Dynamics of galaxies, star clusters and planetary systems (MVSem)
Lecturers: Andreas Just, Rainer Spurzem
Winter term 2017/18 (2 SWS)
Wednesday 14:15 - 16:00, ARI-B seminarroom in the basement
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.
- 18.10. (AJ) Planning Session
- 25.10. --
- 8.11. --
- 15.11. (AJ) Jiaming Zhao: J1. Dynamical Modelling of the Galactic Bulge and Bar
- 22.11. (AJ) Martin Brinkmöller: J2. Radial Variation in the Stellar Mass Functions of Star Clusters
- 29.11. (AJ) Dane Marvin Späth: J4. ON THE SURVIVAL OF HIGH-ALTITUDE OPEN CLUSTERS WITHIN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY TIDES
- 6.12. (AJ) cancelled
- 13.12. --
- 20.12. --
- 10.1. (AJ) Mahshid Homayouni: J5. Stars with fast Galactic rotation observed in Gaia TGAS: a signature driven by the Perseus arm?
- 17.1. (AJ) Iris Feldt: J6. The innate origin of radial and vertical gradients in a simulated galaxy disc
- 24.1. (AJ,RS) Christophe Edy Joe Pixius: S6. Relativistic mergers of black hole binaries have large, similar masses, low spins and are circular & Tobias Syed: S4. Black hole binaries dynamically formed in globular clusters
- 31.1. (AJ,RS) Thomas Pfeil: S7. The distribution of stars around the Milky Way's black hole III: Comparison with simulations & Moritz Epple: S5. Revealing the Formation of Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries: The Need for Deci-Hertz Gravitational-wave Observatories
- 7.2. -- (MSc exam week)
(Responsible for contents: Andreas Just)
Contact: A. Just
