A selection of talks
- GRAVITY - Exploring Physics close to the Galactic Center Black hole,
COST conference: Black Holes: From Quantum To Gravity, Malta, 26 April 2012 (*)
- GRAVITY - Observing the Universe in Motion, Institut de Planétologie et
d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 14 February 2012 (*)
- The Galactic Center: A short review, a sneak peek at selected recent
papers, and real-time observations of an in-falling gas cloud, EII working
group meeting on AGNs and the galactic center, Lisbon, Portugal, 29 November
2011 (*)
- GRAVITY, Ten Years of VLTI Conference: from first fringes to core
science, Garching, Germany, 26 October 2011 (*)
- GRAVITY’s fatal attraction, Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy,
Heidelberg, Germany, 4 July 2011
(*)
- GRAVITY: Probing Strong Gravity with the VLT Interferometer, Informal
Discussion, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany, 13 April 2011
(*)
- GRAVITY: Probing Physics Close to the Event Horizon of the Galactic
Center Black Hole, Colloquium, Observatory of Strasbourg, Strasbourg,
France, 14 January 2011 (*)
- GRAVITY: Probing Strong Gravity with the VLT Interferometer, TEXAS 2010:
25th Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Heidelberg, Germany, 9 December
2010
- Probing Physics Close to the Event Horizon of the Galactic Center Black
Hole with GRAVITY, Joint Seminars on Gravity: Theory meets observations @
SIM and CENTRA, Laboratory of Systems, Instrumentation and Modeling for
Environment and Space Sciences and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal, 9 March
2010 (*)
- Imaging and astrometry of black holes at radio- and infrared wavelengths,
Probing Strong Gravity near Black Holes, Prague, Czech Republic, 18 February
2010 (*)
- Probing the Galactic Center with GRAVITY, Stars and Singularities – The
physics of dense cusps around massive black holes, Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel, 9 December 2009 (*)
- Galactic Science with ESO Adaptive Optics, 20 Years of Adaptive Optics
at ESO, ESO, Garching, Germany, 27 November 2009 (*)
- The Galactic Center: The Ideal Laboratory for Studying Supermassive
Black Holes, Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames,
and Data Analysis, IAU Symposium 261, Virginia Beach, USA, 29 April 2009 (*)
- An Update on the Galactic Center black hole: From the stars to the event
horizon, from adaptive optics with NACO/SINFONI to interferometry with
GRAVITY, Excellence Cluster Area F Science Talk, Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany, 16
July 2008
- 3D spectroscopy with adaptive optics, SPIE Astronomical Instrumentation,
Marseille, France, 23 June 2008 (*)
- GRAVITY: Microarcsecond astrometry and deep interfereometric imaging
with the VLT, The Universe under the Microscope, Bad Honnef, Germany, 24 Apil 2008 (*)
- High Angular Resolution Astronomy with Adaptive Optics and
Interferometry, Ringvorlesung: Methoden und Instrumentierung in der
Kern-, Teilchen- und Astrophysik Garching, Germany, 30 January 2008 (*)
- A sharp look at the Galactic Center: Where we are and where we go,
Hauptkolloquium MPIfR und AIUB, Bonn, Germany, 16 November 2007 (*)
- A sharp look to the Galactic Center black hole: where we are and where we
go, Excellence Cluster Area F Science Meeting , Garching, Germany, 16 October
2007
- GRAVITY: Microarcsecond astrometry and deep interfereometric imaging with
the VLT, Science with the VLT in the ELT Era, ESO, Garching, Germany,
11 October 2007
- The Galactic Center: The Nearest Laboratory for Studying Supermassive
Black Holes, Theoretisch-Physikalisches Kolloquium, Technical University,
Munich, Garching, 18 July 2007 (*)
- GRAVITY: Microarcsecond astrometry and deep interfereometric imaging with
the VLTI or Probing GRAVITY close to the Schwarzschild horizon, DFG - NSF
Astrophysics Research Conference, Washington, USA, 11 June 2007 (*)
- The next steps in GC research: Infrared, Celebrating 15 years of precision
astronomy in the Galactic Center - Hot topics and observational challenges,
Ringberg, Germany, 23 June 2007 (*)
- GRAVITY Continuing a dream …, EII Meeting, Heidelberg, Germany, 6 February 2007
- SERPIL/LIINUS
for the LBT, AO at the LBT: Upgrades and their
Science
Drivers,
Florence,
Italy,
October 2006
- The
Galactic
Center:
The Nearest Laboratory for Studying Supermassive Black Holes, The Relativistic Universe,
Wildbad Kreuth,
Germany,
February 2006 (*)
- SINFONI
Science Highlights, Science Perspectives for 3D
Spectroscopy,
Garching,
Germany, October 2005
- Faint
Object Multiple Beam Combiner for the VLTI, VLTI
Second
Generation Instruments,
Garching,
Germany,
April
2005
- SINFONI in
the
Galactic
Center: young
stars and IR flares in the
central light month, The Paradoxes of Massive Black
Holes: A Case Study in the Milky Way,
Santa Barbara,
USA,
April 2005 (*)
- The
Galactic Center: The nearest Laboratory for Studying Supermassive Black
Holes, American Physical Society
Meeting 2005, Tampa, USA, April 2005 (*)
- SPIFFI:
Lessons learned from a Fast Track VLT Instrument, VLT/VLTI Instrumentation: Lessons learned,
Garching,
Germany,
April 2003 (*)
- SPIFFI at
the VLT: Lessons learned from low to high redshift,
Euro3D
Science Workshop,
Cambridge,
UK., May 2003
- Scientific
Potential of Enhancing the Integral-Field Spectrometer SPIFFI with a
Large
Detector and High Spectral Resolution, Scientific
Drivers for
ESO Future VLT/VLTI Instrumentation, Garching, Deutschland, June 2001
- The Stellar
Content of the Most Massive Starforming Regions in the Galaxy:
Prospects for
Observations with CONICA, Massive Star Formation,
Weimar,
Deutschland, May
2001
- Evidence in
Favour of IMF Variations, Starburst Galaxies: Near and Far, Schloß Ringberg,
Tegernsee,
Germany,
September 2000 (*)
- The Initial
Mass Function of the Most Massive Starforming Regions,
Science with the LBT, Schloß Ringberg,
Tegernsee,
Germany,
July
2000
- Near-Infrared-Spectroscopy
with Extremely Large Telescopes: Integral-Field-versus
Multi-Object-Instruments, Extremely Large Telescopes,
Baeckaskog,
Sweden,
June 1999
- Stellar Population
of NGC 3603 from Adaptive Optics Observations, The
38th Herstmonceux Conference,
Cambridge,
England,
July
1996
(*) invited talk
Impressum, last
update: 2012-04-28, editor of this page: Frank
Eisenhauer