Outreach activities
Members of the Astrodust group regulary participate in outreach activities (talks, lectures, support for outreach events, etc.). Please contact us in case of interest. Previous activities are listed below.
Talks and outreach activities:
- 13.02.2023: Astronomische Gesellschaft Bern: external pageVortragcall_made «Kosmischer Staub in unserem Hinterhof» (Dr. Veerle Sterken)
- 12.01.2023: external pageNASA xD talkcall_made “Our dusty universe” (Dr. Veerle Sterken)
- 03.11.2022: EPSC goes live for school (Dr. Lennart Baalmann)
- 21.09.2022: EPSC Outreach event (Dr. Lennart Baalmann)
- 10.09.2022: Support at the Night of Science University of Bern (Dr. Veerle Sterken)
- 17.06.2022: Support at the Night of Physics at the ETHZ (Astrodust)
- 16.03.2022: Veerle Sterken gave a public presentation for the external pageVereniging Voor Natuurkundecall_made in the "external pageSterrenwacht Armand Piencall_made" be/) in Ghent (Belgium) about interstellar and interplanetary dust research.
- 23.02.2022: Veerle Sterken gave a public external pagepresentation (online) for the public observatory Beisbroekcall_made in Bruges (Belgium), in the lecture series of "Topical themes in astronomy”, about interstellar and interplanetary dust.
- 10.10.2021: Astrodust was present at external pageFantasy Baselcall_made with a talk about Space Dust in the frame of the activities of external pageNCCR PlanetScall_made.
- 04.09.2021: Astrodust was present at the ETHZ outreach event external pageScientificacall_made, in the frame of the activities of external pageNCCR PlanetScall_made
- 10.11.2020 Contribution to the “interstellar objects” external pageWikipediacall_made page with text and graph based on our latest external pagepublicationcall_made (The challenge of identifying interstellar meteoroids).
Outreach and Press articles:
- 23.04.2023: Interview for NZZ external pageArticlecall_made “Der Astrophysiker Avi Loeb will auf dem Meeresgrund nach Meteoritenfragmenten fischen. Was er zu finden hofft, kann er in keiner Fachzeitschrift schreiben.
- 01.2022: external pageOrion articlescall_made about women in Astronomy
- 15.08.2022: “The mysteries of cosmic dust”: online external pagearticlecall_made of NCCR PlanetS about our experiments to calibrate porous versus compact dust particles (external pagearticlecall_made).
- 28.10.2021: external pageFocuscall_made on Belgium reports on the external pageChristophe Plantin prizecall_made 2021, with which Dr. Veerle Sterken was honoured this year.
- 14.09.2021: German online media describing the Interstellar Probe mission, a.o. based on the dust predictions talk of Dr. Silvan Hunziker at the (online) European Planetary Science Conference 2021 (external pageArticlecall_made on the Interstellar Probe, in German)
- 17.01.2020 - Volkskrant, the Netherlands: (external pageArticle on the Interstellar Probecall_made)
- 03.09.2019 - ETH Zürich: ERC Starting Grants: new record for ETH (institutional release)