MVSem: Sternentstehung - Star Formation

Master seminar in winter term 2015/2016, 2SWS

Lecturers: Henrik Beuther & Jouni Kainulainen

Thursday 9:15AM, Physikalisches Institut, Philosophenweg 12, Raum 105
First seminar October 15th, 2015

This is a mandatory advanced seminar for master students ("Masterpflichtseminar', MVSem) on selected topics in the field of star and planet formation.

Credit points (6CPs):
4 CPs for giving a presentation and attending the seminar,
2 CPs for a written report of the presentation.
Both will be graded.

This seminar will be held in english.

This MVSem is a complementary seminar to the parallel running lecture "Sternentstehung - Star Formation" (Link). It is meant to  deepen and focus on various aspects important in star and planet formation
--> More details will be given in the first seminar.

Potential seminar topics:
- The link between magnetic fields and cloud/star formation (HB) (Link1, Link2)
- Thermal balance of the ISM: the two-phase medium (JK)
            Draine, 2011, “Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic medium”, Section 30, and
            Tielens, 2005, “The Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Medium”, Chapter 8 (see also chapters 2-3).
- The most complex molecules detected in the interstellar medium. (HB) (Link)
- Distribution and properties of molecular clouds in the Milky Way (JK) (Link)
- From filamentary networks to dense cores in molecular clouds: toward a new paradigm of star formation? (HB) (Link)
- Orion as a factory of star formation  (JK) (Link)
- Star formation rates in molecular clouds: models based on gas physics (JK) (Link)
- How stars get their masses: episodic accretion  (JK) (Link)
- The role of jets and outflows in star- and planet-formation (HB) (Link)
- First steps of planet formation: dust growth in protostellar disks (HB) (Link)
- Is the initial mass function of star universal? (JK) (Link)


    

15.10	Introduction, presentation of topics	HB & JK
12.11	The link between magnetic fields and cloud/star formation	Felix Widmann (HB)
19.11	Star formation rates in molecular clouds: models based on gas physics	Rafael Luque (JK)
26.11	From filamentary networks to dense cores in molecular clouds	Felix Bosco (HB)
03.12	Is the initial mass function of star universal?	Linda Urich (JK)
10.12	Orion as a factory of star formation	Christoph Engler (JK)
17.12	The most complex molecules detected in the interstellar medium	Nicolas Hernandez (HB)
14.01	How stars get their masses, episodic accretion	Viktor Ksoll (JK)
21.01	First steps of planet formation: dust growth in protostellar disks	Valentin Chelaru (HB)