SSO Open Seminars - 2007 Programme

Date Title Abstract Speaker Room
30 November 2007 Cosmology with the Galaxy Dr. Amina Helmi, Groningen University, Netherlands canceled
14 December 2007 The CoRoT Mission: first results Dr. Annie Baglin, Observatoire de Paris, France Einstein
16 November 2007 The Search for Life on Mars: Evidence within the Martian Meteorites Dr. E. K. Gibson Einstein
2 November 2007 Gas Transport Mechanisms in Galaxies Dr. Eric Emsellem, CRAL, Lyon, France Escape Dance Room
19 October 2007 Supernova 1987A: 20 years after Dr. Nino Panagia, RSSD/STScI, Baltimore, U.S.A. Einstein
5 October 2007 Charge-dipole induced dust gelation - fastening the coagulation phase of the planet formation process Dr. Felicitas Mokler, MPE, Garching, Germany Escape Dance Room
21 September 2007 Dr. Joran Moen Various aspects of cusp and polar cap dynamics Einstein
29 June 2007 Young Massive Embedded Clusters in the Circumnuclear Ring of NGC1365 Dr. Danielle Alloin, CEA, Saclay, France Einstein
20 June 2007 [Colloqium] The story of the Hubble Space Telescope Dr. Antonella Nota, RSSD/STScI, Baltimore, USA Newton
15 June 2007 NASA's Stardust Comet Sample Return and Mars Exploration Rover Missions Prof. Thanassis Oikonomou, University of Chicago, U.S.A. Newton 2
04 May 2007 Space plasma turbulence: new measurements of anisotropy Dr. Tim Horbury, Imperial College, London, UK Fresnel
20 April 2007 The local ISM and the heliosphere Dr. Rosine Lallement, Service d' Aeronomie du CNRS, Verrieres-le-Buisson, France Fresnel
29 March 2007 [Colloqium] Climate Catastrophies in the Solar System Dr. D. Grinspoon, Curator of Astrobiology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, U.S.A. Newton
23 March 2007 The stellar nuclei of galaxies Dr. Carl-Jakob Walcher, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille Fresnel
09 March 2007 Understanding Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies with Extreme Properties of Cosmological Relevance Dr. Alessandra Aloisi, RSSD/STScI, Baltimore, USA Fresnel
23 February 2007 The search for sub-surface water on Mars Dr. Roberto Seu, University of Rome, Italy Fresnel 1
9 February 2007 511 keV radiation in the Milky Way Dr. Nikos Prantzos, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France Einstein
26 January 2007 High energy phenomena in very young stars Dr. Fabio Favata, RSSD Einstein
12 January 2007 LOFAR - A Giant Low Frequency Radio Telescope and Sensor Network Prof. Heino Falcke, ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands Newton 1