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Astrophysical advanced seminars
for the Master of Science in Astrophysics/Physics

Topics chosen in the SS 13:

Name	Topic	Date	Supervisor


*1. x	x	14.05.13	x

2. B. Tegetmeyer	Measuring Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing.	21.05.13	Seitz

3. P. Plewa	Galaxy evolution: From z~3 to present day.	28.05.13	Remus

4. F. Müller	Astronomical CCD Cameras.	04.06.13	Lang

5. K. Gawlik	SINFONI: Spectro-Imaging and threedimensional data.	11.06.13	Gillessen

6. L. Henniker	Extra-solar Planets: The various detection methods.	18.06.13	Koppenhoefer

7. K. Anastasopaelou	Intermediate-mass Black Holes.	25.06.13	Gillessen

8. R. Zitlau	Formation mechanisms of high-mass stars.	02.07.13	Preibisch

9. Y. Fudamato	Detailed views of the era when stars have formed - the high-redshift Universe.	09.07.13	Kurk

*10. x	x	16.07.13	x

Topics chosen in the WS 12/13:

Name	Topic	Date	Supervisor


*1. x	x	13.11.12	x

2. x	x	20.11.12	x

3. x	x	27.12.12	x

4. L. Bachmann	Intermediate-mass Black Holes.	04.12.12	Gillessen

5. J. Abella	Advanced image processing: Deriving fundamental properties of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole and its stellar neighborhood.	11.12.12	Gillessen

6. D. Herschmann	Explaining cosmic acceleration with Dark Energy.	08.01.13	Hoyle/Weller

7. S. Heigl	Type Ia supernovae in modern astrophysics.	15.01.13	Hoffmann

8. C. Franik	Extra-solar Planets: The various detection methods.	22.01.13	Koppenhoefer

9. Y. Fudamato	Probing the nature and evolution of distant galaxies.	29.01.13	Kurk

10. A. Schmidt	Disks in Cosmological N-Body Simulations.	05.02.13	Dolag

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Topics of the 1st Semester:
Basic astrophysical concepts of modern astronomy

1) theoretically and numerically oriented

Name	Topic	Date	Supervisor


1. xx	Broad and narrow lines regions in quasars. or Theory of the formation of Stroemgren spheres.		Hoffmann Pauldrach

2. xx	The orbital structure of galaxies. or Surface brightness profiles of elliptical galaxies.		Thomas Naab

3. xx	The wind-momentum luminosity relation.		Puls

4. xx	Imprints of Reionization on the Cosmic Microwave Background.		Weller

5. xx	The spectral classification scheme. or The Stellar Initial Mass Function.		Butler Ratzka

6. xx	Gas and Dust in the Milky Way. or Gunn-Peterson effect.		Gerhard Alig

7. xx	The gravitational lens effect. or Are Elliptical Galaxies made by mergers?		Seitz Remus

8. xx	Formation mechanisms of high-mass stars.		Preibisch

9. xx	Hierarchy of instabilities in the Interstellar Medium.		Lesch

10. xx	The Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks		Ercolano

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2) experimentally and observationally oriented

Name	Topic	Date	Supervisor


1. xx	Faraday Rotation (RM) of polarized radio emission.		Dolag

2. xx	Astrometry: Useful since the times of Kepler. or c2 - fitting: Seeking the most likely truth.		Gillessen Gillessen

3. xx	Extra-solar Planets: The various detection methods. or The Kepler Mission: Searching for a twin of the Earth.		Koppenhoefer Koppenhoefer

4. xx	Measuring the large scale distribution of galaxies.		Phleps

5. xx	Adaptive Optics: Correcting the atmospheric turbulence for ground- based telescopes. or Modern eyes in astronomy - CCDs and IR detectors.		Gillessen Gillessen

6. xx	Detection of Gravitational Waves.		Ratzka

7. xx	Ritchey-Cretien-Telescopes (VLT, WST 2m, PanSTARRS): The impact of science on the optical design.		Grupp

