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 students presenting their ongoing thesis project. 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 current IMPRS seminar (summer term 2010):
Location:	Seminar room 1, physics building, Albert-Ueberle-Str. 3-5 (Faculty building)
Date:	Thursday, 17:15
Tutors:	Kees Dullemond (KD); Christian Fendt (CF); Thorsten Lisker (TL);
Please, prepare for a 20 - 30 min presentation plus 10 min discussion
IMPRS will check for regular attendence

Seminar schedule (preliminary):
Date	Speaker	Topic	Tutor
15/04	Eva Lefa	The double pulsar system: a unique laboratory for gravity (Kramer & Wex 2009)	CF
15/04	Raoul Haschke	Extinction maps of the Magellanic Clouds	CF
22/04	no seminar	MPIA retreat
29/04	Tessel van der Laan	Nuclear starburst rings; a biography	KD
29/04	Rene Andrae	Spin correlation of spiral galaxies	CF
06/05	Ellen Simmat	GALEX GAMA: How to do the photometry and what can be done with it?	CF
06/05	Jochen Tackenberg	Very early phases of massive star formation	KD
13/05	no seminar	Holiday (Ascension Day)
20/05	Federica Capranico	Angular Momenta Correlations between galaxies	TL
20/05	Faviola Molina	Analysis of CO, density, and temperature distributions in simulated molecular clouds	TL
27/05	Aram Giahi	Statistical de-lensing of galaxy images for the observation of angular momentum couplings	TL
27/05	Iwona Mochol	Particle acceleration by rotating supermassive black holes	CF
03/06	no seminar	Holiday (Corpus Christi)
10/06	Chia-Chun Lu	Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with H.E.S.S.	CF
10/06	Alex Golubov	Structure of the Milky Way disk	KD
17/06	Natalie Raettig	The global baroclinic instability	KD
17/06	Daniel Seifried	Magnetically driven outflows in massive star formation	CF
24/06	Ervin Kafexhiu	Excitation and destruction of nuclei in hot astrophysical plasmas around black holes	CF
24/06	Mathias Jaeger	The data reduction of the COMBO17+4 survey	TL
01/07	Alessandra Grassi	Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations with 3D weak lensing	TL
01/07	Paul Boley	Optical interferometry at 10 μm: Methods for studying the inner regions of MYSOs	KD
08/07	Natalia Kudryavtseva	Micro-arcsecond astrometry of exoplanet host stars and starburst clusters	CF
08/07	Gustavo Dopcke	The transition from Pop. III to Pop. II/I star formation	KD
15/07	Eva Lefa	Synchrotron-Compton emission from AGN jets	CF
15/07	Fazeel Khan	Dynamical friction of Massive Objects in Galactic Center	TL
22/07	Crystal Brasseur	Andromeda and the 7 dwarfs: the stellar populations of M31 at the faint end	KD