploring large and small scales simultaneously | movie |
| 19 July 2016 | Melanie Koehler | QMUL | Dust evolution due to accretion and coagulation in the ISM | movie |
| 26 July 2016 | Christoph Pfrommer | HITS | How cosmic rays shape galaxies | movie |
Program of the winter term 2015/16:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 20 October 2015 | Norman Murray | CITA | Collapse and Star Formation in Self-gravitating Turbulent Fluids | movie |
| 27 October 2015 | Juna Kollmeier | Carnegie | Cosmological Calorimetry: The nature of the intergalactic medium and the photon underproduction crisis | movie |
| 03 November 2015 | Ralph Pudritz | McMaster/ITA | Radiative feedback and the formation of massive stars and clusters | movie |
| 10 November 2015 | Avishai Dekel | Hebrew Uni | Galaxy Formation at its Peak | movie |
| 17 November 2015 | Vasili Belokurov | Cambridge | Learning about the Dark Matter with stellar streams | movie |
| 24 November 2015 | Karin Lind | MPIA | How much iron is in our stars? | movie |
| 01 December 2015 | Steve Balbus | Oxford | Convection and rotations in stars | movie |
| 08 December 2015 | Silke Britzen | MPIfR | Supermassive Black Holes: From Jets to the Event Horizon | movie |
| 15 December 2015 | Leonardo Testi | ESO | ALMA and the dawn of planetary systems | movie |
| 22 December 2015 | Christina Ifrim | Uni-HD | The end of the Cretaceous: the causes for the dinosaur extinction 65 Myr ago | movie |
| 12 Januar 2016 | Stefan Funk | Uni Erlangen | The gamma-ray Universe | movie |
| 19 Januar 2016 | Eva Schinnerer | MPIA | Regulation of Star Formation in Galactic Disks | movie |
| 26 Januar 2016 | Pasquale Blasi | INAF | Cosmic Rays: from sources to Earth | movie |
| 02 Februar 2016 | Dan Weisz | UC Berkeley | A PHAT New Measurement of the High-Mass IMF | movie |
Program of the summer term 2015:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 21 April 2015 | Simon White | MPA Garching | Simulating the formation and evolution of the galaxy population | movie |
| 28 April 2015 | Charlie Conroy | Harvard, USA | Extragalactic Archeology | movie |
| 5 May 2015 | Matthias Bartelmann | ITA | A microscopic approach to cosmic structure formation | movie |
| 12 May 2015 | Ralph Schoenrich | Oxford, UK | New Data, New Methods: Chemodynamic Milky Way Models challenged by modern Surveys | movie |
| 19 May 2015 | Caitlin Casey | UC Irvine, USA | Dust-obscured starbursts and their implications for galaxy assembly at early times | movie |
| 26 May 2015 | Scott Tremaine | IAS Princeton | How did extrasolar planets get their orbits? | movie |
| 2 June 2015 | Jacco Vink | U. Amsterdam, NL | Are supernova remnants the dominant source of galactic cosmic rays? | movie |
| 9 June 2015 | Anatoly Spitkovsky | Princeton U., USA | Acceleration of particles in astrophysical shocks | movie |
| 16 June 2015 | Thomas Baumgarte | Bowdoin College, USA | Black Holes on the Computer | movie |
| 23 June 2015 | Jessica Agarwal | (MPS-Göttingen) | Active asteroids: primordial ice, collisions, rotational breakup? | movie |
| 30 June 2015 | Alberto Krone-Martins | (U. Lisbon, Portugal) | The fourth Paradigm of Science in Astronomy | movie |
| 7 July 2015 | Boris Gaensicke | (U. Warwick) | Evolved planetary systems around white dwarfs | movie |
| 14 July 2015 | Jenny Greene | Princeton U., USA | MASSIVE Galaxies and Small Supermassive Black Holes | movie |
| 21 July 2015 | Alexander Heger | Monash, AU | Life and Death of the First Stars | movie |
Program of the winter term 2014/15:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 21 October 2014 | Mark Krumholz | UCSC | The Origin of the Stellar Initial Mass Function | movie |
| 28 October 2014 | Mike Rich | UCLA | The Galactic Bulge: Current Perspective, New Surveys | movie |
| 4 November 2014 | Nadine Neumayer | MPIA | Nuclear Star Clusters and Black Holes | movie |
| 11 November 2014 | Hubert Klahr | MPIA | The Cradles of Planets – Turbulent Gas Disks around Young Stars | movie |
| 18 November 2014 | Lars Bergström | Stockholm | Has Dark Matter Finally Been Found? | movie |
| 25 November 2014 | Jacqueline van Gorkom | Columbia | Gas and Galaxy Evolution: From Voids to Clusters, Near and Far | movie |
| 2 December 2014 | Rainer Beck | MPIfR | Observing Magnetic Fields in Galaxies and Prospects with the Square Kilometre Array | movie |
