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SUMMARY:Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
DESCRIPTION:The ECAP will participate in the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” on October 21. For more information\, see the corresponding website of the Department Physik: click here.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/die-lange-nacht-der-wissenschaften/
LOCATION:Hörsaalgebäude Physikum\, Staudtstr. 5\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171122T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
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LAST-MODIFIED:20171024T133438Z
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SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Stefan Jordan
DESCRIPTION:The Gaia Mission – Overview\, First Results\, and future prospects\nThe astrometric satellite Gaia was launched in December 2019. After a comprehensive commissioning phase Gaia began its nominal scientific measurements in mid 2014. Gaia’s main goal is the determination of precise astrometric data for more than one billion stars in our Milky Way with extremely high precision. Gaia Data Release 1 was published in September 2016. It contains positions and magnitudes for about 1.1 billion stars. For two million stars proper motions and parallaxes could also be determined. Almost 200 scientific papers based on this catalogue were published until November 2017. The Gaia mission will also provide constraints on the distribution of dark matter in our Galaxy and the Hubble constant.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/stefan-jordan-gaia/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171129T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20171106T153036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171106T153036Z
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SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Chris Belczynski
DESCRIPTION:The Astrophysics of BH-BH/NS-NS Mergers with LIGO/Virgo\nI will discuss the astrophysical importance of the recent LIGO/Virgo direct detections of gravitational-waves. Despite majority of the expectations\, it was not neutron star mergers being detected first\, but the series of exotic massive black hole mergers. I will describe the leading theories of the formation of such black hole systems. I will also comment on a detection of NS-NS merger. This particular detection may provide striking constraints on binary evolution. Several astrophysical implications are beginning to emerge despite the fact that the exact origin of LIGO/Virgo sources is not yet known.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-chris-belczynski/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171213T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171213T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20171026T072957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171026T072957Z
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SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Jochen Greiner
DESCRIPTION:The gravitational wave detection of a binary neutron star merger: expectations\, surprises\, and prospects\nOn August 17\, 2017\, Advanced LIGO & Virgo detected gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger. A short-duration gamma-ray burst was detected in temporal coincidence by the INTEGRAL and Fermi satellites. A few hours later\, an optical/NIR transient was found which turned out to be compatible with the predictions of a kilonova\, powered by the radioactive decay of heavy r-process nuclei produced in the merger. I will give an overview of the observational results of this event which will go down in history as the start of multi-messenger gravitational wave astronomy. I will contrast the original expectations with the actual findings\, and will spend most of the time on the mismatches\, i.e. the new questions which emerged.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-jochen-greiner/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171220T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171220T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20171010T125403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T125403Z
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SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar : Marek Kowalski
DESCRIPTION:A new era in multi-messenger astronomy\nWith the recent discoveries of gravitational waves and high-energy cosmic neutrinos\, we are witnessing the beginning of a new era in Multi-Messenger astronomy. The exploration of the Universe through these new messengers\, along with electromagnetic radiation and cosmic rays\, provides for new insights into the most extreme\, energetic cosmic events\, environments and particle accelerators. The objects of interest range from galaxies with accreting supermassive black holes in their center to coalescing stellar neutron stars. In my talk I will discuss some of our recent observations\, as well as selected future directions\, including the Zwicky Transient Facility\, a new wide-field imaging facility that will greatly improve our prospects for finding transient sources.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/marek-kowalski-zwicky-transient-facility/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180124T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180124T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20171027T123837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171027T123837Z
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SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Arne Rau
DESCRIPTION:Overview of Athena and the Wide Field Imager\nThe Advanced Telescope for High-Energy Astrophysics will be ESA’s next large X-ray observatory. While the launch date (2028) seems far\, the community has already now been very active in assembling the scientific goals for the Athena and thus the requirements on the mission and its instrumentation. In the talk\, I will summarize the Athena science theme (The Hot and Energetic Universe)\, present its broad science portfolio\, reaching from the formation of supermassive black holes in the early Universe\, over the assembly of the large scale structure to observations to Galactic and even Solar system objects. I will also describe the mission profile and the challenges faced during the development of the optics and two scientific instruments.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-arne-rau/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180131T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180131T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180124T220640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180124T220640Z
