General explanations
Last year's talks
Talks 2004/5
Schedule:
| Date / Place | Speaker | Topic / Paper | Additional Info |
| Thr. July 12th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Michiel van der Klis | Astronomy in the Netherlands Astronomy in the Netherlands -- Mid-term Update of the Strategic Plan 2001-2010 and forward look to 2015 | Last pizza meeting of the year ! |
Previous talks:
| Date / Place | Speaker | Topic / Paper | Additional Info |
| Thr. July 5th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Alessandro Patruno | The spin and orbit evolution of SAX J1808.4-3658 over seven years Burderi et al., 2006, ApJ, 653, L133 | -- |
| Thr. June 28th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Valeriu Tudose | e-VLBI and multiwavelength observations of transients | -- |
| Thr. June 21st 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Derek Groen | Simulating Star Clusters on a Global Grid of GRAPEs | -- |
| Thr. June 14th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Rens Waters | How crystalline is the dust ejected by galactic bulge OH/IR stars? | Abstract |
| Thr. June 7th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Patrick Weltevrede | What are radio pulsars? (according to Patrick) | -- |
| Thr. May 31st 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Robert Izzard | The Century-Old R Star Mystery Izzard et al., 2007, arXiv:0705.0894 | Special guest from Utrecht! |
| Thr. May 24th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Dominik Paszun | Material properties of dust aggregates Blum et al., 2006, ApJ, 652, 1768 Blum & Schrapler, 2004, PRL, 93, 115503 | -- |
| Thr. May 17th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | -- | No Seminar | NAC meeting |
| Thr. May 10th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Bart Scheers | Making LOFAR's transients permanent SDSS Copeland & Khoshafian 1985, Proc. ACM SIGMOD | -- |
| Thr. May 3rd 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Evghenii Gaburov | Stellar Collisions Freitag & Benz 2005, NMRAS, 358, 1133 Lombardi et al., 2002, ApJ, 568, 939 | -- |
| Thr. April 26th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Michiel Min | How to escape from a protoplanetary disk | -- |
| Thr. April 19th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Paolo Soleri | 6 Hz QPOs: where do they come from? Fortner et al., 1989, Nature, 342, 775 Alpar et al., 1992, A&A, 257, 627 | Meeting in F0.13!!! |
| Thr. April 12th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Ralph Wijers | Highlights of the GRB meeting of 19-23 March | -- |
| Thr. April 5th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | John Swinbank | Probing star formation in quasar environments Barr et al., 2004, AJ, 128, 2660 Jones et al., 2002, MNRAS, 329, 759 | Meeting in F0.13!!! |
| Thr. March 29th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Manuel Linares | United States of Accretion van der Klis, 2004, astro-ph/0410551 Chen et. al., 1995, ApJ, 443, L61 | -- |
| Thr. March 22nd 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | No seminar | GRB conference | |
| Thr. March 15th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Joanna Rankin | Connecting Radio Pulsar Phenomena with the Emission Physics | Note change of speaker; Joint pizza & Colloquium |
| Thr. March 8th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Hanno Spreeuw | Exoplanets: prime targets for LOFAR Lazio et. al., 2004, ApJ, 612, 511 Griessmeier et. al., 2005, A&A, 437, 717 Griessmeier et. al., 2004, A&A, 425, 753 | -- |
| Thr. March 1st 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Alexander van der Horst | Sta(pi)tistics of electron energy distributions and GRB circumburst media | -- |
| Thr. Feb. 22nd 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Jason Hessels | New Kids on the Block: Radio Emitting Magnetars Camilo et. al., 2006, Nature, 442, 892 | -- |
| Thr. Feb. 15th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Diego Altamirano | Does Coincidence mean Related and Related mean Same Origin...? | -- |
| Thr. Feb. 8th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | James Miller-Jones | Science with the new generation of radio telescopes | Note change of speaker |
