Standard time and location: Thursday at 3:30pm, ColloquiumZaal
 
Year: 2012
Date Speaker Topic
22 May 2012
Tuesday !
Miguel de Avillez
Technical University Berlin, University of Evora
Thermal and Dynamical Evolution Studies of the Electron Distribution in the Galactic Disk
15 May 2012
Tuesday !
Marta Alves
IAS Paris
Radio Recombination Line Survey at 1.4 GHz with HIPASS.
10 May 2012Matthias Maercker
ESO/Argelander-Institut für Astronomie
Unwinding the secrets of thermal pulses and sculpted winds in AGB stars with ALMA
03 May 2012Pamela Klaassen
Leiden Observatory
Ionized and Molecular Gas Dynamics in High-Mass Star Forming Regions
25 Apr 2012
Wednesday !
Stefania Salvadori
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
The Milky Way laboratory: from Near to Far-Field Cosmology
19 Apr 2012Ruud Hoogeveen
SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
TROPOMI: The latest Dutch satellite instrument for Earth observation.
12 Apr 2012Peter Roelfsema
SRON
The SAFARI Imaging Spectrometer for the SPICA space observatory 
05 Apr 2012Ignas Snellen
Leiden Observatory
The characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and its potential to search for biological activity.
02 Apr 2012
Monday !
15:00:00 !
Marshall Eubanks
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fundamental Physics and Space Exploration with Large Space Tethers
29 Mar 2012Elmar Koerding
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen'
X-ray binaries: Miniature scale models of quasars?
15 Mar 2012Frans Snik
Sterrewacht Leiden
Polarimetry of (exo)planetary atmospheres 
08 Mar 2012Laurent Loinard
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
The distribution of star-forming regions in the Milky Way
01 Mar 2012Kalle Torstensson
Leiden University /JIVE
Methanol masers and millimetre lines: a common origin in protostellar envelopes
22 Feb 2012
Wednesday !
Frank Bigiel
University of Heidelberg
The HERACLES and THINGS View on Gas and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies.
16 Feb 2012Brynmor Haskell
University of Amsterdam
Hydrodynamical models of pulsar glitches
06 Feb 2012
Monday !
Zeljko Ivezic
University of Washington, USA
LSST: a digital color movie of the Universe
02 Feb 2012Stephanie Cazaux
University of Groningen
The impact of dust on interstellar gas: from H2 to more complex molecules
31 Jan 2012
Tuesday !
Frans de Jong
CAMRAS
HI measurements of Andromeda galaxy: peeking at our neighbour
26 Jan 2012Ralph Wijers & Peeyush Prasad
University of Amsterdam
What is an AARTFAAC anyway, and what does it do?
19 Jan 2012Kristine Spekkens
Royal Military College of Canada
A model-based approach to measuring disk galaxy structure
12 Jan 2012Simona Vegetti
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Res
Strong Lensing at High Angular Resolution
 
Year: 2011
Date Speaker Topic
08 Dec 2011Jean-Pierre Macquart
Curtin University, Australia
Hunting for Fast Radio Transients - worth the effort?
06 Dec 2011
Tuesday !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Matthew Auger
University of Cambridge
The Simple Structure but Puzzling Evolution of Massive Galaxies
01 Dec 2011Vernesa Smolcic
Argelander Institute for Astronomy, Bonn
The importance of radio-mode feedback in massive galaxy formation
24 Nov 2011Dmitry Duev
JIVE/Moscow State University
Towards the ultra-precise determination of spacecraft state vectors
16 Nov 2011
Wednesday !
Linjie Chen
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen/JIVE
Design and Study on Moon-based Very Low Frequency Radio Interferometer
10 Nov 2011Paolo Soleri
University of Groningen
The coupling between accretion processes and ejection mechanisms in accreting compact objects
03 Nov 2011Lakshmi Saripalli
Raman Research Institute, Bangalore
On growth and form: radio galaxy morphologies and the ATLBS radio continuum survey
27 Oct 2011
14:30:00 !
Francoise Combes
Observatoire de Paris
Secular evolution of galaxies
25 Oct 2011
Tuesday !
Mike Edmunds
Cardiff University
The Antikythera Mechanism Decoded
20 Oct 2011George Heald
ASTRON
The multiphase extraplanar medium in spiral galaxies
13 Oct 2011Soeren Larsen
Utrecht University
Star clusters: links between stellar and galactic astrophysics
06 Oct 2011Caroline D'Angelo
University of Amsterdam
The appearance and spin evolution of strongly magnetic stars
29 Sep 2011Sambit Roychowdhury
NCRA-TIFR, Pune
Relating gas and star formation in extremely faint dwarf galaxies
22 Sep 2011Reinout van Weeren
Leiden Observatory
Radio relics: probes of galaxy cluster mergers
13 Sep 2011
Tuesday !
Raghunathan Srianand
IUCAA, India
A quest for cold gas at high-z
23 Jun 2011
16:00:00 !
Barbara Catinella
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
HI properties of massive galaxies
Start at 4 PM!
16 Jun 2011Raymond Oonk
ASTRON
FUV emission in Brightest Cluster Galaxies
09 Jun 2011Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg
University of Cape Town
How massive is the Great Attractor?
31 May 2011
Tuesday !
Elisa Costantini
SRON, Utrecht
The complex gas environment of Active Galactic Nuclei: emission and absorption in the X-ray band
26 May 2011Adam Deller
ASTRON
A slice of PSRPI: mapping the Galactic distribution of pulsars
12 May 2011Carole Jackson
CSIRO, Australia
The Australian SKA Pathfinder - status update
09 May 2011
Monday !
14:30:00 !
Strom, Van Bemmel, De Bruyn, Oosterloo, Serra
ASTRON
Extra colloquium for everyone! 
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the detection of the 21 cm line in Kootwijk.
03 May 2011
Tuesday !
Kyle B. Westfall
University of Groningen
Galaxy Dissection: The Detailed Mass Budget of UGC 463
28 Apr 2011Mariano Mendez
University of Groningen
Time variability and X-ray spectra: probe of the inner accretion disc in compact objects
21 Apr 2011Rowin Meijerink
Leiden University
Studying the dark hearts of luminous infrared galaxies with Herschel
14 Apr 2011Lex Kaper
Astronomical Insitute Anton Pannekoek (UvA)
The first year of science with VLT/X-shooter
07 Apr 2011Paolo Padovani
ESO
Evolution and luminosity functions of sub-mJy radio sources
The solution to the long-standing problem of radio emission in radio-quiet AGN?
31 Mar 2011Misato Fukagawa
Osaka University
Direct imaging of protoplanetary disks in scattered light
24 Mar 2011Robert A. Benjamin
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Advances in Galactic Cartography
17 Mar 2011Karel van der Hucht
SRON
Potentially hazardous near Earth Asteroids - a clear and present danger
10 Mar 2011Jeroen Koelemeij
LaserLaB Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Optical atomic clock signals through optical fiber networks
03 Mar 2011Nick van Eijndhoven
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - IIHE(ULB-VUB)
Neutrinos on the rocks
23 Feb 2011
Wednesday !
Kalle Torstensson
Leiden University/JIVE
TBA 
18 Feb 2011
Friday !
12:30:00 !
Ari Mujunen
Aalto University
Storage in astronomy: beyond the limits of bandwidth, capacity, and location
10 Feb 2011Benne Holwerda
ESTEC
Quantifying HI morphology
03 Feb 2011Peter Frick
Institute for Continuous Media Mechanics, Russia
Wavelets and Faraday Rotation Measure Synthesis
25 Jan 2011
Tuesday !
Panos Labropoulos
ASTRON
The LOFAR Epoch of Reionization experiment data model: simulations, calibration and inversion
18 Jan 2011
Tuesday !
Clancy James
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
LOFAR's UHEP mode, NuMoon, and the global search for extremely energetic cosmic particles
13 Jan 2011Michiel Hogerheijde
Allegro - the ALMA Regional Center node in NL
Early Science Opportunities with ALMA
 