| 9 December 2014 | Kevin Schawinski | ETH-Zurich | The Complex Ends of Galaxy Lives: Star Formation, Black Hole Feedback and the Fate of Gas Reservoirs | movie |
| 16 December 2014 | Eric Gaidos | Hawaii | Snowlines, Red Dwarfs, and Little Green Beings: A Cosmic Tale of Origins | movie |
| 13 Januar 2015 | Thorsten Enßlin | MPA | Our Universe – Cosmological Results of the Planck Mission | movie |
| 20 Januar 2015 | Francesco Haardt | Uni Milano | The Cosmic Ionising Background: from the Reionsation Era to Present Days | movie |
| 27 Januar 2015 | Bruce Allen | MPG-AEI | The Search for Gravitational Waves | movie |
| 3 Februar 2015 | Alan Heavens | Imperial College | Fundamental Physics from Gravitational Lensing | movie |
Program of the summer term 2014:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 22 April 2014 | Roberto Capuzzo Dolcetta | Univ. Rome | From classical celestial mechanics to modern stellar dynamics in Astronomy | movie |
| 29 April 2014 | Carsten Dominik | Uni Amsterdam | Transition: When protoplanetary disks reveal their planetary system | movie |
| 06 May 2014 | Alessandro Morbidelli | Obs Nice | Solar System formation and evolution | movie |
| 16 May 2014 | Francis Halzen | Univ. Wisconsin | IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos – | |
| 20 May 2014 | Paolo Molaro | Obs. Astron. Trieste | Astronomical probes of fundamental constants | movie |
| 27 May 2014 | Annette Ferguson | Univ. Edinburgh | The Peripheries of Galaxies: Dim but not Dull | |
| 03 June 2014 | Almudena Arcones | TU Darmstadt | Making gold in core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers | movie |
| 10 June 2014 | Catherine Heymans | Univ Edinburgh | Observing the Dark Universe | movie |
| 17 June 2014 | James Binney | Oxford University | Extracting Science from Surveys of our Galaxy | movie |
| 24 June 2014 | Karin Öberg | CfA | The chemistry of planet formation | movie |
| 01 July 2014 | Werner Hofmann | MPIK | Very high energy gamma ray astronomy: from H.E.S.S. to CTA | |
| 08 July 2014 | Stefanie Walch | Uni Köln | The turbulent life-cycle of molecular clouds | movie |
| 15 July 2014 | Nicolas Cowan | Northwestern Univ. | Planetary Science from the Top-Down: the Exoplanet Opportunity | |
| 22 July 2014 | Philip Hopkins | Caltech | TBD | movie |
Program of the winter term 2013/14:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| 22 October 2013 | Steen Hannestad | Uni Aarhus | Cosmology as a laboratory for neutrino physics | movie |
| 29 October 2013 | Marc Pinsonneault | Ohio State | The Inner Lives of Stars: Asteroseismology, Stellar Physics, and Stellar Populations | movie |
| 05 November 2013 | David Charbonneau | Harvard | The Fast Track to Finding an Inhabited Exoplanet | movie |
| 12 November 2013 | Pavel Kroupa | Uni Bonn | The vast polar structures around the Milky Way and Andromeda, and the implications for fundamental physics | movie |
| 19 November 2013 | Marta Volonteri | IAP Paris | The growth of massive black holes | movie |
| 26 November 2013 | Roberto Battiston | Trento | Precision Cosmic Ray Physics with AMS on the International Space Station | movie |
| 03 December 2013 | Jarle Brinchmann | Leiden | The gas content of galaxies at z<0.2 | movie |
| 10 December 2013 | Shri Kulkarni | Caltech | Booms, Burps & Bumps: The Dynamic Universe | movie |
| 17 December 2013 | Reinhard Genzel | MPE | The formation and evolution of massive star forming disks | movie |
| 07 January 2014 | Hyung Mok Lee | Univ Seoul | What can we learn from the observations of gravitational waves? | movie |
| 14 January 2014 | Eiichiro Komatsu | MPA-Garching | Testing the Theory of the Early Universe using the Cosmic Microwave Background | movie |
| 21 January 2014 | Thierry Montmerle | IAP Paris | Hot and Cold: Non-thermal phenomena in star-forming regions | movie |
| 28 January 2014 | Guido De Marchi | ESA | Star formation in the Magellanic clouds as seen by low mass stars | movie |
| 04 February 2014 | Laura Ferrarese | Herzberg | New insights into the Virgo Cluster |
Program of the summer term 2013:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Movie |
| Friday 26 Apr 2013 | Brian Schmidt | Australian National University, Aus | Type Ia Supernovae, The Accelerating Cosmos, and Dark Energy | |
| 30 Apr 2013 | — cancelled — | |||
| 7 May 2013 | Chris Kochanek | Ohio, USA | Dusty Explosions From Dusty Stars | movie |
