IMPRS seminar winter term 2025/26

The IMPRS seminar provides a central meeting opportunity for IMPRS fellows for scientific and social exchange. 

This is the webpage for the ongoing IMPRS seminar. For past seminars please check the links to the seminar archive on the left.

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, 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.

       
       

Location: 

Semimar room R105,  
Philosophenweg 12

   
Dates: Thu, 17:30-18:45       
Start: 16.10.2025
   
Tutors: Christian Fendt (CF)
Haochang Jiang (HJ)
Brian Reville (BR)
   
 

Schedule:

   
Date Speaker Topic Tutor




16/10 Christian Fendt Talk / topic  allocation  
16/10 Christian Fendt Introduction to IMPRS-HD  
30/10 Bhavesh Rajpoot Physical Properties of Wolf-Rayet Stars,  Crowther (2007) HJ
30/10 Giulia Martos

The Effects of Snowlines on C/O in Planetary Atmospheres, Öberg etal. (2011)

HJ
06/11 Inma Moyano

Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, Gillon etal. (2017)

HJ
06/11 Matheus Castro

A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star, Mayor & Queloz (1995)

HJ
13/11 Marco Troncoso

Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run, Abott etal. (2016)

CF
13/11 Nils Candebat

Quasars and the Intergalactic Medium at Cosmic Dawn, Fan etal. (2023)

HJ
20/11 Yiqi Wu

Stellar mergers as the origin of magnetic massive stars, Schneider etal.(2019)

BR
20/11 Anindya Guria

Local Helioseismology: Three-Dimensional Imaging of the Solar Interior, Gizon etal. (2010)

CF
27/11 Francesco Chiti Tegli

Gamma Ray Bursts at cosmological distances,  Paczynski (1986)

CF
27/11 Rafael Zavala Measurement of the Rate of nu_+d ->p+e- interactions produced by 8B Solar  neutrinos at the SNO, Ahmad etal. ( 2001) &  (Solar Neutrinos: Status and Prospects, Haxton, etal. 2013) CF
04/12 Elouan Spaan Theory and Observation of Winds from Star-Forming Galaxies, Thompson & Heckman (2024) BR
04/12 Christian Burt

Physics of Neutron stars, Lattimer & Prakash (2004)

CF
11/12 Nora Bachmann A Circumplanetary Disk around PDS70c,  Benisty etal. (2021) HJ
11/12 Arpita Ganguly

The Interstellar Interlopers, Jewitt & Seligman (2023)

HJ
Xmas break No seminar
08/01 Seyeon Hwang

Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies, Kennicutt & Evans (2012)

BR
08/01 Johannes Bahrenberg

High-Contrast Coronagraphy, Kenworthy & Haffert (2025)

HJ
15/01 Camilla Koshikumo

A relativistic jet from a neutron star breaking out of its natal supernova remnant, Gasealahwe et al. (2025)

BR
15/01 Cinta Vidante

The acceleration of cosmic rays in shock fronts, Bell (1978)

BR
22/01 Tobias van Lier

Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar;  Kramer etal. (2006)

CF
22/01 Daniel Wanner

The Rate of Star Formation, Schmidt (1959)

CF
29/01 Mairi Nonhebel

The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic, Heywood etal. (2022)

BR
29/01 Zhihao Fu

Theory of Star Formation, McKee & Ostriker, 2007

BR
05/02 David Haegele Interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules, Tielens (2008) HJ
05/02 Jorge Saavedra Bastidas A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering, Navarro et al. (1997) CF
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