IMPRS seminar winter term 2024/25
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: | Coryn Bailer-Jones (CBJ), Christian Fendt (CF), Brian Reville (BR) | ||
Schedule | |||
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Tutor |
| 17/10 | Christian Fendt | Seminar talk / slot selection | |
| 17/10 | IMPRS essentials | ||
| 24/10 | Anne Timmermans | Measurement of the Rate of nu_+d ->p+e- interactions produced by 8B Solar neutrinos at the SNO (Ahmad et al. 2001) | CF |
| 31/10 | Shuyu Tan | Presupernova Evolution in Massive Interacting Binaries; Podsiadlowski et al., 1992 | BR |
| 31/10 | Gabrielle Taylor | The theory of brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets (Burrows et al. 2001) | CF |
| 07/11 | Annie v. Stauffenberg | Could a Nearby Supernova Explosion have Caused a Mass Extinction? Elli & Schramm, 1995 | CBJ |
| 07/11 | Jorge Perez Gonzalez | Transneptunian Space, Gladman, B ; Volk, K, 2021 | CBJ |
| 14/11 | Anastasia Tzouvanou | Physics of Neutron stars (Lattimer & Prakash, Science 2004) | CF |
| 14/11 | Bipradeep Saha | The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts – I., Bell, 1978 | BR |
| 21/11 | Peter Smith | An Overview of Exoplanet Biosignatures; Schwieterman & Leung, 2024 | CBJ |
| 21/11 | Stefan Adelbert | Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages; Hays, J. D. ; Imbrie, J ; Shackleton, 1976 | CBJ |
| 28/11 | Philip Cho | Quasars and galaxy formation, Silk & Rees, 1998 | BR |
| 28/11 | Ben Pennell | Emission Mechanisms of Fast Radio Bursts; Lyubarsky, 2021 | BR |
| 05/12 | Christina Fakiola | Relativistic jets as compact radio sources, Blandford & Königl, 1979 | BR |
| 12/12 | Cade Buergy | Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction, Alvarez, LW. et al., 1980< | CBJ |
| 12/12 | Damir Gasymov | A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies. Ferrarese & Merritt (2000) | CF |
| 19/12 | Aron Kordt | The Rate of Star Formation. Schmidt (1959) | CF |
| 19/12 | Xinyue Liang | Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies, Kennicutt & Evans, 2012 | BR |
| X-mas / New Year break | |||
| 16/01 | Macarena Vega | Gaia Early Data Release 3. The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars; Gaia Collaboration; Smart, R. L et al. 2021 | CBJ |
| 16/01 | Kristian Vitovsky | The Interstellar Interlopers; , Seligman, 2023 | CBJ |
| 23/01 | Veronica Agaeva | Local Helioseismology: Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Solar Interior; Gizon etal. (2010) | CF |
| 23/01 | Rogelio Albarracin | Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Alpher, Bethe & Gamow (1948), Cyburt et al. (2016) | CF |
| 30/01 | Giuseppe Viterbo | A universal density profile from hierarchical clustering, NF&W (1997) | CF |
| 06/02 | Joshua Jost | Precipitating Condensation Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres; Ackerman & Marley (2001) | CBJ |
| 06/02 | Klaudia Protusova | Dwarfs cooler than M, Kirkpatrick etal. (1999) | CBJ |