| 14 May 2013 | Artie Hatzes | Tautenburg, DE | Digging in the Dirt: Finding Exo-Earths in the presence of stellar noise | movie |
| 21 May 2013 | Christoph Mordasini | MPIA | Planet formation and evolution models: statistical comparisons with observations | movie |
| 28 May 2013 | Imke de Pater | Berkeley, USA | Exploring our Solar System using 8-10 m telescopes | |
| 4 Jun 2013 | Max Pettini | Cambridge, UK | Near-pristine gas at intermediate redshifts: a window to early nucleosynthesis | movie |
| 11 Jun 2013 | Thomas Janka | MPA, DE | Unravelling the Explosion Mechanism of Massive Stars – Supernova Models Confronting Observations | movie |
| 18 Jun 2013 | Bjoern Schaefer | UniHD | Cosmology and astronomy with the Planck-surveyor | movie |
| 25 Jun 2013 | Raffaella Schneider | Roma, IT | The first stars and galaxies | podcast |
| 2 Jul 2013 | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz | Santa Cruz, USA | Profiling Massive Black Holes through Stellar Tidal Disruption | movie |
| 9 Jul 2013 | Frank van den Bosch | Yale, USA | On the Assembly of Galaxies in Dark Matter Haloes | movie |
| 23 Jul 2013 | Eva Grebel | UniHD | Dwarf Galaxies and Their Role as Building Blocks |
Program of the summer term 2012:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 24 Apr 2012 | Ralf Klessen | ZAH/ITA | Star Formation (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 8 May 2012 | Chris Sneden | University of Texas, Austin | New Initiatives on RR Lyrae Chemical Compositions (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 15 May 2012 | Tony Bell | Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford | Cosmic Ray Acceleration (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 22 May 2012 | Thomas Platz | FU Berlin | Volcanism on Mars and Other Worlds (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 29 May 2012 | Thomas Puzia | Pontificia Universidad Catolica | Extragalactic Globular Clusters (abstract) |
| 5 Jun 2012 | Hans Kjeldsen | Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark | The KEPLER Mission: Changing our View of Stars and Exoplanets (abstract, slides) |
| 12 Jun 2012 | Kristina Giesel | University of Erlangen-Nürnberg | Quantum Gravity (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 19 Jun 2012 | Joseph Silk | IAP/JHU/Oxford | Dark Matters (abstract, podcast) |
| 26 Jun 2012 | Karlheinz Langanke | GSI Darmstadt | The FAIR Chance for Nuclear Astrophysics (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 3 Jul 2012 | Antonella Natta | Arcetri Observatory | Making Earths from Interstellar Grains: Evidence of Grain Processing in Proto-planetary Disks (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 10 Jul 2012 | Andrea Stolte | Argelander Institut für Astronomie, Bonn | Milky Way Starburst Clusters (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 17 Jul 2012 | Joachim Wambsganss | ZAH/ARI | How to Find and Count Extrasolar Planets with the Gravitational Microlensing Technique (abstract, podcast) |
| 24 Jul 2012 | Bruce Elmegreen | IBM T.J.Watson Research Center | Formation of Star Clusters (abstract, slides, podcast) |
Program of the winter term 2011/12:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 18 Oct 2011 | Stefan Wagner | ZAH/LSW | Very High Energy Astrophysics (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 25 Oct 2011 | Naoki Yoshida | IPMU, University of Tokyo | Simulating the Structure Formation in the Universe at Low and High Redshifts (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 8 Nov 2011 | Ian Bonnell | University of St. Andrews | Star Formation and Feedback in Spiral Galaxies (abstract, podcast) |
| 15 Nov 2011 | Susanne Pfalzner | MPI Bonn | The Birth Environment of our Solar System (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 22 Nov 2011 | Gerda Horneck | DLR Köln | From Habitability to the Origin and Evolution of Life (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 29 Nov 2011 | Norbert Langer | University of Bonn | Pre-Supernova Evolution of Massive Stars (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 6 Dec 2011 | Matthias Bartelmann | ZAH/ITA | From Shape Measurement to Cluster Reconstruction: Some New Methods in Gravitational Lensing (abstract, podcast) |
| 13 Dec 2011 | Thomas Henning | MPIA | The Laboratory Astrophysics of Cosmic Dust (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 20 Dec 2011 | Mike Edmunds | Cardiff University | The Antikythera Mechanism (abstract, podcast) |
