Previous seminars: 2001-2005
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FALL 2005
05-Sep-2005 Frederick M. WALTER, Stony Brook University
The Extended Atmosphere of V471 Tau: Clues to the magnetic morphology of T Tauri stars and the young Sun?
08-Sep-2005 Peter WHEATLEY, Warwick
Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP)
15-Sep-2005 Eva GREBEL, Basle
The Violent Local Group - A History of Accretion and Survival
29-Sep-2005 Marc FREITAG, Northwestern Univ./Univ. of Cambridge
Ten million stars and a supermassive black hole
13-Oct-2005 Torgny KARLSSON, Copenhagen
Traces of the First Stars - Chemical Evolution in the Early Milky Way
14-Oct-2005 Magnus FOHLMAN, Lund Observatory
Co and Mn abundance trends for 73 F and G dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood
31-Oct-2005 Sepehr ARBABI-BIDGOLI, Tehran
Constraining the variability of dark energy with structure formation
04-Nov-2005 Bernard SCHUTZ, Albert Einstein Institute
LISA: Gravitational Wave Detection in Space
10-Nov-2005 Nial TANVIR, University of Hertfordshire
Short duration gamma-ray bursts and their host galaxies
24-Nov-2005 John CONWAY, Chalmers/Onsala Radio observations of circumnuclear and circumstellar disks
08-Dec-2005 Francesca DE ANGELI, Cambridge, U.K.
Understanding the Properties of Blue Stragglers in Different Environments
12-Dec-2005 Giampaolo PIOTTO, Padua
Observations of stellar clusters
14-Dec-2005 Douglas HEGGGIE, Edinburgh
The Dynamical Evolution of Stellar Clusters
SPRING 2005
03-Feb-2005 Andrew KING, Leicester, UK.
Accretion, Outflows, and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes 10-Feb-2005 Göran ÖSTLIN, Stockholm Observatory Lyman Alpha Emission from Starburst Galaxies
17-Feb-2005 Steve SHORE, Pisa The Classical Nova Explosion: "Everything you could want in an astrophysical object and more ..."
03-Mar-2005 Sabine MOEHLER, Kiel Hot Stars in Old Stellar Populations
08-Mar-2005 Ricky NILSSON, Lund Observatory High-speed Astrophysics: Chasing Neutron-Star Oscillations
10-Mar-2005 Hans LUDWIG, Lund Observatory Hydrodynamical simulations of convection-related stellar micro-variability
17-Mar-2005 Suzanne AALTO, Onsala/Chalmers Probing Starburst Evolution with APEX and ALMA 07-Apr-2005 Helena UTHAS, Lund Observatory High-Speed Astrophysics: Rapid Events near Compact Objects
11-Apr-2005 Friedel THIELEMANN, Basle The Origin of the Elements
14-Apr-2005 Roy BOOTH, Onsala/Chalmers The Square Kilometer Array
28-Apr-2005 Nils RYDE, Uppsala A few examples of Mid-Infrared Stellar Spectroscopy at High Resolution
12-May-2005 Zoran POPOVIC & Jorgen THAUNG, Gothenburg Adaptive Optics in Vision Science
19-May-2005 Josefin LARSSON, Lund Observatory
High-velocity massive stars
09-Jun-2005 Cesare BARBIERI, Padua
Towards a Virtual Observatory: Digitizing the Astronomical Photographic Archives of the Italian and Vatican Observatories
21-Jun-2005 Jonas GURELL, Lund Observatory
Hyperfine Structure in Ho II
22-Jun-2005 Johannes LINDEN, Lund Observatory
Time-resolved Spectroscopy in Low Pressure Plasmas
28-Jun-2005 Anna FREBEL, Australian National University
Extremely metal-poor stars
FALL 2004
09-Sep-2004 Christopher TOUT, University of Cambridge
Thermally Pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars 16-Sep-2004 Ted GULL, NASA Goddard Eta Carinae: What We Have Learned with STIS from the 2003.5 Minimum
23-Sep-2004 Jürgen SCHMITT, Hamburg Observatory X-rays from Stars: Insights and Problems
30-Sep-2004 Willem WAMSTEKER, ESA, Madrid-Villafranca The Motivation and the Astrophysical Problems for the UV World Space Observatory 07-Oct-2004 Jacques BECKERS, University of Chicago Sunspots, Gravitational Redshift and Exosolar Planet Searches
12-Oct-2004 Jeff LINSKY, University of Colorado, Boulder What is the Total Deuterium Abundance in the Local Galactic Disk?
21-Oct-2004 Andrew LEVAN, Leicester
Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae and Star Formation
28-Oct-2004 Mette OWNER-PETERSEN, Lund Observatory Adaptive optics: goals, prospects and limitations
04-Nov-2004 Fred BRUHWEILER, Catholic University, USA.
