Tag: Visitors

We were happy to host for a week Yuan-Sen Ting from Australian National University who gave a special seminar “On Modelling Complex Systems in Astronomy”. For the Friday walk we were joined by Sandor Kruk from MPIE.

We were visited by Nadia Blagorodnova from Radboud University. We had great conversations about luminous red novae and related astrophysics.

Kareem El-Badry from UC Berkeley visited our group. He talked at science coffee about finding black holes in binaries and then gave special seminar on wide binaries in Gaia.

Molly Peeples from Space Telescope Science Institute / Johns Hopkins visited us for a week as part of the Role models in physics program supported by the US Embassy in Prague. She gave a talk on
“Exploring the Universe with Space Telescopes and Supercomputers” and a second talk about “The Universe at Low Density: How Cosmic Gas Flows Build Galaxies”. She talked with students.

Thomas Janka (MPA Garching) visited to give the department colloquium on core-collapse supernova explosions with a sequel science coffee discussion on kicks, fallback, and nucleosynthesis. He also talked with members of the department. Great to have him visit!

Nadia Zakamska (Johns Hopkins) visited our group and the department this week, giving talks on supermassive black holes and exoplanets. She met with students and postdocs and we also discussed some exciting stellar science. The visit was organized with the help of Role Models in Physics small grant from the US Embassy in Prague.

We had a pleasure to host Bernhard Müller from Monash University who gave a special relativistic seminar on “Unravelling the mysteries of exploding massive stars”.

Jess McIver from Caltech visited Prague and gave two talks: “Astrophysics with LIGO and gravitational waves” and “Gravitational-wave astrophysics: a new era of discovery”. In addition, she outline some of the problems of contemporary physics including diversity and representation of the population and discussed these issues with the students. The visit was supported by small grant “Role models in physics” from the US Embassy in Prague.

Tomás Müller from University of Southampton gave a talk on “Type Ia Supernova Cosmology: infrared light as a new window” during our regular science coffee time slot.

In the past couple days we hosted Jim Fuller from Caltech, who gave talks at our departmental seminar and at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.