General explanations
Talks at 2006/7
Talks at 2004/5
Schedule:
| Date / Place | Speaker | Topic / Paper | Additional Info |
| Thr. July 27th 2006 - September 2006 | No Talks | Summer vacation until September ! | -- |
Previous talks:
| Date / Place | Speaker | Topic / Paper | Additional Info |
| Thr. July 20th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Dominik Paszun | Collisional evolution of dust aggregates Dominik & Tielens 1997, ApJ, 480, 647 | -- |
| Thr. July 13th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Rhaana Starling | Extinction in GRB host galaxies Galama & Wijers 2001, ApJ, 529, L209 Stratta et al., 2004, ApJ, 608, 846 | -- |
| Thr. July 6th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Arjan Verhoeff | Circumstellar defiance | -- |
| Thr. June 29th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Lex Kaper | Is the speed of light constant with time? | -- |
| Thr. June 22nd 200612:30 - 13:45 | Roald Schnerr | Magnetic fields in Young Stellar Objects Johns-Krull et al., 1999, ApJ, 516, 900 Hubrig et al., 2006, A&A, 446, 1089 Wade et al., 2005, A&A, 442, L31 | -- |
| Thr. June 15th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Wim Hermsen | Variable (Very) High Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Microquasars Albert et. al., 2006, astro-ph/0605549 | -- |
| Thr. June 8th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Ben Stappers | LOFAR | -- |
| Thr. June 1st 200612:30 - 13:45 | Gert-Jan Savonije | One-armed oscillations in Be star discs | -- |
| Thr. May 25th 200612:30 - 13:45 | -- | No seminar | Ascension day |
| Thr. May 18th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Rudy Wijnands | (1) What not to publish Ozel, 2006, astro-ph/0605106 (2) Living catalogs in astronomy | -- |
| Thr. May 11th 200612:30 - 13:45 | -- | No seminar | NAC meeting |
| Thr. May 4th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Simon Portegies Zwart | Mass Transfer in Star Cluster Binaries | -- |
| Thr. April 27th 200612:30 - 13:45 | -- | No seminar | PhD defence Rohied Mokiem |
| Thr. April 20th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Phil Uttley | Bullshit, or not? A rant about statistical analysis (or the lack of it) in astronomy | Meeting in room F0.13! |
| Thr. April 13th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Patrick Weltevrede | The geometry of pulsars (and especially that of PSR B1702-19) | -- |
| Thr. April 6th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Alex de Koter | Which massive stars are Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors? | -- |
| Thr. Mar. 30th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Evghenii Gaburov | Stellar Collisions in Young Star Clusters Portegies Zwart et. al., 2004, Nature, 428, 724 Lombardi et. al., 2002, ApJ, 568, 939 | -- |
| Thr. Mar. 23rd 200612:30 - 13:45 | Klaas Wiersema | Probing Cosmic Chemical Evolution with Gamma-Ray Bursts Fynbo et. al., 2006, astro-ph/0602444 | -- |
| Thr. Mar. 16th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Nick Cox | Space bands: where and what are they? | -- |
| Thr. Mar. 9th 200612:30 - 13:45 | -- | No seminar | PhD defence Arjen van der Meer |
| Thr. Mar. 2nd 200612:30 - 13:45 | Piergiorgio Casella | Ultraluminous X-ray Sources...what's going on there? Miller & Colbert, 2004, Int. Journal of Mod. Phys. D, 13, 1 Mushotzky, 2004, Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl. 155, 27 Mucciarelli et. al., 2006, MNRAS, 365, 1123 | -- |
| Thr. Feb. 23nd 200612:30 - 13:45 | Fred Rasio | Canceled | -- |