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SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Christian Motch
DESCRIPTION:SVOM – Space-based multiband astronomical Variable Objects Monitor\nThe Chinese-French space mission SVOM (Space-based multi-band astronomical Variable Objects Monitor) is mainly designed to detect and localize Gamma-Ray Burst events (GRBs). The satellite\, to be launched late 2021\, embarks a set of gamma-ray\, X-ray and optical imagers. Thanks to its pointing strategy\, quick slew capability and fast data connection to earth\, ground based observations with large telescopes will allow us to measure redshifts for an unprecedented number of GRBs. While the association of long GRBs with core-collapse SNe is well established\, the recent detection of a kilonova and of a short GRBs in coincidence with GW170817 beautifully confirms predictions from NS-NS or NS-BH mergers models. I will present the SVOM instrumentation\, its policy for alert distribution and will discuss the overall science goals and capability of the SVOM mission in the framework of the multi-wavelength and multi-messenger panorama of the next decade.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-christian-motch/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180201T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180201T150000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20171027T124631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171027T124631Z
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SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Thorsten Lisker
DESCRIPTION:Survival in galaxy clusters: from ultra-diffuse to ultra-compact objects\nThe diversity of low-mass cluster galaxies in terms of their size and stellar content is striking. So-called ultra-diffuse galaxies residing in the core of a massive galaxy cluster appear surprisingly intact and might be protected by a large dark matter content. Ultra-compact objects\, on the other hand\, were proposed to be remnant nuclei of disrupted dwarf galaxies\, but no tidal debris is found in their vicinity. The stellar age gradients of “normal” cluster dwarfs suggest that ram pressure stripping played an important role in their evolution – yet that alone cannot explain the systematically different angular momentum content of late-type and early-type dwarfs. In this seminar talk I am going to present our latest observational efforts to tackle these problems\, along with comparisons to simulations that can shed light upon the galaxies’ evolutionary history.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-thorsten-lisker/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180425T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180425T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180319T125222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180319T125222Z
UID:2240-1524657600-1524661200@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Christoph Weniger
DESCRIPTION:Dark matter searches with gamma rays\nThe Fermi Large Area Telescope has during its almost 10 years of mission time revolutionized our understanding of the gamma-ray sky. It enabled\, e.g.\, the discovery of the Fermi bubbles\, a surprisingly large number of gamma-ray emitting millisecond pulsars\, dark gas in the Milky Way disk\, and it performed some of the most sensitive searches for dark matter annihilation signals. An excess of GeV photons from the Galactic bulge and center has been found\, which caused a lot of excitement since it is compatible with a self-annihilation signal from WIMP dark matter. Circumstantial evidence points now however in another direction\, namely that the excess is caused by the combined emission of thousands of unresolved millisecond pulsars in the Galactic bulge. Furthermore\, additional gamma-ray emission from star formation\, from the activity of the central supermassive black hole\, and gamma-ray emission associated with the Fermi bubbles can potentially play an important role for the bulge emission. I will present the current state of the discussion\, results from the new analysis code SkyFACT that support the millisecond pulsar interpretation of the Fermi GeV excess\, and plans for the future to further disentangle the various contributions to the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic bulge and center. A better understanding of this emission will shed further light on the history of the inner Galaxy and potentially the nature of dark matter.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-christoph-weniger/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180502T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180502T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180416T140126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T140126Z
UID:2261-1525262400-1525266000@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: News from the ECAP laboratory
DESCRIPTION:News from the ECAP laboratory\nKay Graf and Stefan Funk will report on the status of the ECAP laboratory building.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-news-from-the-ecap-laboratory/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180516T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180516T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180416T140546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T140546Z
UID:2263-1526472000-1526475600@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Thomas Janka
