MVSem: Protostars and Planets - Protosterne und Planeten

Master seminar in winter term 2014/2015, 2SWS

Lecturers: Henrik Beuther & Viki Joergens

Thursday 9:15AM, Physikalisches Institut, Philosophenweg 12, Raum 105
First seminar October 16th, 2014

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.

The seminar will be based on two very recent review books:
- Protostars and Planets VI, ed. by H. Beuther, K. Dullemond, Th. Henning, R. Klessen, 2014, University of Arizona Press, http://www.ppvi.org
- 50 Years of Brown Dwarfs - From Prediction to Discovery to Forefront of Research, ed. by V. Joergens, 2014, Springer
--> More details will be given in the first seminar

Potential seminar topics:
- From filamentary networks to dense cores in molecular clouds: toward a new paradigm of star formation (Link)
- The origin and universality of the initial mass function (Link)
- Multiplicity in early stellar evolution (Link)
- Formation of brown dwarfs vs giant planets: confronting theory with observations (Link)
- The link between magnetic fields and cloud/star formation (Link)
- Jets and outflows from star to cloud: observations confront theory (Link)
- Dust evolution in protoplanetary disks (Link)
- Physical and chemical structure of planet-forming disks probed by millimeter observations and modeling (Link)
- Episodic accretion in young stars (Link)
- New exoplanetary systems (Link)
- Terrestrial planet formation at home and abroad (Link)
- Exoplanetary atmospheres (Link)
- Water: From clouds to planets (Link)
- Ultracool Objects: L, T, and Y Dwarfs: Cushing 2014 in "50 years of brown dwarfs"

    

16.10	Introduction, presentation of topics	HB & VJ
13.11	New exoplanetary systems	Vera Wolthoff	(VJ)
20.11	Dust evolution in protoplanetary disks	Alexander Sivitilli	(VJ)
27.11	Jets and outflows from stars to cloud: observations confront theory	Thomas Rink	(HB)
04.12	Formation of brown dwarfs vs giant planets: confronting theory with observations	Minjae Kim	(VJ)
11.12	The origin and universality of the initial mass function	Guilio Rosani	(HB)
18.12	Terrestrial planet formation at home and abroad	Huibert het Lam	(VJ)
08.01	Water: From clouds to planets	Felix Bosco	(HB)
15.01	The Milky Way as a star-forming engine	Tobias Schierhuber	(HB)