As traveling is quite a reasonable part of the job, and mostly accompanied by giving a talk somewhere, I will here keep track of where I went, what I said and where I plan to go soon. The title of a talk or poster is stated here. If you want to see either a poster or a talk, you can always
mail me. For simplicity I will also include activities in the Netherlands in this list of 'travels'.
Trips in the near future
None planned yet...
In the past...
2009:
Tour through the United States of America, with the talk: Nature and nurture in galaxy formation simulations, I visited:
- Nov 13: Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona
- Nov 17: University of California, San Diego
- Nov 18: University of California, Irvine
- Nov 24: Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge
- Dec 1: American Museum of Natural History, New York
- Dec 3: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
Stockholm Observatory, Sweden, October 13, talk: Nature and nurture in galaxy formation simulations
Department of Mathematical Physics and Astronomy, Gent University, Belgium, October 2, talk: Nature and nurture in galaxy formation simulations
IAU General Assembly, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 3-14
Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie, Kerkrade, Netherlands, May 13-15, talk: Physical properties of simulated galaxies
Virgo collaboration meeting, Garching, Germany, January 28-29
2008:
Galaxies in Real Live and Simulations, Leiden, The Netherlands, September 15 - 19, talk: Galaxies in real life versus simulations
Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie, Dalfsen, The Netherlands, May 7 - 9, poster: Stellar masses and star formation rates in galaxy formation simulations
Galaxy evolution from a mass-selected sample, Leiden, The Netherlands, Jan 28 - Feb 1, talk: Properties of halos in galaxy formation simulations
2007:
Virgo collaboration meeting, Durham, UK, December 17-19, talks: Column densities of OWLS halos and Stellar masses and star formation rates of OWLS halos
Next Generation of Computational Models of Baryonic Physics in Galaxy Formation: From Protostellar Cores to Disk Galaxy Formation, Zurich, Switzerland, September 17-21, talk: The Importance of Dust for the Galaxy Luminosity Function
Gas accretion and star formation in Galaxies, Garching, Germany, September 10-14
Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie, Veldhoven, Netherlands, May 14-16, poster: Shaping the Luminosity Function: The effect of dust attenuation
Virgo collaboration meeting, Leiden, Netherlands, January 15-19, talk: Shaping the Luminosity Function: The effect of dust attenuation
2006:
NOVA Fall School, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands, Oct 9-13, talk: Dust attenuation in galaxy formation simulations
Mass loss from stars and the evolution of stellar clusters, Lunteren, The Netherlands, May 29 - Jun 1, poster: Variation of the cluster luminosity function across the disk of M51
Nederlandse Astronomen Conferentie, Ameland, The Netherlands, May 10-12, poster: A maximum star cluster mass in the disk of M51
Workshop on star clusters, International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland, April 3-9
Other talks
Lunch talk, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, July 2008: The star cluster population of the Whirlpool Galaxy: radii, luminosities and an upper mass limit
International Festival for Astronomy, Bunnik, The Netherlands, November 2007: How to grow galaxies in a computer
Lunch talk, Astronomical Institue of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, March 2006: Can star clusters be arbitrarily massive? - Spiral Galaxy M51 as a test case
Utrecht student symposium, April 25, 2005: Star clusters
For the rest, I have given a whole lot of talks to audiences ranging from
very young to
very old, about all sorts of astronomical subjects. These were all in Dutch. Topics include: all kinds of introductory talks, stellar evolution, deepsky objects, cosmology and on slightly higher level: star and star cluster formation and evolution, galaxy formation, cosmology and alternative theories of gravity.