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Past seminars (before starting with colloquium discussion):

• Mon May 02, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Colloquium talks: summary of past talks and outlook to upcoming ones, see http://wiki.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/x-astro/coll


• Thu Feb 10, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Talks by Alex and Hagen
  • ...


• Mon Jan 10, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Discussion of papers, projects
  • ...


• Mon Dec 13, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Discussion of papers
  • ...


• Mon Nov 22, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Discussion of new Virgo paper Roediger et al.
  • Thorsten summarizes current status of "SAM vs observations" (project with S. Weinmann)


• Mon Nov 08, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Papers & research discussion


• Mon Oct 25, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Summary/feedback from the symposium
  • Continue short summaries of current research status
  • Papers


• Mon Oct 11, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Some things for the dE symposium
  • Continue short summaries of current research status


• Mon Sep 27, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Some things for the dE symposium
  • Recent papers
  • Update on research work


• Mon Sep 13, 15:00, basement meeting room
  
  • Celebration of Stefan's Diplom
  • Visit of Brendan Griffen, who briefly presents his research
  • Discussion of recent literature


• Wednesday July 21, 15:30, basement room – Special group seminar:
  Thomas: Infall and ram-pressure stripping of star-forming galaxies in clusters (Bachelor thesis colloquium)


• Monday July 05, 16:00
  • Isabel: Marmol-Queralto et al. 2010: Stellar population studies of early types with K-band
  • Sanjaya: Griffen et al. (2010): GC formation in the Aquarius simulation


• Wed June 23, 14:30
  • Hagen: Fasano et al. 2010: Brightest cluster galaxies vs. normal ellipticals
  • Alex: Zibetti et al. 2010: Resolved maps of stellar mass and SED


• Wed June 09, 14:30
  • Lyon practice talks


• Wed May 19, 14:30
  • IMPRS practice talks: Alex, Hagen, Sanjaya
  • Uniform poster design for Lyon?


• Monday May 10, 16:00, ! seminar room first floor !
  • Stefan: La Barbera et al. (2009): The nature of fossil groups
  • Thorsten: Saviane et al. (2010): Morphological transformation of NGC 205?


• Monday April 26, 16:00, ! seminar room first floor !
  • All: Recent/interesting papers
  • Short reports from observing runs


• Wednesday March 17, !16:30!
  • Alex: A merger history of dEs? Summary of proposal thoughts
  • All: Recent/interesting papers
  • Any travel planning issues?


• Monday March 01, 16:00
  • Thorsten: Summary of dEdi paper close to submission
  • Celebration: Sanjaya's accepted paper
  • All: Recent/interesting papers


• Monday January 11, 16:00
  • (no specific program - discussing plans for 2010)


• Monday December 7, 16:00
  • Paper presentation by Sanjaya, Penny et al. 2009, Hubble Space Telescope survey of the Perseus Cluster - I. The structure and dark matter content of cluster dwarf spheroidals


• Monday November 23, 16:00
  • Presentation by Alexander on results from the Galaxy Zoo project
  • Paper presentation by Thorsten: Barazza et al. 2009: Relating basic properties of bright early-type dwarf galaxies to their location in Abell 901/902


• Monday November 9, 16:00
  • (Visiting talk at MPIA)


• Monday October 26, 16:00
  • Paper presentation by Stefan: Harsono & De Propris 2009, The Luminosity Function of Galaxies to MBgVriz ~ -14 in z ~ 0.3 Clusters


• Wednesday October 14, 16:00
  • Paper presentation by Isabel: Aguerri et al. 2009, On the origin of dwarf elliptical galaxies: the fundamental plane
  • Discussion of Graduate Days course "Structure Formation in the Universe" by S. Khochfar
  • Summary of proposal activities


• Monday September 28, 15:00
  • Summary by Alex: Summer School on "Millimeter to Far-IR Astronomy"
  • Collecting suggestions for paper presentations


• Monday September 14, 15:00
  • Summary of Guseva, Papaderos, Meyer et al., "An investigation of the luminosity-metallicity relation for a large sample of low-metallicity emission-line galaxies" (by Hagen)
  • Proposal ideas


• Monday August 03, 15:00
  • Summary of Thorsten's Bonn visit, and celebration of Oliver's Diplom


• Monday July 13, 15:00
  • ...


