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.
Since 2009, the Contact Group meeting is held together with the Astronomy Day of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.


16th Meeting of the FNRS Contact Group Astronomie & Astrophysique

Astronomy Day of the Royal Observatory of Belgium
Tuesday 19 May 2015 Planetarium (map)

P R O G R A M M E

Note to the speakers: the format of your contribution includes a ~15min oral presentation of your work plus ~5 minutes dedicated to questions, the total duration not exceeding 20min.

9:00 Coffee
9:25 Welcome
9:30
Bertrand Bonfond (ULg):
From the Hubble Space Telescope to Juno, unraveling the secrets of Jupiter's UV aurorae
9:50
Fabio Bacchini (KUL):
Lagrangian MHD PiC simulations of coronal interplanetary shocks driven by observations [pdf file]
10:10
Emeline Bolmont (UNamur):
Dynamics of exoplanetary systems, links to their habitability [pdf file]
10:30
Françoise Raucq (ULg):
Observational signatures of past mass-exchange episodes in massive binaries : The case of HD149404 [pdf file]
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20
Claudia Paladini (ULB):
The ESO/VLTI MIDI view on the mass-loss of AGBs
11:40
Michel Hillen (KUL):
The first milli-arcsecond image of a post-AGB binary as unveiled by PIONIER
12:00
Bert Vandenbroucke (UGent):
Advanced methods in Nbody/hydrodynamical simulations [pdf file]
12:20
Santiago Triana (KUL):
Stellar Inversions by a Geophysicist
12:40 Lunch
14:00
INVITED TALK: Timo Prusti (ESTEC, ESA):
The GAIA mission
15:00
Waad Saftly (Ugent):
Large and small-scale structures and the dust energy balance problem in spiral galaxies [pdf file]
15:20 Poster session
15:50
Sébastien Clesse (UNamur):
Massive Primordial Black Holes from Inflation as Dark Matter and the seeds of Galaxies [pdf file]
16:10
Robbert Verbeke (UGent):
First stars shaping faint, gas-rich dwarfs and the origin of the baryonic Tully-Fischer relation
16:30 End of meeting
Posters
M.E. Innocenti (KUL):
Achievement of the switch-off condition through compound Slow Shock/ Rotational Discontinuity structures in PIC simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection with guide field [pdf file]
Enmanuelle Mossoux (Obs. Strasbourg):
The X-Ray activity of Sgr A* [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