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Universitäts-Sternwarte MünchenFakultät für Physik der Ludwig Maximilians Universität |
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| Name | Topic | Date | Supervisor |
| 1. see below | Broad
and narrow lines regions in quasars. or Theory of the formation of Stroemgren spheres. |
17.11.09 | Hoffmann |
| 2. see below | The
orbital structure of galaxies. or Surface brightness profiles of elliptical galaxies. |
24.11.09 | Thomas |
| 3. xx | Gas
and Dust in the Milky Way. or The wind-momentum luminosity relation. |
01.12.09 | Gerhard |
| 4. A. Bindel |
Imprints of Reionization on the Cosmic Microwave Background. (or Formation of low-mass stars.) |
08.12.09 | Weller |
| 5. J. Yoo | (The
spectral classification scheme. or) The Stellar Initial Mass Function. |
15.12.09 | Butler |
| 6. see below | Gunn-Peterson effect. | 12.01.10 | Johansson |
| 7. D. Kolitzus | The gravitational lens effect. | 19.01.10 | Seitz |
| 8. see below | Formation mechanisms of high-mass stars. | 26.01.10 | Preibisch |
| 9. M. Behrendt | Hierarchy of instabilities in the Interstellar Medium. | 02.02.10 | Lesch |
| 10. see below | Spiral Arms in Galaxies. | 09.02.10 | Jesseit |
Astrophysical advanced seminar I
experimentally and observationally oriented
| Name | Topic | Date | Supervisor |
| 1. P. Sterflinger | Modern eyes in astronomy - CCDs and IR detectors. | 17.11.09 | Gillessen |
| 2. M. Opitsch | Adaptive Optics: Correcting the atmospheric turbulence for ground- based telescopes. | 24.11.09 | Kissler-Patig |
| 3. xx | Characterising
Young Stellar Objects with Multi-Wavelength Surveys. or Getting most out of your data - Data Reduction. |
01.12.09 | Ratzka |
| 4. see above | Astrometry: Useful
since the times of Kepler. or c2 - fitting: Seeking the most likely truth. |
08.12.09 | Gillessen |
| 5. see above | Measuring
the large scale distribution of galaxies. or Experimental Methods of Infrared Astronomy: The Key to the Galactic Center. |
15.12.09 | Phleps |
| 6. F. Niederhofer | Extra-solar Planets: The various detection methods. | 12.01.10 | Koppenhoefer |
| 7. see above | Ritchey-Cretien-Telescopes (VLT, WST 2m, PanSTARRS): The impact of science on the optical design. | 19.01.10 | Grupp |
| 8. M. Schneider | Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, Colour-Magnitude diagram and globular clusters. | 26.01.10 | Riffeser |
| 9. see above | Interstellar reddening: review and applications. | 02.02.10 | Montalto |
| 10. F. Motalebi | What have we learned so far about extra-solar planets? | 09.02.10 | Kissler-Patig |
SS
10:
Tools in modern Astrophysics
Astrophysical advanced seminar II
theoretically and numerically oriented
| Name | Topic | Date | Supervisor |
| 1. xx | Spherical
Collapse in a Dark Energy Dominated Universe. or Spectral Energy Distributions of the first Stars and the Reionization of the universe. |
18.05.10 | Weller |
| 2. xx | Simulations of gravitating particle systems: Evolution of star clusters
and galaxies. or Environmental effects on galaxy evolution. |
01.06.10 | Naab |
| 3. xx | Why
is the cosmic microwave background fluctuation level 10-5?
or Clumping in hot star winds. |
08.06.10 | Lesch |
| 4. xx | Modelling
Low-Mass Star Formation. or Galaxy Models with NMAGIC. |
15.06.10 | Dobbs/Burkert |
| 5. xx | Dynamical
modeling and the structure of elliptical galaxies: Dark matter and the
formation epoch of ellipticals. or Line broadening and other misdemeanours. |
22.06.10 | Thomas |
| 6. xx | Dark matter and structure formation in the Universe? | 29.06.10 | Johansson |
| 7. xx | Weak gravitational lensing: strech & flex of galaxies. | 06.07.10 | Seitz |
| 8. xx | Triggering of star formation. | 13.07.10 | Preibisch |
| 9. xx | Dark Matter Halos: The Cusp-Core Crisis - Formation, Internal Structure and its interaction with the visible part of the universe. | 20.07.10 | Jesseit |
Astrophysical advanced seminar II
experimentally and observationally oriented
| Name | Topic | Date | Supervisor |
| 1. xx | Adaptive
optics and laser guide stars: Compensating the atmospheric turbulence for diffraction limited images. or SINFONI: Spectro-Imaging and threedimensional data. |
18.05.10 | Gillessen |
| 2. xx | What
have we learned in the field of star formation from Optical Long
Baseline Interferometry. or Astronomical CCD Cameras. |
01.06.10 | Ratzka |
| 3. xx | FORS:
State-of-the-art instrumentation for optical studies. or VISIR: State-of-the-art instrumentation for thermal infrared studies. |
08.06.10 | Kissler-Patig |
| 4. xx | Search
for terrestrial - earth-like - planets around M-dwarf stars: theoretical
and observational issues. or Advanced image processing: Deriving fundamental properties of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole and its stellar neighborhood. |
15.06.10 | Montalto |
| 5. xx | The stellar structure of the Galaxy. or Structure formation in the Universe: First galaxy clusters traced by narrow band imaging. |
22.06.10 | Phleps |
| 6. xx | `Needles in the Heystack' Searching for Machos and Planets with the difference imaging technique. |
29.06.10 | Koppenhoefer |
| 7. xx | Synthesizing
stellar isochrones to observed stellar populations. or Exploring telescope optics: How do the largest optical systems work? |
06.07.10 | Riffeser |
| 8. xx | Optical Interferometry: Breaking the diffraction limit of individual telescopes. or Advanced Adaptive Optics: Laser Guide Stars and Multi-Conjugated Adaptive Optics. |
13.07.10 | Gillessen/ Eisenhauer |
| 9. xx |
Probing the
nature and evolution of distant galaxies. or Detailed views of the era when stars have formed - the high-redshift Universe. |
20.07.10 | Kruk |
| Last updated December 2009 by A.W.A. Pauldrach uh10107@usm.lmu.de |