Visitors
2019
- Meridith Joyce visited us in September from the Australian National University (Australia)
- Valentina D'Orazi will visited us in July from Padova Observatory
(Italy)
- Rubina Kotak will visited us in June from University of Turku
(Finland)
- Simon Campbell visited us in June from Monash University (Australia)
- Meridith Joyce visited us in April from the Australian National University (Australia)
- Victor Perez Mesa visited us in April from the IAC (Spain)
- Simone Madonna visited us in April from the IAC (Spain)
- Avishai Gilkis visited us in April from the University of Cambridge Rome Observatory (UK)
2018
- Paolo Ventura visited us in November from Rome Observatory (Italy)
- Simon Campbell visited us in August from Monash University (Australia)
- Meridith Joyce visited us in August from the Australian National University (Australia)
- Valentina D'Orazi visited us in June from Padova Observatory
(Italy)
- Mattias Ek visited us in June from ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- Monika Jurkovic visited us in May/June from University of Belgrade (Serbia)
- Nick Sterling visited us in March from University of West Georgia (USA) and gave a seminar on "Investigating the
Origins of Heavy Elements with Nebular Spectroscopy"
- Meridith Joyce visited us in January from Darthmouth College (USA), and SAAO (South-Africa) and gave a
seminar on "Stellar Modeling in the Observational Era"
2017
- Joanna Mikolajewska visited us in October from the
Copernicus Center, Warszawa and gave a seminar on "Recovery of Nova Scorpii 1437 AD - now
a magnetic cataclysmic variable"
- Ertao Li will be our long-term visitor from 15th September 2017 to 15th
September 2018 from the Institute of Nuclear Technology of Shenzhen University, China
- Melanie Hampel visited us in September from Monash University, Australia
- Athira Menon visited us in July from Monash University, Australia
- Joaquin Garcia de la Cruz visited us in June from Pamona College, USA
- Hannah Brinkman visited us in June from the University of Nijmegen,
NL
- Jacqueline Den Hartogh visited us in May from Keele University (UK)
- Benoit Cote visited us in April from Michigan University, USA & University of
Victoria, Canada and gave a seminar on "Connecting Nuclear Astrophysics to Cosmological
Structure Formation"
- George Pagomenos visited us in April from the Open University (UK) and gave a
seminar on "Dust and gas in the metal-poor regions of the Milky Way"
- Harriet Dinerstein visited us in April from University of Texas, Austin (USA)
and gave a seminar on "Probing AGB Star Evolution and Nucleosynthesis with Planetary
Nebulae"
- Jeffrey Cummings visited us in April from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
(USA) and gave a seminar on "Massive White Dwarfs and the Initial-Final Mass
Relation"
- Tim Lichtenberg visited us in March from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH), Zurich
and will give a seminar on
"A planet population dichotomy from isotopic enrichment?"
- Andres Yague visited us from March to May from the Instituto de Astrofisica de
Canarias IAC (Spain)
- Valentina D'Orazi visited us in January from Padova Observatory (Italy)
and gave a seminar on "High-contrast imaging observations of exoplanetary systems: current status and future
perspectives"
2016
- Gioia Rau visited us in May from the University of Vienna (Austria) and gave a seminar on
"The
atmospheres of Carbon rich giants - from observations to models and back"
- Samuel Jones visited us at the end of April from the Institute for Theoretical Studies,
Heidelberg
(Germany)
- Michael Savina from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (USA) visited us in mid April and
gave a
seminar on "Starry Messengers: Stardust analysis in terrestrial laboratories"
2015
- Alexander Heger visited in December from Monash University (Australia) and gave a seminar on
"Life and Death of the First Stars"
- Samuel Jones visited in December from the Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg
(Germany) and gave a seminar on "Stars on death row"
- Heather Flewelling visited in October from University of Hawaii (USA) and gave a seminar
on "Pan-STARRS and the Upcoming Public Data Release"
- Christine Nicholls visited in October from University of Vienna (Austria) and gave a seminar on
"Variability on the asymptotic giant branch: pulsation, binaries, and unexplained phenomena"
- Kai Zuber visited in September from TU Dresden (Germany) and gave a seminar on "Nu's from
the sky"
- Albino Perego visited in June from TU Darmstadt (Germany) and gave seminar on "The role of
neutrinos in Core Collapse Supernovae and Neutron Star Mergers"
- Amanda Karakas visited in May from the Australian National University (Australia) and gave a
seminar on "Nucleosynthesis in helium-enriched asymptotic giant branch mode"
- Valentina D’Orazi visited in May from Padova Observatory (Italy) and gave a seminar on
"Observational constraints to nucleosynthesis: exploiting stellar clusters"
- Umberto Battino visited in April from University of Basel (Switzerland) and gave a tutorial on
MESA
- Carolyn Doherty visited from the 10th of April to the 10th of May from Monash University
(Australia) and gave a seminar on "Super-AGB stars - bridging the divide between
low/intermediate-mass and high-mass stars"
- Ulrich Ott visited in April from University of West Hungary and Max-Planck Institute for
Chemistry (Germany)
- Robert Andrassy visited in March from MPA Garching (Germany) and gave a seminar on
"Convective overshooting in stellar interiors
- Brad Gibson and Chris Jordan visited in February from The University of Hull
(UK). Brad Gibson gave a seminar on "Building Spiral Galaxies with Supercomputers"