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Center for Interstellar Catalysis

InterCat

The Center for Interstellar Catalysis is funded by The Danish National Research Foundation and is hosted by Aarhus University.

The goal of InterCat is to determine whether the molecular building blocks of life can form in interstellar space. We will uncover the degree of chemical complexity attainable via low temperature catalytic reactions on nanoscale interstellar dust grains, thus determining the molecular starting conditions for the origin of life across the universe.

News

Workshop - Astrochemistry meets Surface Science: Theoretical Frontiers

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Registration and abstract submission is now open for the

Astrochemistry meets Surface Science: Theoretical Frontiers

5th April – 8th April 2022, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University, DK.

Winter school- Laboratory Astrophysics : tracking the evolution of cosmic matter towards molecular complexity

Winter school

 

Laboratory Astrophysics : tracking the evolution of cosmic matter

towards molecular complexity| Les Houches, France | 13-18 March 2022

 

InterCat retreat

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15-17 September 2021

Workshop on Interstellar Matter

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Workshop on Interstellar Matter 2021: registration opened

ACS - Astrocheminars

- Medarbejdere

The fall series of AstroCheminars will begin next week on September 8 at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT with talks by Prof. Cristina Puzzarini entitled "Theory and experiment for elucidating chemical evolution in space" and by Olivia Harper Wilkins entitled "Using molecules to map physical parameters in Orion…

Mie Andersen has been employed as associate professor

- Institut for Fysik og Astronomi

From 1st September Mie Andersen will be employed as associate professor in theoretical materials physics

Conference Announcement: Astrochemical Frontiers 2021 - Quarantine Edition 2

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2 July 5 - 9, 2021 - online - 12:30 - 16:00 CET

Ewine van Dishoeck receives a 2.3 million euro ERC Advanced Grant

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Leiden Professor of Molecular astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC)

Leiden InterCat team successful with JWST proposals

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The Leiden team consisting of Ewine van Dishoeck, Melissa McClure and Harold Linnartz have been very successful in securing more than 100 hours of observing time to observe ice and dust in star-forming clouds at the the James Webb Space Telescope.

Long-awaited review reveals journey of water from interstellar clouds to habitable worlds

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Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory.

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Upcoming events

InterCat seminar

7 dec
1 dag, tirsdag 7 . december 2021, kl. 11:00

Speaker: Jeppe Vang Lauritsen, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Denmark

Title: "Nanoclusters and single-atom dopants on surfaces – from atomic structure to catalysis"

InterCat north group meeting

14 dec
1 dag, tirsdag 14 . december 2021, kl. 11:00

Research update by: Mikkel Pedersen, Zeyuan Tang, Frederik Doktor Simonsen, Alfie Hopkinson, Rijutha Jaganathan and Steffen Holleufer

InterCat seminar

1 feb
1 dag, tirsdag 1 . februar 2022, kl. 11:00 1525-626 and Zoom

Speaker: Thanja Lamberts, Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Leiden Observatory, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Tentative title: "Carbon atom addition reactions leading to complexity in interstellar ices"

InterCat Seminars

Learn more about the InterCat seminar series and see recordings of past seminars

InterCat seminar

7 dec
1 dag, tirsdag 7 . december 2021, kl. 11:00

Speaker: Jeppe Vang Lauritsen, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, Denmark

Title: "Nanoclusters and single-atom dopants on surfaces – from atomic structure to catalysis"

InterCat seminar

1 feb
1 dag, tirsdag 1 . februar 2022, kl. 11:00 1525-626 and Zoom

Speaker: Thanja Lamberts, Leiden Institute of Chemistry and Leiden Observatory, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands

Tentative title: "Carbon atom addition reactions leading to complexity in interstellar ices"

Recent Seminars

Revideret 18.11.2021 -
Karin Vittrup