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Tue 10:00
09 Dec 2025 |
Ablation of Meteors in Earth's Atmosphere: Thermal Considerations using the CILBO data |
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Joe Zender | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
11 Dec 2025 |
TBD |
Abstract
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Benjamin Man | ESA/ESAC | SCI |
ESAC TBD |
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Thu 15:00
18 Dec 2025 |
TBA |
Abstract
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Giulia Roccetti | ESAC | SCI |
ESAC B101 |
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Tue 10:00
20 Jan 2026 |
TBA | Stefano Bellotti | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Tue 10:00
27 Jan 2026 |
TBA | Yuto Mochizuki | ISAS/JAXA | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 10:00
26 Feb 2026 |
TBA |
Abstract
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TBA | TBA | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:00
18 Dec 2025 |
TBA |
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Giulia Roccetti | ESAC | SCI |
ESAC B101 |
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Thu 15:00
11 Dec 2025 |
TBD |
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Benjamin Man | ESA/ESAC | SCI |
ESAC TBD |
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Tue 10:00
09 Dec 2025 |
Ablation of Meteors in Earth's Atmosphere: Thermal Considerations using the CILBO data |
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Joe Zender | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Thu 15:45
04 Dec 2025 |
Visitors from near and far: the story of stellar migration in the Milky Way and beyond |
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Maria Luiza Linhares Dantas | Universidad Católica de Chile - Fondecyt | SCI |
ESAC |
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Thu 15:00
27 Nov 2025 |
New insights into early galaxy formation with JWST and ALMA |
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Joris Witstok | Cosmic Dawn Center, Copenhagen | SCI |
Virtual Only |
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Tue 10:00
25 Nov 2025 |
Establishing a mass-loss rate relation for red supergiants |
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Kostas Antoniadis | National Observatory of Athens and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole Db 162 |
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Tue 10:00
18 Nov 2025 |
What AstroSat has to say about neutron star X-ray binary 4U 1728–34 |
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Kewal Anand | IIT Kanpur | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole (Db 162) |
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Thu 15:00
13 Nov 2025 |
Observing the energetic impact of the most massive stars from Earth and Space |
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Jakob van den Eijnden | University of Amsterdam | SCI |
ESTEC Af205 |
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Tue 10:00
11 Nov 2025 |
Testing Hawking’s Theorem | Oliver Jennrich | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole (Db 162) |
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Thu 15:00
06 Nov 2025 |
What high-mass runaway stars learn us about young massive clusters |
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Mitchel Stoop | UvA | SCI |
ESTEC Ca005 |
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Tue 10:00
04 Nov 2025 |
Cow-like explosions as (very) massive star core-collapse events |
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Ashley Chrimes | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole (Db 162) |
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Thu 16:00
30 Oct 2025 |
ESA Distinguished Lecture: JWST as a New Voyager for Giant Planet Systems |
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Leigh Fletcher | University of Leicester | ESA@STScI |
STScI |
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Tue 10:00
28 Oct 2025 |
An interstellar mission to the closest black hole? |
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Cosimo Bambi | Fudan University | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole (Db 162) |
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Thu 15:00
23 Oct 2025 |
The role of Meteoroid Impacts in the generation of Mercury’s Calcium exosphere: Modeling and Observations |
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Martina Moroni | INAF | SCI |
ESAC |
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Tue 10:00
21 Oct 2025 |
A new high mass X-ray binary and the puzzles it poses |
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Aafia Ansar Mohideen | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole (Db 162) |
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Thu 15:00
16 Oct 2025 |
The sharpest view of the X-ray Universe (in energy space): science highlights from the XRISM observatory |
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Matteo Guainazzi | ESTEC | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 10:00
14 Oct 2025 |
Small spectroscopic clues before solar flares |
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Andy S. H. To | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
09 Oct 2025 |
(Sub-)mm continuum surveys: mapping the dusty galaxy contribution to the star formation history |
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Itziar Aretxaga | CAB CSIC-INTA | SCI |
ESAC B100 |
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Tue 09:45
07 Oct 2025 |
Sharing science with everyone: Best practices for accessible science communication |
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Zsofia Szalavari | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
02 Oct 2025 |
Developing drones technology for Lunar and Enceladus Exploration |
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Louis Walpot | ESA D/TEC | SCI |
ESTEC Ba024 |
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Thu 15:00
25 Sep 2025 |
Connecting the Solar Corona to the Heliosphere in the era of Solar Orbiter |
