[Postdocs-visitors] ASTRO-COFFEE this friday at 1pm: Dr. Sebastian Hoenig (UC-Santa Barbara)

["Marchesini, Danilo" <Danilo Marchesini tufts edu>]

Dear all,

tomorrow will be the first astro-coffee of the semester.
Dr. Sebastian Hoenig from University of California - Santa Barbara will be 
presenting the talk below. Make sure to come numerous.

I would also like to point out to you the following link for the calendar 
of the Astro-coffees this semester:
http://cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/~danilo/AstroEvents/Astrocoffee.html

I also made a link for the calendar of colloquia with highlighted those in 
Astronomy and Cosmology (I thought this was useful, considering our 
interests):
http://cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/~danilo/AstroEvents/Colloquium.html

I hope to see you all tomorrow!

Best regards,
Danilo

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Title: The Dusty Heart of Active Galaxies - Dissecting the nucleus with 
high-angular resolution observations in the IR

Abstract:
Over the last years we have made significant progress in our understanding 
of the dusty environment around AGN -- commonly referred to as "dust 
torus", one of the cornerstones of AGN unification. A good part of this 
progress has been made possible by the high spatial resolution 
capabilities of the VLT and VLTI in the infrared. We are now able to not 
only resolve the dusty environment but constrain the distribution of the 
material that is believed to eventually accrete onto the supermassive 
black hole. I will give an overview of some of our most recent results 
involving small samples of AGN as well as individual objects using 
VLT/VISIR, VLTI/MIDI, and the Keck interferometer together with 3D clumpy 
torus models.

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Dr. Danilo Marchesini
Assistant Professor in Astrophysics
Tufts University
Physics and Astronomy Department
Science and Technology Center (STC)
4 Colby Street
Medford, MA 02155 USA
Tel. 617-627-2756
Fax 617-627-3878
Danilo Marchesini tufts edu<mailto:Danilo Marchesini tufts edu>
http://cosmos2.phy.tufts.edu/~danilo/
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On Dec 7, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Anna Sajina wrote:

Hi everybody,

For the last astro-coffee of the semester, I've invited a graduate student 
from Harvard, Greg Snyder. Greg has been working on constraining the 
"detectabiity" of an AGN in the spectral energy distribution (SED) of a 
galaxy. He does this on the basis of simulated SEDs of galaxy mergers.

Hope to see you there!

Anna