AG News
Astrophysical Software Award 2020
Til Birnstiel received the 2020 Astrophysical Software Award for the software he developed for modelling the temporal and spatial evolution of dust in protoplanetary disks.
Awards 2020
The award winners 2020 will be presented at the virtual conference of the AG in September.
Reimar Lüst (1923 - 2020)
The German Astronomical Society mourns the loss of its honorary member Reimar Lüst.
AG 2020 - virtual
Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2020 from September 21 to 25, 2020
Bruno H. Bürgel Award 2019
The 2019 Bruno H. Bürgel prize for excellent popular representations in the media honors J.V.Feitzinger and D.B.Herrmann.
Doctoral Thesis Award 2019
Tim Lichtenberg receives the award for his work on Planet formation and Oliver Friedrich for his studies using the gravitational lensing effect.
Instrument Development Award 2019
For the instrumentation of the Gaia mission the German Astronomical Society awards the prize to Lennart Lindegren, Erik Høg, and Michael Perryman.
Ludwig Biermann Award 2019
For his work in the fast-growing field of the search for the earliest and most distant quasars in the universe, the German Astronomical Society honours Eduardo Bañados with the Ludwig Biermann Award.
Ewine van Dishoeck receives Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2019
The award recognizes her outstanding scientific contributions on the boundary of astronomy, molecular physics and chemistry.
Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society from 16 to 20 September 2019 in Stuttgart
Mission to the Universe: From Earth to Planets, Stars & Galaxies Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society