1st IMPRS retreat - May 10-13, 2005
This was the first Annual Students’ Workshop. It was held in “Schloss” Hotel in Braunfels 130 km SE of Bonn to the SE. The Deki page for the meeting lives here.
Tuesday 10 May (FirstDay)
12:00
14:00
Lunch
Session I - Chair: J. Anton Zensus
14:00
14:15
J. Anton Zensus
Welcoming address
14:15
15:00
Jens Kauffmann
Models of dense molecular cores / ImprsKauffmannAbstract
15:00
15:45
Krisztina E. Gabanyi
Radio propagation through the turbulent interstellar medium
15:45
16:15
Coffee break
Session II - Chair: tbd
16:15
17:00
Fatemeh Tabatabaei
Thermal emission in spiral galaxies / ImprsTabatabaeiAbstract
17:00
17:45
Manolis Angelakis
Pulsars
18:30
20:00
Dinner
Wednesday 11 May (SecondDay)
Session III
09:00
09:45
Hauke Voss
Distance measures in the universe / ImprsVossAbstract
09:45
10:30
Stefan Kraus
Testing the Relativistic Effect of the Propagation of Gravity by Very Long Baseline Interferometry
10:30
11:00
Coffee break
Session IV - Soft skills seminar
11:00
13:00
Claus Ascheron (Springer Verlag)
Scientific Creativity / ImprsAscheronAbstract
13:15
14:30
Lunch
14:30
19:00
Social Program
19:00
20:30
Dinner
20:30
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Thursday 12 May (ThirdDay)
Visit to Leica Factory
08:45
09:30
Travel Braunfels-Wetzlar
09:30
10:00
Welcome and Corporate Presentation
10:00
11:15
Visit to the Optics Departament
11:30
12:15
Travel Wetzlar-Braunfels
12:30
13:30
Lunch
Session V
14:00
14:45
Jan Forbrich
Use of archival X-ray data / ImprsForbrichAbstract
14:45
15:30
Tim Schrabback
Reduction of HST data
15:30
16:00
Coffee break
Session VI
16:30
17:15
Nikhil Jethava
Optical Alignment Tool / ImprsJethavaAbstract
17:15
18:00
Peter Erni
Can Lambda be determined from nearby Type Ia Supernovae? / ImprsErniAbstract
18:00
18:30
Ricardo Bustos (Universidad de Concepción)
Cosmology with the Cosmic Background Imager
18:30
20:30
Dinner
Friday 13 May (FourthDay)
Session VII
09:00
09:45
Anupreeta Moré
Extra-galactic radio sources & apparent superluminal motions
09:45
10:30
Ioana Dutan
Powering jets in AGN / ImprsDutanAbstract
10:30
11:00
Coffee break
Session VIII - Chair: Eduardo Ros
11:00
11:45
Carolin Hieret
Archaeoastronomy: prehistoric sites of astronomical significance / ImprsHieretAbstract
11:45
12:30
Jörg Dietrich
Searching for intercluster filaments with weak lensing and applications to multiple cluster systems
12:30
13:00
Eduardo Ros
Closing and general remarks
13:15
14:30
Lunch
15:00
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Travel back to Bonn