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MPA Cosmology Seminar

2014

MPA New Lecture Hall, Tuesdays at 11:00

In each seminar there are typically two talks of 30 min each (25 min of presentation followed by 5 min of discussion). Other schedules may be arranged upon request. If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Simona Vegetti and Andreas Pawlik.


Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
Dec. 16 Sambit Roychowdhury (MPA):Kennicutt-Schmidt relation in the HI dominated regime Julio Navarro (UVic): Substructure shape and orbits and what they tell us about the Milky Way
Dec. 9 Richard Bower (Durham): Black hole feedback: from semi-analytic models to hydrodynamic simulations N/A
Dec. 2 Mike Anderson (MPA): X-ray constraints on sterile neutrino dark matter Amanda Ford (MPA): The photon underproduction crisis
Nov. 25 Chi-Ting Chiang (MPA): Position-dependent correlation function from the SDSS-III BOSS DR10 CMASS sample Fabian Schmidt (MPA): A separate universe
Nov. 18 Go Ogiya: Solving the core-cusp problem and the structural properties of cold dark matter haloes -
Nov. 11 Matus Rybak (MPA): Strong lensing meets synthesis imaging -
Nov. 4 Dandan Xu (HITS): How well can cold-dark-matter substructures account for the observed radio flux-ratio anomalies? Maximilian Eisenreich (MPA): Black Hole Feedback in Elliptical Galaxies
Oct. 28 Inh Jee (MPA): Measuring angular diameter distances using time-delay lenses Kari Helgason (MPA): The Near-Infrared Background: An unsolved cosmic mystery
Oct. 21 Andreas Schmidt (MPA): Feedback from SN and AGN in Gas-Rich Discs at High redshift Andreas Pawlik (MPA): Aurora: radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation during cosmic reionization
Oct. 21 Andreas Schmidt (MPA): Feedback from SN and AGN in Gas-Rich Discs at High redshift Andreas Pawlik (MPA): Aurora: radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation during cosmic reionization
Oct. 14 Khee-Gan Lee (MPIA): Direct Mapping of z~2 Large-Scale Structure with 3D Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography -
Oct. 7 Bruno Henriques (MPA): A new release of the Munich model of Galaxy Formation -
Sept. 30 - -
Sept. 23 Devin Silvia (Michigan State): Simulating the intergalactic medium: non-equilibrium chemistry and synthetic spectra -
Dec. 16 Sambit Roychowdhury (MPA):Kennicutt-Schmidt relation in the HI dominated regime Julio Navarro (UVic): Substructure shape and orbits and what they tell us about the Milky Way
Dec. 9 Richard Bower (Durham): Black hole feedback: from semi-analytic models to hydrodynamic simulations N/A
Dec. 2 Mike Anderson (MPA): X-ray constraints on sterile neutrino dark matter Amanda Ford (MPA): The photon underproduction crisis
Nov. 25 Chi-Ting Chiang (MPA): Position-dependent correlation function from the SDSS-III BOSS DR10 CMASS sample Fabian Schmidt (MPA): A separate universe
Nov. 18 Go Ogiya: Solving the core-cusp problem and the structural properties of cold dark matter haloes -
Nov. 11 Matus Rybak (MPA): Strong lensing meets synthesis imaging -
Nov. 4 Dandan Xu (HITS): How well can cold-dark-matter substructures account for the observed radio flux-ratio anomalies? Maximilian Eisenreich (MPA): Black Hole Feedback in Elliptical Galaxies
Oct. 28 Inh Jee (MPA): Measuring angular diameter distances using time-delay lenses Kari Helgason (MPA): The Near-Infrared Background: An unsolved cosmic mystery
Oct. 21 Andreas Schmidt (MPA): Feedback from SN and AGN in Gas-Rich Discs at High redshift Andreas Pawlik (MPA): Aurora: radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation during cosmic reionization
Oct. 21 Andreas Schmidt (MPA): Feedback from SN and AGN in Gas-Rich Discs at High redshift Andreas Pawlik (MPA): Aurora: radiation-hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation during cosmic reionization
Oct. 14 Khee-Gan Lee (MPIA): Direct Mapping of z~2 Large-Scale Structure with 3D Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography -
Oct. 7 Bruno Henriques (MPA): A new release of the Munich model of Galaxy Formation -
Sept. 30 - -
Sept. 23 Devin Silvia (Michigan State): Simulating the intergalactic medium: non-equilibrium chemistry and synthetic spectra -
Sept. 2 Camille Avestruz (Yale): Testing Observations of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts with Cosmological Simulations -
Aug 26 Shane Davis (CITA): Radiation Feedback in Star Forming Galaxies: Are Photons Movers and Shakers? (1 hour) N/A
Aug. 19 Titouan Lazeyras (University of Geneva): Testing the validity of peak bias with a primordial trispectrum -
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July 29 Myoungwon Jeon (UT Austin): The impact of supernova feedback and metal enrichment by the first stars on the assembly of the first galaxies Yipeng Jing (Shanghai Jiaotong University): Redshift distortion as a probe for cosmology: improving theoretical modeling.
July 22 - -
July 15 Charles Romero (UVa): High Resolution Cluster Pressure Profile Measurements with MUSTANG and BOLOCAM Alexander Beck (MPA): Towards cosmological simulations of galactic magnetic fields
July 8 Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University): Testing the nature of astrophysical black hole candidates Tobias Baldauf (IAS, Princeton): Halo Bias and its Evolution in the Peak Model
July 1 Adam Hincks (UBC): Measuring Cosmic Acceleration with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Jonathan Tan (U. of Florida): Turbulence, Magnetic Fields and the Microphysics of Galactic Star Formation Laws
