Seminar at the University of Heidelberg, winter term 2011/12

Seminar on Extrasolar Planets and Brown Dwarfs

Dr. Viki Joergens



Start: Friday, October 21, 2011, 11:15 am

Location: Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik (INF 227), Neuenheimer Feld, Seminarraum 3.401

Time: 11:15 am - 1:00 pm

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

Short description of the seminar:
Mandatory advanced seminar for master students ("Masterpflichtseminar', MVSem)
on selected topics in the field of extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs.
Attending the Lecture on Extrasolar Planets and Brown dwarfs is recommended.



Seminar Schedule: 
Seminar  1 (Oct 21)   "Planning meeting, selection of seminar topics" (VJ)

Seminar  2 (Nov 25)   "Scientific presentation skills" (VJ)

Seminar  3 (Dec 02)   "Brown dwarf formation by disk fragmentation" (Roxana-Adela Chira)
                      "The initial mass function down to the substellar regime" (Johannes Reppin)

Seminar  4 (Dec 09)   "Disks and outflows of brown dwarfs" (Sebastian Lorek)
                      "The eclipsing brown dwarf binary 2M0535" (Olexandr Golovin)

Seminar  5 (Dec 16)   "Corot and Kepler planets" (Axel Donath)	 
                      "Water on Mars" (Jonas Gliss)

Seminar  6 (Jan 13)   "Ultra cool objects: T and Y dwarfs" (Clio Bertelli Motta)	  

Seminar  7 (Jan 20)   "Spectra of extrasolar planets by transit spectroscopy" (Johannes Esser)	  
                      "Habitability of extrasolar planets" (Daniel Niegel)

March 15, 2012        Deadline for submission of written reports














Viki Joergens / viki @ mpia.de