Colloquia held at SAAO

2010

TITLE	SPEAKER	DATE	TIME
Cosmology from the Microwave Sky at Arcminute Scales: First Power Spectrum Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Renee Hlozek, Oxford University	11/03/2010	12H30
ASAS-3 Data and the Beta Cephei Star Research	Andrzej Pigulski University of Wroclaw, Poland	04/03/2010	12H30
Activity of IRSF for these 9 years and some recent polarimetric studies PSE NOTE UNUSUAL TIME	Prof Shuji Sato, Nagoya University, Japan	26/02/2010	15h00
Asteroseismology with the Kepler Mission	Gerald Handler, University of Vienna	25/02/2010	12H30
The Primordial Binary Population in Young Star Clusters	Dr. Thijs Kouwenhoven Peking University, Beijing	11/02/2010	12H30
Search for and Study Very Metal-poor Galaxies	Dr. Simon Pustilnik Special Astrophysical Obs, Russia	04/02/2010	12H30
The Assembly of Galaxy Disks & Evolution of Galactic Structures in the COSMOS - Reconstructing the the Hubble Sequence	Dr Kartik Sheth NRAO/NAASC	28/01/2010	12H30
New Light on the Distance Scale	Alan Penny University of St Andrews, SAAO	26/01/2010	12H30

2009

TITLE	SPEAKER	DATE	TIME
Warped and Twisted Discs	Rebecca Martin, Space Telescope Science Institute	17/12/2009	12H30
Polaris Comes Back to Life	Alan Penny, University of St Andrews	26/11/2009	12H30
Molecular Astrophysics in External Galaxies	Prof David Williams, University College London	19/11/2009	12H30
Perspectives of Ground-based Gamma-ray Astrophysics	Helene Sol, Observatoire de Paris	12/11/2009	15H00
Can Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) Stars be Important for the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies?	Mikako Matsuura, University College London	12/11/2009	12H30
On the determination of dark energy	Chris Clarkson, UCT	5/11/2009	12H30
Do we live in a WDM universe? Clues from the HI mass function in the early ALFALFA catalog release	Andreas Faltenbacher, UWC	29/10/2009	12H30
Recent Developments on Stellar Pulsation Please note time	Dr Luis Balona, SAAO	21/10/2009	15H00
Frontiers of Radio Astronomy: the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India Please note this will be followed by a reception at 16H30	Govind Swarup, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Pune, India	15/10/2009	15H00
An Overview of the James Webb Space Telescope	Theodoros Nakos, Ghent University, Belgium	15/10/2009	12H30
The Constants and their Variation	Jean-Philippe Uzan, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS	08/10/2009	12H30
Wind Roche-Lobe Overflow: A New Mass-Transfer Mode for Symbiotic Binaries	Shazrene Mohamed, Oxford University, UK	01/10/2009	12H30
The 'Complete' Universe	Dr. Russell Johnston, UWC	17/09/2009	12H30
Kinematics and Stellar Populations of Brightest Cluster Galaxies	Dr. Ilani Loubser, UWC	10/09/2009	12H30
Interaction Signatures in Quantified HI Morphology of Galaxies	Dr. Benne Holwerda, UCT	4/09/2009	12H30
Introducing ULySS: Measuring Stellar Populations with Spectral Fitting	Dr. Antoine Bouchard, UCT	27/08/2009	12H30
PNe and HII regions as a Probes of the Local Group Galaxies Evolution	Alexei Kniazev, SAAO	23/07/2009	12H30
The XMM Cluster Survey - Scaling Relations, Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution	Matt Hilton, UKZN	25/06/2009	12H30
Birth of the Cool	Prof Neal Katz, University of Massachusetts	11/06/2009	12H30
The Nearest Pre-main Sequence Groups as Tests for Disk and Stellar Evolution	Warrick Lawson, Australian Defence Force Academy	21/05/2009	12H30
A Brief Overview of a Few Astro-statistical Projects	Chris Koen, UWC	14/05/2009	12H30
Donor Star Masses in Short-Period CVs	Stuart Littlefair, Sheffield University	07/05/2009	12H30
Fingerprints in Time: Using Advanced Imaging and Post-processing Techniques to Reveal Hidden Detail in San Rock Art	Kevin Crause	16/06/2009	12H30
Antarctic Optical/infrared Astronomy	Peter Gillingham	09/04/2009	12H30
21-cm HI and the Origins of Dutch Radio Astronomy	Prof. Richard Strom, Astron, Netherlands	02/04/2009	12H30
Planetary Nebula M2-29: an Occultation Event in the Nucleus	Marcin Hadjuk, Centrum Astronomii UMK, Poland	12/02/2009	12H30
Star and Planet formation PSE NOTE TIME CHANGE!	Prof Gilles Chabrier, ENS, Lyons	13/02/2009	12H00
Star Cluster Dynamics and Longevity	Dr Richard de Grijs, Sheffield University	19/02/2009	12h30
Brown Dwarfs: Early Evolution and Pulsations	Prof Isabelle Baraffe, ENS, Lyon	20/02/2009	12H30
Discs and Jets in X-ray Binaries: Confusion in the Optical and Infrared	Dr. David Russell, Amsterdam University	26/02/2009	12H30
Massive Halos and Violent Mergers - Supermassive Black Hole and Galaxy Evolution in the Wide-field Bootes Survey	Dr. Ryan Hickox Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	12/03/2009	12H30

