Rationale

Informal presentation of about 20-25 minutes followed by a discussion. The presentation could be a proper short focused talk or just a few slides with mainly figures, or just at the white-board with a pen. The content could be some new results/ideas related to past, on-going or future projects in extragalactic astrophysics. If you have visitors, please ask them to participate and give a presentation - they should have priority over presentation by 'local' people! Local PhD Student/Post-Doc are encouraged to present something at least once a year.

The TeaTimeChat is another more informal format of talks.

Also, we have the formal LAM seminars, with the schedule [http://www.lam.fr/the-laboratory/talks-and-conferences here]

When

Every Tuesday at 1:30 pm in room Mistral (second floor) at LAM (coffee @ 1:15 pm).

Event Organizers

Event organisers are listed at CafeClubGroup

Schedule

2016 (Event Organizers: Carlo Giocoli, Javier Álvarez Márquez, Pedro Palmeirim)

• 8th March - Isabelle Pâris -
• 16th February - Merce Romero-Gomez (Universitat de Barcelona): Getting ready for the scientific exploitation of Gaia data on the structure of our Galaxy.
• 2nd February - Aurélien Benoit-Lévy - News from the Dark Energy Survey (DES)

2015 (Event Organizers: Eric Jullo & Barbara Lo Faro)

• 5th January - Iary Davidson - OPEN Cafe Club: JWST ESTEC feedback
• 17th December - Debora Pelliccia - Kinematics of COSMOS star-forming galaxies over the last 8 Gyr
• 1st December - Mauro Sereno - The self-similarity of galaxy clusters and how to assess it
• 27th November - Stephane Barros - The (difficult) quest for Lyman continuum emitter at high redshift
• 24th November - Matthieu Béthermin - An ALMA view on the interstellar medium of high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies
• 19th November - Jesus Vega - Tension in the rings: the distribution function of Einstein radii
• 17th November - Hadi Rahmani - The study of circum-galactic medium at z∼0.6 using low impact parameter DLA-galaxies
• 10th November - Aida Wofford - A Comprehensive Comparative Test of Seven Widely-Used Spectral Synthesis Models Against Multi-Band Photometry of Young Massive Star Clusters
• 3rd November - Open Cafe Club

• 13th October: Alan McConnachie - Replacing CFHT by MSE?

• 8th October: Stephan Frank - Searching for weak NeVIII absorption signatures in COS-spectra via agnostic spectral stacking
• 6th October: Yu-Yen Chang - AGN, star formation, and galaxy morphology
• 29th September: Isabel Pâris - Physical properties of quasar outflows in the SDSS-DR12 sample
• 22nd September: Juan Magaña - Probing cosmological models with strong lensing in A1689
• 15th September: Karina Rojas - Quasar accretion disks: size and temperature profile using microlensing

• 1st September: Olivier Le Fèvre - Latest news from the VIMOS UltraDeep Survey (VUDS)

• 25th August: Jian-Min Wang - Mapping Reverberation Super-Eddington Accreting Massive Black in Holes Local Universe
• 30th June: Samuel Quiret - The metallicity distribution of the Circum Galactic Medium
• 16th June: Michele Boldrin - Arc statistics and clustering properties of dark matter haloes
• 9th June: Zhu Chen - Photometric and morphological properties of LBGs at z~1 in ECDFS
• 19th May: Javier Álvarez Márquez - Dust properties of LBGs at z ~3
• 12th May: Francesca Fragkoudi - The Effects of Boxy/Peanut Bulges on Galaxy Models
• 21st April: Céline Péroux - The VLT SINFONI Mg ii Program for Line Emitters (SIMPLE) II: background quasars probing z ∼ 1 galactic winds
• 14th April: Kyle Penner - The assumptions we make when we talk about attenuation
• 7th April: Peter Wizinowich -

• 31st March: Nimish Hathi - The VIMOS Ultra Deep Survey: Ly-alpha Emission and Stellar Populations of Star-Forming Galaxies at 2<2.5

• 20th March: OPEN Discussion - Feedback from the Sintra Conference: Back at the Edge of the Universe

• 17th March: OPEN Discussion - WEAVE, DESI & eBOSS

• 20th February: Carlo Giocoli - Weak lensing Simulations from Current Surveys to Euclid
• 17th February: Matthieu Béthermin - Why do massive galaxies at z~2-3 form so many stars?
• 10th February: Timothee Delubac - Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with BOSS, eBOSS and DESI
• 3rd February: Jean-Pierre Luminet - Last news about cosmic topology
• 27th January: Alice Pisani - Precision Cosmology with Cosmic Voids
• 20th January: David Valls-Gabaud - MESSIER: a space orbiter to unveil galaxy formation
• 13th January: Anna Feltre - IR signatures of nuclear activity and star formation on galaxy spectra

• 6th January: Thibaud Moutard - The stellar mass function and density evolutions of massive (log M* > 10.5) galaxies since z = 1.5

2014 (Event Organizers: Eric Jullo & Barbara Lo Faro)

• 9th December: Ludovic Van Waerbeke - New directions in weak lensing
• 2nd December: Raul Angulo - A new way of exploiting future cosmological measurements
• 25th November: Olivier Ilbert - sSFR functions out to z = 1.4 combining the COSMOS and GOODS surveys
• 18th November: Cecile Gry - Peculiarities of the diffuse cloud that surrounds the Sun: the only interstellar cloud explored from within
• 4th November: Mark Seibert - Progressive Integral Step Method (PrISM) for wide field spectral data cubes
• 14th October: Brian Lemaux - An Exploration of High Density at High Redshift: First Results from the VIMOS Ultra-Deep Survey

• 7th October: Allison W. S. Man - How dead are quiescent galaxies?

