This is the webpage for the IMPRS seminar winter term 2009/2010 ("Oberseminar").
Visitors are welcome! The seminar is open for non-IMPRS students. |
The IMPRS seminar winter term 2009/10 (Oberseminar): | |
Location: | Seminar room 1, physics building, Albert-Ueberle-Str. 3-5 (Faculty building) |
Date: | Thursday, 17:15 |
Tutors: | Christian Fendt (CF);
Thorsten Lisker (TL); Klaus Meisenheimer (KM); Andreas Quirrenbach (AQ) |
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 |
15/10 | Discussion / allocation of talks | ||
15/10 | Christian Fendt | IMPRS rules & issues | |
22/10 | Natalie Raettig | Recurrent gas accretion by massive star clusters, multiple stellar populations and .... (Pflamm-Altenburg & Kroupa 2009) | TL |
22/10 | Tessel van der Laan | From star clusters to dwarf galaxies: properties of dynamically hot stellar systems (Dabringhausen et al. 2009) | TL |
29/10 | Philipp Girichidis | Physics of Neutron stars (Lattimer & Prakash Science 2004) | CF |
29/10 | Raoul Haschke | The Galactic Center (Genzel etal. 2003, Nat.425, Eckart etal. 2006, ESO Mess.) | KM |
05/11 | Meiert Grootes | Testing General Relativity with Pulsar Timing (Stairs, Living Rev.2003) | CF |
05/11 | Crystal Brasseur | The structure and dark matter content of cluster dwarf spheroidals (Penny etal. 2009) | TL |
12/11 | Oleksiy Golubov | Black holes in binary systems (Shakura & Sunyaev, A&A 1973, Shakura SvA 1973) | CF |
19/11 | Chia-Chun Lu | The Chemical Composition of the Sun (Asplund etal. 2009, ARAA 47) | AQ |
19/11 | Rene Andrae | WMAP: Microwave background results after 5 years (Hinshaw etal. 2009, ApJS) | KM |
26/11 | no seminar | Camenzind & Roeser retirement | |
03/12 | Ellen Simmat | Darwin - A Mission to Detect & Search for Life on Extrasolar Planets (Cockell etal.2009, Astrobiology 9) | AQ |
03/12 | Faviola Molina | What makes a planet habitable? (Lammer etal. 2009), Astron Astrophys Rev 17 | AQ |
10/12 | Jochen Tackenberg | The evolution of spiral, S0, & elliptical galaxies in clusters (Poggianti etal. 2009) | TL |
10/12 | Natalia Kudryavtseva | Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (Gehrels etal. 2009) | AQ |
17/12 | Ervin Kafexhiu | Energy spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons at TeV energies (Aharonian etal. 2008) | AQ |
17/12 | Aram Giahi | Direct imaging of multiple planets orbiting the star HR 8799 | AQ |
no seminars | X-mas break | ||
07/01 | |||
07/01 | |||
14/01 | Iwona Mochol | Shock Acceleration (Bell 1978, MNRAS 182) | KM |
14/01 | Gustavo Dopcke | Theory of brown dwarfs and giant planets (Burrows et al. RMP 65, 2001) | CF |
21/01 | Federica Capranico | The formation of galactic disks (Mo etal. 1998) | KM |
21/01 | Daniel Seifried | The star formation law in galactic disks | KM |
28/01 | Sebastian Kern | The initial mass function of stars (Kroupa, Sci 2002, Salpeter, ApJ 1955) | CF |
28/01 | Mathias Jaeger | Resolving cosmic structure formation with the Millenium=II Simulation (Boylan-Kolchin et al. 2009) | TL |