Year: 2010
Date Speaker Topic
09 Dec 2010Marco Spaans
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Close to a supermassive black hole: the clumpy torus and the IMF
02 Dec 2010Sharon Meidt
MPIA
Uncovering the origins of spiral structure via measurement of radial variation in pattern speeds
30 Nov 2010
Tuesday !
Andrey Baryshev
SRON
Microwave Kinetic Detector Arrays technology for ground based submm wave astronomy
24 Nov 2010
Wednesday !
Ron Ekers
CSIRO,Australia
The Australia Telescope 20GHz blind survey of the Southern Sky
16 Nov 2010
Tuesday !
Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazu
Jagiellonian University, Cracow
3D numerical simulations of magnetic field evolution in barred and spiral galaxies
11 Nov 2010Stefanie Komossa
MPE
Supermassive black holes in galaxies: singles, binaries, and escapees
04 Nov 2010Andreas Brunthaler
MPIfR
Mapping the Milky Way with VLBI Astrometry
28 Oct 2010Joris Verbiest
MPIfR
Gravitational Wave Detection Through Pulsar Timing
21 Oct 2010Alexander Lazarian
University of Wisconsin
Turbulent ISM, reconnection diffusion and star formation
14 Oct 2010Philippe Zarka
Observatoire de Paris / LESIA
Planetary Science with LOFAR and more
28 Sep 2010
Tuesday !
Jun Yang
JIVE
A decelerating jet observed in the X-ray transient XTE J1752-2
23 Sep 2010Gyula Josza
ASTRON
Galactic Warps
16 Sep 2010Vibor Jelic
ASTRON
Cosmological 21cm experiments: Searching for a needle in a haystack
26 Aug 2010Oleg Smirnov(1),Ludwig Schwordt(2),Ian Heywood(3)
Astron(1), Cape Town(2), Oxford(3)
"Mob Colloquium" 
08 Jul 2010Roberto Pizzo
ASTRON
Tomography of galaxy clusters through low-frequency radio polarimetry
01 Jul 2010Trish Henning
University of New Mexico
Extragalactic HI Surveys: Current Status and Future Prospects
29 Jun 2010
Tuesday !
Sanjay Bhatnagar
NRAO
Interferometric Imaging and Direction Dependent Effects
22 Jun 2010
Tuesday !
Snezana Stanimirovic
University of Wisconsin
The turbulent interstellar medium: confluence of observations and numerical simulations
17 Jun 2010Karl Gebhardt
University of Texas
Black Holes and Dark Matter in Nearby Galaxies
08 Jun 2010
Tuesday !
Rob Beswick
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Starburst galaxies and radio supernovae: The central kpc of M82
03 Jun 2010Chris van Diepenbeek, Herman Teinsma, Albert Heijl
Passive Spectrum use and upcoming changes in the spectrum environment
01 Jun 2010
Tuesday !
Emil Kraaikamp
RUG
Planet imaging using Castrator and Autostakkert!
27 May 2010Scott Tremaine
Institute for Advanced Study
The centers of galaxies
18 May 2010
Tuesday !
Paulo Freire
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
Measuring the masses of millisecond pulsars: new constraints on the equation of state
11 May 2010
Tuesday !
Marc van der Sluys
University of Alberta
Population synthesis of common-envelope mergers on the giant branches
27 Apr 2010
Tuesday !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Shinji Horiuchi
NASA DSN/CSIRO
Tracking Jupiter at microwave frequencies after the 2009 impact
15 Apr 2010Alicia Berciano Alba
ASTRON
Strong gravitational lensing in the radio domain
08 Apr 2010Carolina Ödman
UNAWE
Universe Awareness for Young Children: A big impact on small children
01 Apr 2010Tao An
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
VLBI observations of the CSS 3C48 and five GPS sources
23 Mar 2010
Tuesday !
Sara Seager
MIT
Exoplanet Atmospheres: from Discovery to Characterization and Beyond
18 Mar 2010Jacco Vink
Utrecht University
X-ray synchrotron and H-alpha emission from supernova remnant shock fronts
04 Mar 2010Konrad Tristram
MPIfR
Resolving the dusty cores of nearby AGN with mid-infrared interferometry
25 Feb 2010Mallory Roberts
Eureka Scientific
Pulsar Wind Nebulae Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
18 Feb 2010Sungsoo Kim
Kyung Hee University, Korea
Star Formation in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way
11 Feb 2010Richard Plotkin
Amsterdam
Mining the SDSS for BL Lac Objects
04 Feb 2010David Smith
Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan
Gamma-ray pulsars and their nebulae with Fermi
28 Jan 2010Marc Sarzi
University of Hertfordshire
The Sources of Ionisation for the Gas in Early-type Galaxies
21 Jan 2010Marina Rejkuba
ESO
The stellar populations and structure of the Milky Way analogue galaxy NGC 891
14 Jan 2010Vlad Kondratiev
ASTRON
Crab giant pulses: from radio to gamma-rays
 