• 16th September: Roderik Overzier - Proto-clusters of galaxies
• 9th September: Jean Coupon - Joint lensing, clustering and abundance analysis in CFHTLens/VIPERS: halo occupation statistics at z ~ 0.8
• 2nd September: Mathilde Jauzac - A new picture of the HST Frontier Field cluster MACSJ0416.1-2403
• 8th July: Juan Magaña - Constraints on dark energy models from galaxy clusters
• 1st July: Marceau Limousin - The Hubble Frontier Fields (FF) Initiative
• 26th June: Brenda Frye - The Sightline towards the Quasar PG1543+489: Evidence for Cool Halo Gas Accretion at z=0.1
• 24th June: Laure Ciesla - Probing the physical properties of SB and AGN with CIGALE
• 17th June: Gael Foex - SARCS strong-lensing galaxy groups: mass profile and mass-concentration relation derived from weak lensing
• 10th June: Laure Ciesla - Probing the physical properties of SB and AGN with CIGALE
• 3rd June : Giulia Despali - Triaxiality of DM in simulations: how and why
• 27th May : Guilaine Lagache - The future of ground-based submm and mm extragalactic deep surveys
• 22th May: Janine Pforr - Comparing SFR estimators for IR-luminous galaxies at z~2 in CANDELS
• 20th May: Paolo Cassata - The VIMOS Ultra–Deep Survey (VUDS): fast increase of thé fraction of strong Lyman alpha emitters from z=2 to z=6
• 13th May : free
• 6th May : free
• 29th April : free
• 22th April : free
• 15th April : Céline Péroux - Probing Gas Flows around Galaxies with SINFONI and X-Shooter
• 8th April : Iary Davidzon - Galaxy evolution in the VIPERS environment
• 1st April : Ewa Lokas - Tidally induced bars in dwarf galaxies
• 25th March : Toru Yamada - The Wide-field Imaging Surveyor for High-Redshift (WISH) project

+ Kiyoto Yabe - NIR spectroscopy of star-forming galaxies at z~1.4 with Subaru

+ Bruno Corrêa - Quint Observational Results Using BTFI

• 18th March : Stephan Frank - Searching for the hot Circum-Galactic Medium with NeVIII absorbers
• 11th March : Alessandro Boselli - Properties of the ISM of the Herschel Reference Survey
• 4th March : free
• 25th Feb. : free

• 11th February : Matthieu Bethermin ==> changed into LAM seminar the 13th Feb. at 11am

• 14th January : Sebastien Heinis

2013 (Event Organizers: Eric Jullo & Pol Mollitor)

• 17th December : Matthew Pieri: In the Deep, Dark Lyman-alpha Forest: Exploring Dark Energy and Galaxy Formation using the Intergalactic Medium
• 10th December : David Schiminovich - The trivariate HI-M*-SFR function of galaxies and its relationship to properties of the circumgalactic medium
• 26th November : Morgane Cousin - eGalICS: a new tools for galaxy evolution studies
• 5th November: Violeta Gonzalez - A new model of galaxy formation: How sensitive are predicted galaxy luminosities to the choice of SPS model?
• 1st October : Veronica Motta - Gravitational lensing as cosmological tools
• 24th September : Gael Foex - Exploring the intermediate-mass scale of the mass spectrum with strong lensing galaxy groups
• 6 September : Barbara Lo Faro - The complex physics of dusty star forming galaxies at high redshift as revealed by Herschel and Spitzer
• 27 August : Free
• 13 August : Free
• 30 July : Free
• 19 July : Sebastien Foucaud - Unveiling the link between Dark and luminous matter up to z=7
• 16 July : Free
• 9 July : Denis Burgarella - Redshift evolution of the Cosmic SFRD and Dustiness to z ~ 4 and projects to go beyond
• 2 July : Free
• 27 June : Dimitri Gadotti - Evidence for bar-induced secular evolution in massive disk galaxies
• 25 June : Begoña Ascaso - Galaxy Clusters on Simulated and Observational Data
• 18 June : Carlos Lopez-Sanjuan - The J-PAS Survey

• 4 June : CosmoRetreat

2013 (Event Organizers: Tayyaba Zafar)

• April 30: Laurie Riguccini: TBD
• April 9: Bin-Wei Wang: High redshift galaxies in Ultra Vista Ultra-deep survey
• March 12: Olivier Le Fevre: Deep and wide galaxy redshift surveys
• February 26: Manash Samal: Star-forming complex S254-S258: evidence of triggered high-mass star formation
• February 12: Sylvain de la Torre: VIPERS: a sharp view of the large-scale structure of the Universe at half its present age
• January 29: Danuta Paraficz: End of Universe seen through Gravitational Telescopes (Amazingly high redshift galaxies seen through amazingly massive galaxy clusters)
• January 15: Emmanuel Nezri: Discussion about Higgs and particle physics (related to cosmology)
• January 8: Samuel Boissier: Measuring the Gamma Ray Busrt "bias" using the mass (and SFR) functions of their hosts.

2012 (Event Organizers: Andrea Cattaneo and Tayyaba Zafar from September)

• December 11: Olivier Ilbert: Following the galaxy stellar mass assembly since z=4 from the UltraVista survey

• December 4: Paolo Cassata: HeII emitters in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey: pockets of PopIII star formation around galaxies at 2<z<4.6?