Two-Dimensional Spectral Imagery of Massive OB Associations in the Local Group 11-Nov-2004 Bjarne JØRGENSEN, Lund Observatory Determining the Ages of Stars and Star Formation Histories
18-Nov-2004 Felix RYDE, Stockholm Observatory Emission Components in Gamma-Ray Bursts
24-Nov-2004 Sean CARROLL, University of Chicago Dark Energy and the Preposterous Universe
25-Nov-2004 Cathy HORELLOU, Onsala/Chalmers Cosmology using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect
09-Dec-2004 Bengt GUSTAFSSON, Uppsala
The First Stars and the Enigmatic Galactic Halo - do we really understand anything of that?
16-Dec-2004 Ekaterina VERNER, NASA/GSFC & Catholic University
Fe II Diagnostic Tools for Quasars
SPRING 2004
11-Mar-2004 Danielle ALLOIN, European Southern Observatory, Chile
ESO Research Facilities in Santiago
01-Apr-2004 Michael MURPHY, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
A varying fine-structure constant? Evidence for and against 15-Apr-2004 John HEARNSHAW, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Photographic photometry 1850-1950, including an account of astronomy's most grandiose international project and its most ignominious failure
22-Apr-2004 John HEARNSHAW, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Measuring precise radial velocities with the Hercules spectrograph at Mt.John
27-Apr-2004 Johan FYNBO, University of Aarhus Lyman-alpha selected startbursts at redshifts around 3
29-Apr-2004 Jesper SOLLERMAN, Stockholm Observatory
The supernova - Gamma ray burst - connection
06-May-2004 Tomas HODE, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
The search for biosignatures on Mars
13-May-2004 Daniel FARIA, Lund Observatory & ESO Santiago
The nature of the G1 clump in the halo of M31
25-May-2004 Andreas KORN, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
Evidence for Gravitational Settling: Found or Unfounded?
26-May-2004 Jacques BECKERS, University of Chicago Interferometric imaging in astronomy: A personal retrospective
03-Jun-2004 Paul BARKLEM, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory
Accurate and not-so-accurate metal-poor star abundances 10-Jun-2004 Karen G. SCHMIDT, Center for Planetary Science, Copenhagen
Ice and water on Mars 11-Jun-2004 Kim NILSSON, Lund Observatory
Multi-wavelength analysis of 15 Lyman-alpha emitting high-redshift galaxies
14-Jun-2004 Alarik HAGLUND, Lund Observatory
Eccentricity variations and stability in real and hypothetical extrasolar planetary systems
21-Jun-2004 Fredrik SVENSSON, Lund Observatory
Hydrodynamical simulations of convection-related stellar micro-variability
FALL 2003
04-Sep-2003 Samuel REGANDELL, Lund Observatory Orbit, absolute dimensions and chemical analysis of the double-lined eclipsing binary QR Hya (HD 94853) 11-Sep-2003 Pawel ARTYMOWICZ, Stockholm Observatory Extrasolar planets and theories of their formation
09-Oct-2003 Peter WOITKE, Berlin Dusty Brown Dwarfs - a New Challenge in Stellar Atmosphere Models
16-Oct-2003 Eva MEZEY, Lund Observatory Observations of atmospheric scintillation
06-Nov-2003 Åke NORDLUND, Copenhagen Modeling solar faculae and sunspots
27-Nov-2003 Henrik OLOFSSON, Onsala/Chalmers Mm/submm molecular cloud spectroscopy with the Odin space telescope.
04-Dec-2003 Peter HAUSCHILDT, Hamburg Observatory Model Atmospheres of M, L and T dwarfs
11-Dec-2003 Dag GULLBERG, Lund Observatory On the determination of accurate stellar radial velocity measures
SPRING 2003
23-Jan-2003 Hans-Günter LUDWIG, Lund Observatory Radiation-hydrodynamics of Stellar Atmospheres: Why, How, & What 30-Jan-2003 Wolfgang DOBLER, Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics, Freiburg Modelling convection and magnetic field generation in fully convective stars
20-Feb-2003 Glenn WAHLGREN, Lund Observatory The RV Tauri Stars: Past Problems and Future Hopes
27-Feb-2003 Nils RYDE, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Steaming Stars: Water in Arcturus
06-Mar-2003 France ALLARD, Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon Models of Brown Dwarfs 13-Mar-2003 Thomas BENSBY, Lund Observatory Chemical trends in the thin and thick Galactic disks
20-Mar-2003 Axel BRANDENBURG, NORDITA, Copenhagen Dust accumulation by vortices and planetesimal formation
10-Apr-2003 Stefan GESSE, Lund Observatory Anrikning av s- och r-processelement i Vintergatans tunna och tjocka skiva
24-Apr-2003 Ansgar REINERS, Hamburg Observatory Differential rotation in line profiles of solar-like stars
15-May-2003 Bo THIDE, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala Probing space at the low radio frequency limit with LOFAR and its proposed Scandinavian outrigger LOIS
05-Jun-2003 Dainis DRAVINS, Lund Observatory Absolute Wavelength Shifts: New Diagnostics for Stars and Stellar Atmospheres
