COSMOS ESAC Seminars 2018 - ESAC Science Faculty

ESAC Seminars 2018 - ESAC Science Faculty

ESAC Seminars - 2018 Programme

Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation	Room
Thursday, 10:30h 20 December 2018	The Cubesat Revolution	Peter Kretschmar / Michael Küppers	ESAC/ESA, Madrid, Spain	B3
Monday, 14:30h 17 December 2018	Testing stellar evolutionary models from detached eclipsing binary stars	Carlos del Burgo Díaz	Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Tonantzintla, Puebla, México	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 13 December 2018	Do galaxies die?	Yago Ascasibar	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain	B3
Monday, 14:30h 10 December 2018	A sequoia in the garden: a dwarf galaxy or a giant globular cluster hidden in the bulge?	Rodolfo Barbá	Universidad de La Serena, Chile	B3
Monday, 11:00h 3 December 2018	The Planck Legacy: Inflation and the Origin of Structure in the Universe	George Efstathiou	University of Cambridge, UK	D1/D2
Thursday, 10:30h 29 November 2018	Red dwarfs and the nearest terrestrial planets	Guillem Anglada-Escudé (invited speaker)	Queen Mary University of London, UK	B3/B5
Thursday, 10:30h 22 November 2018	XMM-Newton: Scientific Status and Perspectives	Norbert Schartel	ESAC/ESA, Madrid, Spain	B5
Wednesday, 10:30h 14 November 2018	The complex X-ray spectrum and variability of the AGN 1E0754.6+392	Riccardo Middei	Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy	B3
Wednesday, 10:30h 31 October 2018	An X-ray View of Highly Variable AGN	Jiachen Jiang	Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 18 October 2018	Solar wind - magnetosphere coupling via magnetic reconnection and the effects of ionospheric plasma	Sergio Toledo-Redondo	ESAC/ESA, Madrid, Spain	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 11 October 2018	X-ray cross-calibration using clusters of galaxies	Jukka Nevalainen	Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia	B3
Monday, 14:30h 8 October 2018	With Radio Telescopes to the Ends of Space and Time	Heino Falcke (invited speaker)	Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 27 September 2018	Evidence of a Plume on Europa from Galileo Magnetic Field and Plasma Wave Signatures	Xianzhe Jia	University of Michigan, IL, USA	B3/B5
Thursday, 10:30h 6 September 2018	Active region outflows as a source of the slow solar wind	David Brooks	George Mason University/ Naval Research Laboratory at ISAS/JAXA	B5
Tuesday, 10:30h 4 September 2018	Modelling the formation of the Intracluster light in semi-analytic models	Emanuele Contini	Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea	B5
Thursday, 10:30h 26 July 2018	Complexity Meets Energy -- From Power Grids To Turbulence	Oliver Kamps	Center for Nonlinear Science,Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität,Münster, Germany	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 12 July 2018	Gravitational Waves Astronomy	Gabriela González (invited speaker)	Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 28 June 2018	HEROES: Strong lensing of Lyman-alpha background emitters	Günther Hasinger	ESA/ESAC, Madrid, Spain	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 14 June 2018	First Contact: Understanding the nature of Interstellar Object 1I/‘Oumuamua	Alan Fitzsimmons	Queen's University Belfast, Ireland	B3
Tuesday, 10:30h 12 June 2018	SMBH spin measurement in AGN: achievements, controversies and prospects	Emanuele Nardini	INAF - Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy	D1
Friday, 10:30h 8 June 2018	Seeing the Sky: Visualization & Astronomers	Alyssa Goodman (invited speaker)	Harvard University, MA, USA	D1
Thursday, 10:30h 24 May 2018	Relativistic spectroscopy of black holes	Michael Parker	ESAC/ESA, Madrid, Spain	B3
Friday,10:00h 11 May 2018	Some Lessons Learned from Ground-Based Telescope Operations	Markus Kissler-Patig	ESO, Garching, Germany	B3
Thursday,11:15h 10 May 2018	AGN feed-back: why do we need XARM and Athena since XMM-Newton is doing so well?	Matteo Guainazzi	ESTEC/ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands	B3
Thursday,10:30h 26 April 2018	Evolution of cometary surfaces	Jean-Baptiste Vincent	DLR Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany	B3
Thursday,10:30h 19 April 2018	Polar Eco-vehicle inuit windsled, mobile laboratory in Antarctica	Ramon Hernando de Larramendi		B3
Thursday,10:30h 12 April 2018	Astrophysical environments where microphysics matters	Tommaso Grassi	Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany	B3
Thursday,10:30h 5 April 2018	Russian Cosmonaut: Alexander Lazutkin	Alexander Lazutkin	Space Enterprise Zvezda G.I. Severina	D1/D2
Thursday,10:30h 22 March 2018	Precision fundamental physics with radio astronomy	Michael Kramer (invited speaker)	Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany	B3
Thursday,10:30h 15 March 2018	Multiwavelength Observations of Gamma-Ray Binaries	Masha Chernyakova	Dublin City University, Ireland	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 8 March 2018	Shedding Light on the Dark Cosmos through Gravitational Lensing	Sherry Suyu (invited speaker)	Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 1 March 2018	WSO-UV in the context of astronomy in the 2020s	Ana Inés Gómez de Castro	UCM, Madrid, Spain	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 22 February 2018	The solar wind interaction with Mercury's magnetosphere and exosphere as seen by Messenger	James Slavin (invited speaker)	University of Michigan, MI, USA	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 15 February 2018	VVV/VVVX and VMC - sources for proper motion and variability information in the most obscured parts of the Milky Way and the Magellanic clouds	Valentin Ivanov	ESO, Garching, Germany	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 8 February 2018	Titan's geology as a laboratory for the preparation of new missions: surface changesm chemical composition, and the connection to the interior	Anezina Solomonidou	ESAC/ESA, Madrid, Spain	B3
Thursday, 10:30h 25 January 2018	Shedding dust at the nanometre scale - results from the MIDAS atomic force microscope on Rosetta	Mark Bentley	ESAC/ESA, Madrid, Spain	B3