• November 27: Tayyaba Zafar: Non-evolution of Omega_HI over cosmological timescales
• November 20: Violeta Gonzalez-Perez: The UV colours and dust attenuation of Lyman-break galaxies
• November 13: Johan Comparat: Stochastic bias of color-selected BAO tracers by joint clustering--weak-lensing analysis
• November 6: Stephanie Jouvel: The Dark Energy Survey overview and spectroscopic survey strategy with DESpec
• October 30: Pol Mollitor: Numerical simulations and astroparticles
• October 23: Lori Lubin: Understanding Cluster Formation and Galaxy Evolution ... ORELSE
• October 16: Marc Huertas-Company: The dependence of the ETG mass-size relation on morphology and environment during the past 10Gyrs
• October 9: Stephane De Barros: Modeling of high redshift galaxies: impact of nebular emission
• October 2: Cancelled due to PhD and Post-Docs Day (PPDD)
• September 18: Kaisa Malek: Properties and photo-zs of FIR-bright AKARI galaxies
• September 11: Francesca Iannuzzi: On the orbital and internal evolution of cluster galaxies
• June 19: Pascale Hibbon: Narrow-Band Search for z~7 LAEs with Magellan/IMACS
• June 12: Manolis Papastergis (Cornell): The galaxy - halo connection: insights from the ALFALFA survey
• June 4: Jean-Claude Waizmann (Bologne Univ): How pink are pink elephants? - An application of extreme value statistics to the most massive galaxy clusters at low and high redshifts.
• April 17: Niraj Welikala: Color gradients in galaxies out to z~3
• January 31: Aurélie Pénin (LAM): The Cosmic Infrared background anisotropies : a new tool to probe the evolution of structures.
• February 14: Olga Cucciatti (Trieste): TBD

2011 (Event Organizer: Andrea Cattaneo)

• December 13: Ehsan Tavvabi (University of Teheran): Solar spicules and jets
• November 8: Daniel Dale: Herschel Far-Infrared and Sub-millimeter Photometry for the KINGFISH Sample of Nearby Galaxies
• November 8: Jakob Walcher: Studying galaxy evolution with integral field spectroscopy surveys: the example of CALIFA
• October : Stephen Bailey (LBL): Latest on Super Novae Cosmology
• October 28: Oguri (IPMU): Stacked lensing: current measurements and future prospects
• September: Richard Frazin (University of Michigan): Stray Light removal from Solar EUV Images via Blind deconvolution
• July 19: Tiziana Di Matteo: Black hole growth and the first quasars in cosmological simulations
• July 7: Mark Seibert: The Carnegie Hubble Project
• July 5: Mara Salvato: DISSECTING photometric redshifts for AGN using XMM- and Chandra-COSMOS surveys
• June 7: Loren Anderson: Intérêt d'observer les régions HII Galactiques avec Herschel et les radiotélescopes.

2010 (Event Organizer: Céline Péroux)

• 5 January 2010 - Jean-Gabriel Cuby (LAM): "Extremely Large Telescopes: Sites and Status"
• 12 January 2010 - Benjamin Clément (LAM): "Limits on the Luminosity Function of Ly-alpha Emitters at z = 7.7"
• 19 January 2010 - Olivier Ilbert (LAM): "Tracing the Stellar Mass Assembly in the COSMOS Field"
• 26 January 2010 - Stephan Frank (LAM): "No Statistical Evidence for Dust Reddening in SDSS Spectra with Damped Lyman-alpha Systems"
• 02 February 2010 - Jean-Michel Alimi (Observatoire de Paris-Meudon): "Empreinte de l'énergie noire sur la formation des structures" See abstract
• 23 February 2010 - Brice Le Roux (LAM): "Next Generation Adaptive Optics Systems : State of the Art" See pdf of presentation
• 02 March 2010 - Aldo Bonomo (LAM): salle Tramontane "Detection and characterization of transiting planets with the CoRoT space mission"
• 16 March 2010 - Christian Surace (LAM): "YAETC@LAM : Yet Another Exposure Time Calculator @ LAM." Surace, Renault, Leleu, development of a new ETC, more open than predecessors. The goal of this talk is to show the functionalities of this tool developped at LAM and the futures interactions within the Virtual Observatory. As the development is still in progress, critics and comments are really welcome. See pdf of presentation and more info at the following web page
• 23 March 2010 - Leo Michel-Dansac (Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon): "Galaxy mergers and the Mass-Metallicity relation" I will discuss the role of mergers in the build-up of the Mass-Metallicity relation using both SDSS observations of interacting galaxies, and a series of galaxy merger simulations.
• 30 March 2010 - Antoine Llebaria (LAM): "Restitution of multiple overlaid components on extremely long series of solar corona images" Summary: This talk will describe the methods used to accurately disentangle the components observed on the set of solar corona images provided during 12 years by the LASCO-C2 coronographs. Based on the specific temporal and spatial characteristics of each component we have been able to disentangle on this 3D set of data, the K-corona (due to coronal electrons by Thompson effect ), the F-corona (due to interplanetary dust by Mie scattering) and the stray light (due to the instrument itself). Some astrophysical consequences of results must be briefly discussed.
• 20 April 2010 - Christophe Adami (LAM): "The DAFT/FADA Survey: Status and Early Results from First Epoch Data"
• 4 May 2010 - Ron Buta (Alabama): "Galaxy Morphology and Classification in the Mid-Infrared from S4G" The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G, Sheth et al. 2010) is a comprehensive survey of 2,331 galaxies in the 3.6 and 4.5 micron IRAC bands of the Spitzer Space Telescope. One of the goals of the project is the derivation of RC3-like parameters of galaxies in the mid-IR, including galaxy morphology as interpreted in the framework of the de Vaucouleurs revised Hubble-Sandage classification system. The IRAC 3.6 and 4.5 micron bands are sensitive mainly to the older stellar component, and provide the most dust-penetrated views of all types of galaxies. This penetration of dust can cause drastic changes in appearance between blue and mid-IR images. Nevertheless, these are the exception. The subtleties of blue light galaxy morphology carry well enough into the mid-IR 3.6 micron band that for many galaxies, the blue and 3.6 micron morphologies are similar. I will describe a detailed morphological study of a subset of 200 galaxies based on archival 3.6 micron Spitzer images that have been processed through the S4G pipeline.
• 18 May 2010 - Benjamin Gardes (LAM): "Photometric calibration of the LASCO-C2 coronograph for solar sytem objects" In this demostration I will introduce you the method to determine the photometric calibration of the LASCO-C2 coronograph images for solar system objects based on the extensive analysis of all stars down to the magnitude V = 8 that have transited in its field-of-view since the past 14 years (1996-2009). An automatic procedure has been developed to detect those stars and to measure their magnitudes providing statistics for more than 250 000 images. Using 4 different aperture windows I have first estimated the Zero Points of the photometric transformation between LASCO-C2 magnitudes for the Orange filter and standard V magnitudes and then derived the calibration factor for the surface photometry of extended sources. Finally, we will see how the sensitivity of the instrument behaves along the mission.
• 29 June 2010 - Carlo Schimd (LAM): "Geometry and Topology of large scale structures"
• 12 Oct 2010 - Emmanuel Nezri (LAM): "Dark Matter and Astroparticles"
• 19 Oct 2010 - Jesper Sommer-Larsen (Copenhagen): "Massive compact high-z galaxies, hot gas around the Milky Way and intergalactic transmission of the Lyman-alpha line"
• 2 Nov 2010 - Johan Comparat (LAM): "A search for Quasar Lensing Galaxies"
• 9 Nov 2010 - Danuta Paraficz (LAM): "Strong Lensing of the Bullet Cluster"

