| Group leader of the Computational Astrophysics (CAST) group |
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Andreas Burkert
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Nature of dark matter. Formation of galaxies. Active Galactic Nuclei. Structure and dynamics of the interstellar medium.
Formation of turbulent molecular clouds, stars and stellar clusters. Planet formation.
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| Group leader of the Planet and Star Formation group |
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Barbara Ercolano
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Protoplanetary discs and planet formation. Star formation and stellar feedback. Dust production by Supernovae. The structure,
ionisation and chemistry of the Interstellar medium. Radiative transfer techniques.
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| Scientific Staff |
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Klaus Dolag
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Magnetic Fields, Cosmology, Clusters of Galaxies
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| Postdocs |
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Tilman Birnstiel
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6029 |
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email: |
tilman usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM I25 |
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publications |
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Dust growth and transport in protoplanetary disks; structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks; planet formation;
connection to mm-observations
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James Dale
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phone: |
+49 89 35831 7164 |
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email: |
dale usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
EXC 015 |
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publications |
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3-D SPH simulations of the effects of stellar feedback, particularly photionization and stellar winds, on star-forming molecular clouds,
to investigate the likelihood of triggered star formation and to evaluate the disruptive effect of feedback on embedded clusters.
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Martin Ilgner
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phone: |
+49 89 35831 7129 |
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email: |
martin.ilgner lmu.de |
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office: |
EXC 038 |
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publications |
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Photoionisation models of the ISM,
Chemistry and dynamics of protoplanetary discs
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Martin Krause
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Radiation hydrodynamics at opacity transitions; Energy transport in molecular tori. The role of activity in galaxy evolution,
multiphase turbulence, astrophysical jets, magnetic fields in galaxy clusters (SKADS)
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Marc Schartmann
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Physics of gas and dust tori in Active Galactic Nuclei: radiative transfer calculations (MC3D),
(radiation) hydrodynamic simulations (PLUTO/TRAMP), study of turbulence, clumpy torus models
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Federico Stasyszyn
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phone: |
+49 30000 2196 |
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email: |
fstasys@mpa-garching.mpg.de |
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office: |
MPA / 285 |
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publications |
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Smoothed particle magneto-hydro-dynamics for cosmological applications
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Simon White
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| Graduate Students |
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Christian Alig
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phone: |
+49 2180 5979 |
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email: |
alig usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM E10/11 |
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publications |
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Numerical Simulations of the formation and evolution of turbulent gaseous discs and rings inside galactic centres.
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Alessandro Ballone
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phone: |
+49 89 30000 3884 |
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email: |
aballone mpe.mpg.de |
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office: |
MPE X2 364 |
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publications |
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Stellar wind feedback in Galactic Nuclei, evolution of AGN tori in nearby Seyfert galaxies
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Alexander Beck
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6031 |
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email: |
abeck usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM I25 |
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homepage |
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With Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch: Studying the evolution of magnetic fields in
protogalaxies with the cosmological SPMHD code Gadget3.
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Manuel Behrendt
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6006 & +49 89 30000 3884 |
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email: |
mabe mpe.mpg.de |
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office: |
USM I13 & MPE 364 |
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publications, homepage |
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The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies at High-Redshifts
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Katharina Fierlinger
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phone: |
+49 89 35831 7124 |
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email: |
katharina.fierlinger universe-cluster.de |
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office: |
126 @ Excellence Cluster / Boltzmannstr. 2 / D-85748 Garching |
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publications |
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Interaction of massive star groups with the ISM: hydro models for radioactive tracers in the Orion Eridanus Superbubble.
Codes: Andi's code & RAMSES
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Wolfgang von Glasow
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6006 |
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email: |
glasow usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM I13 |
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publications |
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Galactic Winds: launching galactic outflows and feedback processes
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Judith Ngoumou
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6006 |
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email: |
ngoumou usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM I13 |
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publications |
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Protoplanetary disk and planet formation
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Eva Ntormousi
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6028 |
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email: |
eva usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM I 02 |
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publications |
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Molecular cloud formation in colliding flows
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Beata Pasternak
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 5982 |
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email: |
beata usm.lmu.de |
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office: |
USM E 16 |
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publications |
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Non-thermal emission from galaxy clusters - evolution of cosmic rays
in merging galaxy clusters.
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Stephanie Pekruhl
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 5979 |
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email: |
pekruhl usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM E10/11 |
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publications |
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with Prof. Th. Preibisch: Observations & Simulations of Molecular Cloud Structure
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Rhea-Silvia Remus
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6005 |
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email: |
rhea usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM I13 |
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publications |
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The Evolution of Galaxies in Groups;
the Outer Structure of Elliptical Galaxies and their Dark Matter Halos.
