Scientific Colloquia and Seminars at ESO and Neighbouring Institutes

For ESO and ESO-related Conferences and Workshops in Europe and Chile please check the main Scientific Meetings page.

Talks at ESO Garching

Most talks at ESO Garching fall into one of the following categories:

• Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquia: usually Thursdays at 16:15, preceded by tea and coffee at 16:00.
  Contact: Magda Arnaboldi, Wolfram Freudling.
• ESO Colloquia / Lunch Talks: usually Tuesdays at 12:30.
  Contact: Carlos De Breuck, Ferdinando Patat.
• Informal Discussions: usually Wednesdays at 11:30.
  Contact: Joël Vernet, Jörg Dietrich.
• ESO/ESA/IAU/Excellence Cluster 'Universe' Astronomy Communication Seminars: usually once per month on Wednesdays at 14:00.
  Contact: Lars Lindberg Christensen, Pedro Russo.
• Astronomy Course for Non-Astronomers: Talks by ESO staff or visitors, aimed at a non-specialist audience. Usually Wednesdays at 12:30.
  Contact: Gero Rupprecht.

Talks at Neighbouring Institutes

For info about talks at neighbouring institutes, see also the Web pages of the:

• Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA);
• Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE);
• Universitäts-Sternwarte München (USM);
• Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ);
• Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP);
• Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (MPP).

 

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August 2008

04.08.08 (Monday)

11:00, MPA Lecture Hall
High Energy Seminar
Alexander Tchekhovskoy
(Harvard CfA/ITC)
"Simulations of Ultrarelativistic Magnetodynamic Jets from Gamma-ray Burst Engines"

05.08.08 (Tuesday)

10:00, ESO room 231
Star and Planet Formation Seminar
Alexander Schegerer
"The Evolution of the Dust and the Structure of Circumstellar Disks around TTauri stars"

11:00, MPA Lecture Hall
Cosmology Seminar
Nelson Padilla
(Univ. Catolica de Chile)
"Understanding local and global influences on the galaxy population"

07.08.08 (Thursday)

11:00, MPE, Old Seminar Room
OPINAS Seminar
Eiichiro Komatsu
(University of Texas at Austin)
"Beyond Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs)"

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18.08.08 (Monday)

14:00 - 14:30, ESO Auditorium
Astronomy Communication Seminar
Davide de Martin
(ESA/Hubble)
"Image processing for Public Outreach use"
Abstract

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September 2008

02.09.08 (Tuesday)

12:30, ESO Auditorium
Lunch Talk
Daniel Thomas
(Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, UK)
"Chemical enrichment in hierarchical models of galaxy formation"
Abstract