• 16 Nov 2010 - Niraj Welikala (LAM): "Substructure and Stellar Populations of z>~1 Galaxies using a Pixel Color Approach"

• 23 Nov 2010 - Marceau Limousin (LAM): "Construction of a Solar Shower in Bolivia"
• 30 Nov 2010 - Albert Bosma (LAM): "Dark Matter in Galaxies in the framework of the Dark Matter Awareness Week"
• 7 Dec 2010 - Eric Jullo (JPL): "Constraining Cosmology with Strong Lensing in Massive Clusters"

2009 (Event Organizer: Céline Péroux)

• 5 January 2009 - (MONDAY) - Surhud More (MPIA, Heidelberg): "Cosmic Transparency: A test with Baryon Acoustic Feature and type Ia Supernovae"

• 6 January 2009 - Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM): "Lensed SuperNovae" see also this link

• 13 January 2009 - Wagner Marcolino (LAM): "The Weak Wind Problem"
• 20 January 2009 - Franck Selsis (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux): "Characterising Super-Earths"
• 27 January 2009 - (Cafe Tech) - Guillaume Faury (LAM): "Sunskirting Comets discovered with the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) Coronagraphs", see also this link
• 3 February 2009 - Cécile Faure (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne): "On the Contribution of Large Scale Structure to Strong Gravitational Lensing"
• 10 February 2009 - Stéphane Paulin-Henriksson (CEA/Saclay): "Calibration of the ESA Dark Energy Mission EUCLID" The presentation is here.
• 17 February 2009 - TWO 'CAFE CLUBs': Delphine Marcillac (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay): "Linking the Environment of Infra-Red Galaxies to the Star Formation Activity of the Universe at z~1" Fu-Sin Ling University Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium "Interconnecting Dark Matter Searches" Abstract : I will give a flavor of how astrophysical searches for Dark Matter connect particle physics with astronomy and cosmology. Well-motivated theoretical schemes for Dark Matter candidates translate into complementary predictions for detection signals. In particular candidates with gauge interactions offer a predictive yet rich phenomenology.
• 10 March 2009 - Olivier Groussin (LAM): "Chronology of the Solar System's Formation" The presentation is here.

• 17 March 2009 - TWO 'CAFE CLUBs': Akio Inoue (Kyoto University, Japan): "Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction or the Sources of re-ionisation" & Arman Khalatyan (LAM): "Galaxy Formation and Evolution in Gas-Dynamic Numerical Simulations" Abstract: I will present the recent status of the project "Local Group Formation" of the LCDM cosmology. This project is part of an international collaboration between different institutions around the world with the aim of generating the most accurate simulations of the formation of the Local Universe from cosmological initial conditions.

