Activities


2012
Stars without borders: radial migration in spiral galaxies, Medana, Slovenia, 21-24 May

Disc Galaxy Formation in a cosmological context, Heidelberg, 14-18 May

Uxbridge College visit to MSSL, 19 March
Talk: Galactic Astrophysics at MSSL

Co-Organiser: Galaxy Modelling with a Gaia mock catalogue, Barcelona, 29 February-2 March

PFS collaboration meeting, Tokyo 8-12 January
Talk: Gaia and disk studies


2011
Structure of the Universe, Meudon, 29 November
Talk: Chemodynamical Modelling of the Milky Way disk

Local Astronomical Societies visit to MSSL, 5 October
Talk: Introduction to Galactic Astronomy

Dark Matter in clusters, groups and galaxies, 13th Nottingham-Birmingham Extragalactic Workshop, Nottingham, 14, 15 September

External visit: Universite Laval, 23-26 August
Talk: Transient, Co-rotating Spiral Arms and Chemo-Dynamics of the Galactic Disk

London International Youth Science Forum visit to MSSL, 2 August
Talk: Galactic Astronomy at MSSL

The ISM in 3D, Leiden, 11-14 July
Talk: Dynamical Modelling of Gas and Stars in Barred Spiral Galaxies

GREAT Plenary Meeting: PM4, Brussels, 21,23 June
Talk: GREAT: Working Group reports: WGA1 (Modelling)

Assembling the puzzle of the Milky Way, Le Grand-Bornand, 18-22 April
Poster: Spiral Arms and Chemodynamics of the Galactic Disk

External visit: Carnegie Observatories, 23-25 September
Talk: Chemodynamical studies of the Milky Way disk at the Gaia era


2010
GCDS survey Science, Nice, 2-4 November
Talk: Transient spiral arms and chemo-dynamics of the Galactic disk

External visit: Ibaraki University, 22 September
Talk: Galactic Arcaeology at the Gaia era

External visit: Tsukuba University, 15 September
Talk: Galactic Arcaeology at the Gaia era

External visit: Tohoku University, 14 September

Subaru future instrumentation workshop, IPMU, 9-10 September
Talk: Galactic Arcaeology at the Gaia era and follow-up survey

External visit: Hokkaido University, 2-3 September
Talk: Galactic Arcaeology at the Gaia era

Galactic Archaeology, NAOJ, 20 August
Talk: Galactic Arcaeology at the Gaia era

Cataclysmic evolution of galaxies, NAOJ, 6 August

Visiting researcher: Theory Devision, NAOJ, 26 July-24 September

Chemistry, dynamics and structure of the Milky Way, 19-23 July
Talk: Metal mixing of disk gas and stars

GREAT Plenary Meeting: PM3, ESTEC/ESA, 29,30 June 2010
Talk: GREAT: Working Group reports: WGA1 (Modelling)

UK SPH users forum, Manchester, 21 June
Talk: GCD~ simulation of the Milky Way disk

GCDS Planning meeting, ESTEC/ESA, 28 June 2010

GREAT CDS: Initial Meeting, Obs de Paris, 27 April

Gaia model for Gaia/GREAT Chemo-Dynamics Survey Programme (GCDS) MSSL, 29-30 March

GREAT Galactic Astronomy, Gaia + High resolution spectroscopy meeting, Lund, 10-11 February


2009
GREAT Plenary Meeting, Nice France, 19-20 November

Lecture: UCL PHAS1102 "Physics of the Universe: Stellar Astrophysics" 5 Octover-4 November

External visit: Theory Devision, NAOJ, 2 August

External visit: IPMU, U. Tokyo, 25 August
Talk: Chemodynamical Modelling of Disc Galaxies

UK SPH users forum, Nottingham, 19-20 Augast

Distribution of Mass in the Milky Way Galaxy, Lorentz Center, Leiden, 13-17 July
Talk: Chemodynamical Modeling of Disk Galaxies

GREAT Galactic Astronomy, Gaia + High resolution spectroscopy meeting, Cambridge, 8-9 July

Talk: IoA Stellar Pops, Cambridge, 29 June
Simulated Galactic Halo

Euclid-UK workshop, UCL, 14 May

Legion launch event, UCL, 11 May
Poster: Chemo-dynamical Simulations of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Talk: Cambridge, 30 April
Galactic Archeology with GCD+

GREAT meeting, Cambridge, 26-27 April
Talk: MSSL institute interests: chemodynamics in the Milky Way

Talk: Leicester, 25 March
Galactic Archeology with GCD+

Talk: UCL P&A, 23 March
Galactic Archeology with GCD+

External visit: Carnegie Observatories, 20-27 January

Observing: Las Campanas Observatories, 14-18 January


2008
External visit: Carnegie Observatories, 2 December

Research Program: Building the Milky Way
KITP, UCSB, 27 October- 7 November, 3-5 December

