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News & Events
24 August, 2011:
PhD Thesis Defense Esther Buenzli at 14:00 in HPF G 6.
8 June 2011: Kevin Heng published an article in Nature entitled: "X-ray illumination of the ejecta of supernova 1987A". Full article here.
8 June 2011: TagesAnzeiger article on one of the biggest and most beautiful sun eruptions commented on by Arnold Benz.
29 April 2011: Christian Monstein was awarded the Giordano Bruno Memorial Award from the SETI-League. For more information please see article on the following link.
6 May 2011: Star Formation and Molecular Clouds meeting series
The starting of the series will be on Friday, May 6th, 2011 on the
topic of massive star formation taking place at ETH, Institute for
Astronomy, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27, at 9:30 in HIT E 41.1. Further
information about upcoming meetings will follow soon.
25 February, 2011:
PhD Thesis Defense Richard Wenzel at 14:00 in HIT J 43.1.
17 February, 2011:
Nature news on "Global solar observatory flares into life"
see article on "Home-built e-CALLISTO network provides real-time data on Sun's radio emissions"
December, 2010:
Direct imaging of exo-planets featured in SNF magazine "Horizonte", with interview with Hans Martin Schmid: link to december issue (page 26, in German).
Recent news / events- September, 2010:
Udo Wehmeier has made a lot of progress furnishing the lab in HPF.
- September, 2010:
Michiel Cottaar, currently doing his PhD in the group of Michael R. Meyer, won the price for the best Master Thesis 2009/2010 of the University of Utrecht. For further information please consult the following website.
- September 2, 2010:
Kevin Heng, Zwicky Fellow, was involved in a study of the evolution in time of the ejecta from SN 1987A as observed with the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope published in Science. The topic was also covered by Nature.
- Okt. 28, 2010: PhD defense Lucia Kleint
- August 26, 2010:
The Meyer Group Event 2010 gave us the opportunity to go for a hike on the Rigi. Later we took a train down to Viznau, then a boat to Lucerne where we had dinner, and later took a train back to Zurich. It was a memorable event that everybody enjoyed. Pictures
- August 10, 2010:
Science Outreach in the Developing World: Senior staff member Christian Monstein trains students in electronics and helps create scientific capabilities for research in countries around the world. For more information please read the ETH Life article.
- Aug. 17, 2010: PhD defense Christian Sennhauser
- July 6, 2010:
Direct image of the planet around Beta Pictoris with the new NACO-APP (Quanz et al. submitted). Find out more in this ETH news article (in german) and this ESO announcement.
- June 1, 2010: PLANET-Z meeting on "Planet formation in gas rich disks", at UZH Irchel
- May 12, 2010: Large massive rotating disk around isolated young stellar object. The findings will appear in the Astrophysical Journal, and can be previewed in the in Quanz et al. 2010 pre-print).
- May 6, 2010: First results from Herschel Space Observatory! Prof. Arnold Benz and his team presented Herschel identifications of ionized water and hydrides in a high-mass star forming region at the "Herschel First Results Symposium" in Noordwijk, Netherlands. Find out more in this ETH news article.
- Apr. 23, 2010: Arnold Benz: Fest and mini-symposium
- Apr. 23, 2010: PhD defense Simon Bruderer
- Mar. 26, 2010: PLANET-Z meeting on "Disk chemistry", at ERDW ETH Zentrum
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