ESTEC Breakfast Seminar Archive

    A new seminar page displays seminars from all ESA Faculty Seminar series in one place.
    All seminars from 2021 onwards have been added into the new system.

    This page includes all ESTEC Breakfast Seminars prior to 2021.

     

    Date Presenter Title
    2020
    15. Dec Bernard Foing ArtMoonMars & MoonGallery
    8. Dec Nicolas Crouzet A summer campaign at the Concordia station in Antarctica
    1. Dec --- SSW #13 - Virtual Edition
    24. Nov Claudia Masciulli JWST and EXCITE: advancing spectroscopy of exoplanet atmospheres
    17. Nov Sarah Joiret Heat Effect of Meteorite Impacts on the Degassing of Methane Trapped in Mars' Icy Soil
    10. Nov Elise Knutsen Using MEX and Rosetta spacecraft housekeeping data for Space Weather Monitoring
    3. Nov Jos de Bruijne Gaia’s view of open clusters
    27. Oct Oliver Hall Intro to asteroseismology in main sequence, sub-giant, and red giant stars
    20. Oct Marie Liis Aru Gaia as a micro-meteoroid detector
    13. Oct Charlotte Götz Aurora at 67P
    6. Oct Pedro Guilherme Garcia Analysing stellar clusters' internal kinematics using Gaia DR2
    29. Sep Tereza Jerabkova Salpeter, The stellar initial mass function and lessons from weighing your dogs
    22. Sep Francois Mernier Dragonfly 44 (...and the dark matter content of ultra-diffuse galaxies)
    14. July Charlotte Götz Wernher von Braun: From Lunetta to Luna
    7. July Sandor Kruk Outreach and public engagement during a pandemic
    23. June Jos de Bruijne Pi(e) in the Sky
    26. May Csilla Orgel Oxia Planum: the landing site for the 2022 ExoMars “Rosalind Franklin” Rover Mission
    19. May Alice Zocchi Recent news from old stellar systems
    28. April Oliver Jennrich An asymmetric BH-binary detected by LIGO
    21. April Elliot Sefton-Nash Leftovers from a Mars Apocalypse
    14. April Johannes Benkhoff The BepiColombo Earth flyby - Rationale and first results
    7. April Francois Mernier Discovery of a giant fossil cavity in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster (Giacintucci et al. 2020)
    10. Mar. Olivier Witasse The Huygens's spin anomaly
    3. Mar. Francois Mernier Does gravity really exist? Clues from galaxy clusters (ZuHone & Sims 2019)
    25. Feb.
    Matteo Guainazzi
    		 The quest for dual and binary supermassive black holes: A multi-messenger view (De Rosa et al. 2020)
    18. Feb. Hans Huybrighs A measurement of water vapour amid a largely quiescent environment on Europa (Paganini et al. 2019)
    11. Feb. Iga Kaczmarek X-ray physics in Cultural Heritage
    4. Feb. Olivier Witasse The search for a subsurface ocean in Ganymede with Hubble Space Telescope observations of its auroral ovals (Saur et al. 2015)
    28. Jan. Daniel Michalik The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey: Dynamical Mass of the Exoplanet beta Pictoris b from Combined Direct Imaging and Astrometry (Nielsen et al 2019)
    21. Jan. Rens van der Zwaard Studying the corona to learn about its effects on the Earth's climate: the mystery of the bright points
    14. Jan. --- RF Jamboree
    2019
    3. Dec. Lina Hadid Polarization electrostatic field in the presence of negatively charged grains: implications for dust levitation near Saturn's F ring
    26 Nov. Charlotte Goetz Comet Interceptor - a mission to a dynamically new comet
    19. Nov. Ciro Pinto A quiet galaxy cluster? And yet it moves!
    12. Nov. N/A SSW Aranjuez
    5. Nov. Nicolas Crouzet Nobel Prize!! And some of my tiny contribution to exoplanet science (Radius: 1.37 RJup, Mass: 0.71 MJup, Name: XO-7 b, Type: Transiting hot Jupiter, Particularity: second companion on a wide orbit)
    29. Oct. Ottaviano Ruesch The impact origin and evolution of Chryse Planitia on Mars revealed by buried craters
    22. Oct. Detlef Koschny Little Detlef discovers the Cosine
