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This is the webpage for the ongoing IMPRS seminar.
For past seminars please check the
seminar archive below.
Visitors are welcome! The seminar is open for non-IMPRS students. |
| The current IMPRS seminar (winter term 2011/12): | |
| Location: | Neuer Hoersaal, and Seminarraum 1, physics buildings, Albert-Ueberle-Str.3-7 |
| Date: | Thursday, 17:15 |
| Tutors: | Christian Fendt (CF);
Simon Glover (SG);
Ralf Klessen (RK); Andreas Koch (AK); Klaus Meisenheimer (KM); Glenn van de Ven (GV) |
| Please, prepare for a 25-30 min presentation including 5-10 min discussion | |
| IMPRS will check for regular attendence | |
| Seminar schedule: | |||
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Tutor |
| 13/10 | all | allocation of topics / slots | |
| 13/10 | Christian Fendt | IMPRS briefing | |
| 20/10 | No seminar | ||
| 27/10 | Philipp Merkel | Physics of Neutron stars (Lattimer & Prakash, Science 2004) | CF |
| 27/10 | Eleonora Sarli | Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing (Stairs, 2003) | CF |
| 27/10 | Christian Baczynski | Merger rates in hierarchical models of galaxy formation (Lacey & Cole, 1993) | SG |
| 27/10 | Anahi Caldu Primo | Constraining the unexplored period between the dark ages & reionization with observations of the global 21 cm signal (Pritchard & Loeb 2010) | SG |
| 03/11 | Eduardo Banados | A new method of determining distances to galaxies (Tully & Fisher 1977) | GV |
| 03/11 | Salvatore Cielo | Dynamics of protostellar disks (Armitage 2008) | RK |
| 10/11 | Moe Abbas | A kinematic method for measuring the pattern speed of barred galaxies (Tremaine & Weinberg 1984) | GV |
| 10/11 | Elena Manjavacas | Abundance of the Sun (Asplund et al. 2009, Caffau etal. 2011) | RK |
| 10/11 | Thomas Gerner | Microwave background results after 5 yrs (Hinshaw etal. 2009) | KM |
| 10/11 | Mei Sasaki | The formation of galactic discs (Mo, Mao & White 1998) | KM |
| 17/11 | Maria Kapala | Gamma-ray bursts (Piran 2004, Ghisellini 2011) | CF |
| 17/11 | Siddarth Hegde | Theory of brown dwarfs and giant planets (Burrows etal. 2001) | CF |
| 17/11 | Fabrizio Arrigoni | A common mass scale for satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (Strigari etal. 2008) | AK |
| 17/11 | Joanna Drazkowska | How do massive black holes get their gas? (Hopkins & Quataert 2010) | SG |
| 24/11 | Agnese Fabris | Gas depletion time and gas accretion onto galaxies (Bigiel etal. 2011) | RK |
| 24/11 | Deniss Stepanovs | Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae (Perlmutter & Schmidt) | KM |
| 24/11 | Kirsten Schnuelle | Hyper-velocity and tidal stars from binaries disrupted by a massive Galactic black hole (Hills 1988) | GV |
| 01/12 | Denis Yurin | Radial mixing in galactic discs (Sellwood & Binney, 2002) | GV |
| 01/12 | Richard Hanson | A downturn in intergalactic C IV as redshift 6 is approached (Ryan-Weber etal. 2009) | AK |
| 01/12 | Michael Maseda | Gas dynamics in high-redshift halos (Bromm et al. 2009) | RK |
| 01/12 | Emanuela Giannini | Dwarfs Cooler than ``M''..(Kirkpatrick etal. ApJ 1999, Chiu etal. AJ 2006) | CF |
| 08/12 | Fabo Feng | Weak lensing as a tool to constrain Dark Energy (Schneider, 2007; Bartelmann & Schneider, 1999) | KM |
| 08/12 | Robert Singh | The dichotomy between red and blue galaxies: past and present (Kauffmann et al. 2003a,b, Faber etal. 2007) | KM |
| 08/12 | Akin Yildrim | Black holes in binary systems. Observ. appearance (Shakura & Sunyaev, 1973) | CF |
| 15/12 | Alex Buedenbender | Chemical Abundances and Kinematics in Globular Clusters and Local Group Dwarf Galaxies and Their Implications for Formation Theories of the Galactic Ha (Geisler etal. 2007) | AK |
| 15/12 | John Vickers | Two distinct halo populations in the solar neighborhood. II. Evidence from stellar abundances of Mn, Cu, Zn, Y, and Ba (Nissen & Schuster 2011) | AK |
| 15/12 | Tobias Brandt | Structure and formation of Andromeda's many substructures (McConnachie et al. 2009) | AK |
| no seminars | X-mas break | ||
| 12/01 | Siyi Feng | Statistical characteristics of interstellar turbulence (Elmegreen & Scalo 2004, Federrath etal. 2010) | RK |
| 12/01 | Laszlo Szucs | Multiple stellar population in globular clusters | AK |
| 12/01 | Jan Rybizki | Analytical Theory for the Initial Mass Function: CO Clumps and Prestellar Cores | SG |
| 12/01 | Svea Proft | The Most Dark-Matter-dominated Galaxies: Predicted Gamma-Ray Signals from the Faintest Milky Way Dwarfs" (Strigari et al. 2008) | GV |
| 19/01 | Frederik Schoenebeck | Measurement of the Rate of nu_e +d -> p+e- interactions produced by 8B Solar neutrinos at the SNO (Ahmad et al. 2001) | CF |
| 19/01 | Charles Majer | Sunspots: An overview (Solanki 2003) | CF |
| 19/01 | Camilla Penzo | Shock Acceleration (Bell 1978) | KM |
| 19/01 | Nikolay Kacharov | Sub-luminous type 1a SN from mergers of equal-mass WD (Pakmor et al. 2010) | CF |
| 26/01 | Julian Stuermer | The Formation and Fragmentation of Disks Around Primordial Protostars, (Clark et al. 2011) | SG |
| 26/01 | Mahmoud Mohamed | The supermassive black hole of M87 and the kinematics of its associated gaseous disk" (Macchetto et al. 1997) | GV |
| 26/01 | |||
| Links to previous IMPRS seminars (WS = winter term, SS = summer term, BS = workshop seminar (retreat)): | ||
| WS 2005/06 | SS 2006 | |
| WS 2006/07 | SS 2007 | BS 2007 |
| WS 2007/08 | SS 2008 | BS 2008 |
| WS 2008/09 | SS 2009 | BS 2009 |
| WS 2009/10 | SS 2010 | BS 2010 |
| WS 2010/11 | SS 2011 | BS 2011 |