| Thr. Feb. 16th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Valeriu Tudose | Mimetism in gamma-ray binaries LS 5039 and/or LSI +61 303? Aharonian et. al., 2005, Science, 309, 746 Paredes et. al., 2000, Science, 288, 2340 | Meeting in room F0.13! |
| Thr. Feb. 9th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Peter Curran | Early X-ray afterglows of GRBs Nousek et al. 2005, astro-ph/0508332 Zhang et al. 2005, astro-ph/0508321 | -- |
| Thr. Feb. 2nd 200612:30 - 13:45 | Alessandro Patruno | The nature of accreting millisecond pulsars Wijnands 2004, NuPhS, 132, 496 Li et al. 1999, PhRvL, 83, 3776 Cumming et al. 2001, ApJ, 557, 958 | -- |
| Thr. Jan. 26th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Gemma Janssen | Glitch observations in slow pulsars McKenna & Lyne 1990, Nature, 343, 349 Shemar & Lyne 1996, MNRAS, 282, 677 Hobbs et al. 2004, MNRAS, 353, 1311 | -- |
| Thr. Jan. 19th 200612:30 - 13:45 | -- | PhD students meeting (evaluation of undergraduate programme) | Together with NIKHEF PhD students, room H3.31 |
| Thr. Jan. 12th 200612:30 - 13:45 | Thijs Kouwenhoven | The origin of the brown dwarf desert Reipurth & Clarke 2001, AJ, 122, 432 Armitage & Bonnell 2002, MNRAS, 330, L11 Grether & Lineweaver 2005, astro-ph/0412356 | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 22nd & 29th 2005, Jan. 5th 2006 | -- | No seminars | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 15st 200512:30 - 13:45 | Stratos Boutloukos | Neutron star oscillations in gravitational waves and in X-rays Andersson & Kokkotas 2001, Int.J.Mod.Phys., D10, 381-442 (gr-qc/0010102) Bildsten, Cumming, Ushomirsky, Cutler 1998, ASP Conference Series, 135, 437 Piro & Bildsten 2005, ApJ, 629, 438 | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 8th 200512:30 - 13:45 | Michiel Min | A raisin-bread model for cosmic dust | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 1st 200512:30 - 13:45 | Manuel Linares | Oscillations going with the flow Lamb & Miller 2003, astro-ph/0308179 Miller, Lamb & Psaltis 1998, ApJ, 508, 791 | -- |
| Thr. Nov. 24th 200512:30 - 13:45 | -- | No seminar | Ed's farewell party |
| Thr. Nov. 17th 200512:30 - 13:45 | Marieke Kranenburg | Accreditatie opleiding natuur- en sterrenkunde: hoe, wat en wanneer? | Info on evaluation of physics & astronomy education at UvA |
| Thr. Nov. 10th 200512:30 - 13:45 | Joke Meijer | Constraints on the mixing of crystalline material in protoplanetary disks | -- |
| Thr. Nov. 3rd 200512:30 - 13:45 | -- | No seminar | Ed's farewell lecture |
| Thr. Oct. 27th 200512:30 - 13:45 | Alexander van der Horst | GRB Radio Afterglow Modeling | -- |
| Thr. Oct. 20th 200512:30 - 13:45 | Rens Waters |
Red Rectangle
Bujarrabal et al. 2005, A&A, 441, 1031 |
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| Thr. Oct. 13th 200512:30 - 13:45 | Peter Meszaros | Recent results from the SWIFT satellite | Special seminar |
| Thr. Oct. 6th 200512:30 - 13:45 | Alessia Gualandris |
The ejection of hyper-velocity stars
Brown et al. 2005, ApJ, 622, L33 Yu & Tremaine 2003, ApJ, 599, 1129 Gualandris, Portegies Zwart, Sipior 2005, MNRAS, 363, 223 |
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| Thr. Sep. 29th 200512:30 - 13:45 | James Miller-Jones |
An overview of the W50/SS433 system
Margon, 1984, ARA&A, 22, 507 Fabian & Rees 1979, MNRAS, 187, 13 Dubner et. al., 1998, AJ, 116, 1842 lundell et al., 2001, ApJ, 562, L79 Abell & Margon 1979, Nature, 279, 70 |
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| Thr. Sep. 22nd 200512:30 - 13:45 | Asaf Pe'er |
Peak energy clustering in compact objects
Pe'er et. al., 2005, astro-ph/0504346 |
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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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