    15. Oct. Hans Huybrighs Evidence of Europa Neutral Gas Torii From Energetic Sulfur Ion Measurements (Nenon and Andre 2019)
    8. Oct. Oliver Lomax A brief introduction to numerical weather prediction
    1. Oct. Arvind Parmar Measuring the Scientific Performance of ESA's Science Missions
    24. Sep. Sandor Kruk Tales from the Romanian Science Festival
    3. Sep. Joe Zender The 2019 total solar eclipse in Chile
    27. Aug. Victoria Grinberg Deciphering wind accretion in high mass X-ray binaries
    13. Aug. William Pearson Effect of galaxy mergers on star formation rates
    6. Aug. Oliver Lomax A tale of two clusters: dynamical history determines disc survival in Tr14 and Tr16 in the Carina Nebula (Reiter et al. 2019)
    30. Jul. Alice Zocchi Kinematical evolution of multiple stellar populations in star clusters (Tiongco et al. 2019)
    23. Jul. Olivier Witasse The first recordings of Marsquakes
    16. Jul. Maria Lomaeva Abundances of disk and bulge giants from high-resolution optical spectra III. Sc, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni (Lomaeva et al. 2019)
    9. Jul. Ottaviano Ruesch Evidence of thrust faulting and widespread contraction of Ceres (Ruiz et al. 2019)
    2. Jul. Eero Vaher Self-organizing maps
    25. Jun. Charles Townsend-Rose Simulation of Binary Microlensing Events for Application to Extrasolar Planet Detection
    18. Jun. Ciro Pinto How do black holes shape galaxies? ATHENA will give your the answer!
    11. Jun. Joana Oliveira Magnetic Mineralogy of the Mercurian lithosphere (Strauss et al. 2016)
    4. Jun. Michele Armano From Gravitational Waves to Ground Waves: Passive Seismic Data Analysis for Oil Prospecting
    28. May. Volodymyr Kudriashov Preliminary System Design for Event Horizon Imaging from Polar Medium Earth Orbits
    21. May. Roberta Carini Star formation in the young cluster NGC 330
    14. May. Hanno Mueller 417 days in Antarctica
    7. May.  
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    30. Apr. Alice Zocchi Rotating globular clusters in the Gaia era (Ibata et al., 2019; Sollima et al., 2019; Bianchini et al., 2018)
    23. Apr.   Easter break
    16. Apr. Daniel Michalik The first M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results
    9. Apr. Sandor Kruk The largest integral field spectroscopic survey - the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey of nearby galaxies
    2. Apr. Nicolas Crouzet An overview of exoplanet atmosphere observations
    26. Mar. Hans Huybrighs Europa's water vapour plumes
    19. Mar. Joana Oliveira Lunar Swirl Morphology Constrains the Geometry, Magnetization, and Origins of Lunar Magnetic Anomalies
    12. Mar. Janine Pforr Predictive Inequity in Object Detection
    5. Mar. Ciro Pinto Why it's so much fun beyond the Eddington limit?
    26. Feb. Ottaviano Ruesch Europlanet: a community for planetary science
    19. Feb. Oliver Jennrich The new SI
    12. Feb. Christina Schoettler Making runaway stars: the ejection of stars from young clusters in simulations and observations
    5. Feb. Erik Kuulkers Apollo 15/16 X-ray observations: small step for (wo)man, but giant leap for a scientist
    29. Jan. Lisa Pettibone Artistic research inspired by gravitational lensing and the Euclid mission
    22. Jan. Mario Cypko ESA's Human Research Activities
    15. Jan. Oliver Lomax RCW 120: A possible case of hit and run, elucidated by multi temperature dust mapping
    8. Jan. Jos de Brujine Your credit card pin code
    2018
    18. Dec. Olivier Witasse Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars
    11. Dec. Guido de Marchi The ultraviolet extinction properties of the 30 Dor Nebula
    4. Dec. Matteo Guainazzi Sibasish et al. 2018: A study of X-ray emission of galaxies hosting molecular outflows (MOX sample)
    27. Nov. Jurjen de Jong Benford's law in astrometry
    20. Nov. Eero Vaher Catching a planet
    13. Nov. Anniek Gloudemans

