Weekly astro luncheons

Schedule for the Fall of 2005:

Usually Fridays in the small lunch room at 12

Note: the Astrobiology seminar is listed separately.

Mailing list: ap-announce for astrophysics (ap) at Nordita.
Note also: ab-announce, which is the mailing list for astrobiology seminars (ab).

Wednesday, 24 Aug, at 12:00, small lunch room informal luncheon by our visitors Susanne Höfner, Lars Mattson, Rurik Wahlin, Rachid Ouyed, Ralph Pudritz
Friday, 9 Sep, at 12:00, small lunch room Marianne Vestergaard
(University of Arizona)		 The first steps in constraining black hole growth [pdf, ppt]
Friday, 16 Sep, at 12:00, small lunch room Wladimir Lyra
(Astronomy & Space Physics, Uppsala)		 The wake of giant protoplanets on their parental disk
Friday, 23 Sep, at 12:00, small lunch room Kandaswamy Subramanian
(IUCAA, Pune)		 Can cosmic rays heat the intergalactic medium [pdf]
Friday, 30 Sep, at 12:00, small lunch room no luncheon
 (Lunch room occupied)
Friday, 7 Oct, at 12:00, small lunch room nothing scheduled
 (Solar Physics Workshop at ISSI) [Photos]
Friday, 14 Oct, at 12:00, small lunch room nothing scheduled
 (School Holidays begin)
Friday, 21 Oct no luncheon
 (School Holidays)
Friday, 28 Oct, at 12:00, small lunch room nothing scheduled
 (PPV meeting in Hawaii)
Friday, 4 Nov, at 12:00, small lunch room Petri Käpylä (Freiburg/Oulu)
 On the convective alpha-effect in the rapid rotation regime [pdf, ppt]
Friday, 11 Nov, at 12:00, small lunch room no luncheon
 Meeting in connection with Igor Novikov's 70th birthday [Photos]
Wednesday, 16 Nov, at 13:15, Aud. B Maiken Gustafsson (Aarhus)
 Probing turbulence with infrared observations
Friday, 18 Nov, at 12:00, small lunch room Asko Jokinen (Nordita)
 Cosmic acceleration without dark energy
Friday, 25 Nov, at 12:00, small lunch room no luncheon
 (Lunch room occupied)
Friday, 2 Dec, at 12:00, small lunch room no luncheon
Tuesday, 6 Dec, at 14:00, Aud B Marek Abramowicz
 Twin QPO meeting
Thursday, 8 Dec, at 12:00, small lunch room Geoff Marcy
Friday, 9 Dec, at 12:00, Aud B Mami Machida
(Tokyo, Natl. Obs.)		 How to solve the state transition of black hole accretion discs
Monday, 12 Dec, at 11:00, Aud B Omer Blaes (UCSB)
 Calculating spectra of accretion discs
Monday, 12 Dec, at 13:00, small lunch room Paola Rebusco (Munich) & Jirka Horak (Prague)
 Stochastic exitation of nonlinear resonances

Upcoming events

High frequency QPOs: theory and observations (Wojnowicach (Poland), 28 Aug - 2 Sep 2005) [Photos]
The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism (Bologna, 29 Aug - 2 Sep 2005)
The Dynamic Sun: Challenges for Theory and Observations (Leuven, 11-16 Sept 2005)
Confinement-Driven Spatial Variations in the Cosmic Ray Flux (Paris, 12-15 Sept 2005)
Solar Activity: Exploration, Understanding and Prediction (Lund, 19-21 Sept 2005)
Oct 10-12, 2005 (Budapest): 5th EANA workshop on Astrobiology
Protostars and Planets V Conference
Igor Novikov's 70th birthday (Copenhagen, 11-12 November 2005) [Photos]
8th MHD - Days 2005 (Potsdam, 28-29 November 2005)
Regional network on space weather studies (Antalya, Turkey, 30 Mar - 1 Apr 2006)
Modeling Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Application to planetary and stellar dynamos (27-30 June 2006)
Solar and Stellar Activity Cycles (JD8) (17+18 August 2006)
ECCOMAS CFD 2006 (September 5-8, 2006)
Cool Stars 14 (Pasadena, 6-10 November 2006)

Other useful links

Sun-Climate connection
International Heliophysical Year (IHY)

Job opportunities

Post-doc (Rochester) (deadline 31 Aug 2005)
Post-doc (Exeter)
PROMISE (Potsdam)

Visitors this term

Susanne Hoefner (Uppsala): 15 Aug - 3 Sep (corresponding fellow)
Ralph Pudritz (Hamilton, Canada): 21-31 Aug [Photos]
Rachid Ouyed (Calgary): 21-31 Aug
Christian Fendt (Heidelberg): 21-24 Aug
Lars Mattson (Uppsala): 22-25 Aug
Rurik Wahlin (Uppsala): 22-25 Aug
Kandaswamy Subramanian (Pune): 4-31 Sep
Wladimir Lyra (Uppsala): 12-17 Sep
Mami Machida (Tokyo): 27 Nov - 13 Dec
Jiri Horak (Prague): 17 Nov -- 16 Dec
Michal Bursa (Prague): 26 Nov -- 16 Dec
Vladimir Karas (Prague): 9 Dec -- 16 Dec
Omer Blaes (Santa Barbara): 9 -- 14 Dec
Zdenek Stuchlik (Opava): 1 -- 16 Dec
Eva Sramkova (Goteborg & Opava): 1 -- 16 Dec
Gabriel Torok (Goteborg & Opava): 1 -- 16 Dec
Paola Rebusco (Garching): 11 -- 13 Dec (tbc)
Ulf Torkelsson (Goteborg): 12 -- 16 Dec (tbc)
Gordon Ogilvie (Cambridge): 12 -- 16 Dec (tbc)
Marek Abramowicz (Gothenburg): 4 Nov - 16 Dec (corresponding fellow)
Boris Dintrans (Toulouse): 18 Feb -- 4 Mar

Participants of the twin QPO meeting
Mami Machida (Tokyo): 27 Nov - 13 Dec
Jiri Horak (Prague): 17 Nov -- 16 Dec
Michal Bursa (Prague): 26 Nov -- 16 Dec
Zdenek Stuchlik (Opava): tbc
Eva Sramkova (Goteborg & Opava): 1 -- 16 Dec
Gabriel Torok (Goteborg & Opava): 1 -- 16 Dec
Paola Rebusco (Garching): tbc
Marek Abramowicz (Gothenburg): 4 Nov - 16 Dec
Torgny Karlsson
Axel Brandenburg

If you have a visitor, please fill in this form, and email to brandenb@nordita.dk. It is especially important to have the visitors email address on the form (for hotel reservation purposes, so the secretary can verify the dates and can be sure about date changes). Please use a separate form for each visitor.

Before the visitor comes: this is how the Nordita building looks like!
After office hours, it looks like this!
Description how to find us.

  • Mailing List (to see who gets the email announcements)
  • Nordita Travel Schedule (to see who is away and when)
    Our t-shirt logos:

    Version 1.1 Official version

    Links to earlier schedules

    2005: 1+2, 3.

    2004: 1, 2, 3.

    2003: 1, 2, 3.

    2002: 1, 2, 3.

    2001: 3. 

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