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Astronomiska Seminariet i Lund
Lundmarksalen i Astronomihuset, Sölvegatan 27
Tid: Normalt torsdagar kl 14:15 (om inget annat anges)
Seminars at Lund Observatory
Time: Normally on Thursdays, 14:15 (unless stated otherwise)
VT 2011
February 7th - 8th, 2011
Building galaxies for all, The meeting begins at 13:30 Monday and ends at 17:00 Tuesday
See: http://www.astro.lu.se/galaxies2011/index.shtml

February 17th, 2011, 14:15
Sean Raymond, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Debris disks as signposts of terrestrial planet formation

February 24th, 2011, 14:15 (Note: to be held in Andromeda)
Bo Thidé, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala
Twisting of Light around Rotating Black Holes, and Other Applications of Electromagnetic Radiation in Studies of the Sun and Exoplanets

March 8th, 2011, 15:00 (Note: Tuesday at 3pm Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Lecture hall B)
Paolo Radaelli, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, UK

"Hot" surprises: Electronic ordering above room temperature in the presence of frustration

March 10th, 2011, 14:15
Henrik Lundstedt, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Lund, Sweden
Solar storms and cycles: Explored with SDO and topology


March 17th, 2011, 14:15 (Note: to be held in Andromeda and Cassiopeia)
Jes Jørgensen, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Probing the Earliest Stages of Star (and Planet) Formation

March 23rd - 24th, 2011
SRS Meeting, Organized by the Swedish National Space Board
Registration Details and Program Can be found here

March 30th, 2011, 9:00am (sharp) (Note: Wednesday at 9.am in Andromeda)
Toktam Aghajan, Masters Thesis Seminar, Lund Observatory, Sweden
A comparison of two approaches for estimating local stellar kinematics: The Projection Method versus Maximum Likelihood


March 31th, 2011, 14:15
Cornelis Dullemond, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
Forming planets in pressure bumps

April
5th, 2011, 14:15 (Note: Tuesday at 2.15 in Lundmarksalen)
Scott Trager, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Holland
The stellar populations of M32: The formation of closest elliptical galaxy

April
6th, 2011, 10:15 (Note: Wednesday morning at 10.15 am in Lundmarksalen)
Daniel Adén, Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden
Doctoral Thesis Defence: A study of the Hercules dSph galaxy


April
11th, 2011, 15:00 (Note: Monday 11 April, 15.30 Lecture Hall B, Physics (tea at 15.00))
Zhi-Xun Shen, Dept. of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, USA
The Physics of Quantum Materials and Correlated Electron Systems


April 14th, 2011, 14:15 
Christa Gall, DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Genesis and evolution of dust in high redshift galaxies

April 19th, 2011, 14:15 (Note: Tuesday at 2.15 in Lundmarksalen)
Peter Jakobsen, Astrophysics Missions Division, ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands
The James Webb Space Telescope

April 20th, 2011, 14:15 (Note: Wednesday at 2.15 in Lundmarksalen)
Majid Ale Ebrahim, Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden
Master Thesis Defense: A 3 m Class Telescope with Active and Adaptive Optics

April 26th, 2011, 10:15 (Note: Tuesday 26 April, 10.15 Lundmarksalen)
Henrik Jönsson, Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden
Licentiate Defense: Chemical evolution of sulphur in the Milky Way

April 27th, 2011, 14:15 (Note: Wednesday 27 April, 14.15 Lundmarksalen)
Serena Repetto, Masters Thesis Seminar, Lund Observatory, Sweden
Investigating black-hole kicks


April
28th, 2011, 14:15
Pedro Lacerda, School of Mathematics & Physics, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Remarkable Kuiper Belt Objects


May 3rd, 2011, 15:00 (Note Tuesday 3 May, 15.30  Lecture Hall B,  Physics (tea at 15.00)
Reinhard Genzel, Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Garching, Germany & Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster of the Milky Way

May 4th - 6th, 2011
Gaia Core Processing Meeting, Organized by the Gaia core processing unit CU3
See the agenda here

May 13th and 14th, 2011, Fri. 08:30-16:00 (Note: Friday in the Pufendorf Institute,
                                                                              Saturday Excursion to the island of Ven (Hven)
)
Symposium on Exoplanets: Past, Present, and Future
Research theme “Astrobiology: Past, Present, and Future”, Pufendorf Institute, Lund University

May 19th, 2011, 14:15
Daniel Johansson, Chalmers, Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
Submillimeter galaxies gravitationally lensed by clusters of galaxies


May 26th, 2011, 13.30 (High quality cakes are avialable at 1pm outside Lecture hall B, Physics)
Federico Capasso, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA
A bird’s eye view of Designer Physics: From nanostructured materials and devices to sub-wavelength optical phenomena and quantum fluctuations

May 31th, 2011, 09:00-16.00
PhD student Seminars, Deptartment of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden

June 7th, 2011, 09:00-16.00
PhD student Seminars, Deptartment of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden

June 9th, 2011, 14:15
Kelly Denney, DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Measuring Black Hole Masses in AGNs

June 14th, 2011, 14:15
Stefan Uttenthaler, University of Vienna, Department of Astronomy, Wien, Austria.
The evolutionary state of Miras with changing pulsation period

June 16th, 2011, 14:15 
Anthony Rushton,
Chalmers, Onsala Space Observatory, Sweden
Disk-jet correlations in stellar-mass black holes



VT Seminar coordinators:  David Hobbs  &  Dainis Dravins  [deputy]



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