    My October 2018 observation campaign on La Palma
    30. Oct. Sandor Kruk How to build your own citizen science project and ask 1 million people to help with your research
    23. Oct. Janine Pforr Destination Star Trek
    16. Oct. Joana Oliveira BepiColombo
    9. Oct. Daniel Michalik

    A Gaia DR2 view of white dwarfs in the Hyades
    2. Oct. Alice Zocchi A dynamically young and perturbed Milky Way disk (Antoja et al. 2018)
    25. Sep. Ottaviano Ruesch Impressions from the 2018 European Planetary Science Conference
    18. Sep. Daniel Michalik 100000 penguins say "Welcome back"
    17. Jul. Joana Oliveira An historical overview of the Hermean Magnetic field
    05. Jun. Janine Pforr The abundance of satellite galaxies in the inner region of LambdaCDM Milky Way sized haloes
    12. Jun. Benjamin Torn Conceptual Design and Technology Roadmap for a Lunar Space Elavator
    19. Jun. Buffer slot  
    26. Jun. Lucile Turc From ion scales tolarge scales:  recent results of Vlasiator's global simulations of the Earth's magnetosphere
    01. May Buffer slot  
    08. May Chrysa Avdellidou Exogenous origin of hydration on asteroid (16) Psyche: the role of hydrated asteroid families
    15. May Alice Zocchi Recent updates on the dynamics of globular clusters
    22. May Regina Rudawska The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets
    29. May Owen Roberts Electron magnetic reconnection without ion coupling in Earth's turbulent magnetosheath
     
    03. Apr. Buffer slot  
    10. Apr. Maria Martinez-Chicharro Evidence of Compton cooling during an X-ray flare supports a neutron star nature of the compact object in 4U1700-37
    17. Apr. Meiert Grootes 'A galaxy lacking dark matter' and subsequent discussion incl. social media
    24. Apr. Ottaviano Reusch Primordial clays on Mars formed beneath a steam or supercritical atmosphere
    06. Mar. Owen Roberts Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Earth’s Magnetosheath: Estimation of the Energy Cascade Rate Using in situ Spacecraft Data
    13. Mar. Daniel Michalik Discovery of a brown dwarf companion to the star HIP 64892
    20. Mar. Alice Zocchi Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters
    27. Mar. Joanna Oliveira cancelled
    06. Feb. Bruno Ribeiro Shaping up galaxies in the early Universe
    13. Feb. Floriane Cangemi High Polarization of Cygnus X-1
    20. Feb. Regina Rudawska A two-population sporadic meteoroid bulk density distribution and its implications for environment models
    27. Feb. Victoria Grinberg Alternative explanations for extreme supersolar iron abundances inferred from the energy spectrum of Cygnus X-1
    09. Jan. Victoria Grinberg Big science with small telescopes: constraining the jet in the X-ray binary V 404 Cyg with Wheaton College Observatory's 0.3 m telescope
    16. Jan. Joanna Oliveira Iron Abudances in Lunar Impact Basin Melt Sheets From Orbital Magnetic Field Data
    23. Jan. Ottaviano Reusch The vanishing cryovolcanoes of Ceres
    30. Jan. Alice Zocchi The complex kinematics of rotating star clusters in a tidal field
    2017
    17. Jan. Jacopo Chevallard cancelled
    24. Jan. Lucile Turc Evidence for transient, local ion foreshocks caused by dayside magnetopause reconnection
    31. Jan. Oliver Jennrich Report on Staff Engagement Survey Results
    07. Feb. Jacopo Chevellard One Law To Rule Them All: The Radial Acceleration Relation of Galaxies
    14. Feb. Janine Pforr A massive, quiescent galaxy at redshift of z=3.717
    21. Feb. Richard Tuffs Forward Radiation Transfer Modelling of the Galaxy Population in the Era of ALMA, JWST, and EUCLID
    28. Feb. Gráinne Costigan Formation of young stars and young scientists
    07. Mar. Victoria Grinberg As Above, So Below: Exploiting Mass Scaling in Black Hole Accretion to Break Degeneracies in Spectral Interpretation
    14. Mar. Heleen Vos Laboratory and analogue field spectroscopy of minerals, water and biomarkers
    21. Mar. Regina Rudawska Meteor Shower Detection with Density-Based Clustering
    28. Mar. Chryssa Avdellidou Super-catastrophic disruption of asteroids at small perihelion distances
    04. Apr. Jack Carlyle Network of sensitive magnetometers for urban studies
    11. Apr. Melissa Mirino Multi-instrument data analysis for interpretation of the martian north polar layered deposits
    18. Apr. Buffer slot
    25. Apr. Ben de Vries An infrared spectral match between GEMS and interstellar grains
    02. May. Lia Corrales Inclusion and Diversity in Astronomy
    09. May. Owen Roberts The Electron scale turbulent power spectra in the solar wind
    16. May. Ilse van de Burgt Nitrogen storage in clay minerals as an indicator of climatic conditions and habitability on early Mars
    23. May. Janine Pforr cancelled
    30. May. Christopher Tibbs Parameterizing the interstellar dust temperature
    06. Jun. Jack Carlyle Reading from 'Laboratorio: Poems from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory'
     