| 10 Jan 2012 | Joop Schaye | Leiden Observatory | Gas around Galaxies (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 17 Jan 2012 | Claude Nicollier | Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne | Servicing the Hubble Space Telescope: An Astronaut’s Story (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 24 Jan 2012 | Oskar v. d. Lühe | Kiepenheuer Institute, Freiburg | Solar Observations with GREGOR (abstract, slides, podcast) |
| 31 Jan 2012 | Melvyn Davies | Lund Observatory | The Dynamical Evolution of Exoplanet Systems (abstract, slides, podcast) |
Preliminary program of the summer term 2011:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 19 April | Michael Kramer | MPIfR Bonn | The Square Kilometer Array (abstract) (podcast) |
| 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) |
| 03 May | Andreas Seifahrt | UC Davis | Detection and characterization of extrasolar planets in the near infrared (abstract) (podcast) |
| 10 May | Thorsten Naab | MPA | Galaxy collisions (abstract) (podcast) |
| 17 May | Sheila Kannappan | UNC Chapel Hill | The dependence of gas richness and disk building on galaxy mass (abstract) |
| 24 May | Harald Kuntschner | ESO Garching | Towards a new paradigm for early-type galaxies (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 31 May | Stephan Rosswog | Jacobs University Bremen | Compact binary mergers (abstract) (podcast) |
| 07 June | Victor Debattista | U Central Lancashire | The dynamics of dark and visible matter in galaxies (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 14 June | Barbara Ercolano | Universitäts-Sternwarte München | Ionisation feedback in star formation (abstract) (podcast) |
| 21 June | Zoltan Haiman | Columbia University | The formation of the first supermassive black holes (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 28 June | Eve Ostriker | U Maryland | Understanding galactic-scale star formation (abstract) (podcast) |
| 05 July | Simon Portegies Zwart | U Leiden | Ecology of star clusters (abstract) (podcast) |
| 12 July | Rolf Kudritzki | IfA, Hawai’i | Stellar spectroscopy unleashed–ELTs and red supergiants in the Coma cluster (abstract) (podcast); Hawai’i Aloha |
| 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 |
Program for the winter term 2010/11:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 19 Oct 2010 | Genevieve Parmentier | AIfA, Bonn | Star clusters as crucial tracers of galaxy evolution and probes into star formation (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 26 Oct 2010 | Ute Lisenfeld | Caltech | The infrared-radio correlation in galaxies (abstract) (podcast) |
| 02 Nov 2010 | Joseph Hennawi | MPIA | Quasars probing quasars: thinking outside of the grid (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 09 Nov 2010 | Oliver Krause | MPIA | Light-echo spectroscopy of historical supernovae (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 16 Nov 2010 | Romain Teyssier | U Zürich and CEA Saclay | Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 23 Nov 2010 | Albert Zijlstra | Manchester | Formation and evolution of planetary nebulae (abstract) (podcast) |
| 30 Nov 2010 | Willy Kley | Tübingen | The formation of planetary systems (abstract) (podcast) |
| 07 Dec 2010 | Stephen Warren | Imperial College London | UKIDSS, and searches for high-redshift quasars (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 14 Dec 2010 | Matteo Viel | Trieste Observatory | Cosmological spectroscopy of the high-redshift Universe: status and perspectives (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 21 Dec 2010 | Karlheinz Meier | U Heidelberg | Make your own dark matter – in principle and in practice (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 11 Jan 2011 | Alice Quillen | U Rochester | Small scale structure in the Milky Way disk and halo (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 18 Jan 2011 | Brian Reville | U Oxford | Fermi acceleration at relativistic shocks and its radiative signatures (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 25 Jan 2011 | Norbert Przybilla | U Erlangen-Nürnberg | Massive stars as tracers for stellar and galactochemical evolution (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 01 Feb 2011 | Stefano Borgani | U Trieste | Galaxy clusters: tools for cosmology and laboratories for astrophysics (abstract) |