DESCRIPTION:3D core-collapse supernova modeling and applications to Cas A and other supernova remnants\nFirst three-dimensional\, first-principle simulations of core-collapse supernovae have become possible in the recent past. They demonstrate the basic viability of the neutrino-driven mechanism for powering the explosions of the majority of supernova progenitors. Although a number of open questions remain to be settled\, the explosion models are now sufficiently mature to strive for detailed comparisons against observations\, for example considering well studied\, nearby supernovae and young supernova remnants. This talk will review our basic understanding of the explosion mechanism and report some results of such observational tests.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-thomas-janka/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180523T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180523T123000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180417T144929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180417T144929Z
UID:2278-1527075000-1527078600@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Henning Gast
DESCRIPTION:Latest results from the AMS experiment on the International Space Station\nThe Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is a detector designed for precision spectroscopy of cosmic rays that was installed on the International Space Station in May 2011. With dimensions of 5x4x3 cubic meters and a weight of 7.5 tons\, AMS is the largest cosmic-ray spectrometer ever built. I will summarize the results from the first 6.5 years of operation of AMS. The energy spectra of positrons\, electrons\, anti-protons\, and light nuclei measured by AMS challenge existing theories for the origin and propagation of cosmic rays.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-henning-gast/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180530T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180530T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180416T140739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T140739Z
UID:2265-1527681600-1527685200@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Oliver Hupe
DESCRIPTION:Radiation Protection Dosimetry: Phantoms and measuring quantities\nIn this talk the concept of the radiation protection quantities will be explained. An overview about the different types and different applications of phantoms in radiation protection and their use for the definition of the different quantities is used for this. The phantoms can serve as a basis for the current definition and the calculation of conversion coefficients for the protection quantities according to ICRP 116. For the definition\, the ICRU tissue 4-element phantoms are used. In practise\, the the ISO calibration phantom for the current operational quantities such as ISO water slab\, PMMA rod etc can be used for the calibration of personal dosemeters.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-oliver-hupe/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180606T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180606T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180416T141007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T141007Z
UID:2267-1528286400-1528290000@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Michael Schulreich
DESCRIPTION:Reconstructing the origin of the Local Bubble and Loop I via radioisotopic signatures on Earth\nDeep-sea archives all over the world show an enhanced concentration of the radionuclide 60Fe\, isolated in layers dating from about 2.2Myr ago. Since this comparatively long-lived isotope is not naturally produced on Earth\, such an enhancement can only be attributed to extraterrestrial sources\, particularly one or several nearby supernovae in the recent past. It has been speculated that these supernovae might have been involved in the formation of the Local Superbubble\, our Galactic habitat. In this talk\, I will summarize our efforts in giving a quantitative evidence for this scenario. Besides analytical calculations\, I will present results from high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Superbubble and its presumptive neighbor Loop I in different environments\, including a self-consistently evolved supernova-driven interstellar medium. For the superbubble modeling\, the time sequence and locations of the generating core-collapse supernova explosions are taken into account\, which are derived from the mass spectrum of the perished members of certain\, carefully preselected stellar moving groups. The release and turbulent mixing of 60Fe is followed via passive scalars\, where the yields of the decaying radioisotope were adjusted according to recent stellar evolution calculations. The models are able to reproduce both the timing and the intensity of the 60Fe excess observed with rather high precision. I will close with a discussion of recent developments and give future perspectives.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-michael-schulreich/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180613T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180613T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180604T142328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180604T142328Z
UID:2347-1528891200-1528894800@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Adrian Zink
DESCRIPTION:Updates of the ECAP desktop computing system\nNew operating system\, new hardware and new IT services for the ECAP desktop computing system will be presented and discussed.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-adrian-zink/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180620T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180620T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180416T141438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180416T141438Z
UID:2271-1529496000-1529499600@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Frank Haberl
