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Podcaster:  Hens Zimmerman

HZTitle: An Interview with Joeri van Leeuwen

Organization: Adventures in astronomy blog

Linkhttp://astroadventures.wordpress.com/

Joeri van Leeuwen:
https://www.astron.nl/astronomy­group/people/joeri­van­leeuwen/joeri­van­leeuwen

Astron:
https://www.astron.nl/

Pulsars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar

LOFAR:
http://www.lofar.org/

General relativity:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity

Fast radio bursts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_radio_burst

Arecibo radio telescope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory

Parkes radio telescope:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkes_Observatory

Soft gamma repeater:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_gamma_repeater

Supercomputers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer

Blue gene super computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Gene

Astronomy at the University of Groningen (RuG):
http://www.rug.nl/research/kapteyn/?lang=en

FPGA’s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field­programmable_gate_array

Chandra X­ray observatory:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/

ESA XMM Newton X­ray observatory:
http://sci.esa.int/xmm­newton/

Einstein @ home:
http://www.einsteinathome.org/

Gravitational­wave astronomy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational­wave_astronomy

Square Kilometer Array:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array

Description: In this episode of the 365 days of astronomy podcast amateur astronomer Hens Zimmerman interview  Joeri van Leeuwen

Bio: Hens Zimmerman used to have a DIY telescope when he was a kid. Now, as a busy adult with a family and a day job, he has a computer controlled “goto mount” telescope. He lives in the light polluted and often bad weathered Netherlands. Hens is married, has a daughter and is a post production audio engineer during the day.

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