THE
ING NEWSLETTER |
No.
4, March 2001 |
Seminars Given
at ING
Visiting observers are politely
invited to give a seminar at ING. Talks usually take place in the sea level
office in the afternoon and last for about 30 minutes plus time for questions
afterwards. Astronomers from ING and other institutions on site are invited
to assist. Please contact Johan Knapen (knapen@ing.iac.es)
and visit this web page http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/science/seminars.html
for more details. These were the seminars given in the last six months:
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31 August. Models and observational
predictions for the thermal structure of MHD jets, P. Garcia (ING)
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19 September. NAOMI commissioning,
A. Longmore (ATC, Edinburgh)
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18 October. Searching for satellite
galaxies at medium redshifts, F. Prada (Calar Alto Observatory)
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27 October. The first galaxies
— clues from element abundances?, M. Pettini (IoA Cambridge)
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9 November. Gigawulf: Powering
the Isaac Newton Group's Data Pipeline, R. Greimel (ING)
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10 November. Application of Wavefront
Sensors to the Optimisation of a 4 m Telescope, N. O'Mahony (ING)
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15 November. Recent Gamma Ray
Burst results, N. Tanvir (Univ. of Hertfordshire)
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19 December. Substellar objects
in Orion, P. Lucas (Univ. of Hertfordshire)
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10 January. The second decade
of instrumentation on HST (2001-2010) and the NGST project, S. Smartt
(Cambridge University)
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15 January. ULTRACAM — high-speed
astrophysics, V. Dhillon (Univ. of Sheffield)
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17 January. Instrumentation for
SALT, D. Buckley (SALT)
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22 January. Bars and Seyferts,
J. Knapen (ING and Univ. of Hertfordshire)
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29 January. Interactions triggering
activity in Seyfert Galaxies?, B. García (ING)
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30 January. Progress on GranTeCan,
J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa (IAC/GTC)
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2 February. Near-infrared
spectroscopy of nearby Seyfert galaxies: first results, J. Kotilainen
(Turku)
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19 February. Starburst triggering
and the neutral ISM in ring galaxies, J. Higdon (Groningen)
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