IMPRS seminar winter term 2023/24
The IMPRS seminar provides a central meeting opportunity for IMPRS fellows for scientific 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), Brian Reville (BR) | ||
Schedule: | |||
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Tutor |
| 19/10 | Fendt / Reville | Selection of seminar talk topics & slots | |
| 19/10 | Christian Fendt | Essentials of IMPRS-HD | |
| 02/11 | Angelique Kahle | Local Helioseismology: Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Solar Interior; Gizon et al. (2010) | CF |
| 02/11 | Nika Lipatova | Galaxy Formation and Reionization: Key Unknowns and Expected Breakthroughs by the JWST, Robertson (2022) | BR |
| 09/11 | Joris Josiek | Physics of Neutron stars, Lattimer & Prakash, Science (2004) | CF |
| 09/11 | Anirudh Ravishankar | A theory of the interstellar medium: three components regulated by supernova explosions in an inhomogeneous substrate, McKee & Ostriker (1977) | BR |
| 16/11 | Abhinna Sundar | Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies, Kennicutt & Evans (2012) | BR |
| 16/11 | Natascha Sattler | Massive black hole binaries from runaway collisions: the impact of metallicity, Mapelli (2016) | BR |
| 23/11 | Anna Lena Schsaible | Theory of brown dwarfs and giant planets; Burrows et al. (2001) | CF |
| 23/11 | Jonas Sauter | The interstellar environment of our galaxy; Ferrière (2001) | BR |
| 30/11 | Daniel Walter | Quasars and galaxy formation, Silk & Rees (1998) | BR |
| 30/11 | Elisa Schösser | Magnetars, Kaspi & Beloborodov (2017) | BR |
| 07/12 | Richard Hoppe | Radiation-driven winds in Of stars, Castor et al. (1975) | BR |
| 07/12 | Karin Kjellgren | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Alpher et al. (1948), "The Origin of Chemical Elements", Cyburt et al. (2016), "Big bang nucleosynthesis: Present status" | CF |
| 14/12 | Navonil Saha | A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering, Navarro et al. (1997) | CF |
| 14/12 | Dimitris Chatzgiannakis | Revisiting the Unified Model of AGN; Netzer (2015) | CF |
| 21/12 | David Trevascus | Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane, Icecube Collaboration, (2023) Sci...380.1338I | BR |
| 21/12 | Nina Mackensen | Gamma Ray Bursts are ‘cosmological', 1986ApJ...308L..43P | CF |
| 11/01 | Paola Vaccaro | The Theory of Pulsar Winds and Nebulae; Kirk et al. (2009) | BR |
| 11/01 | Johanna Mueller-Horn | Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run; Abott et al 2016 | CF |
| 18/01 | Michael Cecil | Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar; Kramer et al., Science (2006) | CF |
| 18/01 | Marco Vetter | A Powerful Local Shear Instability in Weakly Magnetized Disks. I. Linear Analysis, Balbus & Hawley (1991) | BR |
| 25/01 | Dominik Ostertag | Hydromagnetic Dynamo Models., Parker (1955) | BR |
| 01/02 | Simon Reyes Reyes | The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts - I.; Bell (1978) | BR |
| 01/02 | Iliana Cortes | The Evolution and Structure of Pulsar Wind Nebulae; Gaensler & Slane (2006) | BR |
| 01/02 | Johannes Bennemann | Measurement of the Rate of nu_+d ->p+e- interactions produced by 8B Solar neutrinos at the SNO (Ahmad et al. 2001) | CF |