DESCRIPTION:The XMM-Newton surveys of the Magellanic Clouds\nUsing the XMM-Newton observatory\, we performed X-ray surveys of the Magellanic Clouds\, the two star-forming galaxies nearest to the Milky Way. The images obtained from the EPIC instruments provide a wealth of information about the X-ray source populations in the Small and Large Magellanic Cloud. Due to their proximity we can resolve the emission from supernova remnants\, and we have discovered many new X-ray binaries powered by accretion of matter. In particular the Small Magellanic Cloud is remarkable with respect to its large number of X-ray binaries with a high-mass donor star. These discrete sources are embedded in diffuse X-ray emission which originates in the hot phase of the interstellar medium of the clouds.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-frank-haberl/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180627T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180627T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180606T142211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T142211Z
UID:2355-1530100800-1530104400@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Bosco Oruru
DESCRIPTION:Status of Astronomy in East Africa: Focus on Uganda\nAstronomy and Cosmology are science disciplines that give an in-depth description and analysis of the structures and forms that characterize the universe. Although Astronomy and Cosmology are not yet fully developed in the East African region\, several affirmative developments have been registered in the establishment of the disciplines in the region. These include\, among others: postgraduate training of students from Uganda\, Kenya\, Rwanda and Ethiopia in South Africa since 2003\, benefiting from the South African National Astrophysics and Space Science Programme (NASSP) and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project. Some of these have since graduated with PhDs and returned to their home countries to contribute to the development of the disciplines. The Entoto Observatory in Ethiopia has been commissioned to provide infrastructure for Observational Astronomy and outreach activities. Kenya will host some Radio Astronomy telescopes under SKA. Most public universities in Ethiopia offer Astronomy at undergraduate level\, while a few offer it at postgraduate level. In Kenya\, Astronomy has been introduced at undergraduate level at the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University\, respectively. In Uganda\, Mbarara University of Science and Technology leads by offering Astronomy as major components of Physics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels\, and many graduate students do projects/research in Astrophysics. In Rwanda\, the National University of Rwanda also offers Astronomy as a component of Physics for undergraduate students. Since 2009\, the East African Astronomical Society (EAAS) has been formed and workshops have been held in Kenya\, Ethiopia\, Uganda and Rwanda\, respectively. In 2013\, the East African Astronomical Research Network (EAARN) was formed by astrophysicists\, with the sole aim of improving research capacity and collaboration in Astrophysics. Although Makerere University is the oldest public university in Uganda and among the top ranking universities in Africa\, Astronomy is yet to be fully developed. An effort has been made to introduce it as taught components of Physics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This has created awareness among students and also cultivated much interest in pursuing further careers in Astrophysics. The university has at least employed on full-time one professional Astrophysicist who may spearhead the establishment of the field. Initially\, part-time lecturers were being engaged to help teach astronomy related courses. Successful establishment of Astronomy at Makerere University will require adequate resources\, which are lacking at the moment. However\, with support\, collaborations and graduate training\, this can be achieved.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-bosco-oruru/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180704T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180704T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180530T122118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180530T122118Z
UID:2342-1530705600-1530709200@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Gisela Anton and Joern Wilms
DESCRIPTION:Status report on IceCube-Gen2 and eROSITA\nGisela Anton and Joern Wilms will give us a brief status report on the IceCube-Gen2 and eROSITA projects.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-gisela-anton-and-joern-wilms/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180711T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180711T140000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20180607T092110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180607T092110Z
UID:2358-1531314000-1531317600@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Andrea Santangelo
DESCRIPTION:Fundamental Physics studies with X-ray spectral-timing-polarimetry and the eXTP mission\n[ abstract not available yet ]
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-andrea-santangelo/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20181122T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20181122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20181004T131916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T131916Z
UID:2462-1542888000-1542891600@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Anna Franckowiak
DESCRIPTION:Searching for electromagnetic counterparts to high-energy neutrinos\nIn September 2017\, the detection of a high-energy neutrino in coincidence with a flaring gamma-ray blazar revealed the first compelling high-energy neutrino source candidate. At the same time gamma-ray blazars are disfavored as the dominant neutrino source class. Other plausible source candidates are tidal disruption events\, low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. Combining neutrino data with electromagnetic measurements in a multi-messenger approach will increase the sensitivity to identify other neutrino sources and help to solve long-standing problems in astrophysics such as the origin of cosmic rays. I will review the recent progress in neutrino multi-messenger astronomy and highlight the potential of the novel optical survey instrument\, Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)\, to probe various source classes as neutrino emitters.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-anna-franckowiak/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20181213T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20181213T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20181105T150510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181105T150510Z
