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 Danny Lennon at djl@ing.iac.es and visit this URL: http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/science/seminars.html, for more details. These were the seminars given in the last 10 months:

• Dec 3. Arto Järvinen (NOT), “CCD Ron Suppression Technique for Echelle Spectroscopy”. 
• Feb 3. Dr Dehua Yang (Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology), “LAMOST Telescope and Instrumentation: Concept, Technologies and progress”. 
• Feb 20. Hugo E. Schwarz (CTIO-NOAO-AURA), “Circumstellar Matter in PNe and Other Evolved Stars”. 
• Mar 4. Silvano Desidera (Padova Observatory), “Search for extrasolar planets with SARG”. 
• Mar 12. Laura Magrini (Dipartimento di Astronomia e Scienza dello Spazio, University of Firenze), “Planetary Nebulae in the Local Group”. 
• Apr 6. Amir Ahmad (Armagh Observatory). “Helium-rich subdwarf B stars: binaries, mergers or bizarre?”. 
• Apr 7. Don Pollacco (QUB), “SuperWASP: The Super Wide Angle Search for Planets”. 
• Apr 15. Rene Duffard (Observatorio Nazional de Rio, Brasil), “Basaltic Asteroids”. 
• Apr 21. Aaron Romanowsky (University of Nottingham), “Observing Galaxy Haloes”. 
• Jul 2. Phil Charles (University of Southampton). “SALT: 6 months to go!”. 
• Jul 7. Suzanne Aigrain (IoA, Cambridge), “Planetary transits and stellar variability”. 
• Jul 30. P. Focardi (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna), “What’s the role of environment on galaxies?”.