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Natalia Zambrana Prado | MSSL / UCL | SCI |
ESTEC Ca005 |
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Tue 09:45
23 Sep 2025 |
A Deep Learning Approach to Spectroscopic Data Analysis |
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Tania Varesano | CU Boulder | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
18 Sep 2025 |
Galaxy Morphology and Evolution |
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Marcin Bartosz Semczuk | Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona (ICCUB) | SCI |
ESAC B101 |
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Tue 09:45
16 Sep 2025 |
Small Satellites, Big Science: Unlocking Discovery with CubeSats |
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Camille Pirat | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
11 Sep 2025 |
The Genesis of Humanity’s Galactic Adventure |
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Gary P. Zank | The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR) | SCI |
ESAC B101 |
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Thu 15:30
04 Sep 2025 |
A multiwavelength exploration of dust in the Galaxy |
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Sascha Zeegers | ESA ESTEC | SCI |
ESTEC Ba024 |
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Tue 09:45
02 Sep 2025 |
Designing for Space: the Journey of a Chameleon at ESA |
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Emma De Cocker | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Tue 09:45
12 Aug 2025 |
LEAPS presentations |
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LEAPS students | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Tue 09:45
15 Jul 2025 |
Characterizing Interstellar Dust Along the Line-of-Sight using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy |
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Corinna Olson | Anton Pannekoek Instituut, University of Amsterdam | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Mon 16:30
14 Jul 2025 |
Discovering Worlds Young and Old: Adventures with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) |
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George Ricker | MIT | SCI |
ESTEC Ba024 |
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Thu 15:00
03 Jul 2025 |
Hunting for rogue planets with JWST |
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Sam Pearson | ESA/ESTEC | SCI |
ESTEC Af205 |
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Thu 09:45
03 Jul 2025 |
Master's student presentations |
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Leiden Master's students | Leiden University | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Tue 09:45
01 Jul 2025 |
Chromospheric and Coronal Heating in Active Regions: A Joint Perspective from Observations and Numerical Simulations |
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Souvik Bose | SETI institute, Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab, USA | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Tue 09:45
17 Jun 2025 |
From Space Missions to Satellite Launch: My ESA Journey with Juice, BepiColombo and YPSat |
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Emma Vellard | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
12 Jun 2025 |
New constraints on planetesimal properties in debris discs from the dust size distribution |
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Jonathan Marshall | ASIAA | SCI |
ESTEC Ba024 |
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Tue 09:45
10 Jun 2025 |
Tiny but furious: do massive black holes determine the cosmological evolution of galaxies? |
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Matteo Guainazzi | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
05 Jun 2025 |
Magnetothermal evolution of neutron stars with the new 3D code MATINS |
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Stefano Ascenzi | Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy) | SCI |
ESAC D052 |
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Tue 09:45
03 Jun 2025 |
Pixels with purpose: science and wonder in Euclid’s Colorful Universe |
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Jean-Charles Cuillandre | AIM, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris | Breakfast |
ESTEC YB005 |
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Tue 09:45
27 May 2025 |
Heliocentric dust ring on Venus orbit |
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Ariane Courtot | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
22 May 2025 |
Shock waves in the heliosphere |
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Xóchitl Blanco Cano | UNAM | SCI |
ESAC ESAC B101 |
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Tue 09:45
13 May 2025 |
New tricks from an old dog: Unprecedentedly bright X-ray flaring in Cygnus X-1 observed by INTEGRAL |
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Victoria Grinberg | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
08 May 2025 |
Mercury: A Not-So-Boring Rock in Space |
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Willi Exner | ESA | SCI |
ESTEC Einstein AJ033 |
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Tue 09:45
06 May 2025 |
How to catch a gamma-ray burst |
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Ashley Chrimes | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Tue 09:45
29 Apr 2025 |
Any Upside Down: Can gravitational lensing fit into a bottle of genever? |
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Victor Brangoleau | Oedipus Brewing | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
24 Apr 2025 |
Reaching into the dark: HMXBs uncovered by eROSITA and subsequent lessons on low luminosity behaviour |
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Aafia Zainab | Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg | SCI |
ESAC D001 |
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Tue 09:45
22 Apr 2025 |
SAR intermission change detection on Venus: how can EnVision reveal forty years of changes? |