UID:2563-1544702400-1544706000@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Thomas Heid (Phd defense)
DESCRIPTION:Characterizing the diffuse neutrino flux with the future KM3NeT/ARCA detector
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-thomas-heid-phd-defense/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20181220T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20181220T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20181128T172527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T172527Z
UID:2584-1545307200-1545310800@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Florian Kühnel
DESCRIPTION:Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter\nPrimordial black holes are black holes that may have formed in the early Universe. Their masses potentially span a range from as low as the Planck mass up to many orders of magnitude above the solar mass. This\, in particular\, includes black holes of the order of 10 solar masses\, like those recently discovered by LIGO. These may be of primordial origin. In order to qualitatively and quantitatively asses this and related scenarios\, a profound understanding of the holes’ formation mechanism necessary. After a general introduction on primordial black holes\, I will discuss the most consequential aspects of their formation\, and elaborate on the observable imprints these may leave. I will give an overview about recent abundance limits\, and comment on constraints of combined scenarios in which also particle dark matter is present.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-florian-kuhnel/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190110T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190110T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20181004T130902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T130902Z
UID:2459-1547121600-1547125200@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Klaus Helbing
DESCRIPTION:Probing Particle Physics with IceCube\nThe IceCube observatory located at the South Pole is a cubic-kilometre optical Cherenkov telescope primarily designed for the detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. IceCube became fully operational in 2010 and reached a milestone in 2013 by the first observation of cosmic neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. This observation does not only mark an important breakthrough in neutrino astronomy\, but it also provides a new probe of particle physics related to neutrino production\, mixing\, and interaction. An overview is given of the various possibilities how IceCube can address fundamental questions related to the phenomena of neutrino oscillations and interactions\, the origin of dark matter\, and the existence of exotic relic particles\, like monopoles. Recent results are summarized and future avenues are highlighted.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-klaus-helbing/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190110T191500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190110T204500
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20181026T180419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181026T180419Z
UID:2545-1547147700-1547153100@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:Digitizing the Sky: Prof. Dr. U. Heber
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Heber will present the FAU contributions to the APPLAUSE digitization project of astronomical photo negative at the Collegium Alexandrinum. \nMore on the project in our News Item and at the Collegium’s page. \n 
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/digitizing-the-sky-prof-dr-u-heber/
LOCATION:Zentrum für Medizinische Physik und Technik (ZMPT)\, Hörsaal: 01.020\, Henkestraße 91\, 91052 Erlangen\, Henkestraße 91\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190131T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190131T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20181004T132049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T132049Z
UID:2464-1548936000-1548939600@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Joachim Puls
DESCRIPTION:On the difficulties to derive reliable CNO abundances in hot massive stars\nThough low in number\, massive stars play an essential role in the early and present Universe\, due to their enormous energy output and production of metals. Moreover\, the end-products of massive star evolution are among the most spectacular events/objects in our Cosmos: Supernovae\, (long-duration) Gamma-Ray Bursters and Black Holes. Unfortunately\, the evolution of massive stars is not as well understood as required for reliably predicting the different evolutionary channels\, and problems already exist during the Main Sequence\, related to mass loss and rotation. To constrain present evolutionary predictions\, the observational analysis of CNO surface abundances is a prime tool\, giving insight into rotationally-induced mixing processes and angular momentum transport. Such analyses\, however\, are hampered by many difficulties\, increasing the measurement uncertainties significantly\, compared to the low-mass case. In this talk\, I will outline these difficulties\, also with focus on problems arising from physically complex line transitions\, and discuss the results and implications from more recent abundance studies of hot massive stars.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-joachim-puls/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190207T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20181004T132210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181004T132210Z
UID:2466-1549540800-1549544400@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Marijke Haverkorn
