I give special lectures on "Dynamics of stellar mass black holes in dense stellar systems" usually in the winter semester at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, University of Bonn. Held in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.

Lecture slides (PDF): Part1 Part2

I have supervised the following masters and internship students:

• Nina Brinkmann (present): AIfA, Uni. Bonn
• Matthias Kruckow: AIfA, Uni. Bonn
• Bhawna Motwani (intern)

I have given more than 20 talks in major international scientific events including IAU General Assemblies, IAU Symposia, the MODEST conferences, Aspen Center of Physics summer and winter programmes, Sexten workshops, the Alajar meetings. Some of the recent ones are:

• "Formation of very young massive clusters: the case of NGC 3603 young cluster", at The Early Life of Stellar Clusters: Formation and Dynamics, November 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• "The formation of the NGC 3603 starburst cluster: monolithic starburst or hierarchical assembly?", at A critical look at globular cluster formation theories, July 2014, Sexten, Italy.
• "Stellar mass black holes in dense stellar systems" (blackboard talk approx. 45 min), at The Alajar meeting, September 2013, Alajar, Spain.
• "Dark Star Clusters and their implications on gravitational wave detection”, at European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS 2013), July 2013, Turku, Finland.
• "The emergence of super-canonical stars in R136-type star-burst clusters", at Joint Discussion on Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe (IAU XXVIIIth General Assembly), August 2012, Beijing, China.
• "Stellar mass black holes in star clusters" (blackboard talk approx. 1 hour), at A window to the formation of the Milky Way (Aspen summer meeting), May 2012, Aspen, U.S.A.
• "Stellar-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters: Implications for Gravitational Wave Detection”, at Formation and Evolution of Black Holes, February 2010, Aspen, U.S.A.
• "Stellar-mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters: Implications for Gravitational Wave Radiation", at Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space (IAU Symposium 266 of the XXVIIth IAU General Assembly), August 2009, Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

Some of them are mentioned here:

• "The formation of the NGC 3603 starburst cluster: episodic starburst or hierarchical assembly?", November 2014, at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany.
• "The NGC 3603 young cluster: a starburst cluster made in one go", March 2014, at Universitätssternwarte Wien, Vienna, Austria.
• "Young bright and old dark star clusters”, June 2013, at Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
• "Runaway massive stars from R136", February 2012, at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany.
• "A new type of compact stellar population: dark star clusters", December 2011, at Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany.
• "Dynamics of stellar-mass black holes in star clusters: implications for gravitational-wave detection", February 2010, at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, U.S.A.