• Monday June 29, 15:00
  • Summary of Poggianti etal, The evolution of spiral, S0 and elliptical galaxies in clusters (by Isabel)
  • Summary of Georgiev etal, Globular cluster systems in nearby dwarf galaxies - II. Nuclear star clusters and their relation to massive Galactic globular clusters (by Sophia)


• Monday June 15, 15:00
  • Visit Alessandro Boselli


• Tuesday June 02, 13:30, 1st floor!
  • Alexander
  • Summary of Boylan-Kolchin etal, Resolving Cosmic Structure Formation with the Millennium-II Simulation (by Thorsten)


• Monday May 18, 14:00
  • Summary of Koleva etal, Formation and Evolution of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies - II. Spatially resolved star-formation histories and Koleva etal, ULySS: A Full Spectrum Fitting Package (by Sanjaya)


• Monday May 04, 15:00
  • Summary of Amorin etal, The Host in Blue Compact Galaxies: Structural Properties and Scaling Relations (by Hagen)


• Monday April 20, 15:00
  • Summary of "The near-IR luminosity function and bimodal surface brightness distributions of Virgo cluster galaxies", McDonald, Courteau & Tully 2009 (by Thorsten)


• Monday April 06, 15:00
  • ...


• Wednesday March 18, 16:00
  • Finalize proposal tasks
  • Keep monday 15:00 for group meeting?


• Wednesday March 04, 16:00
  • Finalize proposal strategies; distribute tasks


• Wednesday Feb 18, 15:30, 1st floor
  • Research presentations by Alexander & Sanjaya


• Tuesday Feb 03, 15:00 (!)
  • Research presentation by Oliver


• Monday Jan 19, 15:00
  • General discussion


• Thursday Dec 18, 14:00
  • General discussion


• Wednesday Dec 03, 14:00 (!)
  • Joint meeting with Eva's group, incl. presentation by Thorsten on how to handle SDSS imaging data


• Monday Nov 03, 15:00
  • Research presentation by Alexander
  • Paper presentation by Hagen:
    
    • Sung et al. 1998, A Comparison of the Intrinsic Shapes of Two Different Types of Dwarf Galaxies: Blue Compact Dwarfs and Dwarf Ellipticals.
    • Sung et al. 1998b, The Intrinsic Shapes of Low Surface Brightness Dwarf Irregular Galaxies and Comparison to Other Types of Dwarf Galaxies


• Monday Oct 20, 15:00
  • Research presentation by Sanjaya
  • Paper presentation by Oliver: PEGASE-HR, STEC(K)MAP & related:
    
    • Le Borgne et al. 2004, Evolutionary synthesis of galaxies at high spectral resolution with the code PEGASE-HR.
    • Ocvirk et al. 2006, STECMAP: STEllar Content from high-resolution galactic spectra via Maximum A Posteriori
    • Ocvirk et al. 2006, STECKMAP: STEllar Content and Kinematics from high resolution galactic spectra via Maximum A Posteriori


• Monday Oct 06, 15:00
  General discussion


• Tuesday Sep 16, 15:00
  Discussion of the conference (talks, posters, stories...)


• Monday Aug 25, 15:00
  
  • Preparation for JENAM 2008: contents of talks & posters, organizational issues
  • Discussion of recent papers


• Monday Aug 11, 15:00
  Discussion of the basics of population synthesis models,
  with a presentation by Oliver, mainly based on
  Bruzual & Charlot (2003) "Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003"
  
  Some other interesting papers of this context might be
  • U. Fritze & T. Lilly (2007), Reconstructing the Star Formation Histories of Galaxies
  • J. Schulz, U. Fritze, etal. (2002), Spectral and photometric evolution of simple stellar populations at various metallicities
  • P. Anders & U. Fritze (2003), Spectral and photometric evolution of young stellar populations: The impact of gaseous emission at various metallicities
  • D. Thomas, C. Maraston, R. Bender (2003), Stellar population models of Lick indices with variable element abundance ratios
  • Dissertation of T. Lilly (esp. Chapter 2) Exploring the formation histories of galaxies - globular clusters and beyond


• Monday July 28, 15:00
  Discussion of research & papers
  • Research presentation...any volunteers?
  • Paper presentation...any volunteers?


