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Schedule:
| Date / Place | Speaker | Topic / Paper | Additional Info |
| July 28th, 2005 - September 2005 | No Talks | Summer vacation until September ! | -- |
Previous talks:
| Date / Place | Speaker | Topic / Paper | Additional Info |
| Tue. Aug. 9th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Ranjeev Misra | "Non linear behavior of the galactic black hole source GRS 1915+105" | Special seminar |
| Thr. July 21st, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Richard Strom | "RADIO ASTRONOMY IN HOLLAND, 1940-1955" | Special seminar |
| Thr. July 14th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Geoff Wright |
"Are pulsars evidence of Intelligent Design?" Weltevrede et. al., astro-ph/0507282 |
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| Thr. July 7th, 2005 | No Talk | Ph.D. defence Mieke Bouwhuis | -- |
| Thr. June 30th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Rhaana Starling |
"AGN and their Unification" Antonucci, R., 1993, ARA&A 31, 473 Starling, R., et.al., 2005, MNRAS 356, 727 |
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| Thr. June 23rd, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Marieke Baan / Jaques Visser | -Canceled- | Special seminar |
| Thr. June 16th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Carsten Dominik |
"Dark matter in protoplanetary disks"
Ceccarelli et. al., 2004, ApJ, 607, L51 |
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| Thr. June 9th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Ralph Wijers |
"The stellar luminosity of the Universe, and its history"
Wijers, MNRAS, submitted |
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| Thr. June 2nd, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Marc Klein Wolt | "Black hole x-ray binaries and their canonical states" | -- |
| Thr. May 26th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | GertJan Savonije |
"Pulsations in rotating B-stars, a new approach"
Gautschy & Saio, 1995, Ann. Rev. A & A, 33, 75 Gautschy & Saio, 1996, Ann. Rev. A & A, 34, 551 |
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| Thr. May 19th, 2005 | No Talk | Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie | -- |
| Thr. May 12th, 2005 | No Talk | PhD defence Michiel Min | -- |
| Thr. May 5th, 2005 | No Talk | Liberation Day & Ascension Day | -- |
| Thr. Apr. 28th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Hester Volten |
"Experimental evidence for extremely high polarization of fluffy aggregates" Amsterdam Light Scattering Database |
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| Thr. Apr. 21th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Ben Stappers |
"Giant pulses from radio pulsars" Cordes et al., 2004, ApJ, 612, 375 Popov & Stappers, 2003, ARep, 47, 660 Shearer et al., 2003, Science, 301, 493 |
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| Thr. Apr. 14th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Diego Altamirano |
"Island and then bananas in the Atoll low mass X-ray binaries" Van der Klis, 2004, astro-ph/0410551 |
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| Thr. Apr. 7th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Michael Sipior |
"Shredding star clusters: an overview" Kim & Morris, 2003, ApJ, 597, 312 |
Meeting in room F013! | Thr. Mar. 31th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Wim Hermsen | "Non-thermal high-energy (gamma-ray) emission from compact objects" | -- |
| Thr. Mar. 24th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Hanno Spreeuw |
"Search for radio transients with the LOFAR core" Hyman et al., 2005, Nature, 434, 50 LOFAR & Transient Sources LOFAR Science Case |
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| Thr. Mar. 17th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Elena Gallo |
"Black hole X-ray binary jets" Gallo, Fender & Kaiser, 2005, astro-ph/0501374 Fender, Belloni & Gallo, 2004, MNRAS, 355, 1105 Gallo, Fender & Pooley, 2003, MNRAS, 344, 60 |
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| Thr. Mar. 10th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Rohied Mokiem |
"Life and Stars: On the Fundamental Parameters of Massive Stars" Charbonneau, 1995, ApJS, 101, 309 Herrero, Puls & Najarro, 2002, A&A, 396, 949 |
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| Thr. Mar. 3rd, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Carolien Zijderveld | "EU-fellowships: possibilities and do's & don'ts" | Guest speaker from Liaison Office, UvA |
| Thr. Feb. 24th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Roald Schnerr |
"Magnetic fields in astronomy" Henrichs, Schnerr & Ten Kulve, 2005, Conf. Proc. |
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| Thr. Feb. 17th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Lex Kaper |
"The ESO Very Large Telescope and its instrumentation: X-shooter" www.eso.org/instruments |
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| Thr. Feb. 10th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Sung-Chul Yoon |
"On the evolution of massive single and binary stars towards GRBs" Fryer & Heger, 2004, astro-ph/0412024 Heger, Woosley & Spruit, 2004, astro-ph/0409422 |
Meeting in room F013! |
| Thr. Feb. 3rd, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Rudy Wijnands |
"Cooling curves of accretion-heated neutron-star crusts" Wijnands, 2005, astro-ph/0405089 Wijnands et al., 2004, ApJ, 606, L61 Rutledge et al., 2002, ApJ, 580, 413 Wijnands et al., 2001, ApJ, 560, L159 |
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| Thr. Jan. 27th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | No Talk | Colloquia at 10:00-11:00 and 14:00-15:00 | -- |
| Thr. Jan. 20th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Simon Portegies Zwart |
"Immigrants Welcome in the Galactic Center" Maillard et al, 2004, A&A, 423, 155 |
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| Thr. Jan. 13th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Simone Migliari | "Disc-jet coupling in X-ray binaries: NS's vs. BH's" Fender, 2003, astro-ph/0303339 | -- |
| Thr. Jan. 6th, 200512:30 - 13:45 | Klaas Wiersema | "GRB followup in the SWIFT era" Gehrels et al., 2004, ApJ, 611, 1005 | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 23rd, 2004Thr. Dec. 30th, 2004 | No Talks | Christmas vacation | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 16th, 200412:30 - 13:45 | Dominik Paszun | "Rotation as a source of elongated aggregates" Bloom et al., , 2000, PRL, 85, 2426 Kempf et al., , 1999, Icarus, 141, 388 | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 9th, 200412:30 - 13:45 | Patrick Weltevrede | "New insights in the drifting subpulse phenomenon of radio pulsars" Weltevrede, Edwards & Stappers | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 2nd 200412:30 - 13:45 | Thomas Maccarone |
"X-ray sources in early type galaxies"
Maccarone, Kundu & Zepf,
2004, ApJ, 606, 430 Maccarone, Kundu & Zepf, 2003, ApJ, 586, 814 | First Pizza meeting at 12:30! |
General explanations
The Pizza meetings have several purposes:(1) To get to know each other's work in a pleasant atmosphere
(2) To let people practice in talks in front of an audience
(3) To study general, interesting topics in Astrophysics
Everyone (including staff, Postdocs and Ph.D.) will get a chance to talk once a year.
The idea is to speak about your own research, however this is not obligatory.
You can pick any subject (related to your work) that you find interesting.
When you prepare your talk, it is important to remember the following points:
Always remember that people should understand:
- What is the problem ?
- Why is it interesting ?
- What are the methods / ideas involved ?
Remember: Most of the audience is not familiar with your topic !
Thus, don't go too much into details! (Equations, etc..). Explain in simple words the basic ideas & basic physics involved.
Pizza meeting is NOT a colloquium!
The main idea is to initiate a discussion about the topic, and not to impress people with your knowledge !
Every talk should be ~30 minutes, followed by ~30 minutes free discussion !
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