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Seminars of the Astronomical Institute of Charles University

Our seminars are held regularly on Wednesdays from 11:00 AM in lecture room T1 (V Holesovickach 2, 18000 Prague).

Inquiries: Jaroslav Haas ("haas", server "sirrah.troja.mff.cuni.cz")

Current programme in the PDF format

Apr 16, 2025  
Martin Odehnal (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
The impacts that send meteoroids to Earth
Tomas Moravcik (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov; Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
Analysis of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, the tool to determine the dynamics of exoplanetary systems
Apr 9, 2025  
Josef Hanus (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
Shadows and spins: probing asteroids through citizen science. Lightcurves, occultations, and the power of the Unistellar Network
Apr 2, 2025  
Jakub Smorada (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
Gravitational slingshot in newtonian and post-newtonian approximation
David Komanek (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
Re-accretion of wind and supernova matter onto a central black hole
Mar 26, 2025  
Zuzana Balkoova (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov; Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
Doppler shadows: tracing exoplanetary orbits in stellar spectra
Mar 19, 2025  
Jiri Zak (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov)
Stellar obliquity of gas giant planets
Mar 12, 2025  
David Heyrovsky (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague)
Strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters
Mar 5, 2025  
Jakub Ripa (Masaryk University, Brno)
GRB-detecting nanosatellites GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2
Feb 26, 2025  
Elena Asencio (University of Bonn, Germany)
Investigating the origin of the stellar streams based on their orbital pole distribution
Feb 19, 2025  
Dhanraj Risbud (University of Bonn, Germany)
Tracing the tidal tails of nearby open clusters with Gaia Data Release 3
Jan 8, 2025  
Raul Ortega Chametla (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
Dust-void evolution can induce runaway migration of Earth-mass planets
Dec 18, 2024  
Daniel Jadlovsky (European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany; Masaryk University, Brno)
Unveiling the mass-loss process of evolved stars using ALMA and VLTI
Dec 11, 2024  
Ondrej Kopacek (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Technical University of Liberec)
Electromagnetic fields and acceleration of electrically charged particles near compact objects
Dec 4, 2024  
Miroslav Broz (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
On the origin of meteorites. Why Nature* tricked us for so long?  *not the journal
Nov 27, 2024  
Ippocratis Saltas (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Probing fundamental physics with stars
Nov 20, 2024  
Jaroslav Pokorny*, Petra Hyklova** *** (* Fyziologicky ustav 1. lekarske fakulty, Univerzita Karlova, Praha; ** Filosoficky ustav Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Praha; *** Astronomicky ustav UK, Praha)
Vzpominka na astronoma Vladimira Heinricha
Nov 13, 2024  
Zdenek Mikulasek (Masaryk University, Brno)
Probing the magnetospheres of chemically peculiar stars through the dips in their light curves
Nov 6, 2024  
Nikolaos Samaras (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague)
Towards a MONDian cosmology
Oct 30, 2024  
Maitrayee Gupta (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Radio-loud and radio-quiet active galactic nuclei
Oct 23, 2024  
Alexey Bobrick (Technion, Haifa, Israel; Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
Stars interacting with gas
Oct 16, 2024  
Abhijeet Borkar (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Galactic Gastronomy: Blueberries and Green Peas as local analogues of early galaxies
Oct 9, 2024  
Norbert Werner (Masaryk University, Brno)
QUVIK: Quick Ultra VIolet Kilonova surveyor
Oct 2, 2024  
Daniela Ernestova (Astronomical Institute of Charles University, Prague; University of Leeds, UK)
Understanding how rotation rate influences the weather of hot Jupiters
Webmaster: Jaroslav Haas, "haas", server "sirrah.troja.mff.cuni.cz"