IMPRS seminar winter term 2020/21
The IMPRS seminar provides a central meeting opportunity for all IMPRS fellows for scientifiic and social exchange.
In the winter term, the IMPRS seminar is held as a literature seminar ("Oberseminar") with presentations about of current research highlights and/or fundamental papers in the astrophysics literature.
In the summer term, the IMPRS seminar is held as an advanced research seminar ("Fortgeschrittenenseminar") with the IMPRS fellows presenting their 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 the IMPRS fellows present an update of their thesis project.
| Tutors: | Christian Fendt (CF) Knud Jahnke (KJ) | ||
Schedule: | |||
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Tutor |
| 05/11 | Christian Fendt | Talk selection - seminar schedule | |
| 05/11 | IMPRS overview & rules | ||
| 12/11 | Selina Nitschai | Cosmological Tests of Gravity, Ferreira, P., 2019 ARA&A | CF |
| 12/11 | Wuji Wang | Revisiting the unification model of AGN, Netzer, 2015 ARA&A | CF |
| 19/11 | Daria Mokrytska | Theory of brown dwarfs and giant planets, Burrows et al. RMP 65, 2001 | CF |
| 19/11 | Arvind Hughes | Magnetars, Kaspi, 2017 ARA&A | CF |
| 26/11 | Zhang-Liang Xie | Black holes in binary systems, Shakura & Sunyaev, 1973; Accretion discs in astrophysics, Pringle 1981 | CF |
| 26/11 | Zhi Qiu Huang | The Astrophysics of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays, Kotera et al., 2011, ARA&A | CF |
| 03/12 | Glen Hunter | Masses, Radii, & the Equation of State of Neutron Stars; Özel & Freire, 2016 ARA&A | CF |
| 03/12 | Dane Spaeth | Dark Energy; Adam Ries ; 1998AJ, 2019 ApJ | KJ |
| 10/12 | Verena Fuernkranz | Galactic Reddening in 3D; Green, G.; 2018, MNRAS | KJ |
| 10/12 | Max Haeberle | Supermassive black hole in M87; Event Horizon Telescope; 2019 ApJ | KJ |
| 17/12 | Albrecht Kamlah | Physics of Neutron stars; Lattimer & Prakash; Science 2004 | CF |
| 17/12 | Evert Nasedkin | MW Black Hole; Ghez, A.; 1998 ApJ, 2008 ApJ | KJ |
| no seminar | X-mas break | ||
| 14/01 | Sebastian Zieba | Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar; Kramer etal. 2006, Science | CF |
| 14/01 | Nico Winkel | Using semianalytic models in galaxy evolution; Somerville, R.; 1999 MNRAS | KJ |
| 21/01 | Kiril Maltsev | On continued gravitational contraction, Snyder & Oppenheimer (1939) | CF |
| 21/01 | Brooke Polak | A powerful local shear instability in weakly magn disks; Balbus & Hawley 1991 | CF |
| 28/01 | Hazal Goeksu | H and He as dominant elements in stars Payne-Gaposchkin 1925) | KJ |
| 28/01 | Eric Rohr | Extragalactic distance scale and H0; Freedman, W.; 2001 ApJ | KJ |
| 04/02 | Jesper Tjoa | Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source; Hewish,A., Bell,S.J. et al. 1968 | KJ |
| 04/02 | Bastian Reinoso | Tensions between the early and late Universe, 2019, NatAs | KJ |