These Weeks
News & Events
12-02-2016
HR, Alexandra Schouten, Evelijn Gerstel
Koen Kuijken / Edwin Valentijn (RUG)
NWO Groot
Dutch science data centre for the
Euclid mission
Euclid is the next cosmology mission
of the European Space Agency, ESA.
It will study the dark energy and dark
matter.
This project will establish a Dutch
Science Data Centre with which
astronomers in the Netherlands can
access the data from this satellite,
and participate in the scientific
analysis
.
Leiden Team
Koen, Jarle, Rychard, Ivo, Huub
Henk Hoekstra
VICI 2016
“Massive objects in the universe disturb
the paths of light rays which results in
correlations in the orientations of distant
galaxies. This signal can be used to
study the nature of dark matter and
dark energy. The purpose of the
proposed
research is to improve the
measurement and interpretation of this
gravitational lensing signal”
Simon Portegies Zwart
NWO middelgroot exacte wetenschappen
Simon is not around today,
we will ask him
to celebrate with us on
a next seminar
He will build Little Green Man II
More good news
• Matt Kenworthy
FAPESP (“NWO of Sao Paulo”) - NWO subsidy for one PhD :
“Adaptive Optics development for Extremely Large Telescopes”
• Postdoc Madusha Gunawardhana
EU marie curie individual fellowship 2 years (with Jarle Brinchmann)
• New secretary Marjan Balkestein
from 1 April 2016
UNAWE
IAU Astronomy for Development receives prestigious
Edinburgh Medal.
George Miley was the architect of the OAD and member of the steering committee, Pedro Russo was the
chair for the task force on Children and Schools, Ewine is President-Elect.
"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it,"
said David Reitze, executive director of LIGO, the Laser
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
8 February 2016
441 Dies
Leiden University
Dies Lecture by Geert de Snoo, Professor of Conservation Biology, and
Dean of our Science Faculty.
The lecture was entitled Successful nature conservation. Last dies for
our Pedel W. van Beelen.
UPCOMING
•
Monday 15 February
DEADLINE registration of 2015 publications in LUCRIS!!
•
April 2016
Kaiser Spring Lectures (http://www.oudesterrewacht.nl/lentelezingen/lezingen/)
•
22 April 2016
Oort Lecture: "The Limits of Cosmology" by Joe Silk
•
Monday 26 September 2016
Inaugural Lecture Bernhard Brandl
NWO 3 March
Discussion Exact Sciences
“Are we alone?”
Zondag 24 april Naturalis
A movie by Charlotte Lemmens/Vincent
Icke, starring Ignas, Harold, Ewine
This Evening
Tim de Zeeuw
Mike Wilby Charlotte Moss
Charity Borrel
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
Please bring your spare change!