COLLOQUIA at SRON-Utrecht
ASTRO Program
On Wednesdays at 15:30
Contact: e.costantini-at- sron.nl
year
2018/2019
20-03-2019
Dr. Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (SRON/Radboud)
Title: Gaia transients status update adn results
hunting for TDEs and EM counterparts to GWs
13-03-2019
Prof. Kazushi Iwasawa (Crea-Barcelona)
Title: TBA
13-02-2019
Dr. Reinout van Weeren (Leiden Univ.)
Title: The Universe's largest particle accelerators
30-01-2019
Dr. Nathalie Degenaar (UvA/API)
Title: Outflows from X-ray binaries
21-11-2018
Dr. Elena Maria Rossi (Leiden Univ.)
Title: Multi-messenger and multi-tracer tomography of
the Milky Way
07-11-2018
Dr. Jayne Birkby (UvA/API)
Title: Exoplanets atmospheres in high resolution
18-10-2018
Dr. Guido Risaliti (Arcetri obs., Italy)
Title: Cosmoloical tests with a Hubble diagram of
Quasars
05-09-2018
Prof. Amina Helmi (Groningen Univ.)
Title: Latest results from the Gaia mission
year
2017/2018
06-06-2018
Dr. Sarka Wykes (SAO/CfA)
Title:
Knottiness of X-ray jets: testing the obstacle-in-jet model
31-05-2018
Dr. Carlo Ferrigno (Univ. of Geneva)
Title: Discovery of Gravitational Waves and Panchromatic ElectromagneticRadiation from a Binary Neutron Star Merger
26-04-2018
Dr. Agata Rozanska (Copernicus center, Warsaw)
Title: Density diagnostic from photoionization modelling of absorbing/emitting
regions in AGN
18-04-2018
Mr Junjie Mao (SRON/Leiden) End-of-PhD
colloquium
Title: Astrophysical plasma modeling of the hot universe
28-03-2018
Dr. Paolo Esposito (UvA)
Title: Periodic signals from very (ultra) luminous X-ray binary sources
21-03-2018
Prof. Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON)
Title: The life and times of radio jets
14-02-2018
Ms Sascha Zeegers (SRON/Leiden) End-of-PhD
colloquium
Title: High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of interstellar dust
31-01-2018
Ms Catia Silva (SRON/UvA) End-of-PhD
colloquium
Title: A spectral timing approach to the study of AGN outflows
29-11-2017
Dr. Margherita Giustini (SRON)
Title: A global view of the inner accretion/ejection flow around super massive black holes
27-11-2017
Dr. Silvia Piranomonte (Rome Observatory)
Title: The discovery of the first electromagnetic countepart of a binary neutron star merger: GRAWITA follow-up observations of GW170817
15-11-2017
Prof. Karina Caputi (Groningen Univ.)
Title: SMUVS: Spitzer's Largest Window to the Early Universe
18-10-2017
Dr. Norbert Werner (Budapest Univ.)
Title: Cluster of galaxies physics
13-09-2017
Ms. Anna Ogorzalek (Stanford)
Title: Utilizing X-ray gas velocity measurements as a new probe of AGN
feedback in giant elliptical galaxies
year
2016/2017
09-05-2017
Dr. Javier Garcia (Caltech)
Title: Observing the Strong-Field Region near Black Holes using X-ray Reflection
Spectroscopy
12-04-2017
Mr Francois Mernier (SRON/Leiden) End-of-PhD
colloquium
Title: From supernovae to galaxy clusters: Observing the chemical enrichment in the hot intra-cluster medium
29-03-2017
Dr. Victoria Grinberg (ESTEC)
Title: Probing accretion physics and stellar winds with X-ray binaries
22-03-2017
Dr. Nick Stone (Columbia Univ.)
Title: Theory and observations of tidal disruption
events
01-03-2017
Dr. Sara Elisa Motta (Oxford Univ.)
