Previous events

2012

• Disputation: Thomas Lennartsson
  Faculty opponent:
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomihuset, Lund, April 13 at 10.15

• Workshop Stars for All at Lund Observatory, February 6-7, 2012

• Disputation: Berry Holl
  Characterization and Analysis of the Astrometric Errors in the Global Astrometric Solution for Gaia
  Faculty opponent: David Hogg
  Lundmarksalen, Lund, February 17

  2011

• Disputation: Rikard Heimsten
  Study of a Large Deformable Mirror Concept
  Faculty opponent: Dr. Babak Sedghi, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
  Lundmarksalen, Sölvegatan 27, Lund, October 25

• 'Kulturnatten' in the Astronomy building ! Program, Astronomy poster, Theoretical Physics poster

• Disputation: Daniel Adén
  A study of the Hercules dwarf spheroidal galaxy
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Scott Trager, Kapteyn Astronomical Inst, Groningen
  Lundmarksalen, Sölvegatan 27, Lund, April 6
  
  
• SRS (Svenska Rymdforskares Samarbetsgrupp) Meeting at Lund Observatory, March 23-24, 2011

• Workshop Building Galaxies for All at Lund Observatory, February 7-8

  2010
  
  

• Disputation: Daniel Malmberg
  The effect of encounters on planetary systems in stellar clusters
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Sölvegatan 27, June 15 at 14.00

• EXOPLANETS FOR ALL: a two-day mini-workshop: Information
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, February 8-9

• Public talk: Exoplaneter och liv i universum by Alexis Brandeker poster [pdf] (in Swedish)
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, February 8

  2009
  
  

• International Year of Astronomy
  [text in Swedish]

• Stars in the library: Modern astronomy - Lund and its cosmic surroundings
  Exhibition on the development of astronomy shown through books, manuscripts and instruments
  Lund University Library (UB), Helgonabacken, September 11 - December 5, 2009

• Disputation: Anna Arnadottir
  A Photometric Study of the Galactic Disks based on Strömgren Photometry
  Faculty opponent: Bengt Edvardsson
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, November 23 at 14.15

• Disputation: Anita Enmark
  Adaptive optics in Integrated Modeling of Telescopes
  Faculty opponent: George Angeli
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, October 9 at 14.00

• Public talk by Lennart Nilsson Award Winner 2009 Babak A. Tafreshi, Iran: Reclaiming the Night Sky
  Department of Physics, Sal A, October 21 at 19.15

• Kulturnatt in the Astronomy Building, September 19: Program

• International Year of Astronomy: 100 Hours of Astronomy
  [text in Swedish] : Telescope observations etc, the Astronomy Building and Stortorget, Lund, April 2-5

• EXTREME ASTROPHYSICS FOR ALL: a two-day mini-workshop in Lund, February 9-10, 2009

• Poster - kom och utse Universums bästa svarta hål!
  Öppen föreläsning den 9 februari kl 20.00 i Astronomihuset, Sölvegatan 27, Lund

  2008
  
  

• Kulturnatten in Astronomy House, September 20: PROGRAM

• Disputation: Per Knutsson
  Experimental adaptive optics - a test facility for adaptive optics on a small telescope
  Faculty opponent: Roberto Ragazzoni, Padova
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, March 27, 2008

• Studenternas astronomiförening ALVA: Astrobiologi - Vad finns där ute? Föredrag av Dainis Dravins om förutsättningar för liv på andra planeter
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, April 14, 2008

• Crafoord Days 2008 - Lectures in Lund on April 21, Symposium and Prize-awarding ceremony in Stockholm on April 22-24. Programme
  

• 'Gaia For All', Mini-workshop on Gaia and the Swedish participation and interest in the project, February 4-5, 2008
  

  2007
  
  

• Symposium on Extremely Large Telescopes at the Occasion of Arne Ardeberg's Retirement, November 29-30, 2007

• Kulturnatten i Astronomihuset September 15, 2007: Program

• The 9th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, August 7-10, 2007

• Sällskapet Tycho Brahe 70 years!
  Seminars, Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, April 21
  

• Crafoord Jubilee Symposium:
  "An unforgettable week in Lund - Celebrating 25 years of Crafoord Prizes" April 23-26

• Disputation: Maria Aldenius
  Measurements of high-precision atomic data with applications to astrophysics and cosmology
  Faculty opponent: Dr. Gillian Nave, Atomic Physics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Saturday March 31, 10.15