Year: 2009
Date Speaker Topic
15 Dec 2009
Tuesday !
Valeriu Tudose
ASTRON
The disc-jet coupling in X-ray binary systems
10 Dec 2009Alan Harris
DLR Berlin-Adlershof
The Astrobiological Implications of Near-Earth Asteroids
03 Dec 2009Wouter Vlemmings
Argelander Institut, Bonn
Maser measurements of magnetic fields during Massive Star-formation
26 Nov 2009Roy Smits
University of Manchester/ASTRON
Pulsar science with the SKA
19 Nov 2009Paola di Matteo
Observatoire de Paris
Galaxy interactions and their impact on the observed properties of galaxies
12 Nov 2009Anna L. Watts
University of Amsterdam
Stars under stress - new results from neutron star seismology
05 Nov 2009Alexi Glover
ESA/ESTEC
Space Weather: An Applications Perspective
29 Oct 2009Mehreen Mahmud
JIVE
Searching for Helical Magnetic Fields in Active Galactic Nuclei
27 Oct 2009
Tuesday !
Sander Weinreb
California Institute of Technology
Wideband Very Low Noise Amplifiers and Antenna Feeds
15 Oct 2009Tobia Carozzi
University of Glasgow
Aspects of precision polarimetry in radio astronomy
08 Oct 2009
15:40:00 !
Helmut Lammer
Institut für Weltraumforschung, Graz
Determining the mass loss limit for close-in exoplanets
24 Sep 2009Naomi McClure-Griffiths
ATNF
GASS in the lower Milky Way halo
15 Sep 2009
Tuesday !
Doug Johnstone
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Contemplating the Low Mass Star Formation Road Map to ALMA
10 Sep 2009The Spacegirls
De spacegirls en de CanSat competitie
08 Sep 2009
Tuesday !
Miguel de Avillez
University of Evora
High-Resolution Modelling of the Interstellar Medium in Spiral Galaxies
03 Sep 2009Anne-Marie Weijmans
Universiteit Leiden
Dark matter in early-type galaxies: mapping dark haloes with integral-field spectrography
26 Aug 2009
Wednesday !
Peter Hofstee
IBM Austin Research laboratory, STI design center
The next 25 years of computer architecture?
02 Jul 2009Lyndsay Fletcher
Glasgow University
Energy release and particle acceleration in solar flares and coronal mass ejections
25 Jun 2009Georg Fischer
Institut für Weltraumforschung, Graz
Five years of Saturn lightning observations with Cassini
18 Jun 2009Rens Waters
University of Amsterdam
The direct detection of exo-planets
11 Jun 2009Harry van der Laan
Leiden/ESO/Utrecht
SRZM 1967 - 1987 Exciting but turbulent years
2e colloquium ter ere van 60 jarig bestaan ASTRON
09 Jun 2009
Tuesday !
Michael Kramer
Univ. Manchester/Max-Planck-Inst. for RA Bonn
Studying Fundamental Physics with Radio Astronomy
28 May 2009Pascal Wolkotte
University of Twente
An Automated Design-flow for FPGA-based Sequential Simulation
19 May 2009
Tuesday !
16:30:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Amir Leshem
Bar-Ilan University
Array processing and its application to radio astronomy
12 May 2009
Tuesday !
14:00:00 !
Colloquiumzaal, Kantine !!
Vincent Icke
Universiteit Leiden
Kosmologie op ASTRONs 120ste verjaardag
Colloquium ter ere van 60 jarig bestaan ASTRON
23 Apr 2009Martin Asplund
Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
The surprising Sun: Does the Sun have a subsolar metallicity?
16 Apr 2009Marcel ter Brake
University of Twente
Cryo-cooling developments at UT, relevant to Astronomy
09 Apr 2009Robert Langenhuysen and Paul Boven
CAMRAS / JIVE
What is happening in our backyard?
02 Apr 2009Davor Krajnovic
University of Oxford
Internal structure of galaxies along the red sequence
23 Mar 2009
Monday !
11:00:00 !
Andrew Fletcher
Newcastle University
Random fluctuations in the diffuse interstellar medium
19 Mar 2009Gemma Janssen
University of Amsterdam
High Precision Radio Pulsar Timing
12 Mar 2009Jan David Mol
ASTRON
Load Balancing in Peer-to-Peer Video Distribution
05 Mar 2009
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Leon Koopmans
University of Groningen
Strong Gravitational Lens Modeling:
The Structure & Evolution of Early-type Galaxies to z=1 and beyond
09 Feb 2009
Monday !
Marijke Haverkorn
ASTRON
Unraveling the magnetized interstellar medium
05 Feb 2009Frank Israel
University of Leiden
Centaurus A - the nearest AGN
29 Jan 2009Jim Ulvestad
NRAO
Young Supernovae in Arp 299 and Related Starbursts
22 Jan 2009Chris Ormel
MPIA Heidelberg
The first stages of planet formation: how to grow from small to large
15 Jan 2009Jason Hessels
ASTRON
Millisecond Pulsars
08 Jan 2009Rowin Meijerink
University of California Berkeley
Chemistry and Excitation of Molecular Gas in the Planetforming Region of Young Circumstellar Disks.
 
