Dynamics of galaxies, star clusters and planetary systems (MVSem)
Lecturers: Andreas Just, Rainer Spurzem
Winter term 2018/19 (2 SWS)
Wednesday 14:00 - 15:30, ARI seminarroom, first floor
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 participationTime 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.
- 17.10. (AJ) Planning Session
- 24.10. --
- 31.10. tbd
- 7.11. (AJ) ...
- 14.11. --
- 21.11. --
- 28.11. --
- 5.12. (AJ) Thomas Plewa: J3. The dynamically selected stellar halo of the Galaxy with Gaia and the tilt of the velocity ellipsoid
- 12.12. (AJ) Robin Christoph Herlan: J4. The Influence of Sagittarius and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way Galaxy
- 19.12. --
- 9.1. (AJ,RS) Valeria Politino: J1. Estimating stellar birth radii and the time evolution of the Milky Way's ISM metallicity gradient
- 16.1. (AJ,RS) Stefan Umbrarescu: J2. The properties of energetically unbound stars in stellar clusters
- 23.1. (AJ,RS) --
- 30.1. (AJ,RS) Lukas Eisert: S1+S5. MOCCA-SURVEY Database: Eccentric Black Hole Mergers during Binary-Single Interactions in Globular Clusters + the impact of globular cluster properties
- 6.2. -- (MSc exam week)
(Responsible for contents: Andreas Just)
Contact: A. Just
