The Galaxy Seminar is a joint seminar of the MPIA, the LSW, and the ARI. It is a forum for informal talks given by members of these institutes, including students, and their guests. The seminar is intended to cover anything related to galaxies and their constituents, be it theoretical or observational. The seminars are open to everybody. For any questions and suggestions, or if you want to volunteer for a Galaxy-Seminar talk, please contact Martina Kleinheinrich.
The Journal Club provides an opportunity for people to give a brief (approx. 20min) presentation followed by a short dicussion on important recent publications from the last year (including astro-ph pre-prints), thereby allowing people to keep abreast of new and interesting results . The papers need to be of general interest and ideally do not lie in the speakers own research field. The Journal Club is open to everyone and is ideal for practice giving talks due to its very informal setting. For questions concerning the Journal Club, please contact Konrad Tristram.
The Journal Club and Galaxy Seminar are held at the same timeslot: Fridays at 11:15 in the Seminar room (306) of the MPIA, on alternating weeks.
Upcoming seminars
| 10 December 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Marc Schartmann MPIA Catherine Heymans MPIA | tba
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Recent seminars
| DATE | TIME | TYPE | SPEAKER | TITLE |
| 7 November 2003 Friday | 15:15 | Galaxy | Siegfried Falter MPIA Catherine Heymans MPIA | |
| 14 November 2003 Friday | 15:15 | Galaxy | Michele Cappellari Leiden Observatory | The fossil record of galaxy formation observed with SAURON |
| 28 November 2003 Friday | 15:15 | Galaxy | Daniel Thomas Garching | Early-Type Galaxies |
| 12 December 2003 Friday | 15:15 | Galaxy | Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin MPA | Searching for missing baryons with the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in WMAP data |
| 23 January 2004 Friday | 15:15 | Journal | Wolfgang Brandner MPIA Nadine Häring MPIA | "S Ori 70: just a foreground field brown dwarf?", Burgasser et al. (astro-ph/0312285)
"Near-infrared flares from accreting gas around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre", Genzel et al. 2003Natur.425..934G |
| 6 February 2004 Friday | 15:15 | Group meeting | Group meeting | Presentation of new group members |
| 20 February 2004 Friday | 15:15 | Journal | Daniel Apai MPIA Ilaria Pascucci MPIA | "Impact of astronomical research from different countries", Sanchez & Benn, astro-ph/0401228 "Scientific Impact of Large Telescopes", Benn & Sanchez 2001, PASP 113, 385 "Supernormal vision and high-resolution retinal imaging through adaptive optics" 1997, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., Vol. 14, No.11 |
| 5 March 2004 Friday | 15:15 | Journal | Angela Hempel MPIA Konrad Tristram MPIA | "A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster" by X.Pan et
al., Nature, Vol. 427, 22 Jan. 2004 "A Problem of Distance", B. Paczynski ,dito "Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution" Riess et al. 2004, astro-ph/0402512 |
| 12 March 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Scientific Debate | Topic: "Do we need OWL?" Contra: HW Rix, W Gässler Pro: T Herbst, E Bell |
| 19 March 2004 Friday | 15:15 | Journal | Zoltan Kovacs MPIA Elena Masciadri MPIA | "Disappearing Dark Matter in Brane World Cosmology: New Limits on
Noncompact Extra Dimensions", K. Ichiki et al., astro-ph/0210051, Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 083518
"Migration of extrasolar planets to large orbital radii", Veras D. & Armitage P.J., astro-ph/0310161 |
| 16 April 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Zsuzsanna Gyory MPIA Martina Kleinheinrich MPIA | "What can we learn about SDSS photometric redshifts from COMBO?" "Dark matter halos from weak lensing in the COMBO-17 survey" |
| 7 May 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Journal | Coryn Bailer-Jones MPIA Markus Feldt MPIA | Venus transit
"A transiting extrasolar giant planet around the star OGLE-TR-113", Maciej Konacki et al., 2004 |
| 18 June 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Alexei Kniazev MPIA David Martinez-Delgado MPIA | Probing Chemical Evolution and Homogeneity of four nearby galaxies
Tracing tidal streams in the Galactic halo |
| 9 July 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | L. Athanassoula Marseille | Secular evolution in barred galaxies: Input from N-body simulations |
| 30 July 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Ignacio Trujillo MPIA Hans Hippelein MPIA | The optical rest-frame sizes of galaxies out to z~3
Progress report on the HIROCS cluster survey |
| 3 September 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Sergey Koposov MPIA Andrea Borch MPIA | NGC 474, pecular lenticular galaxy with shells.
3D spectroscopy, gas+star kinematics, photometry, stellar populations,
evolution.
Stellar mass estimation in COMBO-17 |
| 17 September 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy/Theory | Jorge Penarrubia MPIA Natalia Dziourkevitch AIP | Dynamical evolution of dark matter subhaloes
The properties of MRI-driven turbulence in galaxies |
| 15 October 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Eric Bell MPIA Angela Hempel MPIA | On the late assembly of field early-type galaxies
A population of extremely red EROs |
| 04 November 2004 Friday | 13:30 | Group Meeting | ||
| 5 November 2004 Friday | 11:15 | Galaxy | Conrado Carretero IAC Fabian Walter MPIA | Chemical clocks for early-type galaxies in clusters
Does the M-sigma relation still hold at the highest redshifts? |