    13. Jun. Regina Rudawska Discovery of a new branch of the Taurid meteoroid stream as a real source of potentially hazardous bodies
    20. Jun. Daniela Huppenkothen Improving Candidate Selection for Academic Conferences and Beyond
    27. Jun. Meiert Grootes Star Formation Suppression in Compact Group Galaxies: A New Path to Quenching?
    04. Jul. Jacopo Chevallard cancelled
    11. Jul Stella Reino A Gaia study of the Hyades
    18. Jul. Jacopo Chevallard Rotation in [CII]-emitting gas in two galaxies at a redshift of 6.8
    25. Jul. Chryssa Avdellidou Identification of a primordial asteroid family constrains the original planetesimal population
    01. Aug. Buffer slot  
    08. Aug. LEAPS students Special seminar; LEAPS students presentations
    15. Aug. Jack Carlyle The Non-linear Growth of the Magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
    22. Aug. Regina Rudawska cancelled
    29. Aug. Alice Zocchi Dynamics of Globular Clusters in the Gaia Era
    05. Sep. Owen Roberts Preliminary Study of the  Alfven Ratio in the Solar Wind
    12. Sep. Regina Rudawska cancelled
    19. Sep. Janine Pforr The Galaxy End Sequence
    03. Oct. buffer slot
    10. Oct. Meiert Grootes Plumbuing the Limits of the Self-Regulated Baryon-Cycle
    17. Oct. Jacopo Chevellard End of Fellowship Review
    24. Oct. buffer slot
    31. Oct. Janine Pforr The stellar mass growth and stellar ages of galaxies: observations versus simulations
    07. Nov. Joanna Oliveira Testing the axial dipole hypothesis for the Moon by modeling the direction of crustial magnetization
    14. Nov. buffer slot  
    21. Nov. Alice Zocchi Three candidate double clusters in the LMC: truth or dare
    28. Nov. Meiert Grootes Missing Baryons in the Cosmic Web revealed by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
    05. Dec. Owen Roberts Turbulent mass transfer caused by vortex induced reconnection in collisionless magnetospheric plasmas
    11. Dec RF Jamboree No Semniar
    19. Dec. Faculty Workshop No Seminar
    2016
    12. Jan. Regina Rudawska (P) Solar wind sputtering of dust on the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
    19. Jan. Christopher Tibbs (P) KIC 8462852 Faded at an Average Rate of 0.17 mag Per Century From 1890 To 1989
    26. Jan. Christian Schneider (P) Accreting protoplanets in the LkCa 15 transition disk
    2. Feb. Carlo Manara (F) Protoplanetary disks with ALMA
    9. Feb. Teresa Antoja (P) Imprints of Radial Migration on the Milky Way's Metallicity Distribution Functions
    16. Feb. Meiert Grootes (P) ISM masses and the star formation law at Z = 1 to 6 // ALMA observations of dust continuum in 145 galaxies in the COSMOS survey field
    23. Feb. Ben de Vries (P) Fingerprints of giant planets in the photospheres of Herbig stars
    1. Mar. Oliver Jennrich (P) Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
    8. Mar. Lucile Turc (P) Global impacts of a Foreshock Bubble: Magnetosheath, magnetopause and ground-based observations
    15. Mar. Owen Roberts (P) Coherent events and spectral shape at ion kinetic scales in the fast solar wind turbulence
    22. Mar. Jacopo Chevallard (P) A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=11.1 Measured with Hubble Space Telescope Grism Spectroscopy
    29. Mar Easter Break
    4. April Stefanie Raetz (P) Constraints on the location of a possible 9th planet derived from the Cassini data
    12. Apr. Buffer Slot
    19. Apr. Carlo Manara (P) Ringed Substructure ans a gap at 1 au in the nearest Protoplanetary Disk
    26. Apr. Buffer slot
    03. May. Beatriz Sanchez-Cano (F) Coromal Mass Ejections
    10. May. Jacopo Chevallard (P) Directly Observing the Galaxies Likely Responsible for Reionization
    17. May. Meiert Grootes (F) How self-regulated is star formation in central galaxies?
    24. May. All RF benefits / preparation for DG visit
    31. May. Lucile Turc (P) Pluto's interaction with the solar wind
    07. Jun. Louise Nielsen (P) Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star and
    Habitable worlds with JWST: transit spectroscopy of the TRAPPIST-1 system?
    14. Jun. Christopher Tibbs (P) Multi-scale Planck corrections to Herschel dust continuum emission maps: Implications for column density and temperature maps
    21. Jun. Regina Rudawska (P) Plasma clouds associated with Comet P/Borrelly dust impacts
    28. Jun. Ben de Vries (P) Likely detection of water-rich asteroid debris in a metal-polluted white dwarf
    05. Jul. Regina Rudawska (P) Three-body resonance in meteoroid streams
    8. Jul. Ignacio Mendigutía (F) Accretion onto low and intermediate mass stars
    12. Jul. Zoe Faes Accretion of Phobos and Deimos in an extended debris disc stirred by transient moons
    19. Jul. Maria Giulia Ubeira Gabellini (University of Milan/STScI) The sub-stellar mass function in the Orion Cluster
    26. Jul. Marie Curie Presentation
    02. Aug. Stefanie Raetz (P) Direct Imaging discovery of a second planet candidate around the possibly transiting planet host CVSO 30
    09. Aug. Lucile Turc (P) Observations of an extreme storm in interplanetary space caused by successive coronal mass ejections
    16. Aug. Morten Andersen (P) Extended star formation in Westerlund 1
    23. Aug. Owen Roberts (P) A proton-cyclotron wave storm generated by unstable proton distribution functions in the Solar wind
    30. Aug. Buffer slot
    06. Sep. Ben de Vries (P/F) Transient dust in warm debris disks. Detection of Fe-rich olivine grains
    13. Sep. Christian Schneider (P) A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri
    20. Sep. Stefanie Raets (F) The Sept. 1st. annular solar eclipse
    27. Sep. Meiert Grootes (P) Deep learning, Neural Networks, and Galaxy Morphology
    4. Oct. Christopher Tibbs (P) Spacecraft traveling with a large fraction of the speed of light - Interactions with insterstellar dust
    11. Oct. Jacopo Chevallard (P) SDSS IV MaNGA - Spatially resolved diagnostic diagrams: A proof that many galaxies are LIERs.
    18. Oct. Meiert Grootes The Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS): Mrk 1018 returns to the shadows after 30 years as a Seyfert 1
     
