IMPRS seminar summer term 2006



The IMPRS seminar provides a central meeting opportunity for all IMPRS students 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 presentations of the ongoing thesis projects.
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 students present an update of their thesis projects.

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

The IMPRS seminar summer term 2006, research seminar:
Location: Seminar room I, physics building, Albert-Ueberle-Str. 3-5 (Faculty building)
Date: Thursday, 17:15
Docents: Prof. W.Duschl (WJD) ; PD Ch.Fendt (CF) ;
Prof. K.Meisenheimer (KM) ; Prof. J. Wambsganss (JKW)
Please, prepare for a 20 - 30 min presentation plus 10 min discussion
IMPRS will check for regular attendence

Seminar schedule (as of April 28, 2006):
Date Speaker Topic Tutor
27/04 Dominikus Heinzeller Black hole accretion: Theoretical limits and observational implications WJD
04/05 Markus Janson Ground-based imaging of substellar companions to stars CF
04/05 Steve Boudreault Formation and evolution of Brown Dwarfs CF
11/05 Victoria Rodriguez Angular momentum evolution of VLM stars and BDs CF
18/05 Isabel Franco Rico Multiwavelength investigations on star formation in galaxies KM
18/05 Svitlana Zhukovska Evolution of dust content of galaxies WJD
25/05 no seminar "Christi Himmelfahrt"
01/06 Marta Zub Gravitational Microlensing in the Searches of Extrasolar Planets JKW
01/06 Michael Zatloukal HIROCS - the Heidelberg Infrared/Optical Cluster Survey KM
08/06 Giulia Vannoni Diffusive shock acceleration in presence of strong radiative losses WJD
08/06 Marik Bernabe-Heider GERmanium Detector Array for the search of neutrinoless double beta decay of 76Ge WJD
15/06 no seminar "Fronleichnam"
22/06 Xuepeng Chen Distribution of Mass and Angular Momentum During Binary Star Formation CF
22/06 Slavo Hnatic Gamma-ray radiation from binary system PSR 1259-63/SS 2883 CF
29/06 Matteo Bocchi MHD instabilities in protostellar jets JKW
29/06 Marie-Helene Nicol COMBO-17+4: Towards a self-consistent model of star formation since z=2 KM
06/07 Dusan Budjas Low-level radioactivity measurements for GERDA experiment JKW
06/07 Claudia Mignone Joint cosmological constraints from supernovae and weak lensing JKW
13/07 Vernesa Smolcic Star forming galaxies and AGN in the VLA-COSMOS survey CF
13/07 Martin Hennemann Massive star formation observed with ISO & Co KM
20/07 Pak Hin Tam Observations of gamma-ray bursts with the H.E.S.S. telescopes in Namibia JKW
20/07 Stefanie Schwemmer Gamma-ray astronomy with the H.E.S.S. telescopes KM
27/07 Jamie O'Sullivan Large-Scale Simulations of Magnetized Herbig-Haro Flows CF
27/07 Oscar Esquivel Proton-proton collisions and high energy gamma-ray emission tbd