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"