    25. Oct. Owen Roberts Turbulence Heating ObserveR (THOR) - satellite mission proposal
    01. Nov. Ben de Vries The abundance and thermal history of water ice in the disk surrounding HD 142527 from the DIGIT Herschel Key Program
    08. Nov. ESA Science Workshop
    15. Nov. Regina Rudawska Acceleration of individual, decimetre-sized aggregates in the lower coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
    22. Nov.

    Maria Pfeifer, Senior curator at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz

    &
    Aoife van Linden Tol, Artist, recipient of ESA/Ars Electronica art-science residency

    		 Art Science Seminar
    29. Nov. Janine Pforr Quantitative Evaluation of Gender Bias in Astronomical Publications from Citation Counts
    06. Dec. RF Jamboree No Seminar
    13. Dec. Aoife Ryan Large-Scale Vortices at the Earth’s Magnetopause during Extreme Solar Events
    2015
    29. Sept. C. Schneider (F) Protoplanetary disk eclipses
    6. Oct. L. Turc (P) Disc dark matter in the Galaxy and potential cycles of extraterrestrial impacts, mass extinctions and geological events
    13. Oct. No presentation (JWST workshop)
    20. Oct. C. Tibbs (F) Galaxy SEDs
    27. Oct. No presentation (Accretion-outflow workshop)
    3. Nov. O. Roberts (P) Turbulence in the solar wind measured with comet tail test particles
    10. Nov. No presentation SRE Science Workshop 8
    17. Nov. C. Manara (P) Accretion-induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes
    24. Nov. New RF candidates
    1. Dec. J. Chevallard (P) Extended Lyman alpha haloes around individual high-redshift galaxies revealed by MUSE
    8. Dec. O. Roberts (F) Vortices in the solar wind
    15. Dec. S. Raetz