Chairman: Dr. L. Siess (ULB)
Secretary: Dr. R. Alvarez (ROB)

The Group ASTRONOMIE & ASTROPHYSIQUE is one of the Contact Groups of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS).
This Contact Group is open to any research in astronomy and astrophysics.
The goal of the Group is to give the opportunity to astronomers and astrophysicists, especially the young researchers, to get better acquainted with the astronomical activities carried on in the various institutes of the country.


13th Meeting of the FNRS Contact Group Astronomie & Astrophysique

Astronomy Day of the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Monday 14 May 2012 Planetarium (map)

Link to the FNRS astro survey


P R O G R A M M E
9:00 Coffee
9:25 Welcome
9:30
Attilio Rivoldini (ROB):
Insight into Mercury's interior structure from recent data on its gravity field and spin state [pdf file]
9:50
Anne-Sophie Libert (FUNDP):
Formation mechanisms of highly non-coplanar systems [pdf file]
10:10
Athina Meli (ULg):
Relativistic Shocks and Cosmic Ray Acceleration in Actve Galactic Nuclei Jets
10:30
Rémi Monceau-Baroux (KUL-CPA):
The Effect of Angular Opening on the Dynamics of Relativistic Hydro Jets [pdf file]
10:50 Break
11:20
Romain Deschamps (ULB):
Evolution of low- and intermediate-mass binary stars [pdf file]
11:40
Nadya Gorlova (KUL):
The HERMES survey of post-AGB stars with disks [pdf file]
12:00
Nick Cox (KUL):
Herschel's view of filaments, cores and young stars in the Musca and Chamaeleon star-forming regions [pdf file]
12:20
Jean Surdej (ULg):
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) project: a status report [pdf file] [movie]
12:40 Lunch at the Planetarium (sandwiches)
14:00
Professor Ram Sagar (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (India):
INVITED TALK: Opportunities for collaboration with Indian Astronomical observing facilities [ppt file]
15:10
Thomas Masseron (ULB):
Molecules in stellar atmospheres [pdf file]
15:30
Tom Hendrix (KUL-CPA):
Dynamics of Dust in Astrophysical Fluids [pdf file]
15:50
Ilse De Looze (UGent):
Dust energy balance studies of the Sombrero and Needle galaxies [pdf file]
16:10
Bart Vandenbussche (KUL):
Belgium and the SPICA and EChO space missions [pdf file]
16:30 End of meeting
Poster session Thierry Pauwels (KSB-ORB): Data at Risk Task Groups (DARTG) [pdf file]


       
   
Secretary: Rodrigo ALVAREZ Chairman: Lionel SIESS
Royal Observatory of Belgium Institut d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ringlaan 3, 1180 Uccle Campus Plaine, CP 226, 1050 Bruxelles
Tel:  + 32 2 474 70 53 Tel:  + 32 2 650 55 16
rodrigo.alvarez AT oma.be siess AT astro.ulb.ac.be