DESCRIPTION:The Magnetic Field of the Milky Way\nThe Milky Way’s magnetic field has coherent structures on Galactic scales\, following spiral arms but also Galactic outflows. It also has a turbulent component\, which influences the galactic ecosystem in many ways\, such as delaying star formation\, isotropizing Galactic cosmic rays\, and providing significant pressure component. \nThese magnetic field components can only be detected indirectly\, through the signature they leave on various kinds of radiation and particles\, observations of which are fitted to models of the Galactic magnetic field. Traditionally\, radio polarimetry is most used to probe Galactic magnetic fields\, with radio detectors in frequency ranges from LOFAR to Planck giving unique information. \nI will discuss some of the recent progress in this field\, and our new project called IMAGINE\, which aims to combine all different observational tracers and prior information to build a next-generation model of the Galactic magnetic field.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-marijke-haverkorn/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190214T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190214T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20190130T085139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T085139Z
UID:2624-1550145600-1550149200@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Takaaki Tanaka
DESCRIPTION:Recent Results from X-ray Studies of Supernova Remnants\nX-ray emission from supernova remnants provides us with probes to high energy phenomena such as acceleration of cosmic-ray particles and nucleosynthesis in supernova explosions. In this talk\, I will present some of recent results that I\, with my students and collaborators\, obtained from observations with Suzaku\, Chandra\, XMM-Newton\, and NuSTAR satellites. I will mainly cover results related to particle acceleration and over-ionized plasma in Galactic supernova remnants. I will also talk about expectations brought about by high resolution spectroscopy with future X-ray observatories such as XRISM\, which is scheduled to be launched in 2021.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-takaaki-tanaka/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190502T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190502T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20190305T142845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190305T142845Z
UID:2639-1556798400-1556802000@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Thorsten Enßlin
DESCRIPTION:Information field theory – turning data into images\nCharting the Universe from measurements is a challenging information theoretical problem. The finite data provided by instruments is never able to constraint the infinite degrees of freedom of the physical fields we are interested in astronomy or other areas. Additional information like physical laws and empirical correlations has to be folded into the field inference. Information field theory (IFT) is information theory for field inference enabling the consistent fusion of measurement data and theoretical concepts exploiting techniques developed for quantum field theory. IFT provides optimal methods to generate images exploiting all available information. Existing applications of IFT in astrophysics are galactic tomography\, gamma- and radio- astronomical imaging\, and the analysis of cosmic microwave background data. Applications in preparation are inferring the dynamics of an observed field and the fusion of measurements from complementary instruments into coherent pictures. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-thorsten-enslin/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190606T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190606T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20190213T201728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T201728Z
UID:2631-1559822400-1559826000@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Lee Thompson
DESCRIPTION:HyperKamiokande: a next generation long baseline neutrino experiment in Japan\n\nThe seminar will present the HyperKamiokande (HyperK) project which will build a large volume water Cerenkov detector for long baseline neutrino oscillation studies in Japan. A brief historical resume of the discovery of neutrino oscillations will be provided. The presentation will give an overview of the design of the HyperK detector and its main technical features. Details of the scientific programme to be undertaken will also be discussed. The prospects for the project to determine fundamental measurements such as CP violation and mass hierarchy will also be presented.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-lee-thompson/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190613T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190613T130000
DTSTAMP:20260426T172256
CREATED:20190314T164550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190314T164550Z
UID:2655-1560427200-1560430800@ecap.nat.fau.de
SUMMARY:ECAP Seminar: Christian Glaser
DESCRIPTION:Radio detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos\nHigh energy neutrino astronomy is a powerful tool to study the high-energy universe. Neutrinos can escape dense source environments and point back to their sources with sub-degree accuracy. In particular\, multi-messenger analyses that combine neutrino detection with electromagnetic (e.g. gamma ray) and gravitational-wave observations bear huge potential to probe the sources of neutrinos and cosmic rays. The detection of neutrinos is challenging because of their small flux and cross-section\, and requires the instrumentation of huge volumes. Ultra-high energy neutrinos (E > 1e16 eV) can be efficiently measured using the radio technique\, and the cold Antarctic ice is an optimal target material. \nBefore discussing the radio detection of neutrinos\, I will briefly present the radio detection of cosmic rays\, highlighting what we can learn from this mature field for neutrino detection. Then\, I will report on the pilot neutrino detectors installed on the Ross ice shelf and at the South Pole\, discuss how neutrinos can be measured with a radio detector and how their properties can be reconstructed from the short radio flash. At the end\, I will present plans for a large-scale radio neutrino detector and discuss its prospects.
URL:https://ecap.nat.fau.de/index.php/event/ecap-seminar-christian-glaser/
LOCATION:ECAP\, room 307\, Erwin-Rommel-Str 1\, Erlangen\, 91058\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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