• Public talk on top of the Oude Kerk! (Postponed!)

    NEW:  Due to rain we are postponing this event until next week, probably Thursday or Friday 20 or 21 August.   Stay tuned by checking the website if you were interested.  I heard it sold out so I’m pretty excited to have a good crowd, but maybe with the date change there will be some cancellations… Thanks to the folk at Non-Fiction, who organise many cultural events around Amsterdam, I will be participating in an exciting late night talk on top of the Oude Kerk (the Old Church), one of the oldest structures in the heart of Amsterdam! Non-Fiction are curating a series of cultural events in August and September…

    Read More >>
  • New role within the International Astronomical Union

    I just found out that I have been elected to serve as one of the members of the steering committee for “Commission X1: Supermassive Black Holes, Feedback and Galaxy Evolution” within the International Astronomical Union (IAU): http://www.iau.org/news/announcements/detail/ann15024/#x1. Commission X1 is tasked with organising official IAU activities around this interdisciplinary topic, falling under two larger IAU science categories called “Divisions” (if it sounds Kafka-esque it is because it is…): “High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics” and “Galaxies and Cosmology”. Our main task is to build international community awareness and scientific exchange around this theme, including the organisation of major international conferences. I guess I will find out more soon, it doesn’t…

    Read More >>