Observing: Las Campanas Observatories, 16-21 November

Conference: The Third East-Asia Numerical Astrophysical Meeting, Nanjing, China, 10-13 November
Talk: GCD+ MkII: improving N-body/SPH code

Move to MSSL, UCL, 5 October

Conference: Back to Galaxy II, KITP, UCSB, 29 September-3 October

External visit: UCLan, 22 April -3 May

Workshop: Galaxy Formation and Evolution as Revealed by Cosmic Gas, UC Irvine, 17-19 April

Meeting: Carnegie-Caltech Postdoc Workshop, Lake Arrowhead, 15-16 April
Talk: Studies of the Intra-Group Medium with the Virtual Group Catalog

Workshop: 天の川創成プロジェクト, Ishigaki, 12-14 March
Talk: Galactic Archeology with GCD+

Meeting: 銀河形成研究の最前線, NAOJ, 13-15 February
Talk: 数値シミュレーションで繋ぐ中高赤方偏移銀河と近傍銀河の関係 (14 February)

External visit: Theory Devision, NAOJ, 11-16 February
Talk: Galactic Wind Signatures around High Redshift Galaxies (12 February)

External visit: Tohoku University, 14-17 January
Talk: Virtual Group Catalog (16 January)

External visit: NAOJ, 11 January

External visit: Yonsei University, 8-11 January
Talk: Virtual Group Catalog (9 January)


2007
Observing: Las Campanas Observatories, 17-20 December

Meeting: NAOJ/CfCA User's Meeting,
NAOJ (telecon), 29-30 November
Talk: Strangulation in Galaxy Groups (30 November)

Research Program: Star Formation through Cosmic Time,
University of California Santa Barbara, 29 October-7 December
Talk: Strangulation in Galaxy Groups (19 November)

Observing: Las Campanas Observatory, 27-30 July

Talk: Astrophysics Seminar, UC Santa Barbara, 2 May
Galactic Wind Signatures around High Redshift Galaxies
D. Kawata

Meeting: Carnegie-Caltech Postdoc Workshop, Lake Arrowhead, 9-11 April
Talk: Local Group Catalog (9 April)

External visit: MSSL, UCL, 27-29 March
Talk: Virtual Local Group Catalog: ready for GAIA (28 March)

External visit: ASIAA, 18-21 March
Talk: Virtual Group Catalog Project (20 March)

Meeting: AAS 209th Meeting, Seattle, 7-10 January
Poster: Galactic Wind Signatures in the Intergalactic Medium (10 January)
D. Kawata & M. Rauch


2006
External visit: U. Central Lancashire, 21-25 October
Talk: Centre for Astrophysics, October
Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Galaxy Formation with GCD+
D. Kawata

Conference: From Stars to Galaxies: Building the pieces to build up the Universe
Venice, 16-20 October

Observing Assistant: Las Campanas Observatory, 28 September-2 October

Meeting: RENCONTRE DU CENTRE OMM 2006
Quebec, 15-17 March

External visit: Subaru Telescope, 17-22 February
Talk: Subaru Seminar, 21 February
Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Galaxy Formation with GCD+
D. Kawata

Meeting: NAOJ/ADAC User's Meeting
NAOJ (telecon), 11-13 January

Talk: CASS Journal Club, UC San Diego, 11 January
Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Galaxy Formation with GCD+
D. Kawata


2005
External visit: University of Texas, 15-16 December
Talk: University of Texas, Austin, 15 December
Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Galaxy Formation with GCD+
D. Kawata

Talk: UC Irvine, 8 November
Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Galaxy Formation with GCD+
D. Kawata

Talk: UCLA, 2 November
Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Galaxy Formation with GCD+
D. Kawata

Meeting: 5th Annual Theoretical Astrophysics in Southern California (TASC) Meeting (2005)
Caltech, 28 October

Observing Assistant: Las Campanas Observatory, 28 September-8 October

External visit: Swinburne, 13 August-2 September

Conference: Nearly Normal Galaxies in a LambdaCDM Universe
UC Santa Cruz, 8-12 August

Talk: Tapir, Caltech, 13 May
Galactic Archaeology with GCD+
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, A. Renda, Jeremy Balin & B.K. Gibson

Talk: Carnegie Observatories, 10 May
GCD+: Galactic Chemodynamics Code
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, A. Renda & B.K. Gibson

March 30:
move to the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Talk: Swinburne University, 18 March
GCD+: Galactic Chemodynamics Code
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, A. Renda & B.K. Gibson


2004
Conference: 理論懇シンポジウム, 次世代天文学 -- 大型観測装置とサイエンス --
University of Tokyo, 25-27 December

External visit: NAOJ, 23-28 December

Talk: Tohoku University, 20 December
GCD+: A New Code for Galactic Chemodynamics
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, & B.K. Gibson