• Monday July 07, 13:00
  • Research presentation by Joachim
  • Paper presentation by Thorsten:
    Boselli et al. (2008): "The origin of Dwarf Ellipticals in the Virgo Cluster"


• Monday June 23, 15:00
  • Research presentation by Hagen
  • Paper presentation by Sanjaya:
    Michielsen et al. (2008): "The relation between stellar populations, structure and environment for dwarf elliptical galaxies from the MAGPOP-ITP"


• Monday June 09, 15:00

• C.M. Baugh (2006):
  • A primer on hierarchical galaxy formation: the semi-analytical approach"


• A. Renzini (2006): Review on "Stellar population diagnostics of Elliptical Galaxies"


• D. Kunth & G. Östlin (2000): Review on "The most metal-poor galaxies"


• P. Papaderos et al. (1996) "Optical structure and star formation in blue compact dwarf galaxies" (Parts 1+2)


• H. Ferguson & B. Binggeli (1994): Review on "Dwarf elliptical galaxies"

• Links to good data reduction manuals, papers, and webpages
  (actually leading to the lecture webpage "Astronomical CCD data")


• Level 5 – A Knowledgebase for Extragalactic Astronomy


• JabRef – A useful bibliography tool for creating a reference database


• Viewing FITS files
  • QFitsView – a FITS file viewer with many capabilities
  • SAOImage DS9 (also for Windows)
  • SkyCat


• SDSS
  • Image List Tool (including navigator for looking at spectra and measurements)
  • Coordinate list of all certain Virgo cluster members (can be copied and pasted in the Image List Tool) from the Virgo Cluster Catalog
  • Coordinate list of all early-type dwarfs that are certain Virgo cluster members


• Population synthesis models
  • Bruzual & Charlot 2003
  • GALEV
  • Claudia Maraston's models
  • Starburst 99
  • Alberto Buzzoni's webpage


• LaTeX
  • Introduction to LaTeX


• SM (SuperMongo)
  • SM webpage including tutorial and reference manual
  • A brief introduction to SM


• VYM (View your mind)
  • VYM webpage
  • VYM download (for Linux & Mac — had some trouble installing v1.9, but v1.8.0 worked fine)
  • VYM for Windows (but still with some bugs)

• Travel to conferences & summer schools
  • For IMPRS students: IMPRS pays up to ~1000 EUR per year per student for conferences! Please contact me and Christian Fendt well in advance.
  • DAAD Kongress- u. Vortragsreisenprogramm – For conferences abroad; deadline 4 months before conference!
  • Astronomische Gesellschaft – Deadline 6 weeks before conference; Note that you need a registration fee waiver from the conference organization first!
  • Graduate Academy – Application any time before conference; 4 deadlines per year
  • DFG (German National Science Foundation) supports participance in Summer Schools, but not travel to conferences
  • Graduate School (you need a password here...) – Only for summer/winter schools


• Travel for scientific collaboration
  • DAAD Kongress- u. Vortragsreisenprogramm – Deadline 1 month before travel
  • DAAD Jahres- und Kurzstipendien – For 1-6 month stipends: deadline 3 months before travel; For longer stipends: fixed deadlines
  • Astronomische Gesellschaft – Deadline 6 weeks before travel
  • Graduate Academy – Application any time before travel; 4 deadlines per year

Proposals for autumn 2009:

• Alexander @ CAHA → accepted


• Alexander @ NOT → rejected


• Joachim @ Subaru → rejected


• Joachim @ KPNO → rejected


• Sanjaya & Alexander @ VLT → rejected


• Thorsten @ VLT (run A and B) → accepted (both runs)


• Joachim & "big team" @ CAHA → rejected


• Joachim & "big team" @ NTT → accepted


• Joachim & "big team" @ NOT → rejected

Our proposals: outline, ideas, plots-to-do:

• The evolution of early-type dwarf galaxies with central residual star formation
• The nature of isolated 'red and dead' early-type dwarf galaxies
• How did 'red and dead' early-type dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster get their shapes?
• Do disky early-type dwarf galaxies originate from spirals?
• A complete Virgo cluster early-type galaxy sample for Fundamental Plane relations down to mag=XXX

Links and technical stuff

• Links to observatory pages
  • ESO Science Page
  • NOAO Astronomers Page
  • Nordic Optical Telescope
  • Calar Alto Observatory
  • Subaru Telescope
• Useful plots for getting surface brightnesses (for exposure times):
  (Typically you can use V = r + 0.25 mag for a dE)
  (mu-effective - mu at 0.25 half-light) vs magnitude
  (mu-effective - mu at 0.5 half-light) vs magnitude
  (mu-effective - mu at half-light) vs magnitude
  mu-effective vs magnitude
  
  mag vs half-light sma
  mag vs mu at 0.25 half-light
  mag vs mu at 0.5 half-light
  mag vs mu at half-light
  mag vs mu at 2 half-light