University of Heidelberg

Dynamics of Galaxies, Star Clusters, and Interstellar Matter (MVSem)

Lecturers:
Rainer Spurzem spurzem@nao.cas.cn , and
Natalia Lahén nt354@uni-heidelberg.de

Summer term 2026 (2 SWS)
weekly Tuesday 14:15 - 15:45, ARI seminarroom (1st floor), Begin April 21, 2026

This 'Masterpflichtseminar' is addressed specifically to master students, who intend to obtain the mantadory 'MVSem' graded certificate required for the master in physics. 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. Lecturers are available for personal advice in advance on how to prepare the seminar talk. An additional written report on the presentation is required.

Registration

In heico you find the seminar under this link . In the Uebungen System you find our course under https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/v/2200 . Here we will organize the seminar plan, upload talks, and have a rocket chat for communication (direct link to chat) . Registration should be done via heico, and will be automatically transported to Uebungen.

Time Plan

A presentation of possible topics, the choice of topics and time plan will be done in the first and second session. More informations on topics and registrations (heico and uebungen systems) will appear here soon.

Time plan (supervisor initials in brackets):

Please contact your supervisor well before your seminar talk for discussion of the paper and advice for the presentation (L-papers: Natalia Lahen; S-papers: Rainer Spurzem).
--: no seminar meeting.

(Responsible for contents: Rainer Spurzem )
Contact: R. Spurzem
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