Unified Schedule for CSH & WP Colloquia

Note:
The colloquia normally take place on site at 2:15pm in lecture hall ExWi B5 (usually in hybrid mode for those unable to attend in person - the Zoom link is circulated by email). Occasionally, a talk might be fully online. Please see details below each colloquium entry. Master students can contact Susanne Wampfler to be added to the mailing list for the colloquia.


Spring Semester 2024


28/02/24 (Wed): Dr. Joanna Drążkowska (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)
Title: The Emerging Theory of Planet Formation
Host: Prof. Dr. Christoph Mordasini
[on site ExWi B5 at 14:15]


29/02/24 (Thur): Special Seminar: Prof. Jessica Barnes (The University of Arizona, USA)
Title: Initial analyses of samples returned from asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx mission
Host: PD Dr. Antoine Pommerol
[on site G6 -108 at 14:00]


13/03/24 (Wed): Dr. Tadahiro Kimura (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Title: Predicted diversity in water content of terrestrial exoplanets orbiting M dwarfs
Host: Prof. Christoph Mordasini
[on site ExWi B5 at 14:15]


20/03/24 (Wed): Bern Physics Colloquium: Prof. Laura Kreidberg, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Planets are Places: Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization in the JWST Era
Host: Prof. Christoph Mordasini
[on site ExWi B6 at 16:15]


27/03/24 (Wed): Dr. Dmitry Semenov (Heidelberg)
Title: Making Habitable Worlds: An Astrochemical Perspective
Host: Prof. Dr. Susanne Wampfler
[on site ExWi B5 at 14:15]


28/03/24 (Thur): Special Seminar: Dr. Susan Redmond (California Institute of Technology)
Title: To the stratosphere and beyond: Correcting quasi-static wavefront error drifts in
astronomical telescopes
Host: Dr. Axel Potier
[on site G6 -108 at 14:15]


05/04/24 (Fri): Special Seminar: Dr. Oliver Shorttle (Cambridge)
Title: Searching for habitability on Venus and exoplanets
Host: Dr. Dan Bower
[on site G6 -108 at 11:15]


27/04/24 (Wed): Prof. Charley Lineweaver (Australian National University)
Title: Cosmobiology and the Galactic Habitable Zone
Host: Christoph Mordasini/Susanne Wampfler
[on site ExWi B5 at 14:15]


01/05/24 (Wed): Dr. Anne-Marie Lagrange (LESIA/Paris Observatory)
Title: Observations of Young and Forming Planets
Host: Prof. Dr. Christoph Mordasini
[on site ExWi B5 at 14:15]


12/06/24 (Wed): Special Seminar: Prof. Dr. Michael R. Meyer (University of Michigan)
Title: Infrared Astronomy: Direct Constraints on the Origins and Cradles of Planets
Host: Prof. Dr. Christoph Mordasini
[on site TBD]