Cluster PhD Meeting 2015

29 Apr 2015, 09:00 → 30 Apr 2015, 19:00 Europe/Berlin

Telescopium Auditorium (European Southern Observatory)

Andreas Mueller (Excellence Cluster Universe), Christoph Niehoff (Excellence Cluster Universe, TUM), Ivan Vorobyev (Excellence Cluster Universe, TUM), Marco Tazzari (ESO)

The Excellence Cluster PhD Meeting is a traditional event that aims to gather the Excellence Cluster PhD students in a two-days socializing event. The 2015 event will be organized in two days: the first day will be dedicated to meet up, to present current/past work to each other through talks, and to attend talks given by senior scientists. On the second day we plan to go hiking in the Bavarian Alps (bad weather option: German Museum with tours). The meeting intends to be informal to foster lively discussions and to create a productive atmosphere to share our results and experiences. Organizers: Ivan Vorobyev (PhD student, Excellence Cluster Universe, TU Muenchen) Christoph Niehoff (PhD student, Excellence Cluster Universe, TU Muenchen) Marco Tazzari (PhD student, Excellence Cluster Universe, European Southern Observatory) Dr. Andreas Müller (Excellence Cluster Universe, Scientific Manager)

Program Cluster_PhD_Meeting_2015_prg.pdf

Wednesday 29 April

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

Speaker: Organizers

09:10 → 09:40 Introduce yourself

Speaker: Participants

09:40 → 09:55 Sub-grid models for AGN in cosmological simulations

Speaker: Lisa Steinborn

09:55 → 10:10 Symmetries of symmetries and geometrical CP violation

Speaker: Andreas Trautner

10:10 → 10:25 Online Calibration of the ALICE-TPC in LHC-Run2

Speaker: Ivan Vorobyev (TUM)

10:25 → 10:40 Constraining the size of dust grains in protoplanetary disks

Speaker: Marco Tazzari (ESO)

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:15 Reflections and thoughts of a mature researcher or how to keep a passion alive

Abstract of this senior scientist talk: No matter how you ended up in science, sooner or later you will face a situation in which you will be confronted with hard reality and the borders traced by your limits. The fire that burned so bright may loose its strength and the dreams of revolutionizing physics will probably become weaker and weaker. You may also start asking yourself about the usefulness of what you are doing and whether it really made sense to invest your best years and energies in pursuing very abstract questions. Questions that often remain unanswered. In his talk Nando will try to address these points going through his personal experience, exposing its bright and dark sides, sharing with the audience perplexities and hopes.

Speaker: Nando Patat (ESO)

12:15 → 13:40 Lunch break (IPP canteen)

13:40 → 13:55 Entanglement entropy through interfaces in CFTs

Speaker: Enrico Brehm (LMU)

13:55 → 14:10 The mass of the composite Higgs

Speaker: Christoph Niehoff (TUM)

14:10 → 14:25 Electroweak precision calculations in Two Higgs doublet models

Speaker: Stephan Hessenberger (TUM)

14:25 → 14:40 Neutrino propagation in media: Flavor-, helicity-, and pair correlations

Speaker: Hendrik Vogel (MPP)

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 15:15 Type Ia Supernovae in the Near Infrared

Speaker: Suhail Dhawan (ESO)

15:15 → 15:30 Classifying the explodability of massive stars

Speaker: Thomas Ertl (MPA)

15:30 → 15:45 Mass versus environment quenching at low redshift

Speaker: Laura Morselli (TUM)

15:45 → 16:00 tbs

Speaker: Sergio Lopez-Gehler (TUM)

16:00 → 17:15 In-medium properties of hadron in nuclear matter

The properties of hadrons, as the mass and the width, can undergo modifications when those are produced within an environment with non-zero baryon density. Theses effects start already at normal nuclear matter densities and can be connected to fundamental properties of strong interaction as the quest of signatures of the restoration of chiral symmetry. In this talk Laura will present some selected results on this topic and show future perspectives.

Speaker: Laura Fabbietti (TUM)

17:15 → 18:00 Discussions

Speaker: Organizers

18:45 → 20:45 Social Dinner at Indian restaurant Moti Mahal in Garching. Web: http://www.motimahal.eu/index.php

Thursday 30 April

09:00 → 17:00 Outdoor activity: Hiking in Bavarian Alps (bad weather option: German Museum with tours)