Year: 2008
Date Speaker Topic
18 Dec 2008
11:00:00 !
Rachel Osten
University of Maryland
New Insights into the Physics of Stellar Flares
04 Dec 2008Uwe Motschmann
Technical University Braunschweig
Between Stars and Planets: Simulation of Particle and Energy Transport by the Cosmic Plasma
27 Nov 2008Hanny van Arkel
Galaxy Zoo and the discovery of Hanny's Voorwerp
13 Nov 2008
12:30:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Alexander O. Kasyanov
Taganrog Institute of Technology
Microstip phased arrays and reflective type antenna arrays
13 Nov 2008Gianfranco Gentile
Ghent University
Dark matter and modified dynamics: observational clues
06 Nov 2008Bo Peng
National Astronomical Observatories, China
Radio telescopes rooted in Miyun observatory: past, present and future 
27 Oct 2008
Monday !
Prof. Dmytro M. Vavriv
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Low-noise, high dynamic range digital receiver/spectrometer for radio astronomy applications
23 Oct 2008Robert Wiersma
Sterrewacht Leiden
The Trials and Transport of Cosmic Metals
16 Oct 2008Juergen Blum
Technical University Braunschweig
Planet formation 
09 Oct 2008Frank Helmich
SRON
Observing in the far-infrared: Herschel-HIFI and beyond
02 Oct 2008Henny Lamers
University of Utrecht
Stellar Winds and Mass Loss: mechanisms, stellar evolution, interstellar medium 
25 Sep 2008Joachim Vogt
Jacobs University Bremen
Effects of internal geomagnetic variation on the Earth’s space environment and the middle atmosphere 
11 Sep 2008Joeri van Leeuwen
ASTRON
Radio pulsars and instrument innovation for supernovae/gravitational-wave research 
04 Sep 2008Andrzej Marecki
Torun Centre for Astronomy
Post-active galaxies - more ubiquitous than we thought before 
07 Aug 2008Robert Braun
Australia Telescope National Facility
Opaque atomic gas and star formation rate density in the local group 
04 Aug 2008
Monday !
Chanda Jog
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
The Flattened Dark Matter Halo of M31 as deduced from Observed HI scale-heights 
03 Jul 2008Mark Walker
Manly Astrophysics Workshop
Interstellar scintillation - progress and possibilities 
01 Jul 2008
Tuesday !
Simon Johnston
ATNF
Science with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder 
27 Jun 2008
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Raj Thilak Rajan
A Tracking Algorithm to detect Cosmic Muons for the CMS RPC based Technical Trigger
26 Jun 2008
15:00:00 !
Rainer Beck
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way and Spiral Galaxies 
19 Jun 2008Yashwant Gupta
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics NCRA, Pune
The Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope : Recent Science Results and Future Upgrade Plans 
16 Jun 2008
Monday !
Dmitrijs Docenko
Max Planck Institut fuer Astrophysik, Garching
Hyperfine radio line of 14-N VII for studies of the warm-hot intergalactic medium
12 Jun 2008
16:00:00 !
Dan Werthimer
University of California, Berkeley
Searching for ET and Transients with Eight Million SETI@home Volunteers
05 Jun 2008Imke de Pater
University of California Berkeley
Dusty Rings in our Solar System: Focussing on Observations of Uranus’s Rings with the 10-m W.M. Keck 
29 May 2008Enno Middelberg
Ruhr University Bochum
Recent progress of the ATLAS survey
23 May 2008
Friday !
12:30:00 !
Ed Elson
Astrolunch
22 May 2008Steve Rawlings
Oxford
TBA 
15 May 2008John McKean
MPIfR Bonn
Probing galaxy formation with cosmic telescopes 
13 May 2008
Tuesday !
16:00:00 !
Jos Engelen
CERN
The Large Hadron Collider project - status and prospectives 
06 May 2008
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
Raj Mittra
Pennsylvania State University
"Solving Antenna Problems with a Large number of Degrees of Freedom (DoFs) 
by Combining Domain Decomposition with Parallelization."
06 May 2008
Tuesday !
Craig Walker
NRAO
The M87 43 GHz VLBA movie project 
22 Apr 2008
Tuesday !
Joerg Hoerandel
Radboud University Nijmegen
Charged particle astronomy 
17 Apr 2008Ralf-Juergen Dettmar
Ruhr University Bochum
Gaseous Halos of Spiral Galaxies and the Interstellar Disk-Halo Connection 
10 Apr 2008Dominic Schnitzeler
Leiden
The large-scale magnetic field of the second Galactic quadrant 
03 Apr 2008Inga Kamp
Groningen
Probing protoplanetary disk evolution
How to make a Solar System
27 Mar 2008
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Jean-Mathias Griessmeier
ASTRON
The search for low frequency radio emission from extrasolar planets 
20 Mar 2008Yuri Kovalev
MPIfR Bonn
Opacity in compact extragalactic radio sources and recent results on the inner radio jet in M87 
13 Mar 2008Guido De Marchi
ESTEC
Dissolving globular clusters 
06 Mar 2008Renzo Sancisi
INAF & Kapteyn
Cold Gas Accretion in Galaxies 
29 Feb 2008
Friday !
13:30:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Joe Shields
Ohio University
Recent Results on Star Clusters in Galaxy Nuclei 
20 Feb 2008
Wednesday !
Richard Dodson
OAN
MIF1-CT-2005-021873: Two years of a Marie Curie in the OAN
14 Feb 2008Peter Jonker
SRON
Low-mass X-ray binaries; what can we learn from them? 
06 Feb 2008
Wednesday !
Hayley Bignall
JIVE
What makes quasars twinkle? Results from the MASIV Survey 
31 Jan 2008Megan Argo
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Nearby Starburst Galaxies 
17 Jan 2008Filippo Fraternali
Bologna
Accretion of gas onto nearby spiral galaxies 
 
Year: 2007
Date Speaker Topic
04 Dec 2007
Tuesday !
Elena Gallo
UC Santa Barbara
AMUSE-Virgo: on the survival of super-massive black holes in faint spheroids 
22 Nov 2007Soeren Larsen
Utrecht
Star Clusters: Their demographics and some applications 
15 Nov 2007Piet de Korte
SRON
Development of Cryogenic Sensor arrays for X-ray imaging spectroscopy & sensitive IR/sub-mm imaging 
08 Nov 2007Claudio Maccone
International Academy of Astronautics
SETI by LOFAR: Searching for ETs by a supercomputer, the KLT and LOFAR 
05 Nov 2007
Monday !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Aris Karastergiou
University of Oxford
Refining the lighthouse model: The complex radio beams of pulsars 
25 Oct 2007Stefanie Muehle
JIVE
Starbursts: The Heat is On? 
Formaldehyde as a Tracer of the Molecular Gas in External Galaxies
18 Oct 2007Eline Tolstoy
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Galactic Archaeology 
11 Oct 2007Bärbel Koribalski
ATNF
The Local Volume HI Survey (LVHIS) 
04 Oct 2007Michiel Brentjens
ASTRON
Radio Polarimetry in 2.5D 
24 Sep 2007
Monday !
12:30:00 !
Ylva Pihlstroem
University of New Mexico
Stirring the Embers: High Resolution Observations of Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows 
20 Sep 2007
12:30:00 !
Andrei Lobanov
MPIfR Bonn
Extragalactic outflows and supermassive black holes in a broader context. 
20 Sep 2007Tracey Hill
Sterrewacht Leiden
Profiling Young Massive Stars 
06 Sep 2007Donald Lynden-Bell
University of Cambridge
Magnetic Jets from Swirling Disks 
09 Aug 2007Steven Tingay
Curtin University of Technology
An illustrated update on the Australian VLBI/e-VLBI project 
02 Jul 2007
Monday !
Donald Fraser
UNSW, ADFA
Image Restoration at UNSW@ADFA 
28 Jun 2007Olaf Wucknitz
JIVE
Do gravitational lenses always magnify? 
21 Jun 2007Patrick Weltevrede
Astronomical Institute
The modulation and propagation of the radio emission of pulsars 
07 Jun 2007
11:00:00 !
Leonie Snijders
Leiden Observatory
Young star clusters in starburst galaxies 
04 Jun 2007
Monday !
10:30:00 !
Mona Moren
Chalmers University of Technology
 
