The IMPRS seminar provides a central meeting opportunity for all IMPRS students in order to exchange ideas and experience from different research areas. In the winter term, the IMPRS seminar is held as a "Oberseminar", ie. as literature seminar with presentations of current research highlights and of fundamental papers in the astrophysics literature. In the summer term, the IMPRS seminar is held as an advanced research seminar ("Fortgeschrittenenseminar") with presentations of the ongoing thesis projects. After the 1st academic year of an IMPRS generation, the IMPRS seminar continues in the 2nd year as a seminar workshop - an external retreat of 3-4 days during which students present an update of their thesis projects. Visitors are welcome! The seminar is open for non-IMPRS students. |
The IMPRS seminar winter term 2007/08, Oberseminar: | |
Location: | Seminar room 1, physics building, Albert-Ueberle-Str. 3-5 (Faculty building) |
Date: | Thursday, 17:15 |
Docents: | PD Ch. Fendt (CF) ; Prof. B. Fuchs (BF) ; Prof. K. Meisenheimer (KM) ; Prof. J. Wambsganss (JKW) |
Please, prepare for a 20 - 30 min presentation plus 10 min discussion | |
IMPRS will check for regular attendence |
Seminar schedule (as of Oct. 19, 2007): | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Tutor |
18/10 | Fendt / Meisenheimer | Discussion / allocation of talks | |
25/10 | Kelly Foyle | The initial mass function of stars (Kroupa 2002, Science; Salpeter 1955, ApJ) | CF |
25/10 | Baybars Kuelebi | GAIA: Composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy (Perryman et al. 2001, A&A) | CF |
01/11 | no seminar | All Saints Day | |
08/11 | Leonard Burtscher | The center of the Milky Way | JKW |
15/11 | Nikolay Nikolov | Astrobiology: The study of the living universe (Chyba & Hand 2005, Ann.Rev.A&A) | CF |
22/11 | Nicola Da Rio | Dwarfs cooler than M .... (Kirkpatrick etal. 1999, ApJ; Chiu etal. 2006, AJ) |
CF |
22/11 | Maximiliano Moyano | Nonthermal radiation processes: Synchrotron and inverse Compton | KM |
29/11 | no seminar | Guest lecture by Prof. Jay Gallagher | |
06/12 | Christoph Federrath | Toward understanding massive star formation (?) (Zinnecker & Yorke 2007, Ann.Rev.A&A) | CF |
06/12 | Andras Zsom | Population III stars |
JKW |
13/12 | Giovanni Natale | The dichotomy between red and blue galaxies: past and present | KM |
13/12 | Ioanna Arka | Theory of brown dwarfs and giant planets (Burrows et al. Rev.Mod.Physics 65, 2001) |
CF |
20/12 | Olga Zacharopoulou | How to tell a jet from a balloon: GRB beaming (Rhoads 1997, 1999, ApJ) |
CF |
no seminar | X-mas break | ||
10/01 | Benjamin Moster | WMAP: Microwave background results after 3 years | KM |
10/01 | Christoph Deil | Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance (Shakura & Sunyaev 1973, A&A, Shakura 1973, SvA) | CF |
17/01 | Massimo Viola | Testing general relativity with pulsar timing (Stairs, 2003, Living Reviews) | CF |
17/01 | Tatiana Vasyunina | Extrasolar planets | JKW |
24/01 | Peter Melchior | Weak-lensing mass reconstruction of the interacting cluster 1E 0657-558: Direct evidence for the existence of Dark Matter (Clowe et al. 2004, ApJ) | BF |
24/01 | Christine Ruhland | The Geneva-Copenhagen survey of the Solar neighbourhood | CF |
31/01 | Ronny Geisler | Science Results Enabled by SDSS Astrometric Observations (Ivezic et al. 2007, a-ph) | BF |
31/01 | Hsiang-Hsu Wang | What amplifies the spirals (Toomre 1981) | BF |
07/02 | Osvaldo Aquines | Gamma Ray Bursts (Meszaros 2001) | JW |
07/02 | Ekaterina Luettjohann | The Disk Mass of Spiral Galaxies (Salucci et al. 2007, a-ph) | BF |
14/02 | Olaf Schulz | Particle acceleration in shocks | KM |
14/02 | Sophia Lianou | Missing Mass in Collisional Debris (Bournaud et al. 2007, Science) | BF |
14/02 | Denija Crnojevic | Our peculiar motion away from the Local Void (Tully et al. 2007, a-ph) | BF |