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:
- 15.03.2024: Talk for the "Belgian Lunch Ladies" in the Observatory of Versoix: "Het stof dat door ons zonnestelsel zweeft" (Veerle Sterken)
- 22.02.2024: Talk for the "Zürich Physikalische Gesellschaft", at ETH Zürich "Cosmic dust as messengers from outer space" (Veerle Sterken)
- 27.09.2023: Astronomische Vereinigung Aarau: Vortrag "Kosmischer Staub in unserem Hinterhof" (Veerle Sterken)
- 13.02.2023: Astronomische Gesellschaft Bern: external page Vortrag «Kosmischer Staub in unserem Hinterhof» (Dr. Veerle Sterken)
- 12.01.2023: external page NASA xD talk “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 page Vereniging Voor Natuurkunde in the "external page Sterrenwacht Armand Pien" be/) in Ghent (Belgium) about interstellar and interplanetary dust research.
- 23.02.2022: Veerle Sterken gave a public external page presentation (online) for the public observatory Beisbroek 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 page Fantasy Basel with a talk about Space Dust in the frame of the activities of external page NCCR PlanetS.
- 04.09.2021: Astrodust was present at the ETHZ outreach event external page Scientifica, in the frame of the activities of external page NCCR PlanetS
- 10.11.2020 Contribution to the “interstellar objects” external page Wikipedia page with text and graph based on our latest external page publication (The challenge of identifying interstellar meteoroids).
Outreach and Press articles:
- 20.06.2024
Interview NRC "De Voyager-sondes sturen 47 jaar na hun lancering nog altijd signalen naar de aarde"
"The Voyager probes are still sending signals to Earth 47 years after their launch"
- 23.04.2023: Interview for NZZ external page Article “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 page Orion articles about women in Astronomy
- 15.08.2022: “The mysteries of cosmic dust”: online external page article of NCCR PlanetS about our experiments to calibrate porous versus compact dust particles (external page article).
- 28.10.2021: external page Focus on Belgium reports on the external page Christophe Plantin prize 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 page Article on the Interstellar Probe, in German)
- 17.01.2020 - Volkskrant, the Netherlands: (external page Article on the Interstellar Probe)
- 03.09.2019 - ETH Zürich: ERC Starting Grants: new record for ETH (institutional release)