Program of the summer term 2010:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 20 April 2010 | Stefan Schael | RWTH Aachen | The search for dark matter with AMS on the ISS (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 27 April 2010 | Ansgar Reiners | University of Göttingen | Rotation and activity in cool stars (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 04 May 2010 | Eva Schinnerer | MPIA Heidelberg | The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) (podcast) |
| 11 May 2010 | David Southwood | ESA | ESA’s cosmic vision (abstract) (podcast) |
| 18 May 2010 | Guy Perrin | Observatoire de Paris/LESIA | Understanding the fate of stars: imaging the surface of red giants and supergiants (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 25 May 2010 | Giovanna Tinetti | University College London | Exploring extrasolar worlds: from gas giants to terrestrial habitable planets (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 01 June 2010 | Timothy Beers | Michigan State University and ZAH | The metallicity distribution function(s) of halo stars as revealed by SDSS/SEGUE (abstract) (podcast) |
| 08 June 2010 | Lister Stavely-Smith | University of Western Australia | Supernova remnant 1987A after 23 years (abstract) (podcast) |
| 15 June 2010 | Dieter Lutz | MPE, Garching | First results from the Herschel deep extragalactic surveys (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 22 June 2010 | Zeljko Ivezic | University of Washington, Seattle | Reaching for the sky with SDSS and LSST (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 29 June 2010 | Zoë Leinhardt | Cambridge | Forming protoplanets from planetesimals (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 06 July 2010 | Rainer Schödel | Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada | Continually evolving: our understanding of the Galactic center (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 13 July 2010 | Gary Zank | University of Alabama in Huntsville | The interaction of the Solar and stellar winds with the interstellar medium (abstract) |
| 20 July 2010 | 11th Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos (NIC XI) |
Program for the winter term 2009/10:
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| 20 Oct 2009 | Tom Abel | Stanford | Star formation then and now (abstract) |
| 27 Oct 2009 | Isobel Hook | Oxford | The European Extremely Large Telescope (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (slides/.ppt) (video/.evo) |
| 03 Nov 2009 | Hendrik Schatz | Michigan State | Rare isotopes in cosmic explosions and in accelerators on Earth (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (video/.evo) |
| 10 Nov 2009 | Knud Jahnke | MPIA | Co-evolution of galaxies and black holes (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 17 Nov 2009 | Steen Hansen | Copenhagen | Why cosmological dark matter structures look the way they do (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 24 Nov 2009 | Mike Gladders | U Chicago | Bright arcs around optically selected clusters: from a handful to hundreds (abstract) (podcast) |
| 01 Dec 2009 | Kandaswamy Subramanian | Pune | Magnetic fields in the early Universe (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 08 Dec 2009 | Cristina Chiappini | Geneva | Chemical enrichment of the Milky Way: a local benchmark to cosmology (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 15 Dec 2009 | Olaf Reimer | Innsbruck | Fermi’s first year in orbit (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcast) |
| 22 Dec 2009 | Klaus Hübner | Heidelberg | Der 150. Geburtstag der Astrophysik: Gustav Kirchhoffs Spektroskopie der Sonne (abstract) (podcast) |
| 12 Jan 2010 | Rodrigo Ibata | Strasbourg | Galaxy halos at high spatial resolution: to Andromeda and beyond (abstract) (podcast) |
| 19 Jan 2010 | Lucio Mayer | ETH Zürich | Frontiers in galaxy formation; from the origin of bulgeless galaxies to the formation of supermassive black holes (abstract) (slides: .pdf; .ppt) (podcasts: 640×360/0.8GB; 960×540/1.9GB) |
| 26 Jan 2010 | Saleem Zaroubi | Groningen | Probing the epoch of re-ionization with LOFAR (abstract) (slides/.pdf) (podcasts: 640×360/0.7GB; 960×540/1.8GB) |
| 02 Feb 2010 | Richard Davies | MPE | Star formation in the central regions of AGN (abstract) (podcasts: 640×360/0.7GB; 960×540/1.7GB) |