University of Heidelberg

Dynamics of galaxies, star clusters and planetary systems (MVSem)

Lecturers: Andreas Just, Rainer Spurzem

Summer term 2018 (2 SWS)
Wednesday 14:00 - 15:30, ARI seminarroom

This 'Masterpflichtseminar' is addressed specifically to master students, who intend to obtain the mantadory 'MVSem' certificate required for master studies. It is organised as a journal club, where every topic usually consists of a seminar talk by the student presenting one or more recent research papers. An additional written report of the presentation is required.

Registration

Please register here for participation

Time Plan

A presentation of possible topics, the choice of topics and time plan will be done in the first and second session (in brackets you find the available supervisors for each date). A list of topics as suggested by the lecturers can be found here. More and other suggestions are always welcome.

  • 18.4. (AJ,RS) Planning Session
  • 25.4. --
  • 2.5. (AJ) R. Latka: J1. Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury. XVIII. The High-mass Truncation of the Star Cluster Mass Function
  • 9.5. (AJ) cancelled
  • 16.5. (AJ)
  • 23.5. --
  • 30.5. --
  • 6.6. (AJ,RS) Y. Ji: S4. The evolution of kicked stellar-mass black holes in star cluster environment
  • 13.6. (AJ,RS) N. Büttner: J5. The total satellite population of the Milky Way
  • 20.6. (AJ,RS) M. Saßerath: X. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies
  • 27.6. (AJ,RS) T.B. Aluko: S5. The fate of close encounters between binary stars and binary supermassive black holes
  • 4.7. (AJ,RS) M.-L. Steinmeyer: S2. On the initial binary population for star cluster simulations
  • 11.7. (AJ,RS)
  • 18.7. (AJ,RS)
  • 25.7. -- (MSc exam week)


(Responsible for contents: Andreas Just)
Contact: A. Just
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