8. xx	Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Colour-Magnitude diagram and globular clusters.		Riffeser

9. xx	What can the content of galaxy clusters tell us about the dark matter density in the Universe?		Mohr

10. xx	Experimental Methods of Infrared Astronomy: The Key to the Galactic Center. or Getting most out of your data - Data Reduction.		Gillessen Gillessen

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Topics of the 2nd Semester:
Tools in modern Astrophysics

3) theoretically and numerically oriented

Name	Topic	Date	Supervisor


1. xx	Why is the cosmic microwave background fluctuation level 10^-5? or Clumping in hot star winds.		Lesch Puls

2. xx	The Formation of Planets. or Galaxy evolution: From z~3 to present day.		Ercolano Remus

3. xx	Simulations of gravitating particle systems: Evolution of star clusters and galaxies. or Type Ia supernovae in modern astrophysics.		Naab Hoffmann

4. xx	Dynamical modeling and the structure of elliptical galaxies: Dark matter and the formation epoch of ellipticals. or Line broadening and other misdemeanours.		Thomas Butler

5. xx	Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Clusters.		Dolag

6. xx	Measuring Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing. or Weak gravitational lensing: strech & flex of galaxies. or Two Point Correlation Functions.		Seitz Seitz Seitz

7. xx	Spherical Collapse in a Dark Energy Dominated Universe. or Spectral Energy Distributions of the first Stars and the Reionization of the universe.		Weller Pauldrach

8. xx	Galaxy Models with NMAGIC. or Dark matter and structure formation in the Universe?		Gerhard Alig

9. xx	Triggering of star formation.		Preibisch

10. xx	Explaining cosmic acceleration with Dark Energy.		Hoyle/Weller

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4) experimentally and observationally oriented

Name	Topic	Date	Supervisor


1. xx	How does one make precise measurements of 1 billion galaxies?		Mohr

2. xx	VISIR: State-of-the-art instrumentation for thermal infrared studies. or Advanced image processing: Deriving fundamental properties of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole and its stellar neighborhood.		Gillessen Gillessen

3. xx	What have we learned in the field of star formation from Optical Long Baseline Interferometry.		Ratzka

4. xx	The stellar structure of the Galaxy. or Intermediate-mass Black Holes.		Phleps Gillessen

5. xx	`Needles in the Heystack' Searching for Machos and Planets with the difference imaging technique.		Koppenhoefer

6. xx	Synthesizing stellar isochrones to observed stellar populations. or Exploring telescope optics: How do the largest optical systems work?		Riffeser Riffeser

7. xx	Optical Interferometry: Breaking the diffraction limit of individual telescopes. or Advanced Adaptive Optics: Laser Guide Stars and Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics.		Gillessen/ Eisenhauer Gillessen

8. xx	Adaptive optics and laser guide stars: Compensating the atmospheric turbulence for diffraction limited images. or SINFONI: Spectro-Imaging and threedimensional data.		Gillessen Gillessen

9. xx	Astronomical CCD Cameras.		Lang

10. xx	Probing the nature and evolution of distant galaxies. or Detailed views of the era when stars have formed - the high-redshift Universe.		Kurk Kurk

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Last updated April 2013 by A.W.A. Pauldrach uh10107@usm.lmu.de

Universitäts-Sternwarte München

Fakultät für Physik der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität

Astrophysical advanced seminars for the Master of Science in Astrophysics/Physics

Topics chosen in the SS 13:

Topics chosen in the WS 12/13:

Topics of the 1st Semester: Basic astrophysical concepts of modern astronomy 1) theoretically and numerically oriented

2) experimentally and observationally oriented

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Topics of the 2nd Semester: Tools in modern Astrophysics

3) theoretically and numerically oriented

4) experimentally and observationally oriented

Astrophysical advanced seminars
for the Master of Science in Astrophysics/Physics

Topics of the 1st Semester:
Basic astrophysical concepts of modern astronomy

1) theoretically and numerically oriented

Topics of the 2nd Semester:
Tools in modern Astrophysics