• 24 March 2009 - Céline Lelievre (Wolfram Research): "La Nouvelle Ere de la Technologie Mathematica", see also this link
• 31 March 2009 - Julien Zoubian (LAM): "Slitless Spectroscopy for Space Dark Energy Survey"
• 7 April 2009 - Alexie Leauthaud (LBL Berkeley): The Mass-Luminosity Calibration of Clusters and Groups of Galaxies
• 14 April 2009 - (Cafe Tech) - Jean-Luc Gach (LAM): "Sub electron readout noise and photon counting devices: state of the art and prospects" We will present recent advances on ultra low noise visible detectors at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, photon counting and EMCCD developments in collaboration with Observatoire de haute provence, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Grenoble and Laboratoire d'Astrophysique Experimentale (Montreal). After a review of the progress with third generation Image Photon Counting Systems (IPCS), we present the OCAM camera, based on the E2V CCD220 EMCCD, part of the Opticon JRA2 programme, and the CCCP controller, a new controller for the 3DNTT instrument that reduces the clock induced charge of an EMCCD by a factor 10, mak- ing it competitive with IPCS detectors for very faint fluxes. We will finally present the RAPID project and the concept of photon counting avalanche photodiode CMOS device (in collaboration with CEA-LETI) which is foreseen to be the ultimate detector for the visible-IR range providing no readout noise, high QE and extremely fast readout.
• 5 May 2009 (room Lavande) - Arthur Vigan (LAM): "Photometric characterization of exoplanets with the instrument VLT-SPHERE"
• 12 May 2009 (room Lavande) - Benjamin Clément (LAM): "Peering into the dark ages, narrow-band imaging and near IR spectroscopy of lensing-cluster critical-line mapping"
• 18 May 2009 (room TBD) - (MONDAY) - Gerard Williger (University of Louisville):"TBD"
• 26 May 2009 (room Mistral) - Elodie Giovannoli (LAM):"Spectral Energy Distribution Modeling of Infrared Luminous Galaxies, from UV to 70 µm"
• 2 June 2009 - Jean-Christophe Gazzano (LAM): "Large Sample Spectroscopy : tools, methods and issues"
• 4 June 2009 - Clément Surville (LAM): "Evolution of Vortices in Protoplanetary Disks"
• 9 June 2009 - Stephan Frank (LAM): "Summary of the Leiden Conference: The Chemical Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium"
• 16 June 2009 - Thomas Bourquin (LAM): ""
• 23 June 2009 - Samuel Boissier (LAM): "Frequencies of Supernovae Types (and the Role of Metallicity)"
• 6 July 2009 - Sebastian Linden (CPT): "Cosmological Parameter Extraction and Biases from Type Ia Supernova Magnitude Evolution"
• 1 September 2009 - Emeric Le Floc'h (Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii, USA): "A far-Infra Red dissection of the GRB980425 host galaxy: probing young star formation with Gamma Ray Bursts"
• 22 September 2009 - Shirley Ho (LBL, Berkeley, USA): "What can the Cosmic Mircrowave Background tell us as a backlight? The Missing Baryons and Quasars Missing in Action"
• 29 September 2009 - Olivier Groussin (LAM): "Water on the Moon!" See Science magazine article.
• 6 October 2009 - Fernando de Simoni (Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil): "Angular correlation function: from small scale with the CFHTLS to BAO scale as a standard ruler"
• 13 October 2009 - Anupreeta More (LAM), room Lavande: "Characterizing the SL2S arcs sample from the CFHT-Legacy Survey"
• 20 October 2009 - Niraj Welikala (LAM): "Star formation inferred from pixel colors: combining observations with Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics simulations"
• 10 November 2009 - Véronique Buat (LAM): (in the auditorium) "Visible and hidden star formation in the Universe from z=0 to z=1"
• 17 November 2009 - Olga Cucciati (LAM): "The evolution of the Luminosity Function in B- and FUV-band since z=4 in the VVDS DEEP and UDEEP Samples."
• 27 November 2009 - ** CHANGE OF DAY ** Morgan Gray (LAM): "The ensemble Kalman Filter, a solution for an optimal control law for adaptive optics on ELTs?"
• 1 December 2009 - Jacopo Antichi (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble): "3-D spectroscopy with the E-ELT: a promising technique for extrasolar planets imaging"
• 8 December 2009 - NO CAFE CLUB (PhD viva of Arthur Vigan)

• 16 December 2009 - Emiliano Sefusatti (CEA Saclay): "Cosmology and the Bispectrum: The role of higher order correlation functions in future galaxy survey, from inflation to galaxy formation" & Gary Bernstein (U Penn, USA): "Data compression for space-based imaging"

2008 (Event Organizer: Céline Péroux)

• 8 January 2008 - Adeline Buzzi (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille): "A Null Test of the Metric Nature of the Cosmic Acceleration"
• 15 January 2008 - Sylvain de la Torre (LAM): "Evolution in the Halo Occupation Distribution since z~1 using VVDS-Deep galaxy sample"
• 22 January 2008 - Abilio Mateus (LAM): "Nature and Nurture in Galaxy Evolution"

• 29 January 2008 - Paolo Cassata (LAM): "GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at 1.4 < z < 2"

• 5 February 2008 - Carlo Schimd (LAM): "Massive Neutrinos in CFHTLS Cosmic-Shear Survey?"
• 26 February 2008 - Stéphanie Jouvel (LAM): "Filter Studies for the SNAP Survey"
• 4 March 2008 - Benjamin Clément (LAM): "Surveys for Lyman-alpha Emitters beyond redshift 7"
• 18 March 2008 - Ummi Abbas (LAM): "The evolution of clustering of galaxies having different absolute luminosities and stellar masses in the VVDS"
• 25 March 2008 - Marceau Limousin (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse et Tarbes): "Mapping the dark matter distribution in galaxy clusters using gravitational lensing"
• 28 Mars 2008 - (FRIDAY) - Raphael Gavazzi (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris): "The Sloan Lens ACS Survey"
• 22 April 2008 - Sébastien Besse (LAM): "Columbus and Science with the ISS"
• 29 April 2008 - Christian Marinoni (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille): "Testing Gravity at z=1"
• 30 April 2008 - Aurélien Barrau (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble): "Quelques aspects de gravité étendue"
• 13 May 2008 - Bruce Gendre (LAM): "The Optical Afterglow in Gamma-Ray Bursts"
• 20 May 2008 - Loic de Ravel (LAM): "Evolution of the Galaxy Merger Rate in the VVDS up to z~1"

• 27 May 2008 - Marek Kowalski (Humboldt University, Berlin): "IceCube, GRBs and Neutrinos"

