Seminar der Astrophysik / The Astrophysics Seminar

(http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pavel/AstroSem/seminar.html)

Course #6961 (SS09) / module astro890

Elective Seminar in Experimental Physics (Advanced Studies), 4 credit points

Wahlpflichtseminar in Experimentalphysik (Hauptstudium)

Mondays, 14 st (14:00) o'clock, HS Astronomy, Auf dem Hügel 71.
(Presentation of topics with all participants begins Monday, April 20th, 2009 (at 14:00) in HS of Astronomy.)
Supervision: astronomy lecturers and group leaders.
Organizaton: Pavel Kroupa (Tel. 73-6140, pavel@astro.uni-bonn.de).

Topics:
Each student selects a topic which he/she will report on. For the list of available topics see below.

Preparation of Talks:
Material for the seminar is provided by the supervisors (copies of papers, pens, transparencies, slides, overhead, beamer).
If you wish to use a beamer, contact your supervisor in time!

Quality of Talks:
This will be the first time that you encounter up-to-date scientific
literature in the form of research papers. Research papers
are not easy to read, and this is one of the hurdles you will need
to pass on your way to giving the talk.

A research paper typically contains references to other papers. Which of these
you should follow-up will be clarified by talking to your supervisor.
Following-up some of the cited literature will teach you how to navigate the
manifold of professional literature.

The talks ought to be prepared for the benefit of
your fellow students. Therefore this is an excellent chance to
practice your didactic skills. The aim is to communicate science.
Note:
Avoid black or blue backgrounds as these put the audience to sleep.
Avoid green lines or writing as such lines cannot be seen well through an overhead projector.
Best is to use a simple white background with black or blue letters for the writing.

While the talks may be held in German, the supervisors strongly encourage
you to talk in English, as this benefits your training.

Scheine / certificates:
This course is worth 4 credit points. The corresponding certificate ("Schein") is awarded if the
student (a) attends the seminars of the other students and (b) holds a presentation.
The certificate can be picked up in the office of Mrs Elisabeth Danne on the third floor at the
end of the semester.

Schedule:


Date	Subject	Speaker	Supervisor
20.04.09	Presentation of topics	P.Kroupa et al.
27.04.
04.05.
11.05.
18.05.	5) "BLAST: Resolving the Cosmic Submillimeter Background"	Alexander Knips	Peter Schneider
25.05.	4a) Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project III: Cosmological Parameter Constraints 4b) "New constraints on dark energy from the observed growth of the most X-Ray lominous galaxy clusters	Nelly Gross Anton Ippendorf	Thomas Reiprich Thoams Reiprich
01.06.	----- Pfingsten ----	----	----
08.06.	9) "The impact of type Ia supernovae on main sequence binary companions"	Daniela Kuebler	Norbert Langer
15.06.
22.06.	1) "Deep 1.4 GHz Very Large Array Observations of the Radio Halo and Relic in Abell 2256" 6) "Resolving the obscuring torus in NGC 1068 with the power of infrared interferometry"	Patrick Matuschek Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros	Uli Klein Sebastian Hoenig
29.06.	3) "Journey to the black-hole -mass - velocity dispersion relation: the fate of low mass black holes in the Universe"	Nadine Schneider	Holger Baumgardt
06.07.	7b) "Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth" 10) "Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey"	Vera Jaritz Tobias Guttenberger	Stefan Kraus Frank Bertoldi
13.07.	2) "Universality of young cluster sequences"	Manuel Hahn	Pavel Kroupa
20.07.	11) "Review on exoplanets"	Miklos Peuten	Ingo Thies/Kroupa

Topics will be introduced by the supervisors (please contact them)
on the first (organizational) meeting (April 20th), but can be offered already during the
vacation period. If you chose a subject during the vacation period, you should volunteer
to give your seminar at an early date of the semester. Please contact the supervisors.

Currently proposed topics: (a "t" in front of the number means the
topis has been taken already):

t1) "Deep 1.4 GHz Very Large Array Observations of the Radio Halo and Relic in Abell 2256"
Clarke, T. E.; Ensslin, T. A., 2006, AJ 131, 2900
Supervisor: Ulrich Klein

t2) "Universality of young cluster sequences"
S. Pfalzner, A&A, accepted, http://de.arxiv.org/abs/0904.0523
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa
(not available on 25.05., 15.06.-4.07.)

t3) "Journey to the black-hole -mass - velocity dispersion relation: the fate of low mass black holes in the Universe"
Volonteri & Natarajan (2009), MNRAS submitted, arXiv:0903.2262
Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt

t4) "Chandra Cluster Cosmology Project III: Cosmological Parameter Constraints"
Vikhlinin et al. (2009), ApJ, 692, 1060-1074 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...692.1060V
Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich

t5) "BLAST: Resolving the Cosmic Submillimeter Background"
by Gaelen Marsden et al., arXiv:0904.1205
Supervisor: Peter Schneider

t6) "Resolving the obscuring torus in NGC 1068 with the power of infrared interferometry"
by Raban et al. 2009, MNRAS, 394, 1325
Supervisor: Sebastian Hoenig

t7) "Optical Images of an Exosolar Planet 25 Light-Years from Earth"
by Kalas et al. 2008, Science 322, 1345
and
"The spin-orbit alignment of the Fomalhaut planetary system probed by optical long baseline interferometry"
by Le Bouquin et al. A&A, in press (astro-ph/0904.1688)
Supervisor: Stefan Kraus

8) "X-Ray Flares in Orion Young Stars. II. Flares, Magnetospheres, and
Protoplanetary Disks"  by  Getman et al. 2008
Supervisor: Maria Massi

t9) "The impact of type Ia supernovae on main sequence binary companions"
by R. Pakmor et al. 2008, A&A 489, 943-951
Supervisor: Norbert Langer

t10) "Galaxy clusters discovered with a Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey"
by  Z. Staniszewski et al., ApJ, submitted, arXiv:0810.1578
Supervisor: Frank Bertoldi

t11) "INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY INVITED REVIEW ON EXOPLANETS",
John Asher Johnson
Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa

Tutors:

Supervisor: Holger Baumgardt

Supervisor: Thomas Beckert

Supervisor: Frank Bertoldi

Supervisor: Michael Bird

Supervisor: Klaas de Boer

Supervisor: Andreass Brunthaler

Supervisor: Hans Fahr

Supervisor: Sebastian Hoenig

Supervisor: Juergen Kerp

Supervisor: Ulrich Klein

Supervisor: Stefan Kraus

Supervisor: Pavel Kroupa

Supervisor: Norbert Langer

Supervisor: Maria Massi

Supervisor: Karl Menten

Supervisor: Christiano Porciani

Supervisor: Thomas Reiprich

Supervisor: Peter Schneider

Supervisor: Olaf Wucknitz

Pavel Kroupa

E-mail: Pavel K.