IMPRS seminar summer term 2007



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 2007, Research Seminar:
Location: Seminar room 1, physics building, Albert-Ueberle-Str. 3-5 (Faculty building)
Date: Thursday, 17:15
Docents: PD Ch.Fendt (CF) ; PD A.Just (AJ) ;
Prof.R.Spurzem (RS) ; PD S.Wolf (SW)
Please, prepare for a 20 - 30 min presentation plus 10 min discussion
IMPRS will check for regular attendence

Seminar schedule (as of April 11, 2007):
Date Speaker Topic Tutor
19/04 Aday Robaina Eight Gigayears of Galaxy Mergers CF
26/04 Oscar Esquivel Dynamical friction force: anisotropic velocity distribution AJ
26/04 Bagmeet Behera The cosmic EBL and its effect on the gamma-ray spectra of AGN CF
03/05 Javier Rodon Fragmentation of massive star-forming clusters CF
03/05 Andreas Ernst The young stars in the Galactic Center - remains of a dissolved cluster? RS
10/05 Giovanna Pedaletti A search for very high energy emission from passive supermassive black holes SW
10/05 Ros Skelton Simulating 8 billion years of galaxy mergers CF
17/05 no seminar
24/05 Cassie Fallscheer Disks in massive star formation SW
31/05 Peter Melchior Simulations for DUNE RS
07/06 no seminar
14/06 Domenico Tamburro Non-Gravitational HI motions in nearby spiral galaxies SW
21/06 Thomas Greif From First Stars to First Galaxies AJ
21/06 Yolanda Sestayo Neutrino detection from Galactic variable sources with IceCube RS
22-23/06 Softskills course
28/06 Marcello Cacciato Galaxy-Dark Matter connection using g-g lensing CF
28/06 Surhud More Galaxy-Dark Matter connection using satellite kinematics SW
05/07 Rolf Kuiper Disks in massive star formation SW
12/07 Thomas Peters Radiation-gasdynamical simulations of star formation AJ
12/07 Christoph Federrath The stellar initial mass function from supersonic turbulence CF
19/07 Jean-Claude Waizmann Impact of Early Dark Energy on the tSZ effect and observational consequences for the Planck mission AJ
19/07 Christian Schwab Precise Radial Velocities of Giant Stars -- the LBT Laser Guide Star Project AJ
23/07 Barbecue End-of-the-academic-year BBQ, ARI park, 16:00 CF
26/07 Jonathan Downing Compact-Object Binaries in Star Clusters: A Post-Newtonian Treatment RS
26/07 Anton Vasyunin Chemistry in protoplanetary disks: a sensitivity analysis CF