• 10 June 2008 - Pushpa Khare (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India): "Properties of Mg II absorbers in the SDSS data: intervening vs. associated systems"
• 17 June 2008 - Cécile Gry (LAM): "Supernova impact on a molecular cloud in the Local Bubble"

• 24 June 2008 - Virginia Corless (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge): "Lens and Image: triaxial galaxy clusters & DAZLE"

• 25 June 2008 - (WEDNESDAY at **2pm**) - Paco Garzon (IAC, Spain): "EMIR, the NIR MOS for the GTC: status and prospect"
• 30 June 2008 - (MONDAY) - Laurence Tresse (LAM): "Luminosity Fonction and Star Formation Rates in Deep Galaxy Surveys"
• 3 July 2008 - (THURSDAY) - Giovanni Covone (University of Naples, Italy): "The evolution of the galaxy Red Sequence in simulated clusters and groups"
• 8 July 2008 - Joss Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney, Australia): "Astrophotonics and the Impending Revolution in Astronomical Surveys"
• 26 Aug 2008 - Nicolas Bouché (Max-Planck institut fur Extraterrestrische physik, Germany): "What drives the Star Formation at High-Redshift?"
• 9 September 2008 - Luc Dessart (Steward Observatory, Tucson): "Shock breakout and Radiative Precursors in Core-Collapse Supernovae"

• 16 September 2008 - Guillaume Douarre (MathWorks): "MATLAB pour le traitement d'image et l'analyse de donnees"

• 24 September 2008 - (WEDNESDAY) - Stéphane Blondin (European Southern Observatory, Germany): "Circumstellar Material and Type Ia Supernova Progenitors"
• 1 October 2008 - (WEDNESDAY) - Jean-Michel Deharveng (LAM): "Cosmic Evolution of the Ly-alpha Luminosity Density"
• 7 October 2008 - Abilio Mateus (LAM): "Isolated galaxies from CFHTLS, SDSS and Millennium Simulation"
• 14 October 2008 - (Cafe Tech) - Emmanuel Hugot (LAM): "Active Optics techniques for exoplanet research: Toric Mirrors stress polishing for VLT-SPHERE"
• 21 October 2008 - Sébastien Besse (LAM): "Rosetta Mission : Asteroid Steins Fly by"
• 18 November 2008 - Bruce Gendre (LAM): "First GLAST results"
• 26 November 2008 - (WEDNESDAY) - Carlo Schimd (LAM): "Neutrinos from Weak Lensing with the CFHT-Legacy Survey"
• 2 December 2008 - Mathilde Jauzac (LAM): "The Cosmic Far-Infrared Background History since redshift 2"
• 9 December 2008 - Stephan Frank (LAM): "OVI Absorbers in SDSS Spectra"
• 16 December 2008 - Sébastien Heinis (Johns Hopkins University): "Spatial Clustering from GALEX-SDSS samples: Star Formation History and large-scale clustering"

2007 (Event Organizer: Céline Péroux)

• 18 December 2007 - Stéphane Blondin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics): "Time dilation in Type Ia Supernova Spectra at High Redshifts"
• 13 December 2007 (THURSDAY) - Chris Pritchet (University of Victoria): "SNLS and the nature of Type Ia Supernovae"

• 10 December 2007 - (MONDAY) - Christian Surace (LAM): "TOPCAT : un outils d'analyse OV indispensable au chercheur" Les outils d'utilisation de l'Observatoire Virtuel commencent a etre fiables et UTILES aux chercheurs, voici la demonstration d'un outil puissant facile d'acces et tres utile. Plus d'info disponibles http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/. Presentation de Christian.

• 4 December 2007 - TWO 'CAFE CLUBs': Nicolas Bouché (Max-Planck institut fur Extraterrestrische physik): "Galaxy kinematics at z=1 and z=2" Cécile Faure (Astronomishes-Rechen Institut, Heidelberg): "Strong lenses in the COSMOS field: correlation with high mass density environment"
• 29 November 2007 - SPECIAL 'CAFE CLUB' by 2006 Nobel laureate George F. Smoot (Berkeley): "Blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation"
• 27 November 2007 - Susan Kassin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris): "Probing Galaxy and Dark Halo Evolution to z~1 with Galaxy Kinematics"

• 20 November 2007 - Jean-Michel Deharveng (LAM): "Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxies at 0.2 < z < 0.35 from GALEX Spectroscopy"

• 13 November 2007 - Samuel Boissier (LAM): "Star Formation at Low Densities"
• 23 October 2007 - Juan Carlos Munoz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): "Multi-wavelength Analysis of Nearby Galaxy Disks"
• 16 October 2007 - Mel Ulmer (Northwestern University): "Origine et evolution du milieu intra-amas (ICM)"
• 9 October 2007 - 14h Seminaire de J.-P. Vialle (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules): "POLAR : un instrument spatial àgrande ouverture pour la mesure de la polarisation des rayons X issus de sursauts gamma"
• 2 October 2007 - Marcin Sawicki (Halifax): "The Long Faint Tail of the High-redshift Galaxy Evolution"
• 25 September 2007 - Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Anglo-Australian Observatory): "How Does Gas Get into Galaxies?"
• 4 September 2007 - Alexis Finoguenov (Max-Planck institut fur Extraterrestrische physik): "Past and Present Measurement of Galaxy Clusters Mass"
• Monday 9 July 2007: Jonas Debosher (Leuven): Automated Classification of Light Curves
• 3 July 2007: Andrew Fox (IAP): Highly Ionized Gas in High-Redshift Galactic Halos: O VI and C IV Absorption in Damped and Sub-Damped Lyman-alpha Systems
• 19 June 2007: John Storey: PILOT (Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope): PILOT is a proposed project to build a 2. 4 m wide-field optical/IR telescope for Dome C, Antarctica.
• 5 June 2007: Thomas Schucker (CPT): Constante Cosmologique = Force Repulsive a longue Portée.
• 22 May 2007: Andrea Cattaneo (AIP): Le role des trous noirs dans la formation et l'evolution des galaxies

