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Below follows a list of my presentations from 2002 onwards.
Presentations are created using the
PROSPER class-file for LaTex.
The Herschel MESS program on Evolved Stars
- The First NCAC Symposium on
"Physical and chemical aspects of late stages of stellar evolution" in Warsaw, Poland, 29-08-2011
MESS - Mass loss of Evolved StarS, an overview
- Colloquium at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Leeds in Leeds, England, 13-05-2011
MESS - Mass loss of Evolved StarS, an overview
- Invited review at the conference ``Why Galaxies care about AGB stars II'' in Vienna, Austria, 20-08-2010
MESS - Mass loss of evolved stars, First Results
- COSPAR 2010, Bremen, Germany, 21-07-2010
MESS - Mass loss of evolved stars, initial results
- ESLAB2010 - Herschel First Results Symposium, ESTEC, The Netherlands, 05-05-2010
MESS - Mass loss of evolved stars, initial results
- Herschel SDP Initial Results Workshop, Facultad de Informatica,
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Campus Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain, 18-12-2009
Long Period Variables as tracers of Galactic Structure
- Invited talk at: The Galactic Plane, in depth and across the spectrum,
SpS8 at IAU XXVII, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 14-08-2009
The predicted spectral properties of AGB stars
- Invited review at: The Giant Branches, The Lorentz center, Leiden, The Netherlands, 14-05-2009
Mass loss of AGB stars and RSGs in the Magellanic Clouds
- -Invited talk at: Intermediate Mass Stars to Massive Stars: a workshop around
causes and consequences of differing evolutionary paths, Strasbourg, France, 11-02-2009
- -Colloquium at the Department of Physics & Astronomy of Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 30-04-2009
From AGB stars to Cepheids: some projects I am involved in
- Colloquium at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, 06-05-2008
The distance to the Pleiades
- -Colloquium at the Instituut voor Sterrenkunde in Leuven, Belgium, 05-01-2007
- -Colloquium at the Institut für Astronomie der Universität Wien, Austria, 12-03-2007
- -Colloquium at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy, 07-06-2007
- -Colloquium at the Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany, 10-10-2007
De Baade-Wesselink methode: vroeger en nu (in Dutch)
- Voordracht t.g.v. de inhuizing van de Afdeling Sterrenkunde in Gebouw 200D, en de viering van het
100ste geboortejaar van Prof. Armand van Hoof, de grondlegger van het huidige instituut. Leuven, 24-11-2006
AGB stars in extragalactic systems
- Invited review at the conference ``Why Galaxies care about AGB stars'' in Vienna, Austria, 11-08-2006
Mira variables in the Galactic Bulge
- Contributed talk at the conference ``Stellar Pulsation and Evolution''
in Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy, 19-06-2005
Populations of AGB stars and LPVs in the Galaxy and Local Group
- Invited review at the conference ``Resolved Stellar Populations'' in Cancun, Mexico, 18-04-2005
The impact of micro-lensing surveys on variable star research
- -Colloquium at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Leeds in Leeds, England, 01-04-2005
- -Colloquium at the Institute of Astronomy in Leuven, Belgium, 06-05-2005
- -Colloquium at the Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France, 10-06-2005
AGB stars in the Local Group, and beyond
- Invited review at ESO Workshop ``Planetary Nebulae beyond the Milky Way'' in Garching, Germany, 20-05-2004
Long Period Variables in the Magellanic Clouds: The OGLE/MACHO/2MASS/DENIS view
- Contributed talk at IAU Colloquium 193 ``Variable stars in the Local Group'' in Christchucrch, New-Zealand, 07-07-2003
Synthetic AGB evolution
- Invited review (co-authored with Paola Marigo from Padua Observatory)
at the workshop ``Future directions in AGB research, on the occasion of the
retirement of Harm Habing'' in Leiden, The Netherlands, 11-04-2003
An empirical method to estimate distances using B-stars in eclipsing binary systems
- Contributed talk at the workshop ``Stellar Candles for the Extragalactic Distance Scale''
in Concepcion, Chile, 11-12-2002
Carbon stars in the Local Group
- Colloquium at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Torun, Poland, 24-10-2002
Carbon stars in the Local Group
- Invited review at the workshop ``Chemical evolution of dwarf galaxies'' at Ringberg Castle, Germany, 28-07-2002
Mass-losing and pulsating stars in the Magallanic Clouds
- Invited review at the workshop ``Mass-losing Pulsating Stars and their Circumstellar Matter''
in Sendai, Japan, 13-05-2002
EIS. The ESO Imaging Survey: An overview and some results
- Colloquium at the Institute of Astronomy in Leuven, 18-01-2002
Last updated 5 September 2011