MVSem: Sternentstehung - Star Formation

Master seminar in winter term 2018/2019, 2SWS

Lecturers: Henrik Beuther & Christian Fendt

Thursday 9:15AM, Physikalisches Institut, Philosophenweg 12, Raum 105
First seminar October 18th, 2018

This is a mandatory advanced seminar for master students ("Masterpflichtseminar', MVSem) on selected topics in the field of star and planet formation.

Credit points (6CPs):
4 CPs for giving a presentation and attending the seminar,
2 CPs for a written report of the presentation.
Both will be graded.

This seminar is meant to  deepen and focus on various aspects important in star and planet formation, and it will be held in english.
--> More details are given in the first seminar.

Potential seminar topics:
- Formation of molecular clouds and global conditions for star formation (Link)
- The link between magnetic fields and cloud/star formation (Link1, Link2)
- The most complex molecules detected in the interstellar medium. (Link)
- From filamentary networks to dense cores in molecular clouds: toward a new paradigm of star formation (Link)
- The earliest stages of star and planet formation: core collapse and the formation of disks and outflows (Link)
- Multiplicity in Early Stellar Evolution (Link)
- Ages of young stars (Link)
- Accretion onto pre-main-sequence stars (Link)
- Transport and accretion in planet-forming disks (Link)
- Angular momentum evolution of young low-mass stars and brown dwarfs: Observations and theory (Link)
- The role of jets and outflows in star- and planet-formation (Link)
- Giant planet and brown dwarf formation (Link)
- Planetary internal structures (Link)
- Water: from clouds to planets (Link)
- Terrestrial planet formation at home and abroad (Link)
- Astrophysical conditions for planetary habitability (Link)

18.10	Introduction, presentation of topics	HB & CF	pdf
25.10	--
1.11	Public holiday
8.11
15.11	Formation of molecular clouds and global conditions for star formation	Lukas Hehn (HB)
22.11	The link between magnetic fields and cloud/star formation	Henrik Ruh (HB)	pdf
29.11	Accretion onto pre-main-sequence stars	Patrick Ondratschek (CF)
6.12	Multiplicity in Early Stellar Evolution	David Bubeck (CF)
13.12	Giant planet and brown dwarf formation	Lisa-Marie Zessner (HB)
20.12
10.1
17.1
24.1
31.1
7.2	--