• APEX/ALMA for All, Mini-Workshop, Lund Observatory, February 14-15

• Disputation: Kasper Öberg
  Development of experimental methods, data analysis and standards in atomic spectroscopy
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Craig Sansonetti, Atomic Physics Division, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Saturday February 3, 10.15

  2006
  
  

• Disputation: Martin Lundqvist
  Spectral analysis of neutron capture elements in the laboratory and stars
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Poul Erik Nissen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Saturday September 30 at 10.15

• Kulturnatten: planetarium shows, seminars, observations, demonstrations. Program: [pdf]
  Astronomy Building, Saturday September 23 at 17-23

• Disputation: Daniel Faria
  Photometry of resolved stellar populations in local group galaxies
  Faculty opponent: Prof. John S. Gallagher III, University Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Friday September 15 at 10.15

• Disputation: Johann Dischler
  Theoretical studies of binaries in astrophysics
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Ian Bonnell, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, St Andrews
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Thursday May 18 at 10.15

• Disputation: Mattias Eriksson
  Dynamics and atomic processes in the symbiotic star AG Peg as derived from its emission line spectrum
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Hans-Martin Schmid, ETH, Zürich
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Saturday February 18 at 10.15

  2005
  
  

• "Kulturnatten i Astronomihuset", Saturday September 17

• Crafoord Symposium at Lund Observatory, Monday September 19

  Seminars on the occasion of the conferral of Honorary Doctorates of Philosophy 2005 by the Faculty of Science, Lund University, Thursday May 26

• Disputation: Bjarne Rosenkilde Jørgensen
  Determination of stellar ages and star formation histories - a Bayesian approach
  Faculty opponent: Dr. David Valls-Gabaud, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (Toulouse)
  Lundmarksalen, Astronomy Building, Saturday May 14

  2004

• Kulturnatt i Astronomihuset 18 september

• Transit of Venus, June 8, 2004

• Presentations of the Doctors Honoris Causa and their research offered by the Faculty of Science.
  Jacques Beckers: Conquering Atmospheric Seeing by Adaptive Optics.
  Thursday May 27, Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi

• Jacques Beckers: Interferometric Imaging in Astronomy: A Personal Retrospective.
  Wednesday May 26, Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi

• Disputation: Stefan Ivarsson
  Advances in stellar astrophysics from laboratory spectroscopy Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Dr. Peter L. Smith, Cambridge, USA
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Saturday May 22 at 10.15

• Disputation: Thomas Bensby
  Observational studies of the chemical evolution in the Galactic thin and thick disks Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Gerard Gilmore, Cambridge Univ.
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Saturday March 27 at 10.15

  2003

• Disputation: Henrik Hartman
  Anomalous spectral lines in space and laboratory plasmas -
  Studies with HST and CRYRING Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Henri-Pierre Garnir
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Friday December 19 at 10.15

• Astronomdagar 2003
  Astronomy meeting for Sweden in Lund, October 3-4, 2003
  

• 2nd Bäckaskog Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, Sept 9-11, 2003

• Disputation: Fredrik Boberg
  Space Weather: Solar magnetic variation and its impact on Earth's atmosphere Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Dr. Eigil Friis-Christensen, Danish Space Research Institute
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Saturday May 24 at 10.15

• Disputation: Ralf Flicker
  Methods of multi-conjugate adaptive optics for astronomy Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Prof. Chris Dainty, Ireland
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Thursday May 8 at 14.30

• Disputation: Alexander Goncharov
  Extremely Large Telescopes: Optical Design and Wavefront Correction Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Oskar von der Lühe
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Saturday March 29 at 10.15

• SRS meeting in Lund
  Lundmarkssalen, Astronomihuset, March 11-12, 2003

  2002

• Disputation: Søren Madsen
  Radial velocities without spectroscopy: astrometric determination of stellar radial motion Abstract
  

• Astronomiska sällskapet Tycho Brahe inbjuder medlemmar och andra intresserade till
  Lundaögon mot rymden - några kapitel ur observatoriets historia
  Medverkande: Gustav Holmberg, Lennart Lindegren och Ingemar Lundström
  Lundmarksalen, Nov 17

• Disputation: Krister Nielsen
  Atomic influences in stellar spectroscopy Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Thierry Lanz, University of Maryland, USA
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Saturday November 9, 2002, at 10.15

• Disputation: Linus Dolk
  Investigations of heavy elements in Am and HgMn stars Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Charles Cowley, Univ. of Michigan
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Saturday September 28, 2002, at 10.15

• Disputation: Rubina Kotak
  Inside pulsating white dwarfs: Clues from time-resolved spectroscopy Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Jan-Erik Solheim, Tromsø
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. f. astronomi, Saturday September 21, 2002, at 10.15

• Disputation: Hampus Nilsson
  Laboratory and stellar spectroscopy of the complex ions Fe⁺, Mo⁺, Th⁺ and U⁺ Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Torkild Andersen
  Lundmarksalen, Inst f. astronomi, Saturday June 1, 2002, at 13.15.