12-Jun-2003 Hartmut HOLWEGER, Kiel Exploring the Onset of Convection among Main-Sequence A Stars
FALL 2002
05-Sep-2002 Liz HUMPHREYS, Onsala/Chalmers Stellar Maser Simulations: Getting the Big Picture
20-Sep-2002 Marten VAN KERKWIJK, Astronomical Institute, Utrecht Properties of neutron stars
30-Sep-2002 Charles COWLEY, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Implementation and Early Application of TopBase in Stellar Atmosphere Codes
10-Oct-2002 Lionel BIGOT, Astronomical Observatory, Copenhagen Asteroseismology of the magnetic Ap stars
17-Oct-2002 Fredrik BOBERG, Lund Observatory Solar Physics - The Lund and Stanford experiences
24-Oct-2002 Rachid OUYED, NORDITA, Copenhagen Astrophysical Jets: Observations, Theory and Simulations
07-Nov-2002 Richard DE GRIJS, Cambridge, UK
Star Cluster Formation in Interacting and Starburst Galaxies
14-Nov-2002 Ralf FLICKER & Alexander GONTCHAROV, Lund Observatory Optics in Astrophysics: a glimpse of the future
21-Nov-2002 Bernd FREYTAG, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Betelgeuse - Improved Numerical Simulations of an Entire Supergiant
05-Dec-2002 Jesper SOLLERMAN, Stockholm Observatory Cosmology with Supernovae
13-Dec-2002 Floor VAN LEEUWEN, Cambridge, UK
Omega Centauri, a Globular Cluster Full of Contradictions
SPRING 2002
17-Jan-2002 Sofia FELTZING, Lund Observatory Röntgenkällor i Vintergatan 24-Jan-2002 Laura PORTINARI, Theoretical Astrophysics Center, Copenhagen The mass-to-light ratio and the Initial Mass Function in galactic discs
31-Jan-2002 Vladilen LETOKHOV, Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Science, Troitsk, & Sveneric JOHANSSON, Atomic Astrophysics, Lund Observatory Atom spectroscopy with Hubble Space Telescope: Laser action and nonlinear optical effects in space
08-Feb-2002 Susanne HÖFNER, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Dynamics in AGB Stars: The Pulsation-Atmosphere-Wind Connection
14-Feb-2002 Kristian PEDERSEN, Astronomical Observatory, Copenhagen X-rays - new light on cosmology 21-Feb-2002 Svante BJÖRCK, Palaeoecological Laboratory, Lund Can a flickering sun switch climate? - Detailed studies of a climate event 10,000 years ago
01-Mar-2002 Hans RICKMAN, Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Masses and Densities of Cometary Nuclei
07-Mar-2002 Vladimir P. LUKIN, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk
Atmospheric Turbulence Parameter Measurements
14-Mar-2002 Lisbeth Fogh OLSEN, Astronomical Observatory, Copenhagen The EIS Clusters of Galaxies - an Ongoing Project
21-Mar-2002 Mette OWNER-PETERSEN, Lund Observatory Multiconjugate adaptive optics on ELTs
04-Apr-2002 Hans KJELDSEN, Århus Asteroseismology from Ground and Space
18-Apr-2002 Rubina KOTAK, Lund Observatory Pulsating white dwarfs: new techniques and insights
25-Apr-2002 Lennart LINDEGREN, Lund Observatory The revised Gaia mission: How to do the same thing with less money
02-May-2002 Mattias ERICSSON, Lund Observatory Measurements of energy levels and hyperfine structure of Ta II with application to Chi Lupi
16-May-2002 Annette FERGUSON, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen The Fossil Record in M31: Clues to Galaxy Formation & Evolution
23-May-2002 Christian THEIS, Kiel Modelling interacting galaxies: a search for a needle in the haystack
30-May-2002 Theodore GULL, Goddard Space Flight Center Eta Carinae & the Homunculus - a Physics Laboratory
25-Jun-2002 Nigel WEISS, Cambridge, UK
Mesogranules, small-scale dynamos and flux emergence on the Sun
FALL 2001
06-Sep-2001 Johan HOLMBERG, Lund Observatory Formation and evolution of the galactic disk 20-Sep-2001 Mark WILKINSON, Cambridge, UK
The dark matter haloes of Local Group galaxies
27-Sep-2001 Anja ANDERSEN, Astronomical Observatory, Copenhagen The influence of dust properties on the mass loss in pulsating AGB stars
04-Oct-2001 Francesca PRIMAS, European Southern Observatory, Garching Beryllium Observations as a Tracer of Cosmic-Rays and Supernovae in the Galaxy
11-Oct-2001 Vanessa HILL, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon UVES observation of "First stars" and clues to early Galactic chemical evolution
18-Oct-2001 Sofia FELTZING, Lund Observatory Metal-rich globular clusters in the Milky Way 01-Nov-2001 Melvyn DAVIES, University of Leicester, UK
Merging Neutron Stars
08-Nov-2001 Ralph SNEL, Lund Observatory Trace gas measurements of the Earth atmosphere
22-Nov-2001 Sean RYAN, The Open University, UK
Supernova nucleosynthesis in the first stars: the iron-peak elements
29-Nov-2001 Nikolai PISKUNOV, Uppsala Magnetic Doppler Imaging of CP stars
13-Dec-2001 Bengt EDVARDSSON, Uppsala Evolved stars for galactic and stellar evolution