SAAO - South African Astronomical Observatory

Colloquia held at SAAO in 2012

IC4663; The First Unambiguous [WN] Wolf-Rayet Central Star of a Planetary Nebula

Brent Miszalski,
(Postdoc), SALT

21/06/2012

12h00

Project Solaris

Milena Ratajczak,
Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

07/06/2012

11h00

Cosmic Telescopes: Zooming in on High-redshift Black Hole Accretion and Star Formation  

Roger Deane,
SKA (Postdoc), UCT

31/05/2012

12h00

The Enigma of CK Vul -
the Oldest "Nova"

Marcin Hajduk (Postdoc), Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

24/05/2012

11h00

Characterising Optical and Radio Transients in Real-Time

A/Prof Patrick Woudt,
UCT Astronomy Dept.

17/05/2012

11h00

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Facilities:  What are They Capable of and How to Access Them?

Abiy Tekola,
(Postdoc, SAAO)

03/05/2012

11h00

Beyond Virtual Observatory: e-Science, Astroinformatics, and Data-Intensive Astronomy for the 21st Century

Prof. S.G. Djorgovski,
(Caltech)

23/04/2012

12h00

Towards the Future of Supernova Cosmology

Michelle Knights,
UCT/AIMS

19/04/2012

NB: TIME
11h00

It's Time for Time Domain Astronomy

Dr. Ashish  Mahabal,
California Institute of Technology

12/04/2012

NB: TIME
12h00

Type Ia Supernova Rate in Intermediate Redshift Galaxy Clusters

Eli Kasai,
NASSP (MSc), UCT

05/04/2012

11h00

Joys of Convection and Magnetism in Stars

Prof. Juri Toomre,
Univ. of Colorado

22/03/2012

11h00

Hot Stars in Brno - First Decade of Research

Jan Janik,
Masaryk University,
Czech Republic

15/03/2012

12h30

Investigating the Universe with the "New Computer"

Dr. Bruce Becker,
S A Grid, Meraka Institute, CSIR

13/03/2012

11h00-
12h00

Music of the Stars - Probing Stellar Interiors Through Analysing the Surface Vibrations of Stars

Dr Karen Pollard,
Univ. of Canterbury,
New Zealand

09/02/2012

NB: TIME
11h00

Latest Results on SiO v=3 J=1--0 Maser Emission from AGB Stars

Jean-Francois Desmurs,
Observatorio Astronomico Nacional, Spain

08/02/2012

11h00

Finding the True Sizes of Other Worlds

Elisabeth Adams,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
USA

07/02/2012

11h00

Water Masers Spatio-kinematics & Astrometry of Massive Star-forming Regions (Water Maser Research in Japan)

James Chibueze, Kagoshima University, Japan

06/02/2012

11h00

The Cultural Astronomy of Aboriginal Australians

Duane W. Hamacher,
Macquarie University,
Australia

03/02/2012

17h00