IMPRS seminar

IMPRS seminar winter term 2015/16

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 "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 doctoral candidates presenting their ongoing 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 IMPRS fellows present an update of their thesis projects.

Visitors are welcome! The seminar is open for non IMPRS members.

The current IMPRS seminar - winter term 2015/16

Location:

Seminarraum 105, Philosophenweg 12

Date:

Thursday, 17:15

Tutors:

Christian Fendt (CF); Klaus Meisenheimer (KM); Stefan Wagner (SW)

Please prepare for a strictly <25 min presentation plus 10 min discussion.

IMPRS will check for regular attendence

Seminar schedule:

Date	Speaker	Topic	Tutor

15/10	Christian Fendt	IMPRS rules and conditions - presentation and discussions
15/10		Selection of seminar talk topics and slots
22/10	Hector Hiss	Black holes in binary systems. Observ. appearance (Shakura & Sunyaev 1973) Accretion discs in astrophysics (Pringle 1981)	CF
22/10	Jonas Frings	Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing (Stairs 2003)	CF
29/10	Fabian Klein	Unified Models for AGN (Antonucci 1993; Urry & Padovani 1995)	KM
29/10	Tobias Buck	The star formation law in galactic disks - globally and spatially resolved (Kennicutt 1989; Bigiel et al. 2010)	KM
05/11	Carla Bernhardt	Physics of neutron stars (Lattimer & Prakash 2004)	CF
05/11	Steffi Yen	High redshift quasars (Nature, 2011)	SW
12/11	Stefan Brems	Theory of Brown dwars and giant planets (Burrows et al. 2001, RvMP 65)	CF
12/11	Neven Tomicic	The physics of Gamma-Ray-Bursts (Piran 2004 RvMP 76) Gamma Ray Bursts: basic facts and ideas (Ghisellini, IAU review, 2011)	CF
19/11	Antonio D'Isanto	The spectral classes L and T (Kirkpatrick ARAA 2005)	CF
19/11	Daniel Rahner	Galactric centre: The passage of S2 (ApJ 692, 1075-1109 (2009)	SW
26/11	Mayte Alfaro Cuello	Gamma-ray flares (HESS collaboration 2009, A&A 502, 749)	SW
26/11	Christina Eilers	The struxture of the Milky Way's bar outside the bulge (Wegg et al., MNRAS 2015)	SW
03/12	Melanie Hampel	Multiple populations in globular clusters	SW
03/12	Grigorios Katsoulakos	A powerful local shear instability in weakly magn disks (Balbus & Hawley 1991)	CF
10/12	Kseniia Sysolatina	Weak lensing as a tool to constrain Dark Energy (Bartelmann & Schneider, Phys. Reports 340)	KM
10/12	Vikas Joshi	High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos Detected by IceCube (Icecube collaboration 2013, Science 342)	KM
17/12	Gigi Leung	WMAP: Microwave background results after 7 years (Komatsu etal. 2011; Hinshaw etal. 2009)	KM
17/12	Christos Voulleris	Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae (Perlmutter & Schmidt, Lecture Notes in Physics 598)	KM
	no seminar	Christmas Holidays
07/01	Sven Buder	Measurement of the Rate of nu_e +d ->p+e- interactions produced by 8B Solar neutrinos at the SNO (Ahmad et al. 2001)	CF
07/01	Marcelo Tala Pinto	Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function (Chabrier PASP 2003)	CF
14/01	Kohannes King	Nonthermal radiation processes: Synchrotron and inverse Compton radiation (Rybicki & Lightman)	KM
14/01	Priscilla Chauke	Strong lensing by galaxies (ARAA 48, 2010)	KM
21/01	Svenja Jacob	Neutrino oscillations ( Preprint Janet Conrad )	KM
21/01	Hans Baehr	The M_bh -sigma relation: observational evidence and relevance for galaxy formation models (Ferrarese & Merritt 2000; Haering & Rix 2004)	KM
28/01	Mikhail Kovalev	Fermi-Bubbles (M. Su et al. 2010)	SW
28/01	Johannes Esser	GZK cutoff (Abraham et al. 2008)	SW
29/01	Aida Ahmadi	Adaptive Optics for Astronomy (Davies & Kasper, ARAA 50, 2012)	KM
29/01	Natascha Manger	Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Instrument and Method (Wootten &Thompson 2009)	KM
29/01	Sabina Puerckhauer	Asteroseismology of Solar-type and Red-Giant Stars (Chaplin & Miglio, ARAA 51, 2013)	KM
29/01	Matthias Samland	Doppler images of rotating stars using maximum entropy image reconstruction (Vogt et al. 1987) Images of accretion discs. II - Doppler tomography(Marsh & Horne 1988)	CF
29/01	Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev	Evolutionary models for solar metallicity low-mass stars: mass-magnitude relationships and color-magnitude diagrams (Baraffe et al. 1998)	CF
29/01	Yulong Zhuang	Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds (Schlegel et al. 1998, ApJ 500, 525)	CF
29/01	Robert Reischke	Hydromagnetic flows from accretion discs and the production of radio jets (Blandford & Payne 1982)	CF
29/01	Alex Hygate	The Low-luminosity End of the Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei (Bentz et al., 2013)	SW
04/02	Sebastian Bustamente	Shock Acceleration (Bell 1978, MNRAS 182, 147)	KM
04/02	Daniel Haydon	HE electrons in the ISM (Abdo et al., ApJ, 703, 2009)	SW