• 22 May 2007: Stefan Noll : Galaxy Dust Properties at 1 < z < 2.5

• Wednesday, 16 May 2007: Mari Polletta (UCSD): Obscuration in extremely luminous quasars
• Wednesday, 2 May 2007: Mauro Barbieri (LAM) : Malmquist bias reloaded
• 17 April 2007: David Johnston (JPL): Cosmological Constraints from Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters
• 16 April 2007: Jonathan Braithwaite: Stability of magnetic field configurations in rotating stars
• 10 April 2007: Kevin Bundy (U. of Toronto): Do Spheroidal Galaxies Form Via Merging?
• 3 April 2007: Sébastien Foucaud (Nottingham) : UKIDSS
• 27 March 2007: Vivienne Wild (MPA, Munich) : Bursty stellar populations and obscured AGN in galaxy bulges
• Thursday 15 March 2007: Laurence Perotto (LAL): Sonder les grandes structures de l'Univers avec l'effet de lentille gravitationnelle sur le CMB
• 13 March 2007: Olivier Groussin (LAM) : Les missions spatiales cométaires à venir
• 20 February 2007: Carlo Schimd (CEA) : BAO in weak lensing in BAO
• 13 February 2007: Andrew Schurer (SISSA) : GRASIL

• 6 February 2007: Luc Dessart (Arizona) : Les étoiles massives et les SuperNovae

• 30 January 2007: Dan Coe (instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia) : LensPerfect: Massmap Solutions That Perfectly Reproduce All Gravitationally-Lensed Multiple Images

• WEDNESDAY 31 January 2007: Fabrice Lamareille (Bologne): L'évolution des galaxies vue depuis la relation masse-métallicité.
• 24 January 2007: Paolo Cassata (LAM): A large-scale stucture at z=0.73 in COSMOS and the relation of galaxy properties to local environment

• 9 January 2007: Pascale Hibon (LAM): Recherche de galaxies Lyman-alpha à z>7

2006 (Event Organizer: Céline Péroux)

• 19 December 2006: Stéphane Basa (LAM): SVOM et les GRBs
• 12 December 2006: Lidia Tasca (LAM): The Physical Nature of Rest-UV Galaxy Morphology During the Peak Epoch of Galaxy Formation [astro-ph/0610693: Law et al]
• 5 December 2006: Hong LI, (Pekin): Current Constraints on Equation of State of Dark Energy and Quintom Model
• 21 November 2006: Mauro Barbieri (LAM): Lessons on Galactic structure (Galactography)
• 14 November 2006: Stéphanie Jouvel (LAM): The Zurich Extragalactic Bayesian Redshift Analyzer (ZEBRA) and its first application: COSMOS [astro-ph/0609044: Feldmann et al]
• THURSDAY 9 November 2006: Ole Moller (MPA): Kinematics of gravitationally lensed arcs
• 7 November 2006: Johan Richard (Caltech): Cluster Lensing and Lensed Galaxies beyond z~7
• 31 October 2006 : seminar B. Rausher (Goddard, NASA)
• 24 Octobre 2006: Denis Burgarella (LAM): European SPICA Instrument (ESI): un instrument IR (30-210um) sur le satellite spatial SPICA
• 17 Octobre 2006: Pierre-Elie Crouzet (CPPM): Effet de perturbation gravitationnelles lineaires dans le cadre du test Alcock-Paczynski
• 10 October 2006: Thomas Fenouillet (LAM): WIKI: dévelopement collaboratif d'une resource d'information dans le réseau
• 19 September 2006 exceptionellement a 11h: Sebastien Bongard (LBNL): analyse spectrale des SNeIa et utilisation d'indicateurs spectro-photometriques en cosmologie
• 3 October 2006: Roi Alonso (LAM): Transiting exoplanets with the TrES network

• 5 September 2006: Sebastien Foucaud (Nottingham): UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey : properties of z>1 galaxies

• 25 July 2006: Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Oz): How far do the disks of galaxies extend?
• 11 July 2006: Jakob Walcher (OAMP): Pedagogical conference summary "Fine-tuning stellar population models"
• Wednesday 5 July 2006: Ummi Abbas (LAM): Mock and data results for clustering in different environments.
• 27 June 2006: Laurent Jorda (LAM): Deep Impact vu par ROSETTA
• WEDNESDAY 21 June 2006: Melanie Filiol (LAM): Latest News from SNLS
• Wednesday 14 June 2006: Delphine Marcillac (Tucson): portrait des LIRGs à z~1
• THURSDAY 8 June 2006: Marie-Hélène Aumenier (LAM): Le spectrographe IFU de SNAP
• 30 May 2006: Alexie Leauthaud (LAM): Weak lensing in COSMOS
• MONDAY 15 May 2006: Tsutomo Takeuchi (Tohoku University): Akari and its surveys
• 9 May 2006: Roger Malina+Claire Moutou (LAM): Recrutement CNRS en 2006
• WEDNESDAY 3 May 2006: Cedric Foellmi (ESO): History of the escaping Black-Hole GRO J1655-40
• 18 April 2006: Suvi Gezari (Caltech): A Search for Tidal Disruption Flares in the GALEX Deep Imaging Survey
• 11 April 2006: Zhu Zong Hong (Beiging): observational constraints on cosmology from modified Friedmann equation
• Christian Marinoni (LAM): Discusion on the new WMAP results
• MONDAY 27 March 2006: Julien Lavalle (CPPM): Distribution de matière noire dans la galaxie, grumeaux, et effets sur le spectre primaire des positrons cosmiques
• 21 March 2006: Denis Burgarella (LAM): When GALEX and SPITZER look at Lyman Break Galaxies at z ~ 1
• 7 March 2006: Giovanni Covone (Naples): VST surveys
• 7 February 2006: Samuel Boissier (LAM): Nearby galaxies seen by GALEX: Star formation and extinction in the local universe
• 31 January 2006: Sebastien Foucaud (Nottingham): The UDS of UKIDSS
• 24 January 2006: Giulia Statta (OMP): Nature of X-ray Flash (XRF): are they similar objects to long duration GRB?
• Monday 16 January 2006: LAM): Luminous Infrared Galaxies
• 10 January 2006: Antoine Llebaria (LAM): Photométrie UV sur les images GALEX à l'aide de priors issus des images optiques

