Organisation of scientific meetings

  • (OC) EAS S11 symposium on 'Stellar interactions: contact binary stars and common-envelope evolution' @ Krakow, Poland, 10-14 July 2023
  • (Co-organizer) The Renaissance of Stellar Black-Hole Detections in The Local Group @ Leiden, The Netherlands, 26-30 June 2023
  • (OC) Gravitational wave physics and astronomy workshop @ Melbourne, Australia, December 2022
  • (Co-organizer) White Dwarfs as Probes of the Evolution of Planets, Stars, the Milky Way and the Expanding Universe @ KITP workshop, Santa Barbara, Octobre-December 2022
  • (OC) EAS support session for early career astronomers @ Valencia, Spain, 2022
  • (OC) EAS S8 special session on 'Stars on the pathway to become gravitational-wave sources' @ online, 2021
  • (OC) EAS support session for early career astronomers @ online, 2021
  • (Co-organizer) KITP virtual mini workshop 'White dwarfs as probes' @ online, May 2021
  • (Co-organizer) White Dwarfs as Probes of the Evolution of Planets, Stars, the Milky Way and the Expanding Universe @ KITP workshop, Santa Barbara, March-May 2021 - postponed due to travel restrictions
  • (SOC) Triple evolution & dynamics III @ online, February 2021
  • (Co-organizer) Common-envelope systems: progenitors, mergers and survivors @two-day symposium, European Astronomical Society's Annual Meeting (formerly known as EWASS), Leiden, Jun-Jul 2020
  • (OC) Compact white dwarf binaries from SNIa to GW sources @ Yerevan, Armenia, September 2019
  • (OC) Stars on the run II @ Potsdam, August 2019
  • (Co-organizer) The Beginning and Ends of Double White Dwarfs @ Kopenhagen, July 2019
  • (OC) Stellar multiplicity in the Gaia era: where do we stand? @ EWASS special session, Lyon, June 2019
  • (Co-organizer) Electron-Capture-Initiated Stellar Collapse @ Lorentz Centre, Leiden, May 2019
  • (Main organizer) Triple evolution & dynamics II @ Lorentz Centre, Leiden, September 2018
  • (Co-organizer) Observational signatures of Type Ia supernovae Progenitors III @ Lorentz Centre, Leiden, February 2018
  • (OC) Stars on the run @ Bamberg, 2016

Talks

2021

  • @ Colloquium Universiteit van Groningen - postponed due to covid
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium Caltech - 10 February
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium Carnegie-Mellon / University of Pittsburgh - 8 February
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Seminar University of Exeter - 27 January

2020

  • Triple Talk at massive star meeting @ Katholieke Universiteit Leuven / University Bonn - 23 November
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium University of Geneva / Observatory of Sauverny (Geneva Observatory) - 17 November
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Seminar University of Warwick - 11 November
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium Carnegie Observatories - 13 October
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium NRC Herzberg - 15 September
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium JBCA / University of Manchester - 2 September
  • Lead Informal Discussion @ ESO - 15 July
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Seminar Royal Observatory of Edinburgh - 1 April
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium University of Oxford - 28 February

2019

  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Seminar University of Sheffield - 4 December | Postponed because of University strikes
  • The fault in our stars @ Talk at group star meeting, University of Cambridge - 4 November
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Seminar University of Cambridge - 4 November
  • Double black hole mergers from stellar triples - Invited @ Conference: Merging Visions: Exploring Compact - Object Binaries with Gravity and Light - KITP, Santa Barbara, June
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium University of Surrey - 16 May
  • Stellar interactions & transients @ Colloquium University College London - 13 May
  • Observational constraints on common-envelope evolution - Invited review @ Common-envelope workshop, Flatiron - May
  • Stellar interactions and transients @ ITC Colloquium CFA, Cambridge - 18 April

2018

  • Evolution & interaction in stellar binaries & triples - Invited review @ ESO Workshop: A revolution in stellar physics with Gaia and large surveys - Warsaw, September
  • The demographics of neutron star - white dwarf mergers - Invited @ Conference: 15th Marcel Grossmann Meeting - Rome, July
  • White dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood @ Conference: 21st European Workshop on White Dwarfs - Austin, July
  • The evolution of stellar triples @ Conference: MODEST-18: Dense stellar systems in the era of Gaia, LIGO & LISA - Santorini, June
  • The evolution of stellar triples @ Conference: Dutch Astronomers Conference - Groningen, May
  • Evolution & interaction in stellar binaries & triples - Invited review @ Conference: Stars, Planets and Galaxies - Berlin, April
  • The evolution of stellar triples @ Colloquium Radboud University - March 14th
  • The evolution of stellar triples @ Colloquium University of Southampton - February 22th
  • Space density estimates of single and double white dwarfs @ Workshop: Observational Signatures of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors III - Leiden, February

2017

  • The evolution of stellar triples @ Colloquium Institute of Astronomy Leuven - November 17th
  • The evolution of stellar triples @ Colloquium Lund Observatory - November 16th
  • The evolution of stellar triples @ TAC Colloquium, Berkeley - September 11th
  • Supernova Type Ia rates & double white dwarf space densities @ Explosive astro meeting - Berkeley, August 16th
  • Challenges in understanding the evolution of stellar binaries & triples - Invited review @ Workshop: Tessting stellar astrophysics - Birmingham, July
  • Stellar triples as gravitational wave sources @ Conference: The impact of binaries on stellar evolution - Garching, July
  • Double white dwarf populations @ Workshop: The physics of extreme gravity stars - Nordita, Stockholm, June
  • Double black hole mergers from stellar triples @ Workshop: The physics of extreme gravity stars - Nordita, Stockholm, June
  • White dwarf - neutron star mergers @ Workshop: The physics of extreme gravity stars - Nordita, Stockholm, June
  • Type Ia supernovae rates & population synthesis - Invited review @ Conference: The AGB-Supernovae Mass Transition - Rome, March
  • The evolution of stellar triples @ Conference: AAS 2017 - Texas, January

Contact details:

Email:
toonen [at] uva.nl

Address:
Silvia Toonen
Anton Pannekoek Institute
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904
1098 XH Amsterdam
The Netherlands