RFI Environment Characterization and Receiver Front-End Design for Radio Astronomical Observations below 30MHz
31 May 2007Roald Schnerr
University of Amsterdam/SRON
The radio emission of magnetic massive stars 
24 May 2007Sergei Fabrika
SAO, Russia
SS433 as an ultraluminous X-ray source in the Milky Way 
10 May 2007Amina Helmi
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Cosmology with the Galaxy 
03 May 2007Lawrence Rudnick
University of Minnesota
Illuminating Shocks from pc to Mpc scales 
26 Apr 2007-- No Colloquium --
LOFAR workshop
 
19 Apr 2007Isabella Prandoni
INAF
A view of the sub-mJy radio population: radio/optical properties, modeling 
12 Apr 2007Lisa Young
New Mexico Tech
Cold Gas in Hot Galaxies 
05 Apr 2007Bob Sanders
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Neutrinos as Cluster Dark Matter 
27 Mar 2007
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
Bruno Letarte
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute & Caltech
Chemical Analysis of the Fornax Dwarf Galaxy 
22 Mar 2007Leon Koopmans
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
The structure, formation and evolution of early-type galaxies 
08 Mar 2007Rense Boomsma
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
The Disk-Halo connection in NGC 6946 & NGC 253 
28 Feb 2007
Wednesday !
Shanmugha Sundaram
JIVE
Long-wave Observations of Solar Noise Storms 
Associated Coronal Plasma Parameters from Supplementary Multi-wavelength Spacecraft Data
22 Feb 2007Nanda Rea
SRON Utrecht
Neutron stars: an overview and new results 
15 Feb 2007Yurii Pidopryhora
JIVE
Extra-Planar HI in the Inner Milky Way 
25 Jan 2007Giuseppe Cimo
JIVE
Intraday Variability of AGN in the Southern Hemisphere 
10 Jan 2007
Wednesday !
Wubbo Ockels
Delft University of Technology
Is Life Earth-like? 
 
Year: 2006
Date Speaker Topic
14 Dec 2006Stafford Withington
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
Optical Physics of Phased Arrays and Bolometric Interferometers 
07 Dec 2006Neeraj Gupta
NCRA
Cold atomic gas in AGNs and intermediate-redshift protogalaxies 
01 Dec 2006
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Maria Cunningham
University of New South Wales
The Mopra G333 Multi-wavelength Survey: Massive Star Formation in the Southern Galactic Plane 
24 Nov 2006
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Dan Stinebring
Oberlin College, Ohio
Pulsar Scintillation: Structure in the ISM and its Effect on Gravitational Wave Detection 
16 Nov 2006
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Krisztina Gabanyi
MPIfR - Bonn
Effects of the turbulent ISM on radio observations of quasars 
09 Nov 2006
11:00:00 !
Rick Perley
NRAO
eVLA Status 
02 Nov 2006
14:00:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Atul Deep
IUCAA, India
The Design and Fabrication of Near Infrared PICNIC Imager (NIPI) 
20 Oct 2006
Friday !
11:15:00 !
Matthew Bailes
Swinburne University
Public Outreach in 3 Dimensions and the impact of software correlators in precision pulsar timing 
19 Oct 2006Leonid Petrov
NVI, Inc. / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Recent Fundamental VLBI Surveys 
13 Oct 2006
Friday !
Atish Kamble
Raman Research Institute
Multiband Modeling of Gamma Ray Burst Afterglows 
05 Oct 2006
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Johan Hamaker
ASTRON
Matrix-based Theory and Practice of Radio-Polarimetric Self-calibration 
14 Sep 2006Colin Norman
STScI/Johns Hopkins University
What we have learned from the Chandra Deep Fields 
07 Sep 2006Alexander van der Horst
Astronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek', UvA
Modeling Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows at Centimeter Wavelengths 
05 Sep 2006
Tuesday !
Kurt Weiler
Naval Research Laboratory
Low Frequency Radio Astronomy and the LWA 
31 Aug 2006Enno Middelberg
CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility
ATLAS - A Very Deep Look into the Southern Radio Sky 
24 Aug 2006Anish Roshi
Raman Research Institute
Carbon Recombination Line as a Probe to Study the Environment of Ultra-compact HII regions 
06 Jul 2006Gijs Verdoes Kleijn
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
ASTRO-WISE Science: A new approach to astronomical data analysis for the data-flooded era 
30 Jun 2006
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Lolke Schakel
Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen
LOFAR: Imaging Performance vs. Costs 
22 Jun 2006Floris van der Tak
SRON Groningen
Submillimeter observations of Galactic high-mass star formation 
16 Jun 2006
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Emil Lenc
Swinburne University
Wide-field, High Spatial Resolution Radio Imaging of the Southern Starburst NGC 253 
08 Jun 2006Rhaana Starling
Astronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek', UvA
Optical spectroscopy of gamma-ray burst afterglows 
01 Jun 2006Paul van der Werf
Sterrewacht Leiden
Starburst galaxies at low and high redshift 
18 May 2006Marcus Brüggen
International University Bremen
The Physics of the Intracluster Medium 
13 Apr 2006Rebeca Soria-Ruiz
JIVE
The study of circumstellar SiO masers using VLBI 
06 Apr 2006Sera Markoff
Anton Pannekoek Instituut, Amsterdam
Inflow/Outflow Connections in Accreting Black Holes
04 Apr 2006
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
Steve Shectman
Carnegie Institution of Washington
The Giant Magellan Telescope
30 Mar 2006Benedetta Ciardi
MPA, Garching bei München
Reionization: simulations and predictions for 21cm observations 
21 Mar 2006
Tuesday !
15:00:00 !
Hermine Landt
CfA, Harvard
A New Population of Blazars
09 Mar 2006Yuri Levin
Sterrewacht Leiden
Young stars in the Galactic Center 
02 Mar 2006Remo Tilanus
NWO/Joint Astronomy Center, Hilo
The Future Scientific Programme of the JCMT 
23 Feb 2006Rob Millenaar
ASTRON
Finding a site for the SKA - the RFI perspective 
16 Feb 2006Nigel Douglas
Kapteyn Institute
PN.S and beyond: Galaxy Dynamics with Planetary Nebulae 
08 Feb 2006
Wednesday !
16:00:00 !
Guy Drijkoningen
Civil Engeneering & Geosciences, TU Delft
LOFAR and Seismology: Seismic imaging and monitoring 
20 Jan 2006
Friday !
10:45:00 !
Nan Redong
Beijing Astronomical Observatory
FAST and the Chinese SKA program 
19 Jan 2006Paul Groot
Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen
Optical Galactic Plane Surveys 
16 Jan 2006
Monday !
11:00:00 !
Aeree Chung
Columbia University
Virgo. a Laboratory for studying Galaxy Evolution 
13 Jan 2006
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Laura Birzan-Rafferty
University of Ohio
Radio Properties of Cavities in the ICM: Imprints of AGN Activity 
12 Jan 2006
15:00:00 !
Carl Kesselman
Information Sciences Inst, U South. Californinia
Pioneering the Grid 
03 Jan 2006
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
George Heald
University of New Mexico
Kinematics of Diffuse Ionized Gas Halos in Spiral Galaxies 
 
