NAC 2015 Programme

Map of NH Sparrenhorst hotel.

 

Talks

Plenary sessions: Belvedere Theater.

 

Wednesday May 20
Time
Slot Name Title
11:00
Opening van Leeuwen, Joeri Welcome to NAC 2015
11:00 Supercomputing Session
 
11:05 Burkert, Andreas  Watching a Little Gas Cloud on its Way into the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole
11:45 Vandenbroucke, Bert Advanced methods in Nbody/hydrodynamical simulations
12:05 van der Helm, Edwin Creating Arches
12:25 Portegies Zwart, Simon Simulating a disk galaxy on a star-by-star basis
12:45
Lunch Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe
14:00
14:00 Ripperda, Bart Particle acceleration due to interacting tilt and kink instabilities in repelling current channels
14:20 van der Hulst, Thijs Big Data Challenges for Future HI surveys
14:40 Liska, Matthew Using GPUs in 3D general relativistic MHD simulations on workstations and on supercomputers
15:00 Alexander, Paul  The Square Kilometer Array
15:40 End of Supercomputing Session
15:40
Coffee
16:00
16:00 Tolstoy, Eline MICADO – first light near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy at the E-ELT
16:20 Deller, Adam PSRPI: 50+ new distances to radio pulsars
16:40 Goddi, Ciriaco Imaging the event horizon of Sgr A* with BlackHoleCam
17:00 Rodenhuis, Michiel NOVA: A leading partner in E-ELT instrumentation
17:20
Welcome Reception & Town hall 1 -- NWO, NOVA in Patio
   
18:30
Dinner Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe
20:00
Evening Program Belvedere Theater
20:05 Bussemaker, Jet* Gender Diversity in Astronomy (remote)
    * Netherlands  Minister for Education, Culture and Science
20:10 Brage, Tomas Implicit bias and Gender issues in Physics
20:30 Rudolf, Petra Diversity in Dutch Physics
20:50 Jansen, Jim (moderator)
Bak Nielsen, Ann-Sofie
Brage, Tomas
Deller, Adam
Rudolf, Petra

Panel Discussion "Lessons learnt, paths forward"
21:20 End of Evening Program
   
Thursday May 21
Time
Name Title
09:00
09:00 Giese, Nadine 3D characterization of neutral hydrogen in galaxies
09:20 Adams, Betsey Searching for gas-bearing dark matter halos in the Local Group
09:40 Vink, Jacco The exceptionally powerful TeV gamma-ray emitters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
10:00 de Boer, Jozua SPHERE/ZIMPOL imaging of the circumstellar disk of BP Psc
10:20 van der Marel, Nienke Mind the gap: gas and dust in planet forming disks with ALMA
10:40 Baan, Marieke 8 tips to make media and outreach persons happy
11:00
Coffee
11:30
3 Parallel Sessions, 4 15-min contributed talks each, program below 
12:30
Lunch Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe
13:45
3 Parallel Sessions, 5 20-min contributed talks each, program below 
15:30
Coffee
16:00
16:00 Heida, Marianne Dynamical Mass Measurements of ULXs in the Near-Infrared
16:20 Ribeiro, Valerio Some things Novae
16:40 Michilli, Daniele First Batch of Discoveries from the LOFAR High-Time-Resolution LOTAAS Survey
17:00 Wijers, Ralph Forbidden transients?
17:20
Mid-conference Borrel & Town hall 2 -- ASTRON, SRON in Patio
   
18:30
Dinner Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and terrace
   
20:00
Poster Prize Award Patio and Marilyns Bar
Darts Competition Patio and Marilyns Bar
 
Friday  May 22
Time
Name Title
09:00
09:00 Brinkerink, Christiaan What shape is Sgr A*? Constraining model predictions with VLBI closure phases
09:20 Enriquez, J. Emilio Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the NL
09:40 Hessels, Jason New Kids on the Block: Meet the Transitional Millisecond Pulsars
10:00 Aghanim, Nabila Planck latest results
10:45
Coffee (and possible check-out)
11:30
11:30 Moscibrodzka, Monika Particle accelerations and synchrotron emission from a relativistic jet
11:50 Janssen, Gemma Detecting gravitational waves with a pulsar timing array
12:10 Brentjens, Michiel The solar eclipse through radio eyes
12:30
Lunch Restaurant DayZZ/EveZZ and Grand Cafe
13:45
13:45 Uttley, Phil Why X-rays from black holes vary: the role of the accretion disc
14:05 Baneke, David Astronomy in the Netherlands: a history
14:25 Verdoes Kleijn, Gijs Treasure trove OmegaCAM for the Dutch community
14:45 Patruno, Alessandro The Reflares and Outburst Evolution in the Accreting Millisecond Pulsa r SAX J1808.4--3658
15:05
Closing Waelkens, Christoffel Closing, announcing NAC2016.
15:10
End

 

Parallel Sessions Thursday

 

NOVA Network 1 -- Formation and evolution of galaxies: from high redshift to the present 
Thursday
in Grasuil 1
11:30
11:30 Daprà, Mario Using molecular hydrogen to constrain a cosmological variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio
11:45 Santoro, Francesco The Outer Filament of Centaurus A as seen by MUSE
12:00 Podigachoski, Pece Star formation in z > 1 3CR host galaxies as seen by Herschel
12:15 Orru, Emanuela LOFAR results on a famous double-double radio galaxy
12:30
Lunch
13:45
13:45 Hess, Kelley Cold gas, star formation, and substructure: Tracing the Mass Assembly of the Antlia Cluster
14:05 Yoon, Ilsang Bound isothermal sphere reloaded: Implication to the distribution of intracluster medium
14:25 Kokotanekov, Georgi Feedback galaxy clusters in MSSS
14:45 Maccagni, Filippo The triggering of radio AGN: the intriguing case of GPS source PKS1718-649
15:05 Martinez Barbosa, Carmen Adriana Solar siblings in the Gaia era
15:25
Coffee
   
