IMPRS seminar workshop 2007
on current research topics


The IMPRS seminar provides a central meeting opportunity for all IMPRS students in order to exchange ideas and experience from different research areas.
After the two IMPRS semester seminars during the first academic year of a student, the IMPRS continues in the second years as a seminar workshop, held as an external retreat for about three days. Students present an update of there thesis projects.
The seminar workshop for the 1st-generation students took place at the Heidelberg University seminar centre in Oberflockenbach in the Odenwald forest, March 15-17, 2007. Click for some pictures.

The IMPRS block seminar 2007:
Location: Heidelberg University seminar centre, Oberflockenbach
Date: March 15-17, 2007
Docents: PD Ch.Fendt;
Prof. M.Camenzind; Prof. H.-W. Rix; PD H.-J. Roeser
Please, prepare for a 25 min presentation plus 10 min discussion

Seminar schedule:
Date Speaker Topic Time
15/03 --- ARRIVAL 12:00
15/03 --- LUNCH 12:30
15/03 Matteo Bocchi MHD instabilities in protostellar jets 13:30
15/03 Jamie O'Sullivan Cooling in MHD simulations for protostellar jets 14:00
15/03 Dominikus Heinzeller Spectral energy distribution of super-Eddington flows: the Iron K lines 14:30
15/03 Emanuel Ziegler Divergence-free MHD in SPH 15:00
15/03 --- COFFEE BREAK 15:30
15/03 Hans-Walter Rix Do's and Don't's for talks 16:00
15/03 Markus Janson Direct imaging search for planetary mass companions to young low mass stars 16:30
15/03 Marta Zub Searching for planets by observing, modelling and analysing high-amplification microlensing events 17:00
15/03 Steve Boudreault Formation and evolution of Brown Dwarfs: optical-IR survey on the open clusters IC2391 and Praesepe 17:30
15/03 --- DINNER 19:00
15/03 --- SOCIAL EVENING -- IMPRS ISSUES 20:00
16/03 --- BREAKFAST 08:00
16/03 Xuepeng Chen Observations of binary protostars -- distribution of mass and angular momentum during binary star formation 09:00
16/03 Martin Hennemann Observations of star formation regions with ISO, Herschel and JWST 09:30
16/03 Svitlana Zhukovska Dust formation by stars and evolution of interstellar dust in the Galaxy 10:00
15/03 --- FRESH AIR BREAK 10:30
16/03 Max Camenzind Thirty years of astrophysics 11:00
16/03 Marie-Helene Nicol COMBO-17+4: data reduction status 11:30
16/03 Pak Hin Tam GRB studies with H.E.S.S. 12:00
16/03 --- LUNCH 12:30
16/03 Michael Zatloukal A search for distant galaxy clusters 13:30
16/03 Irina Golombek Non-thermal emission of galaxy clusters 14:00
16/03 Hermann-Josef Roeser How to write successful obervational proposals ? 14:30
16/03 Timo Anguita Quasar Microlensing 15:00
16/03 --- COFFEE BREAK 15:30
16/03 Claudia Mignone Optimal combination of cosmological experiments to determine the expansion rate of the universe 16:00
16/03 Ralf Klessen Application hints for postdoc positions 16:30
16/03 --- WALKING TOUR 17:00
16/03 --- DINNER 19:00
16/03 --- SOCIAL EVENING -- IMPRS ISSUES 20:00
16/03 --- BREAKFAST 08:00
17/03 Isabel Franco Rico New spectral galactic templates for multicolour classification 09:00
17/03 Stephanie Schwemmer Identification of galactic gamma-ray sources 09:30
17/03 Giulia Vannoni Diffusive shock acceleration in the presence of strong radiative losses 10:00
17/03 Marik Barnabe-Heider GERDA: the GERmanium Detector Array for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay in Ge-76 at LNGS 10:30
17/03 Dusan Budjas Material screening in MPIK 11:00
17/03 --- DEPARTURE 12:00