Weekly astro luncheons

Schedule for the Winter of 2006:

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).

Note also Wednesday BioComplexity Meetings

Friday, 10 Mar, at 12:00, small lunch room Rainer Arlt (Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam) [Photos] Three-dimensional stability of the solar tachocline [pdf, ppt]
Friday, 17 Mar, at 12:00, small lunch room Natalia Babkovskaia (Nordita) Water maser in a dusty environment
Friday, 24 Mar, at 12:00, small lunch room Torgny Karlsson (Nordita) Primoridial stellar feedback and the origin of hyper-metal poor stars
Friday, 31 Mar (no luncheon) solar eclipse
Friday, 7 Apr (no luncheon) Easter holidays
Friday, 14 Apr (no luncheon) Easter holidays
Friday, 21 Apr (no luncheon) Axel still in Kiruna
Thursday, 27 Apr, at 10:00, Aud. M Axel Brandenburg (Nordita) Nordita Seminar: Helioseismology: seeing what goes on inside the sun
Friday, 28 Apr, at 12:00, small lunch room Harry Lehto (Nordita and Tuorla Observatory) Quasars and micro quasars
Friday, 5 May, at 12:00, small lunch room Boris Dintrans (Toulouse Observatory) [BBQ] Penetration versus overshoot in 2-D simulations of compressible convection
Friday, 12 May, at 12:00, small lunch room (no luncheon) Great Prayer Day
Friday, 19 May, at 12:00, small lunch room (no luncheon) Nonlinearities--from turbulent to magic
Monday, 29 May, 13:15, Aud B Edward A. Spiegel (Columbia Univ.) Photon bubbles and vortices in hot stars and disks
Friday, 2 June, at 12:00, small lunch room (no luncheon) Solar Torsional Oscillations
Friday, 9 June, at 12:00, small lunch room (no luncheon) Impact craters and astrobiology
Friday, 16 June, at 12:00, small lunch room Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)* Galactic dynamo and helicity losses through fountain flow*
Friday, 23 May, at 12:00, small lunch room (no luncheon) Summer holidays!
*) to be confirmed

Upcoming events

Regional network on space weather studies (Antalya, Turkey, 30 Mar - 1 Apr 2006)
International School of Space Science (27 March - 1 April 2006)
First light in the Universe (3-8 April 2006)
Neutron stars and pulsars about 40 years after their discovery (14-19 May 2006)
Nonlinearities - from turbulent to magic (17-20 May 2006)
Modeling Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Application to planetary and stellar dynamos (27-30 June 2006)
Cospar 2006 (Beijing, July 16-23, 2006)
Instabilities and Turbulence in MHD flows (Warwick, 26 June - 1 July 2006)
Heating vs. Cooling in Galaxies... (6-11 August 2006)
IAU General Assembly (14-25 August 2006)
Solar and Stellar Activity Cycles (JD8) (17+18 August 2006)
Convection in Astrophysics (IAU 239) (21-25 August 2006)
Ann. Meeting of the +Eur. Met. So. (September 4-8, 2006)
ECCOMAS CFD 2006 (September 5-8, 2006)
ASSE School on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (10 - 15 Sept 2006)
Symposium on Space Climate (September 13-16, 2006)
The Physics of Chromospheric Plasmas (October 9-13, 2006)
From Stars to Galaxies (Venice, October 16-20, 2006)
Cool Stars 14 (Pasadena, 6-10 November 2006)

Other useful links

Sun-Climate connection
International Heliophysical Year (IHY)

Job opportunities

Solar rotation, convection, and magnetic fields (London)
Lectureship And Lectureship/Readership In Theoretical Particle Physics (2 Posts)
Several PhD Positions in theoretical/computational Astrophysics
PROMISE (Potsdam)

Visitors this term

Karl-Heinz Raedler (Potsdam): 16--27 Jan
School holidays: 13--20 Feb
cancelled: Boris Dintrans (Toulouse): 18 Feb -- 4 Mar
Maarit Korpi (Helsinki): 5-10 Mar
Petri Käpylä (Freiburg/Oulu): 5-10 Mar
Rainer Arlt (Potsdam): 5-10 Mar
Easter holidays: 7-18 Apr
Hanna Sanmark: 6-22 April
Samuli Kotiranta: 18-25 April
Boris Dintrans (Toulouse): 27 April -- 7 May
Great Prayer: 12 May
25+26 May
Whit Monday: 5 June
ISSI meeting: 6-9 June
Summer holiday: 23 June
ISSI meeting: 28-31 August

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) Stockholm: [I, II, III, AlbaNovaVisit06, map]
  • Computational Astrophysics in Stockholm
    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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