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Giovanni Rosotti
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email: |
rosotti usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
EXC 038 |
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publications |
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SPH simulations of accretion disc, both protoplanetary discs, to evaluate the effect of X-ray photoionization on the evolution of the disc,
and discs around supermassive black holes.
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Martin Zintl
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 6015 |
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email: |
zintl usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM I13 |
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publications |
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SPH simulations with GPUs
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| External Graduate Students |
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Veronica Biffi
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phone: |
+49 30000 3340 |
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email: |
biffi@mpe.mpg.de |
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office: |
MPE / x5 1.1.07 |
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publications |
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Studying the physics of galaxy clusters by simulations and X-ray
observations
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Hans Boehringer
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Julius Donnert
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phone: |
+49 30000 2291 |
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email: |
jdonnert@mpa-garching.mpg.de |
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office: |
MPA / 001 |
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publications |
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On the non-thermal emission in galaxy clusters
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Harald Lesch
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Francesca Iannuzzi
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phone: |
+49 30000 2329 |
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email: |
iannuzzi@mpa-garching.mpg.de |
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office: |
MPA / 002 |
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publications |
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Studying the survival of galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations of clusters
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Simon White
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| Undergraduate Students |
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Max Brunner
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 5979 |
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email: |
brunner usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM E11 |
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publications |
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The influence of gas accretion on star formation in galactic discs.
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Georg Michna
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TBD
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Christine Maria Koepferl
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phone: |
+49 89 2180 5979 |
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email: |
koepferl usm.uni-muenchen.de |
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office: |
USM E11 |
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Protoplanetary discs around young stars.
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| Summer Students |
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Antonia Bevan
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phone: |
+44 79 4918 4226 |
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email: |
amb219 cam.ac.uk |
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office: |
USM I25 |
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Protoplanetary discs around young stars.
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| Former Group Members |
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Michael Aumer
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High-redshift galactic disk formation and structure
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Pawel Ciecielag
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Planets formation: planetesimals accretion, gas drag, disk-planet interaction;
Cosmology: large scale velocity fields, density-velocity comparisions;
Numerical methods: direct n-body (Nbody4++ code, special purpose hardware - GRAPE), hydro (PPM, AMR, FLASH code).
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Clare Dobbs
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Molecular cloud formation in spiral galaxies. Formation of spiral galaxies.
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Elena D'Onghia
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Galaxy and Structure Formation, the nature of dark matter, galaxy evolution, groups of galaxies.
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Matthias Gritschneder
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Photoionisation in the environment of young, massive stars. Study of triggered star formation in proximity to these efficient ionisation
sources. Numerical methods: SPH + Ionisation, VINE.
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Helmut Hetznecker
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Large scale structure formation, structure of dark matter halos, dwarf galaxies in dark matter halos
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Michael Hilz
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Binary black hole mergers in galaxies (VINE code)
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Michaela Hirschmann
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Origin of the anti-hierarchical growth of black holes in the universe
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Roland Jesseit
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Orbital theory, stellar dynamics, galaxy formation, physics of dark matter halos.
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Peter Johansson
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Galaxy and structure formation, analytic and numerical modelling of feedback, modelling of galaxy populations.
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Veronika Junk
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Formation and dynamics of galaxy substructure; problem of the missing satellites.
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Simon Karl
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Galaxy mergers with respect to the growth of central black holes (VINE code)
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Hanna Kotarba
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With Prof. Harald Lesch: Magnetic field evolution in isolated and interacting spiral galaxies. Numerical methods: N-body/SPH (GADGET)
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Bernd Lang
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Formation of stars, Turbulence, Accretion Disks, Prestellar Cores and Molecular Clouds, Radiative Transfer.
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Chiara Mastropietro
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Thorsten Naab
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Ludwig Oser
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The formation of the Hubble Sequence (GADGET code)
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Stefanie Walch
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Star formation with emphasis on the formation of protostellar disks, evolution and fragmentation of protoplanetary disks and the
evolution of their spectral energy distributions. Numerical Methods: Grid-AMR: FLASH code; SPH: VINE code
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Markus Wetzstein
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Galaxy interactions / mergers, structure formation in the tidal arms of merging galaxies, formation of tidal dwarf galaxies,
numerical methods for N-body / SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) simulations, the VINE simulation code, special purpose
hardware GRAPE for the computation of gravitational forces, implementation of the SPH algorithm on an FPGA (field programmable
gate array) based special purpose hardware.
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