Title: The black hole binary V404 Cygni: a highly-accreting obscured AGN analogue
23-02-2017
Dr. Stefano Ettori (Bologna observatory)
Title: The mass in galaxy clusters from X-ray/SZ observables
18-01-2017
Prof. Rens Waters (SRON/UvA)
Title: Herbig Ae/Be stars: laboratories for planet formation
02-11-2016
Dr. Lingyu Wang (SRON-Groningen)
Title: Star formation rates and luminosity functions in the low-redshift Universe
20-09-2016
Prof. Sera Markoff (UvA)
Title: Understanding the dominant state of active black holes in the Universe
14-09-2016
Dr. Caroline d'Angelo (Leiden Univ.)
Title: How do accretion outbursts change the spin evolution in neutron
stars?
year
2015/2016
18-07-2016
Dr. Anna Lia Longinotti (INAOE, Puebla, MX)
Title: Feedback in a Seyfert Galaxy produced by a
multi-component X-ray ultra-fast wind: the case of IRAS17020+4544
01-06-2016
Dr. Rene' Goosmann (Strasbourg Univ.)
Title: X-ray polarimetry: a new window to the X-ray sky
20-04-2016
Dr. Pratika Dayal (Groningen Univ.)
Title: The first billion years of galaxy formation
06-04-2016
Dr. Gijs Nelemans (Radboud Univ., Nijmegen)
Title: Gravitational wave
astronomy (what's in it for us?)
14-03-2016
Mr. Matteo Bianconi (Innsbruk Univ.)
Title: Star formation
and black hole accretion activity in rich local clusters of galaxies
24-02-2016
Dr. Franciska Kemper (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Title: The production of dust by evolved stars in the Magellanic Cloud
11-01-2016
Prof Chris Done (Durham)
Title: Reverberation
mapping of NGC5548
26-11-2015
Mr Tullio
Bagnoli (SRON/UvA) End-of-PhD colloquium
Title: Extremes of accretion and thermonuclear
burning in NS X-ray binaries
25-11-2015
Ms Laura di Gesu (SRON/Leiden) End-of-PhD
colloquium
Title: Winds in active Galactic Nuclei
28-10-2015
Ms Marianne Heida (SRON/Nijmegen) End-of-PhD
colloquium
Title: Red supergiants counterparts of ultraluminous
X-ray sources
24,25-09-2015
Mini-workshop
on "physical processes in hot plasmas"
02-09-2015
Prof.
Daniel Proga (Univ. of Nevada Las Vegas)
Title:
The Physics of Radiation-Driven Outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei.
year
2014/2015
03-06-2015
Dr.
Alessandro Patruno (Leiden Univ.)
Title:
Metamorphosis in the Sky: Rebirth of Pulsars and Stellar Cannibalism
15-04-2015
Dr.
Matthew Kenworthy (Leiden Univ.)
Title: The
discovery of the first giant ring system outside the Solar system
30-03-2015
Dr.
Craig Heinke (Univ. of Alberta)
Title:
TBA
18-03-2015
Dr.
Michael Wise (ASTRON)
Title: Beyond
Feedback: Tracing the Energetics of Cluster Evolution over Cosmic Time
11-03-2015
Dr.
Jacco Vink (GRAPPA/UvA)
Title: What
determines the efficiency of particle acceleration by astrophysical shocks?
11-02-2015
Dr.
Barbara de Marco (MPE)
Title:
X-ray reverberation: a tool to unveil the inner regions of accreting black
holes
20-01-2015
Dr. Jukka Nevalainen (Helsinki
Univ.)
Title:Finding and characterising WHIM structures using the luminosity density method
26-11-2014
Dr.
Adam Ingram (API/Uva)
Title: Looking
for Lense-Thirring precession around black holes
19-11-2014
Dr.
Ilse van Bemmel (JIVE)
Title:
Feeding the monster: black hole accretion in active and less active galaxies
15-10-2014
Dr.
Nanda Rea (Institut de Ciencies
de L'Espai, API)
Title: From
magnetars to normal pulsars via secular cooling and
population synthesis