| Thr. Feb. 1st 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Clovis Hopman | Resonant relaxation near massive black holes Hopman & Alexander, 2006, ApJ, 645, 1152 | -- |
| Thr. Jan. 25th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Sera Markoff | Sgr A*: Underachieving AGN or Ambitious Starburst Galaxy? Melia & Falcke, 2001, ARAA, 39, 309 Markoff, 2005, ApJL, 618, L103 Markoff et. al., 2001, A&A, 379, L13 | -- |
| Thr. Jan. 18th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Hui-Chen Chen | The present day mass function in the centeral region of the Arches cluster Kim et al., 2006, ApJ, 653, L113 | -- |
| Thr. Jan. 11th 2007 12:30 - 13:45 | Asaf Pe'er | How long do magnetic fields persist ? Pe'er & Zhang, 2006, ApJ, 653, 454 | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 21th 2006 -- Jan. 4th 2007 | -- | No seminars | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 14th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Atakan Gurkan | Approximate methods for star cluster dynamics Henon, 1973 (book) | -- |
| Thr. Dec. 7th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Hendrik van Eerten | What is a fluid? | 24/7 Lecture |
| Thr. Nov. 30th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Carsten Dominik | The chemistry of deuteration or how to make a molecule 10^15 time more abundant than it should be | 24/7 Lecture |
| Thr. Nov. 23rd 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Dipankar Maitra | Long-term Monitoring of Aql X-1 in Optical, near-IR and Soft X-rays Maitra & Bailyn, astro-ph/0510329 | -- |
| Thr. Nov. 16th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Eduardo Rubio-Herrera | On the Nature of RRATS McLaughlin et al. 2006, Nature, 439, 817 | -- |
| Thr. Nov. 9th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Casey Law | Galactic Superbubbles Pidopryhora et al. 2006, astro-ph/0610894 Bland-Hawthorn & Cohen 2003, ApJ, 582, 246 | -- |
| Thr. Nov. 2nd 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Matthew Horrobin | Data reduction with full error propagation. Would you use it? & How would you use it? | -- |
| Thr. Oct. 26th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Sung-Chul Yoon | The weirdest type Ia supernova SNLS-30D3bb (SN 2003fg): Evidence for a super-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarf? Yoon & Langer 2005, A&A, 435, 967 Howell et. al., 2006, Nature, 443, 308 Jeffery, Branch & Baron, 2006. astro-ph/0609804 | -- |
| Thr. Oct. 19th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Matthew Bailes | Radioastronomy in Software: Supercomputer applications in Millisecond pulsar timing and VLBI | Special seminar |
| Thr. Oct. 12th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Marc Klein Wolt | QPOs and Gamma-Ray bursts Beloborodov, Stern & Svensson 2000, ApJ, 535, 158 | -- |
| Thr. Oct. 5th 2006 12:30 - 13:45 | Ed van den Heuvel | Binary models as an alternative for producing Long Gamma Ray Bursts | -- |
General explanations
The Pizza meetings have several purposes:(1) To get to know each other's work in a pleasant atmosphere
(2) To let people practice in talks in front of an audience
(3) To study general, interesting topics in Astrophysics
Everyone (including staff, Postdocs and Ph.D.) will get a chance to talk once a year.
The idea is to speak about your own research, however this is not obligatory.
You can pick any subject (related to your work) that you find interesting.
When you prepare your talk, it is important to remember the following points:
Always remember that people should understand:
- What is the problem ?
- Why is it interesting ?
- What are the methods / ideas involved ?
Remember: Most of the audience is not familiar with your topic !
Thus, don't go too much into details! (Equations, etc..). Explain in simple words the basic ideas & basic physics involved.
Pizza meeting is NOT a colloquium!
The main idea is to initiate a discussion about the topic, and not to impress people with your knowledge !
Every talk should be ~30 minutes, followed by ~30 minutes free discussion !
24/7 LECTURES: every talk should end with a 24/7 lecture, in which you have to explain your subject twice:
FIRST: a complete technical description in TWENTY-FOUR (24) SECONDS,
AND THEN: a clear summary that anyone can understand, in SEVEN (7) WORDS.
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