External visit: Tohoku University, 20-22 December

Research Program: Galaxy-Intergalactic Medium Interaction,
University of California Santa Barbara, 15 November-17 December

Talk: Galshop Subaru, NAOJ, 28 September
GCD+: A New Code for Galactic Chemodynamics
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, & B.K. Gibson

External visit: NAOJ, 27 September-1 October

Talk: Astrolunch, University of New South Wales, 9 June
GCD+: A New Code for Galactic Chemodynamics
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, & B.K. Gibson

Workshop: Extragalactic science with IRQUA,
Mount Stromlo Observatory, 11 March


2003
Meeting: LOFAR meeting,
University of Melbourne, 18 December

Talk: Physics Dept., Princeton University, 24 October
GCD+: A New Code for Galactic Chemodynamics
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, & B.K. Gibson

Talk: Instituto Superior Te'cnico, 14 October
GCD+: A New Code for Galactic Chemodynamics
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, & B.K. Gibson

Talk: University of Durham, 9 October
GCD+: A New Code for Galactic Chemodynamics
D. Kawata, C.B. Brook, T.W. Connors, & B.K. Gibson

Conference: Modeling the Intergalactic and Intracluster Media,
Vulcano, 1-4 October

Conference (SOC): Galactic Chemodynamics V,
Swinburne University, 9-11 July

Meeting: SKA simulations meeting ,
Swinburne University, 23 May

Conference: ASJ General Assembly (Spring)
Tohoku University, 25 March

Talk: Tohoku University, 20 March
An X-ray/Optical Study of Elliptical Galaxy Formation in LCDM Cosmological Simulation

Conference: The International Symposium on New Trends of Physics: Part2
Hokkaido University, 18 March

Talk: Hokkaido University, 17 March
An X-ray/Optical Study of Elliptical Galaxy Formation in LCDM Cosmological Simulation

Talk: Ginga-Zemi, NAOJ, 14 March
An X-ray/Optical Study of Elliptical Galaxy Formation in LCDM Cosmological Simulation

Meeting: Gemini Pre-Aspen Meeting,
University of Melbourne, 24 February

Conference: THE LOW FREQUENCY UNIVERSE,
University of Sydney, 30-31 January

Conference: ANITA Workshop: Observing the Synthetic Universe: Theoretical Astrophysics and The Virtual Observatory,
University of Sydney, 28-29 January


2002
Talk: American Museum of Natural History, 20 August
An X-ray/Optical Study of Elliptical Galaxy Formation in LCDM Cosmological Simulation

Talk: Columbia University, 19 August
An X-ray/Optical Study of Elliptical Galaxy Formation in LCDM Cosmological Simulation

Talk: Pennsylvania University, 13 August
An X-ray/Optical Study of Elliptical Galaxy Formation in LCDM Cosmological Simulation

Conference: THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM/GALAXY CONNECTION: The Distribution of Baryons at z=0,
University of Colorado, 8-10 August

Conference: ASA 2002 Annual Scientific Meeting,
Mollymook, 30 June - 4 July

2001
Talk: Kyoto University, July, 2001

Conference: IAU symp. 208, Astrophysical Supercomputing Using Particles,
Tokyo, July, 2001

Conference: ASA 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting,
Mollymook, 1-4 July

Conference: ATNF Australian Workshop on Clusters of Galaxies,
Sydney, February


2000
Talk: Arimoto-ken, University of Tokyo, 6 November

Talk: Ibaraki University, 27 October

Dsc thesis Talk: Tohoku University, September
A Numerical Study of the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies

Conference: Tsukuba International Workshop on THE PHYSICS OF GALAXY FORMATION,
Tsukuba, July

Conference: ASJ General Assembly (Spring)
University of Tokyo, April

Talk: Tohoku University, 17 January
Bright Elliptical Galaxy Formation: Hierarchical Clustering vs. Monolithic Collapse


1999
Conference: ASJ General Assembly (Autumn)
Kyushu University, October

Conference: XVth IAP MEETING DYNAMICS OF GALAXIES: From the Early Universe to the Present,
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, July

Talk: Arimoto-ken, University of Tokyo, 6 May

Talk: Tohoku University, 18 January
楕円銀河形成数値シミュレーション - 色-等級関係への挑戦 -


1998
Msc thesis Talk: Ibaraki University, March
外部ポテンシャル中のガス円盤の自己重力不安定性

Talk: Tohoku University, 16 February
外部ポテンシャル中のガス円盤の自己重力不安定性


1997
Conference: ASJ General Assembly (Autumn)
Utsunomiya University, September
Conference: XXIIIrd IAU General Assembly,
Kyoto, August
Conference: ASJ General Assembly (Spring)
University of Tokyo, March

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