Ingo Thies

Research interests:

Formation of planets and brown dwarfs: The timescale problem of planet formation vs. disc lifetime Dynamics of circumstellar discs (see movie files) Architecture of our Solar System and of known extrasolar planetary systems. Star cluster dynamics: Substellar initial mass function Dynamical evolution of star clusters and their sub-populations (stars, BDs, free-floating planetary-mass objects)

Publications:

• I. Thies, P. Kroupa, Simon P. Goodwin, Dimitris Stamatellos & Anthony P. Whitworth: A natural formation scenario for misaligned extrasolar planets

• I. Thies, P. Kroupa, Simon P. Goodwin, Dimitris Stamatellos & Anthony P. Whitworth: Tidally induced brown dwarf and planet formation in circumstellar discs

• I. Thies & P. Kroupa: A discontinuity in the low-mass IMF - the case of high multiplicity

• I. Thies & P. Kroupa: A Discontinuity in the Low-Mass Initial Mass Function

• I. Thies, P. Kroupa & Ch. Theis: Induced planet formation in stellar clusters: a parameter study of star-disc encounters

Conferences and meetings:

• October 2011: SPP Kolloquium 2011, Mainz, Germany

• September 2011: Surveys & Simumations, Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Heidelberg, Germany

• February 2011: Planet Formation and Evolution 2011, Göttingen, Germany

• October 27-30 2010: Joint Paneth and SPP Kolloquium 2010 in Nördlingen, Germany

• October 17-22 2010: The Origin of Stellar Masses Conference at Tenerife, Canary Islands

• September 2010: Zooming in the Cosmos at High Resolution: Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Bonn, Germany

• March 2009: Planet Formation and Evolution: The Solar System and Extrasolar Planets Conference in Tübingen, Germany

• August 2008: MODEST-8 Conference in Sheffield, UK

• December 2007: 4th RSDN meeting (Bad Honnef)

• October 2007: AIfA meeting in Bad Honnef

• December 2006: 3rd RSDN meeting (Hoher List Observatory)

• June 2006: Invited talk on Triggered planet formation at the Hamburger Sternwarte (Prof. Wiedemann, University of Hamburg)

• November 2005: 2nd RSDN meeting (Hoher List Observatory)

• September 2005: Annual meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) in Cologne

• June 2005: Ultra-Low-Mass Star Formation conference at La Palma (Canary Islands)
  Contribution: I. Thies, P. Kroupa & Ch. Theis: Triggered planet formation in young stellar clusters
  published in Astronomische Nachrichten: 2005 AN, 326, 1048

• April 2005:Invited talk about Triggered planet formation in Vienna

• December 2004: MODEST5A in Edinburgh

• October 2004: 1st meeting of the Rhine Stellar Dynamical Network (RSDN) at the Hoher List Observatory (Germany)

• September 2003: Annual meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft (AG) in Freiburg (Germany)

Miscellaneous:

• Software for calculation of the sun path and irradiance: Sunpath
  Sample data for 2011: Bonn, Hoher List Observatory
• A Gnuplot-based Solar System display tool: Solar System 3D
• Gnuplot helper scripts for easy layout and color management: Multiplot Layout, Color tools.
  Among them are scripts that make use of David Green's cube helix colour scheme (paper on arXiv).

• the Argelander-Institute for Astronomy of the University of Bonn (AIfA),
• the University of Bonn,
• the Most recent astrophysical preprints at the arXive preprint server.
• the Astronomical Picture of the Day.