Year: 2005
Date Speaker Topic
15 Dec 2005Christoph Keller
Astronomy Institute, Utrecht
Solar surface observations and what they can tell MHD simulations 
11 Dec 2005
Sunday !
11:00:00 !
Sebastian Jester
University of Southampton
AGN Jets: Emission and Origins 
08 Dec 2005Daan Goense
Wageningen University & Research Centre
A wireless sensor network for precision agriculture, the case for Phytophthora decision support 
01 Dec 2005Jos Roerdink
Inst. for Math. and Comp. Science, Groningen
Automated feature extraction and visualization of large data sets 
17 Nov 2005Läslo Evers
KNMI
Infrasound: Listening to inaudible sound 
14 Nov 2005
Monday !
Chris Ormel
MPIA Heidelberg
The first stages of planet formation: how to grow from small to large
11 Nov 2005
Friday !
Martin Fullekrug
University of Bath, UK
Thunder and Lighting: Global remote sensing of the atmospheric electromagnetic environment 
03 Nov 2005Lisa Harvey-Smith
JIVE
Studies of OH and methanol masers in regions of massive star-formation 
27 Oct 2005Scott Trager
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Are Old, Red Galaxies Dead? (the Stellar Content of Early-type Galaxies) 
20 Oct 2005Serena Bertone
University of Sussex
The effect of galactic winds on the Ly-alpha forest 
07 Oct 2005
Friday !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Dave Jauncy
CSIRO/ATNF
Interstellar Scintillation and Radio Variability 
15 Sep 2005Jean-Pierre Macquart
NRAO
Understanding the Radio Variability of Sgr A* 
08 Sep 2005Elena Gallo
Anton Pannenkoek Institute, Amsterdam
Relativistic Jets from Stellar Black Holes 
01 Sep 2005Dharam Vir Lal
NCRA, Pune
Study of X-shaped sources 
24 Jun 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Ilian Iliev
CITA
A New Code for Photon-Conserving Radiative Transfer 
Simulating Reionization and Implications for 21-cm Signal Detection
17 Jun 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Ignas Snellen
Sterrewacht Leiden
Transiting Extrasolar Planets 
10 Jun 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Heinz Völk
MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
The nonthermal Universe in gamma rays - results of the H.E.S.S. experiment 
02 Jun 2005
16:00:00 !
Helio Takai
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Detecting Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray showers with RADAR 
27 May 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
James Anderson
JIVE
Radio Emission in Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei 
12 May 2005
16:00:00 !
Hartmut Gemmeke
IPE, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Low Frequency Antennas for Detecting Cosmic Rays 
22 Apr 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Subhashis Roy
ASTRON
Radio Studies of the Galactic Centre 
15 Apr 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Leon Koopmans
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Dark & Luminous Matter in Early-type Galaxies from Gravitational Lensing & Stellar Dynamics 
08 Apr 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Frank Verbunt
Astronomical Institute, Utrecht
The Earth-Moon system 
31 Mar 2005
15:00:00 !
Dr. H. Olthof
ESA-ESTEC
Colloquium "Huygens and Titan" 
Introduction ESA, historical facts about Christiaan Huygens and his observations of Saturn and Titan, Cassini-Huygens mission.
11 Mar 2005
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Bram Achterberg
Astronomy Institute, Utrecht
The highest enery cosmic rays 
04 Mar 2005
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Tom Maccarone
Anton Pannekoek Institute, Amsterdam
A unified picture of the disk-jet connection: foundations and applications 
01 Mar 2005
Tuesday !
16:00:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Michael Wise
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Res
Large-scale Heating and AGN Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies 
25 Feb 2005
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Charlotte Lemmens
ASTRON
The LOFAR Visitor Centre 
18 Feb 2005
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Chris Verhoeven
TU Delft
MISAT - a new satellite system 
11 Feb 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Michiel Hogerheijde
Sterrewacht Leiden
Molecular Views of Planet-Forming Disks 
09 Feb 2005
Wednesday !
13:30:00 !
Chung-Chi Lin + Ulf Klein
ESA
Future ESA Radiometry Missions for Earth Observation
Tour of ASTRON and 2 short colloquia
28 Jan 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
Mark Walker
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Microarcsecond imaging of the ionised interstellar medium 
21 Jan 2005
Friday !
15:00:00 !
James Miller-Jones
Anton Pannekoek Institute, Amsterdam
Radio observations of Cygnus X-3 
14 Jan 2005
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Richard Strom
ASTRON
The early history of Dutch Radio Astronomy: radio telephony, Hollandia, Paramaribo and the ionospher 
 
