This is the webpage for the ongoing IMPRS seminar.
For past seminars please check the
seminar archive below.
Visitors are welcome! The seminar is open for non-IMPRS students. |
The IMPRS seminar winter term 2012/13: | |
Location: | Seminarraum 1, Albert-Ueberle-Str.3-5 |
Date: | Thursday, 17:15 |
Tutors: | Christian Fendt (CF);
Simon Glover (SG); Lisa Kaltenegger (LK); Klaus Meisenheimer (KM) |
Please, prepare for a 25-30 min presentation including 5-10 min discussion | |
IMPRS will check for regular attendence |
Seminar schedule: | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Tutor |
18/10 | All | Allocation of topics / slots | |
18/10 | Christian Fendt | IMPRS briefing | |
25/10 | Felix Jankowsky | Theory of brown dwarfs and giant planets (Burrows etal 2001) | CF |
25/10 | Christine Koepferl | The HZ for Main Sequence Stars (Kastings etal. 1993) | LK |
01/11 | no seminar | Holiday (All Saints' Day) | |
08/11 | Ben Hendricks | Sub-luminous type 1a SN from mergers of equal-mass WD (Pakmor etal 2010) | CF |
08/11 | Ilya Khrykin | The star formation law in galactic disks (Kennicutt 1989) | KM |
15/11 | Michael Walther | Testing general relativity with pulsar timing (Stairs, 2003) | CF |
15/11 | Gabriel Marleau | A powerful local shear instability in weakly magn disks (Balbus & Hawley 1991) | CF |
22/11 | Taisiya Kopytova | Giant molecular clouds: what are they made from, and how do they get there (Dobbs etal. 2012) | SG |
22/11 | Maria Lenius | Physics of neutron stars (Lattimer & Prakash, 2004) | CF |
29/11 | Helen Poon | Measuring cosmology with supernovae (Perlmutter & Schmidt) | KM |
29/11 | Daniel Bialas | The MACHO project: microlensing results from 5.7 yrs of LMC observations (Alcock etal. 2000) | SG |
06/12 | Andreas Bauer | What does it take for a moon to be habitable (Williams & Kasting 1997) | LK |
06/12 | Nick Malygin | WMAP: Microwave background results after 5 yrs (Hinshaw etal. 2009) | KM |
13/12 | Simon Bihr | ALMA: Instrument and Methods (Wootten & Thompson 2009, and more) | KM |
13/12 | Ruo-Yu Liu | Opacity-limited hierarchical fragmentation and th emasses of protostars (Rees 1976) | SG |
20/12 | Sassa Tsatsi | The gravitational fragmentation of primordial gas clouds (Tohline 1980) | SG |
20/12 | Jennifer Schober | Shock acceleration (Bell 1978) | KM |
27/12 | no seminar | Christmas holidays | |
10/01 | Anders Thygesen | Faint young Sun (Feulner 2012) | LK |
10/01 | Terese Hansen | Halo occupation numbers and galaxy bias (Peacock & Smith 2000) | SG |
17/01 | Dennis Kuegler | LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory | CF |
17/01 | Shiwei Wu | The physics of GRB's (Piran 2004, Ghisellini 2011) | CF |
24/01 | Aiara Lobo Gomes | Black holes in binary systems (Shakura & Sunyaev 1973) | CF |
24/01 | Paolo Bianchini | Kepler 22b (Borucki etal. 2011) | LK |
31/01 | Miguel Querejeta | Measurement of the Rate of nu_e +d ->p+e- interactions produced by Solar neutrinos at the SNO (Ahmad etal. 2001) | CF |
31/01 | Simona Ciceri | Unified models for active galactic nuclei and quasar (Antonucci 1993) | KM |
31/01 | Alberto Nardin | The MBH - sigma relation: observational evidence and relevance for galaxy formation models | KM |
07/02 | Sven Meyer | Electromagnetic extraction of energy from Kerr black holes (Blandford & Znajek 1974) | SG |
07/02 | Raquel Chicharro | Dwarfs Cooler than ''M''(Kirkpatrick etal. 1999, Chiu etal. 2006) | CF |
07/02 | Britta Zieser | The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans (Holland) | LK |
April | Tanya Edwards | The cosmic baryon budget (Fukugita etal. 1998) | SG |
April | Mauricio Ortiz | The Galactic Center (Genzel, et al., Eckart et al.) | KM |
Links to previous IMPRS seminars (WS = winter term, SS = summer term, BS = workshop seminar (retreat)): | ||
WS 2005/06 | SS 2006 | |
WS 2006/07 | SS 2007 | BS 2007 |
WS 2007/08 | SS 2008 | BS 2008 |
WS 2008/09 | SS 2009 | BS 2009 |
WS 2009/10 | SS 2010 | BS 2010 |
WS 2010/11 | SS 2011 | BS 2011 |
WS 2011/12 | SS 2012 | BS 2012 |