June 24 Alessandro Sonnenfeld (UCSB): The evolution of early-type galaxies: a strong lensing perspective Marcello Musso (UC Louvain): Random walks in the sky (remembering your steps!)
June 17 Alexander Richings (Leiden): Non-equilibrium chemistry & cooling in the diffuse ISM Nicola Amorisco (Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen): Andromeda II: a merger remnant among the satellites of M31
June 10 - -
June 3 Guinevere Kauffmann (MPA): A re-examination of galactic conformity and a comparison with semi-analytic models of galaxy formation -
May 27 - -
May 20 Chervin Laporte (MPA): The central matter distribution of galaxy clusters Bhaskar Agarwal (MPE): Direct collapse black holes as seeds of SMBHs at z>6
May 13 Laura Marian (MPA): The cosmological information of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering Xingang Chen (UT Dallas): Standard Clocks in Primordial Density Perturbations and Cosmic Microwave Background
May 6 Diederik Kruijssen (MPA): The physics and scale dependence of galactic star formation relations Thomas Greif (CfA): Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Primordial Star Formation
Apr 29 Simona Vegetti (MPA): CDM substructure mass function at z ~ 0.2 Chia-Yu Hu (MPA): SPHGal: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with improved accuracy for Galaxy simulations
Apr 22 Kari Helgason (U of Maryland):The link between the cosmic near-IR and X-ray backgrounds: Signatures of the first black holes? -
Apr 15 Koki Kakiichi (MPA): Cosmological Lyman alpha radiative transfer: moment-based numerical algorithm Nico Hamaus (IAP): Cosmic voids tracing the large-scale structure
Apr 8 Andrew Chung (MPA): Simulating the circumgalactic medium in Lyman-alpha for fun and profit -
Apr 1 Panos A. Patsis (Athens): The phase-space of b/p and X-shaped bulges Rafael S. de Souza (KASI, Korea): Exploratory analysis and visualization of high-dimensional datasets
Mar 25 Paul Matthew Sutter (IAP): New approaches to cosmology with cosmic voids -
Mar 18 N/A (Linear theory lecture series by Julien Lesgourgues) N/A (Linear theory lecture series by Julien Lesgourgues)
Mar 11 Simon White (MPA): The distribution of satellites around bright isolated galaxies -
Mar 4 Chi-Ting Chiang (MPA): Position-dependent power spectrum of the large-scale structure: a novel method to measure the squeezed-limit bispectrum Xun Shi (MPA): Analytical model for non-thermal pressure in galaxy clusters
Feb 25 N/A (IMPRS workshop) N/A (IMPRS workshop)
Feb 18 Chiaki Kobayashi (University of Hertfordshire): First chemical enrichment and the seed of black holes in chemodynamical simulations with AGN feedback -
Feb 11 Stefan Hilbert (MPA): (In)consistent thermostatistics and (negative) absolute temperatures Cornelius Rampf (Albert Einstein Institut): Relativistic constraints for (Newtonian) cosmological simulations
Feb 4 Susumu Inoue (MPP): Probing the small-scale cosmic power spectrum through the 21cm forest -
Jan 28 Guillermo Blanc (Carnegie): The Hobby Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Pilot Survey: Using LAEs for Cosmology. Heike Modest (MPE): Phase statistics of CMB data
Jan 21 Mia Bovill (Chile): Into the Voids: Detecting the fossils of the first galaxies beyond the Milky Way -
Jan 14 Daniel Gruen (USM/MPE): Weak lensing analysis of SZ-selected clusters from SPT and Planck Maksim Greiner (MPA): Conversion between the power spectra of a field and its logarithm
Jan 07 Ed Macaulay (Oxford): Surprising Results from Peculiar Velocities -
Dec 17 Leonardo Senatore (Stanford, 1-hour talk): The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures N.A.
Dec 10 Paul Schechter (1 hour): A calibration of the stellar-mass fundamental plane at z = 0.4 using the micro-lensing induced flux ratio anomalies of macro-lensed quasars N.A.
Dec 03 Ixandra Achitouv (USM): Spherical evolution for Void Abundances Jan-Pieter Paardekooper (MPE): The sources of cosmic reionisation
Nov 26 Mike Anderson (MPA): Hot gas around galaxies from X-ray stacking analyses Michal Hanasz (Torun): Cosmic Ray driven strong outflows from gas-rich high redshift galaxies
Nov 19 Ali Rahmati (MPA): Simulating the cosmic distribution of neutral hydrogen and its connection with galaxies Samuel Flender (U of Helsinki): The hemispherical power asymmetry in the CMB - new information from small scales
Nov 12 Andrea Ferrara (SNS Pisa): (Postponed) First Black Holes: Infrared Background Signatures Craig Lage (NYU): Cosmological Implications of a Constrained Simulation of the Bullet Cluster
Nov 05 Nelson Padilla (PUC Chile/ MPA): Assembly bias in theory and observations Philipp Girichidis (MPA): The density PDF in different environments: from an idealised turbulent box to strongly self-gravitating systems
Oct 29 Stella Seitz (USM/MPE): Galaxy halo truncation and Giant Arc Surface Brightness Reconstruction in the Cluster MACSJ1206.2-0847 -
Oct 22 Alvise Raccanelli (JPL): Large-scale galaxy correlations Azadeh Maleknejad (IPM): gauge fields and inflation
Oct 15 N.A. N.A.
Oct 08 Stefan Rau (MPA): Gravitational Lensing Reconstruction of Cluster Galaxies in the Strong Lensing Cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 Yannick Bahe (MPA): Environmental Influence on Galaxy Groups and Clusters Beyond the Virial Radius
Oct 01 Hajime Takami (KEK): Anisotropy studies of the highest energy cosmic rays and their future prospects Shy Genel (Harvard): The Illustris galaxy formation simulations: moving towards a realistic simulated Universe



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