2008

TITLE	SPEAKER	DATE	TIME
Outburst of Z And in 2006	Marek Chrastina, Masaryk University, Czech Republic	04/12/2008	12H00
The Period Study of TW Dra	Miloslav Zejda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic	04/12/2008	12H00
The Record- breaking Rotational Braking of He-strong mCP Star V901 Ori	Zdenek Mikulasek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic	04/12/2008	12H00
Determining the Extragalactic Extinction Law in Early-type Galaxies with Dust Lanes	Ido Finkelman, Tel Aviv University	27/11/08	12H00
Luminous Red Galaxies in Simulations: Cosmic Chronometers?	Dr Enrico Olivier (SAAO/UWC)	20/11/08	12H00
The Spectroscopic Orbit and the Geometry of R Aqr	Dr M Gromadzki Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Centre, Poland	13/11/08	12H00
SETI with LOFAR	Dr Alan Penny, St Andrews	06/11/08	12H00
An Investigation of the AGB Star Population in Local Group Galaxies	Dr John Menzies, SAAO	31/10/08	12H00
Dust Extinction Effects in Spiral Galaxies	Dr Benne Holwerde, UCT	23/10/08	12H00
THINGS: The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey	Erwin de Blok, UCT	16/10/08	12H00
Virtual Observatory (VO) - an Overview NB: In the Auditorium	Sudhanshu Barway, SAAO	09/10/08	12H00
The Pulsating Subdwarf-O Star SDSS J160043.6+074802.9 NB: In the Auditorium	Tony Lynas-Gray, Oxford	02/10/08	12H00
No Colloquium		25/09/08
Exploring the Kuiper Belt: Results from the Deep Ecliptic Survey NB: In the Auditorium	Amanda Gulbis, SAAO/SALT	18/09/08	12H00
What's up with SALT? NB: In the Auditorium	David Buckley, SAAO/SALT	11/09/08	12H00
No Colloquium		04/09/08
Debris Disks: From Stellar Nurseries to Graveyards	Kate Su, Steward Obs., Arizona University	28/08/08	12H00
PROXIMA - the Nearest Star (other than the Sun)	Ian Glass, SAAO	21/08/08	12H00
New Measurements of Galaxy Clustering at Intermediate Redshifts	Yabebal Fantaye, UCT	14/08/09	12H00
Multi-frequency Studies of a Selected Sample of Southern Extra Galactic Radio Sources	Oozeer Nadeem, University of Mauritius	08/08/2008	12H00
To Pierce the Milky Way: Toward a Complete Picture of the Local Universe	Tom Jarrett, IPAC/Caltech	07/08/2008	12H00
Neutral Hydrogen Gas in Galaxies at Moderate Redshifts: Current and Future Observations	Philip Lah, Australian National University	31/07/2008	12H00
The Puzzle of the Type II Cepheids and Their Use as Distance Indicators	Michael Feast, UCT	17/07/2008	12H00
Worlds in Transit	Kailash Sahu, Space Telescope Science Institute, USA	10/07/2008	12H00
CANCELLED	Deatrick Foster, Vanderbilt University, USA	03/07/2008	12H00
Interaction of p-modes with Radiation in the Atmospheres of A Stars	Dr Thebe Medupe SAAO & UCT	26/06/2008	12H00
Stellar Occultations by Triton and Pluto-Charon in 2008	Thomas Widemann & Francois Colas, Paris Observatory, France	19/06/2008	12H00
Frozen Lab Rat Chronicles	Dr Lisa Crause, SAAO	12/06/2008	12H00
Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with the ATLAS and CMS Experiments	Dr Ketevi A Assamagan Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), USA	30/05/2008	15H00
Design of the Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) Satellite	Prof Hakeem Oluseyi, Florida Institute of Technology, USA	23/05/2008	15H00
Structures at High-redshift and the Nature of the Dark Matter	Dr Tom Theuns, Durham University, UK (and Univ of Antwerp)	16/05/2008	11H00
A Deep Photometric Survey of the Abell Cluster S0423. A Pilot Study for the UCT SALT Supercluster Survey	Paul Kotze, UCT	25/03/2008	15H00
HIZOA J0836-43: A Remarkable Giant Starburst in the Zone of Avoidance	Michelle Cluver, UCT	25/02/2008	15h00
Eclipse Prediction in Ancient Babylon	Dr John Steele, Physics Department Durham University, UK	15/02/2008	15h00

