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).
May 2008
- 13.05.08 (Tuesday)
- 11:00, MPA Lecture Hall
Cosmology Seminar
Gabriel Pratt
(MPE)
"Probing structure formation physics with galaxy clusters"- 12:30, ESO Auditorium
Lunch Talk
Sperello di Serego Alighieri
(INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri)
"The neutral hydrogen content of early-type galaxies from the ALFALFA survey"
Abstract - 12:30, ESO Auditorium
- 14.05.08 (Wednesday)
- 11:15, USM, Scheinerstr., Munich, Room E08
USM Talk
Vivienne Wild
(MPA)
"The AGN-galaxy connection: where is the feedback?"- 15:00, MPE Old Seminar Room
Black Hole Cluster Meeting
Gloria Sala
(MPE)
"Looking for Black Holes in X-ray binaries with XMM-Newton: XTE J1817-330 and XTE J1856+053" - 15:00, MPE Old Seminar Room
- 15.05.08 (Thursday)
- 11:00, MPE new seminar room 1.1.18b
OPINAS Seminar
Christoph Raeth
(MPE)
"Model-independent tests for (scale-dependent) non-Gaussianities"- 16:15, ESO Auditorium
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
David Merritt
(Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
"Black Holes and Galactic Nuclei"
- 16:15, ESO Auditorium
- 16.05.08 (Friday)
- 11:00, MPA Lecture Hall
High Energy Astrophysics
Ekaterina Filippova
(currently at MPA)
"Diagnostics of very early stages of the classical nova explosion by the modelling of its X-ray emission"
- 29.05.08 (Thursday)
- 16:15, ESO Auditorium
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Alexey Vikhlinin
"Dark Energy Constraints from Growth of Structure: Results from the 400 deg2 X-ray Cluster Survey"
June 2008
- 19.06.08 (Thursday)
- 16:15, ESO Auditorium
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Leon Koopmans
"Gravitational Probes of Galaxies: Gravitational Lensing & Stellar Dynamics"
- 26.06.08 (Thursday)
- 16:15, ESO Auditorium
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Dimitrios Psaltis
(University of Arizona)
"New Tests of Strong-Field General Relativity with Black Holes and Neutron Stars"
Abstract