IMPRS seminar winter term 2018/19
This is the webpage for the ongoing IMPRS seminar. For past seminars please check the seminar archive below.
The IMPRS seminar provides a central meeting opportunity for all IMPRS fellows in order to exchange ideas and experience from different research areas.
In the winter term, the IMPRS seminar is held as a literature seminar ("Oberseminar") with presentations about of current research highlights and/or fundamental papers in the astrophysics literature.
In the summer term, the IMPRS seminar is held as an advanced research seminar ("Fortgeschrittenenseminar") with the IMPRS fellows presenting their thesis project.
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 the IMPRS fellows present an update of their thesis project.
Visitors are welcome! The seminar is open for non-IMPRS students.
| Current IMPRS seminar - winter term 2018/19 | |||
| Location: |
Seminarraum 105, Philosophenweg 12 | ||
| Date: | Thursday, 17:15 - 18:45 | ||
| Tutors: | Christian Fendt (CF), Klaus Meisenheimer (KM) | ||
| Please prepare for a strictly <20 min presentation plus 5-10 min discussion. | |||
| IMPRS will check for regular attendence | |||
| Seminar schedule: | |||
| Date |
Speaker | Topic |
Tutor |
| 18/10 | Christian Fendt | IMPRS seminar rules, selection of talk topics | CF |
| 18/10 | Christian Fendt |
Introduction to IMPRS-HD - questions / answers | CF |
| 25/10 |
Thomas Jackson |
The star formation law in galactic disks - globally and spatially resolved (Kennicutt etal). | KM |
| 25/10 |
Vincent Carpenter |
Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar (Kramer etal. 2006) | CF |
| 01/11 | no seminar |
Public holiday | |
| 08/11 | Gustavo Medina Toledo | The chemical composition of the Sun (Asplund etal. 2009) | CF |
| 08/11 | Giancarlo Mattia |
Nonthermal radiation processes: Synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation (Rybicki & Lightman) | KM |
| 15/11 | Jacob Isbell | The first stars (Bromm & Larson 2004) | CF |
| 15/11 | Gregorii Smirnov |
Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function (Chabrier 2003) | CF |
| 22/11 | Katja Reichert |
Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Instrument and Methods (Wootten & Thompson 2009) | KM |
| 22/11 | Francesco Conte |
Multimessenger Obs. of a Flaring Blazar Coincident with High-Energy Neutrino IceCube-170922A (Icecube collaboration 2018, 2013) | KM |
| 29/11 | Caroline Gieser |
Measurement of the rate of nu_e +d -> p+e- interactions produced by 8B Solar neutrinos at the SNO (Ahmad etal. 2001) | CF |
| 29/11 | Camille Bergez |
The spectral classes L and T (Kirkpatrick 2005) | CF |
| 06/12 | Paz Bluhm |
Theory of brown dwarfs and giant planets (Burrows etal. 2001) | CF |
| 06/12 | Ismael Pessa |
The M_bh-sigma relation: obs. evidence and relevance for galaxy formation models (e.g. Ferrarese & Merritt 2000) | KM |
| 13/12 | Theodora Xylakis | Gravitational Waves, Gamma rays and Light from merger of neutron stars (e.g. Abbott etal.2017) | KM |
| 13/12 |
Marcelo Barraza |
Gravitational Waves, Gamma rays and Light from merger of neutron stars (e.g. Abbott etal 2017) | KM |
| 20/12 | Theodoros Soultanis |
Gamma-ray bursts (Meszaros 2006), Gamma Ray Bursts: basic facts and ideas (Ghisellini 2011) | CF |
| 20/12 | Oliver Voelkel |
Jets from young stars (e.g. Mundt & Fried 1983) | CF |
| 10/01 | Christoph Engler |
Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae (Perlmutter & Schmidt) | KM |
| 10/01 | Irham Andika |
Weak lensing as a tool to constrain Dark Energy (Schneider; Bartelmann & Schneider) | KM |
| 17/01 |
Jonas Kemmer | The Galactic Center (Genzel etal 2010; Eckart etal 2006) | KM |
| 17/01 | Liz Flores | Doppler Tomographie (Vogt etal 1987; Marsh & Horne 1988) | CF |
| 24/01 | Sofia Savvidou | WMAP: Microwave background results after 7 years (Komatsu et l 2011; Hinshaw etal 2009) | KM |
| 24/01 | Samantha Brown | The dichotomy between red and blue galaxies: past and present (Kauffmann etal 2003ab; Bell etal 2004) | KM |
| 31/01 | Mattis Magg | A powerful local shear instability in weakly magn disks (Balbus & Hawley) | CF |
| 31/01 | Victor Ksoll | Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets (Blandford & Payne 1982, Pudritz etal 2007) | CF |
| 07/02 | Peter Rodenkirch | The CO-to-H_2 Conversion Factor (Bolatto etal 2013) | KM |
| 07/02 |
Mischa Breuhaus |
Physics of Neutron stars (Lattimer & Prakash 2004) | CF |
| 07/02 | Alina Boecker | Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams (Gaia data release 2; A&A 616, A10) | KM |