Year: 2004
Date Speaker Topic
17 Dec 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Andrey Baryshev
SRON Groningen
ALMA Band 9 Receivers 
10 Dec 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Emanuele Ripamonti
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Numerical simulations of local group dwarf galaxies 
19 Nov 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Andreas Eckart
I. Physikalisches Institut Universität zu Köln
News from the Center of the Milky Way 
16 Nov 2004
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
Phil Edwards
ISAS, Japan
From VSOP to VSOP-2 
12 Nov 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Matthijs Streutker
Economic Sciences, RU Groningen
Effectiviteit van onderzochte reductiemethoden en heuristieken bij bekabelingsvraagstukken van LOFAR 
05 Nov 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Richard McDermid
Sterrewacht Leiden
The SAURON Survey of Early-Type Galaxies 
29 Oct 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Ken Freeman
Res. School of Astr&Astroph, Australian Nat. Univ.
Galactic Disks 
22 Oct 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Walter Jaffe
Sterrewacht Leiden
First results from MIDI 
15 Oct 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Albert-Jan Boonstra
ASTRON
Spatial filtering of interfering signals at the initial LOFAR phased array test station 
01 Oct 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Wouter Vlemmings
Cornell University
Pulsar astrometry and applications 
24 Sep 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Mark Verheijen
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
An HI Perspective on Galaxy Evolution in Clusters 
17 Sep 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Bart Smolders
Philips Semiconductors
RF SiP: The next wave for wireless system integration 
25 Jun 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Ivan Agudo
MPIfR, Germany
VLBI Observations and Numerical Modelling of the Inner Jets in AGNs 
18 Jun 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
R.Schilizzi
SKA, Dwingeloo
Square Kilometer Array 
04 Jun 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Joeri van leeuwen
Utrect astronomical institute
Drifting Subpulses and the Pulsar Emission Mechanism 
14 May 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Peter Barthel
Kapteyn Institute
To be or not to be active 
07 May 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Remko Stuik
Leiden University
 
23 Apr 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Ilian Iliev
CITA, University of Toronto, Canada
Small-scale structure at high-z: observability and effect on reionization 
02 Apr 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Marc Ribo
CEA-Saclay, France
Recent multiwavelength results on microquasars 
01 Apr 2004
15:00:00 !
Andrej Sobolev
Ural State University
 
23 Mar 2004
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
Rene Rutten
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
Now and tomorrow at the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope 
19 Mar 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Gerhard De Lange
SRON
Development of the heterodyne mixers for HIFI band 3 and 4 
12 Mar 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Andrew Cole
Kapteyn Institute
Chemical Evolution and Star Formation History of the Large Magellanic Cloud 
05 Mar 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Sylvain Alliot
Leiden University
Architecture Exploration for Large Scale Array Signal Processing Systems. 
13 Feb 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Zhang Xizhen
Beijing National Astronomical Observatories, China
Radio astronomy at the Miyun station 
06 Feb 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Ruud Haring
IBM Watson Lab.
The BlueGene/L hardware architecture 
30 Jan 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Magda Arnaboldi
I.N.A.F., Observatory of Turin
INTRACLUSTER STELLAR POPULATION IN NEARBY CLUSTERS 
23 Jan 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
S.Tingay
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
The changing face of Australian VLBI 
16 Jan 2004
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Neil Nagar
Kapteyn Institute
The Not-So-Silent Majority: Accretion in Nearby `Normal' Galaxies 
 
Year: 2003
Date Speaker Topic
12 Dec 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
M. Kregel
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Edge-on Galaxy Disks: Stellar dynamics and new implications for dark matter 
05 Dec 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
B.J.Boyle
ATNF
The 2df QSO Survey 
03 Dec 2003
Wednesday !
11:00:00 !
Andy Fabian
Cambridge University
Broad iron lines from accreting black holes; gravitational redshift and light bending? 
28 Nov 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
R.Braun
ASTRON
Tidal Streams, Low Mass Companions and the Cosmic Web of M31 
21 Nov 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Ralph A.M.J. Wijers
University of Amsterdam
 
14 Nov 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Alexander Ollongren
Leiden University
TBD 
07 Nov 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
M.Kregel
Kapteyn Institute
 
31 Oct 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Johan H. Knapen
University of Hertfordshire,UK
Fuelling starbursts and AGN 
30 Oct 2003
13:00:00 !

NorthStars Productie technologie FAST/ALMA 
22 Oct 2003
Wednesday !
15:00:00 !
Dave Sanders
Univ. Hawaii, USA
The Infrared Universe: The cosmic Evolution of Superstarbursts and Massive Black Holes 
16 Oct 2003
11:00:00 !
Brian Sluiten
 
10 Oct 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Other !!
Ole Moeller
Kapteyn Institute
 
03 Oct 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Willem Jellema
SRON
Experimental Verification of Electromagnetic Simulations 
of a HIFI Mixer Sub-Assembly
26 Sep 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Koji Murakawa
SUBARU Observatory, Hawaii
HI and stellar kinematics of edge-on spiral galaxies 
12 Sep 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Denise Gabuzda
UCC
Revealing Helical Magnetic Fields in Active Galactic Nuclei 
05 Sep 2003
Friday !
11:15:00 !
Antonis Polatidis
MPIfR, Bonn
The expansion and age determination ofCompact Symmetric Object 
17 Jul 2003
11:00:00 !
K.Hachisuka
University of Valencia
Towards an understanding of the dynamics of the Milky Way  
11 Jul 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Willem Jellema
SRON
Experimental Verification of Electromagnetic Simulations 
of a HIFI Mixer Sub-Assembly
04 Jul 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Stephanie Cazaux
Kapteyn Institute
 
01 Jul 2003
Tuesday !
13:30:00 !
Dirk Sleutjes
Afstudeerpresentatie 
Data communicatiesysteem voor FAST
01 Jul 2003
Tuesday !
15:00:00 !
Rogier Windhorst
Arizona State University
The Smoking Gun of Reionization --- Who's dunnit: Dwarf Galaxies or AGN? 
27 Jun 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
S.J.Wijnholds
ASTRON
Measurement results from THEA 
25 Jun 2003
Wednesday !
11:00:00 !
Heino Falcke
ASTRON
Radio Emission from Cosmic Rays - First Results from LOPES-10 
24 Jun 2003
Tuesday !
13:00:00 !
Colin Cunningham
UK Royal Observatory
Current and future programme of the UK ATC 
20 Jun 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Jacqueline van Gorkom
Columbia University, New York/ Kapteyn Institute
 
13 Jun 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Garrelt Mellema
Leiden
The Hydrodynamics of Radiative Feedback 
12 Jun 2003
15:00:00 !
P. Nijssen
ASTRON
Het eenvoudig toepasbaar maken van de nieuwe ASTRON lightweighting methode. 
06 Jun 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Andrei Lobanov
MPIfR
Physical conditions in luminous AGN 
20 May 2003
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
Travis Rector
NRAO
The Search for and Study of AGN: An Integrated Approach 
13 May 2003
Tuesday !
11:15:00 !
Dr. Helen Buttery
Cambridge University, UK
Searching for high-redshift clusters of galaxies in SUMSS 
09 May 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Nigel Douglas
Kapteyn Institute Groningen
First results from the PN Spectrograph at La Palma 
02 May 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Steve van Straaten
Sterrenkundig Instituut 'Anton Pannekoek'
The power spectra of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 
25 Apr 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Olivier Vallejo
Observatoire Astronomique de Bordeaux
Extensive study of the flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 4414. Dynamics, ISM and star formation 
17 Apr 2003
11:00:00 !
Evan Skillman
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Measuring Star Formation Rates in Dwarf Galaxies from HST Observations 
09 Apr 2003
Wednesday !
11:00:00 !
Moshe Elitzur
Onsala Space Observatory
 