• 3 January 2006: Johan Richard (Caltech): Searching lensed z>6 galaxies

2005 (Event Organizer: Céline Péroux)

• 13 December 2005: Kevin Bundy (Caltech) : The Mass-Dependent Evolution of Field Galaxies
• Monday 5 December 2005: Sun Lei (CPPM/LAM) : Latest cosmic shear results from CFHTLS (presentation and discussion of the papers: astro-ph/0511090 astro-ph/0511089)
• Monday 28 November 2005: John Carr (CPPM): ANTARES
• 8 November 2005: Eric Prieto (LAM): Multi-IFUs for Extremely Large Telescopes
• Monday 7 November 2005: Stephanie Courty (Islande): Numerical Cosmology
• Thursday 3 November 2005: Bruno Millard (LAM): The DUNE project
• 25 October 2005: Jakob Walcher (LAM): The nuclei of late-type spirals
• 18 October 2005: Frederic Henry-Couannier (CPPM): Le coté obscur de la gravité et la cosmologie
• 4 October 2005: Qin Bo (China): Observational Evidence for Extra Dimensions from Dark Matter
• MONDAY 26 September 2005: George Sonneborn (NASA/GFSC) : Latest News on JWST

• 20 September 2005: Francois Bonnarel & Bernd volmer (CDS): ALADIN and the Virtual Observatory

• Thursday 15 September 2005: Evan Scannapieco (UCSB): IGM and galaxy formation
• 13 September 2005: Yu-Qing (Tsinghua Univ., China) : Gravitational Collapses and Outflows
• 6 September 2005: Stéphane Basa (LAM): Summer SWIFT News on Gamma Ray Burst
• 14 June 2005: Sébastien Foucaud (Nottingham): Correlationof high redshift galaxies: measuring galaxy evolution
• 7 June 2005: Eric Jullo (LAM): VIMOS/IFU survey of lensing clusters

• 31 May 2005: Christian Surace (LAM): Virtual Observatory: What to expect, What kind of tools and scientific applications & Roger Malina (LAM): Comment se faire recruter au CNRS !

• 24 May 2005: Damien Leborgne (Univ. Toronto): Massive post-starburst galaxies at z~1 with the Gemini Deep Deep Survey
• 18 May 2005: Celine Peroux (ESO):the cosmological evolution of Omega_HI
• 10 May 2005: Stanley Kurtz (UNAM): Early stages of massive-star formation
• MONDAY! 2 May 2005: Cécile Faure (U.Catolica): Modelling the lens towards the double quasar CTQ414
• 26 April 2005: Maud Langlois (LAM): First multi-conjugate adaptive optics results
• 12 April 2005: Hector Bravo (LAM/Universidad de Guanajuato): What do HI-21cm and radio continuum observations tell us about galaxy evolution in different environments?
• 5 April 2005: Fabrice Martins (MPE): Latest News from the Galactic center: the population of massive stars
• 29 March 2005: Christophe Adami (LAM): Diffuse light in cluster of galaxies and inter-galactic stars
• 22 March 2005: Baptise Meneux (LAM): Clustering of galaxies in the VVDS
• 15 Mar 2005: Sebastien Heinis (LAM): The clustering of UV-selected galaxies with GALEX
• 8 Mar 2005: Luca Cortese (Milano/LAM): Halpha loops and trails in a starburst group falling into Abell 1367
• WENESDAY! 2 Mar 2005: Akio Inoue (LAM): Escape fraction of Lyman continuum from z~3 galaxies
• 22 Feb 2005: Hiroyuki Hirashita (Italy): Molecular hydrogen in damped Ly-alpha clouds (Theoretical modeling)
• 15 Feb 2005: Alexie Leauthaud (LAM): Galaxy Galaxy Lensing in SDSS (see also astro-ph/0501201)

• 8 Feb 2005: TsutomuTakeuchi (LAM): Dust emission from forming galaxies and its implication

• 1 Feb 2005: Giovanni Covone (LAM): VIMOS/IFU observation of Abell 2667
• 25 Jan 2005: Stephane Paltani (LAM): the hi-redshift tail of VVDS

• 18 Jan 2005: Jean-Paul Kneib (LAM): OWL Science Case for Multi Object observation of z>6 galaxies

• 14 Dec 2004: David Sand (Caltech): inner mass profile in clusters
• Thursday 9 Dec 2004: Lidia Tasca (MPA): Bulge-to-disk decomposition of large galaxies in the SDSS
• 30 Nov 2004: Genevieve Soucail (Toulouse): The CFHTLS Deep release