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Gerard Gallardo i Peres | Imperial College London | Breakfast |
ESTEC AF205 |
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Tue 09:45
15 Apr 2025 |
What’s new from Gaia (Gaia end of science observations, Gaia passivation, Gaia DR4) |
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Tineke Roegiers | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
10 Apr 2025 |
Diffuse keV-MeV emissions as a probe of new physics |
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Pedro de la Torre Luque | Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) | SCI |
ESAC A024 |
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Tue 09:45
08 Apr 2025 |
Probing the surroundings of supermassive black holes in active galaxies |
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Lizvette Villafana | Calpoly SLO | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
03 Apr 2025 |
Made of stars: The origin of heavy elements from neutron star mergers or massive stars |
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Andrew Levan | Radboud University Nijmegen | SCI |
ESTEC Df121 |
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Thu 15:00
27 Mar 2025 |
Drones for planetary exploration [POSTPONED] | Louis Walpot | ESA ESTEC | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 09:45
25 Mar 2025 |
High five from ASTEP: Validation of four warm Jupiters and one sub-Neptune with long orbital periods |
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Erika Rea | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
20 Mar 2025 |
Towards the Golden Decade of Jupiter Exploration |
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Michel Blanc | IRAP | SCI |
ESAC D001 |
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Tue 09:45
18 Mar 2025 |
Lobbying for Science: Introduction to strategy and narrative building for effective advocacy |
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Lisa Lacroix | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
13 Mar 2025 |
Aurorae on Mars and Venus induced by solar energetic particles: Impacts on the ionosphere and lower atmosphere |
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Yuki Nakamura | University of Tokyo | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 09:45
11 Mar 2025 |
Tracking down the Galilean moons: how and why to refine natural satellites’ motion in the JUICE-Europa Clipper era |
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Sam Fayolle | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
06 Mar 2025 |
Survival and Resilience of Dust, Ices, and Hydrocarbon Molecules in Active Galaxies: Insights from JWST |
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Ismael Garcia-Bernete | Centro de Astrobiología (CAB-INTA) | SCI |
ESAC D052 |
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Tue 09:45
04 Mar 2025 |
Developing Board Games for Fun, Science, and the Greater Good |
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Maximilian Guenther | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Tue 09:45
25 Feb 2025 |
How to Analyze the Future LISA Data: Extracting 10,000 Overlapping Gravitational Wave Signals |
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Stefan Strub | ETH Zürich | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
20 Feb 2025 |
Unlocking the Potential of Green Hydrogen: What the Germany-Uruguay Partnership Teaches Us |
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Ricarda Leske | ESA/ESTEC | SCI |
ESTEC Ba030 |
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Tue 09:45
18 Feb 2025 |
Diving deeper into the first MEAD results |
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Marjorie Decleir | ESA/STScI | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
06 Feb 2025 |
Super-resolution maps of icy moons: Application to the Cassini-VIMS observations of Enceladus in the infrared |
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Christos Ntinos | Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) | SCI |
ESAC D002 |
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Thu 16:00
30 Jan 2025 |
The Search for the Most Distant Galaxies |
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Marcia Rieke | University of Arizona | SCI |
STScI Muller Bahcall Auditorium |
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Tue 09:45
28 Jan 2025 |
X-ray reprocessing in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) |
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Bert Vander Meulen | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 11:00
23 Jan 2025 |
Looking for observational signatures of the role of active galactic nuclei in galaxy evolution |
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Chiara Circosta | ESA/ESAC | SCI |
ESAC B056 |
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Wed 15:00
22 Jan 2025 |
Differentiation of the metal-rich planet Mercury and implications for dense Super-Earths |
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Olivier Namur | University of Leuven | SCI |
ESAC A024 |
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Tue 09:45
21 Jan 2025 |
1D vs 3D: Geometric Biases from the Radiative Transfer Treatment of Exoplanet Atmospheres |
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Giacomo Gallina | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
16 Jan 2025 |
Multiphysics Surface Model for the Study of Icy Moons |
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Cyril Mergni | Paris-Saclay University | SCI |
ESAC A024 |
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Tue 09:45
14 Jan 2025 |
The Dark Symphony of the Universe: Gravitational Waves |
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Lorenzo Speri | ESA/ESTEC | Breakfast |
ESTEC Wormhole |
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Thu 15:00
09 Jan 2025 |
The early stages of stellar clusters: cloud fragmentation and the formation of the lowest mass members |
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Aina Palau Puigvert | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México | SCI |
ESAC A024 |
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