• Disputation: Hans Karlsson
  Spectroscopic studies of the elements Ba, Fe, Ga, In and Ru Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Anne P. Thorne
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. för astronomi, Saturday, May 25, 2002, at 10.15

• Lic.seminarium: Stefan Ivarsson. A spectroscopic study of the rare earth element Praseodymium
  Lundmarksalen, Inst. för astronomi, Sölvegatan 27, Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 15.15

• Workshop on Integrated Modeling of Telescopes
  Lund, Sweden, February 5-7, 2002
  

  2001

• Populärvetenskapens vecka på Institutionen för astronomi, Lunds universitet
  

  Onsdag 14 nov: Träffa en astronom

  Lördag 17 nov: En astronomisk heldag

• In memory of Tycho Brahe's death 400 years ago
  A scientific seminar about Tycho Brahe and his importance for science, astronomy, medicine and plant breeding will be held at Landskrona Theatre on the 24th of October

• "Tycho Brahe och hans tid" Månaden före den 24 oktober hålls i Landskrona, Svalöv och Klippans kommuner en serie kvällsföreläsningar och kulturprogram.
  

• "RADIO UNIVERSE" - 2001 Nordic-Baltic Summer School in Radio Astronomy Ventspils, Latvia, July 16-28, 2001
  

• Disputation: Johan Holmberg. Galactic structure revealed by space astrometry Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Jesper Sommer-Larsen (TAC, Copenhagen) Fysicum Sal B, Sölvegatan 14, Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 10.00

• Sun-Earth Days and SOHO 5th Anniversary April 27-28, 2001, Fysiska institutionen, Sölvegatan 14, Lund
  

  "BOILING STARS" - one-day symposium on convection, radiation, and magnetic fields at stellar surfaces. Lund Observatory, April 6, 2001
  

  2000

• Disputation: Hans Gleisner. Solar wind and geomagnetic activity - predictions using neural networks Abstract
  Faculty opponent: Dimitris Vassiliadis (Goddard Space Flight Center) Fysicum Sal B, Sölvegatan 14, Saturday, December 2, 2000, at 10.00

• Eta Carinae and other mysterious stars The hidden opportunities of emission line spectroscopy . An international conference on Tycho Brahe's island Hven, Sweden, August 24-26, 2000, arranged by the Atomic Spectroscopy Group at Lund University
  

• Gunnar and Gunnel Källen Memorial Symposium on New Vistas in Cosmology Minisymp. on new trends in our perception of the universe, 29-30 May 2000 Public lectures in Lecture Hall A, Department of Physics, Sölvegatan 14, Lund

• Guided Tour to Tycho Brahe's Hven, Sunday 28 May 2000 in connection to the Källen Memorial Symposium.

• Disputation: Fredrik Quist. Studies of Double and Multiple Stars Using Space Astrometry Abstract Fysicum Sal B, Sölvegatan 14, Saturday, May 20, 2000, at 13.00

  1997-1999

• Workshop on Extremely Large Telescopes, Bäckaskog Castle, Sweden, June 1-2, 1999
  

• Mike Lieber: Lectures in Integrated Modeling of Optical Telescopes, Lund Observatory, May 25-28, 1999
  

• Disputation: Ralph Snel: Crowded Field Photometry and Luminosity Function Analysis as Probes of Galactic Evolution Fysicum Sal B, Sölvegatan 14, lördag 14 februari 1998 kl 10.00
  

• Disputation: Jian-Guo Wu Space Weather Physics - Dynamical Neural Network Studies of Solar-Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling, Fysicum Sal B, Sölvegatan 14, torsdag 22 maj 1997 kl 14.00

• Disputation: Peter Wintoft Space Weather Physics - Prediction and Classification of Solar Wind Structures and Geomagnetic Activity using Artificial Neural Networks, Fysicum Sal B, Sölvegatan 14, lördag 7 juni 1997 kl 14.00

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