Testing Cold Dark Matter Theory - the Stromlo Missing Satellites Survey	Dr Helmut Jerjen, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Mt Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Australia	14/02/2008	15H00

2007

TITLE	SPEAKER	DATE	TIME
Chemistry in the Interstellar Medium PSE NOTE TIME	Keith Smith Astrophysical Chemistry Group University of Nottingham, UK (on placement at SAAO)	06/12/2007	12H00
Astrophysics at Highest Energies: A New Window Opened by HESS	Prof Stefan Wagner Landessternwarte Konigstuhl Heidelberg University Heidelberg, Germany	21/11/07	10H30
Mass Transfer and Accretion in Symbiotic Binaries	Prof. Joanna Mikolajewska Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw, Poland	16/11/2007	15H00
Detecting Life on Earths and Observing the March 2007 Lunar Eclipse	Dr Alan Penny University of St Andrews, UK	05/10/2007	15H00
Light Pollution: the Problems and the Solutions NB: To be held in the Auditorium	Scott Davis Senior Technical Associate International Dark Sky Association, Arizona, USA	04/09/2007	11H00
Active Galactic Nuclei A Paradigm Change	Prof. Moshe Elitzur Dept of Physics & Astronomy University of Kentucky, USA	03/08/2007	15H00
The Nature of the Giant Low Surface Brightness Galaxies	Prof. Frank Briggs Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics Australian National University	27/07/2007	15H00
SALT Image Quality: Where Are We? NB: To be held in the Auditorium	Dr Darragh O'Donoghue SALT/SAAO	26/07/2007	12H00
MIRI and the JWST	Dr Martyn Wells UK Astronomy Tech Centre Edinburgh, UK	15/06/2007	15H00
The Square Kilometre Array - An Update NB: To be held in the Auditorium	Prof. Richard Schilizzi, International SKA Director, ASTRON, The Netherlands	14/05/2007	16H00
The Fate of Star-Bursting Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters	Dr Steve Crawford SAAO	4/05/2007	15H00
Dynamics of Brightest Cluster Galaxies: Massive but Restless	Dr Heinz Andernach Dept. de Astronomia Univ. Guanajuato, Mexico	26/04/2007	15H00
Hunting Dark Energy from the Optical to the Radio	Dr Chris Blake Astrophysics & Supercomputing Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia	18/04/2007	15H00
White Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs, Planets and Dust Disks: Adventures in the Final Stages of Stellar Evolution	Dr Matt Burleigh, Physics & Astronomy Leicester University U K	19/03/2007	15H00
The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and Salient Results	Prof. Subra Ananthakrishnan National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Pune, India	16/03/2007	15:00
SETI@home and Instrumentation for Radio Astronomy Signal Processing	Prof Dan Werthimer University of California Berkeley, USA	9/03/2007	15H00
High Ions in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: Galactic Outflows at z=2-3	Dr Andy Fox Inst D'Astrophysique de Paris France	23/02/2007	15H00
Distribution of the Population I Objects in the Galaxy	Dr Leonid Berdnikov Sternberg Astronomical Institute Moscow, Russia	02/02/2007	15H00
After the AGB: Stellar Evolution in Real Time	Prof. Albert Zijlstra University of Manchester, UK	26/01/2007	15H00
SuperWASP and the Search for Planets	David Wilson University of Keele, UK	18/10/2006	15H00