04 Apr 2003
Friday !
10:45:00 !
Cesar Gonzalez
Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
Elliptical Galaxies: Merger Simulations & the Fundamental Plane 
28 Mar 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Hayley Bignall
JIVE Dwingeloo
Radio Variability and Interstellar Scintillation of Blazars 
14 Mar 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Nissim Kanekar
Kapteyn Inst. Groningen
HI 21 cm studies of damped Lyman-alpha systems 
07 Mar 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Andreas Quirrenbach
Sterrenwacht Leiden
Taking the Measure of the Universe 
21 Feb 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Maria Messineo
Sterrewacht Leiden, University of Leiden
86 GHz SiO masing stars in the Inner Galaxy 
14 Feb 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Tiziana di Salvo
University of Amsterdam
Millisecond X-ray pulsars and their connection to millisecond radio pulsars 
07 Feb 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
!!
Nissim Kanekar
Kapteyn Institute, University of Groningen
HI 21cm studies of damped Lyman-alpha systems 
24 Jan 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Harm Habing
Sterrewacht Leiden, University of Leiden
AGB stars: putting things together 
17 Jan 2003
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Willem van Straten
ASTRON
Annual-orbital parallax and nearby binary millisecond pulsars 
 
Year: 2002
Date Speaker Topic
17 Dec 2002
Tuesday !
13:00:00 !
Hooghoudt kamer !!
Ed Churchwell
University of Wisconsin, USA
Hypercompact HII Regions: A New Evolutionary Stage of O-Star Evolution? 
06 Dec 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Sandor Frey
Hongarije
The edge of the visible Universe as seen by the EVN 
29 Nov 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Wouter Vlemmings
Sterrewacht Leiden
VLBI astrometry of circumstellar masers 
22 Nov 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
C. Brugman
Uffelte
Lambda (the cosmological constant): Ugly or Beautiful? 
15 Nov 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Henrik Svensmark
Danish Space Research Institute, Copenhagen
Solar Activity and Global Warming 
08 Nov 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Dipanjan Mitra
MPIfR
Pulsars as probes to the Galactic Magnetic field: Towards the Perseus Arm 
11 Oct 2002
Friday !
13:00:00 !
Russell Edwards
University of Amsterdam
Circular Polarization in Pulsars 
27 Sep 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Mercedes Filho
Kapteyn Institute
Searching for weak AGN in Nearby Galaxies 
20 Sep 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Aris Karastergiou
MPIfR
Simultaneous single-pulse observations of radio pulsars 
13 Sep 2002
Friday !
10:30:00 !
Yoshiaki Hagiwara
ASTRON
Extragalactic H2O maser -- Recent observational results 
27 Aug 2002
Tuesday !
11:00:00 !
Ravi Subrahmanyan
ATNF, Narrabri
ATCA images of the restarting phenomenon in giant radio galaxies 
26 Aug 2002
Monday !
11:00:00 !
Mareki Honma
NAOJ
Current status of the VERA project 
23 Aug 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Anish Roshi
NRAO
C+ lines from cold HI regions in the Galaxy 
16 Aug 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Rick Perley
NRAO
What the EVLA will do for you! 
09 Aug 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Rendong Nan
BAO
FAST Project- a new possible solution for the FAST active reflector 
16 Jul 2002
Tuesday !
13:00:00 !
Dave Jauncey
ATNF
Scintillations in the South 
05 Jul 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Andrzej Marecki
Torun
Weak Compact Steep Spectrum Sources: 
what stage of the evolution of radio loud AGNs do they represent?
03 Jul 2002
Wednesday !
13:00:00 !
Misha Popov
Lebedev Institute of Physics
Microstructure of Pulsar Radio Emission 
21 Jun 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Joanna Rankin
Rotating Subbeam Patterns, 
the Eur-Asian Multifrequency Observation Project, and the Pulsar Emission Problem
14 Jun 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Zsolt Paragi
JIVE
Outflows in SS433 
13 Jun 2002
11:00:00 !
Arjan Jaspers
Modernisering van een cryogeen ruismeetsysteem 
07 Jun 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Alan Roy
MPI, Bonn
Seyfert Galaxies with VLBI: Tori and Jets 
31 May 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Nick van Eijndhoven
Utrecht University
A Visit to the Cosmic Disco 
The Photon House Party and the Neutrino Breakdance
24 May 2002
Friday !
10:30:00 !
Roel Bergsma
Macaw
The company dashboard on the Web 
17 May 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Filippo Fraternali
Kapteyn Institute
Hot and cold gas in the disk and halo of the spiral galaxy NGC 2403 
19 Apr 2002
Friday !
14:00:00 !
Johan Hamaker
ASTRON
Zesendertig jaar Sterrenwachter: Een dozijn ambachten en een paar ongelukken 
18 Apr 2002
11:00:00 !
Edwin Valentijn
Kapteyn Institute
An ASTRO-WISE Observatory 
12 Apr 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Andy Biggs
JIVE
Improving the H0 
estimate from the gravitational lens system B0218+357
05 Apr 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Hiroshi Imai
JIVE
A collimated jet from an Asymptotic-Giant-Branch star 
22 Mar 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Padeli Papadopoulos
ESA, Estec
Dark matter in galactic disks, the case for H2 
08 Mar 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Johan Bleeker
SRON
Space Research at SRON: Astrophysics and Earth system science 
01 Mar 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Marianna Ivashina
ASTRON
Optimization of geometrical parameters of elliptical helical antennas for mobile satellite communica 
22 Feb 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Annette Ferguson
Kapteyn Institute
Gas and Stars in the Outskirts of Galaxies 
15 Feb 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Gijs Verdoes Kleijn
Leiden University
The Nuclei of Nearby Radio Galaxies with HST 
08 Feb 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Jean-Pierre Macquart
Kapteyn Institute
Circular polarization in AGN 
01 Feb 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Peter Shaver
ESO
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array 
18 Jan 2002
Friday !
11:00:00 !
Konrad Kuijken
Kapteyn Institute
Galactic bulges, large and small