NOVA Network 2: Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems 
Thursday
in Grasuil 2
11:30
11:30 Ramirez Agudelo, Oscar Hernan On the stellar and wind properties of massive stars in 30 Doradus
11:45 Menu, Jonathan Evolving evolutionary scenarios for disks around intermediate-mass young stars
12:00 Koumpia, Evgenia Thermal balance in S140: Mysterious fine structure lines as mapped with GREAT/SOFIA
12:15 Schwarz, Henriette Spin measurement of the directly imaged extrasolar planet, GQ Lupi b
12:30
Lunch
13:45
13:45 de Koter, Alex Are all massive stars part of multiple systems?
14:05 Pijloo, Janatie The EGAPS Open Cluster Catalogue
14:25 Wijnen, Thomas Accretion onto Protoplanetary Discs
14:45 Zapartas, Manos The impact of binarity of massive stars on the delay time distribution of core-collapse supernovae
15:05 Kenworthy, Matthew METIS: detecting and characterising exoplanets in the thermal infrared
15:25
Coffee
   
NOVA Network 3: The astrophysics of black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs
Thursday
in Belvedere Theater
11:30
11:30 Jaodand, Amruta Is the missing link pulsar J1023 spinning up or down?
11:45 Lyu, Ming Investigating spectral and timing properties of the mHz QPOs in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53
12:00 Smits, Roy ARTS: A new radio transient system at the WSRT
12:15 Rivera, Liliana Compact Binaries in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
12:30
Lunch
13:45
13:45 Bilous, Anna LOFAR Census of Non-Millisecond Pulsars
14:05 Kondratiev, Vlad LOFAR Census of Millisecond Pulsars
14:25 Aranzana, Ester The ubiquitous rms--flux relation: from CVs to AGNs
14:45 Borghese, Alice Discovery of a narrow phase-dependent spectral feature in the XDINS RX J0720.4-3125
15:05 Rapisarda, Stefano Testing propagating mass accretion rate fluctuations model PROPFLUC on Black Hole X-ray Binaries
15:25
Coffee

 

Invited speakers marked in bold.

 

 

Posters

 

Poster number Name Title
32 Albert, Joshua G. Future Detectability of Hyper Velocity Stars with Gaia
07
Allen, Veronica Small Scale Chemistry and Kinematics of G35.20N with ALMA
29 Antonellini, Stefano Understanding water in protoplanetary disks
13
Bonnerot, Clément Disc formation from tidal disruptions of stars on eccentric orbits
14
Cheng, Zheng The cooling of the neutron star in EXO 0748-676 in quiescence with XMM-Newton
12
Franse, Jeroen Update on the 3.5 keV X-ray line from galaxies and cluster
03
Frieswijk, Wilfred The LOFAR Long Term Archive
27
Gotberg, Ylva Binary products and their impact on the radiative feedback of massive stars populations
16
Grin, Nathan Testing rotational mixing in O-type giants and supergiants in 30 Doradus
05
Guo, Difeng The Sco-Cen OB association and the Gould Belt
17
Hagen, Jorrit Axisymmetric dynamical orbit-based models of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
18
Hakim, Kaustubh High pressure-temperature experiments to probe the interior of carbide exoplanets
08
Hartke, Johanna New optical spectroscopy of Draco and Ursa Minor
04
Hutten, Marten Faint end photometry of the Fornax Cluster with OmegaCAM on the VST
19
Jacobs, Bob Characterising the Galactic Transient & Variable Optical Skies
30
Khanna, Shourya
Probing the photoionized outflows and variability in the NLS1
galaxy Arakelian 564: An XMM-Newton view
02
Lahuis, Fred Science Opportunities with the James Webb Space Observatory
09
Mernier, Francois Abundance distribution in the hot intra-cluster gas of Abell 4059
22
Mikhailov, Klim Is SXT 1H 1905+000 a millisecond pulsar now?
31
NWO and the PEPSci PhD students and postdocs
Introducing PEPSci - The Planetary and ExoPlanetary Science Programme
23
Oostrum, Leon The 2012 decline of the R Coronae Borealis star V854 Cen
06
Ootes, Laura The accretion rate dependence of burst oscillation amplitude
28
Ramatsoku, Mpati Discovery of an obscured, nearby, rich cluster
11
Roelofs, Freek Observing time-variable black holes with the Even Horizon Telescope
01
Saladino Rosas, Martha Irene Mass transfer in binary stars
15
Saxena, Aayush Estimating number counts of steep-spectrum radio sources at high redshifts
26
Schootemeijer, Abel The naked helium star in the binary φ Persei – clue to missing type Ib/c supernovae progenitors?
10
Shulevski, Aleksandar A low frequency look of two giant radio galaxies
20
van Bemmel, Ilse BlackHoleCam activities in JIVE
21
Verbeke, Robbert First stars shaping faint, gas-rich dwarfs and the origin of the baryonic Tully-Fischer relation
24
Wang, Yanan Modelling the X-ray spectra of the black hole candidate 4U 1630-47 during its 2012 outburst
25
Zari, Eleonora Herschel-Planck dust optical depth and column density maps