Plenary Talks
Invited review and highlight plenary talks will be held during the morning sessions on Tuesday until Friday.
Tuesday, 19. September 2017
09:00-10:30 Opening & Award Ceremonies (HS1)
| Music: Joseph Haydn, Divertimento B major for wind quintet |
| 09:00 | Opening and Chairperson: |
| Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz (President of the Astronomical Society) |
| Welcome Addresses: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Beisiegel (President of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Prof. Dr. Tim Salditt (Dean of the Faculty of Physics) Prof. Dr. Sami Solanki (Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research) |
| 09:30 | Karl Schwarzschild Lecture - Richard Wielebinski: |
| Cosmic magnetic fields |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (Foyer Physics)
11:00-12:30 Award Ceremonies (continued) (HS1)
| Chairperson: M. Steinmetz |
| 11:00 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk - Diederik Kruijssen: |
| The Physics Driving the Molecular Cloud Lifecycle during Galaxy Formation and Evolution |
| 11:30 | PhD Award Talk - Philipp Grete: |
| Large eddy simulations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic turbulence |
| 11:50 | Instrumentation Award Talk - Albrecht Poglitsch: |
| "Es gibt nicht Gutes, außer man tut es" - Reflections on progress in astronomical Instrumentation |
| 12:10 | Awards: |
| Bruno H. Bürgel Award: Hans-Ulrich Keller Roelin Award: Michael Winkhaus Jugend-forscht Award: Maximilian Marienhagen, Toni Ringling, and Aaron Wild |
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Wednesday, 20. September 2017
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (HS1)
| Chairperson: M. Sasaki |
| 09:00 | Karl Gebhardt: |
| The HETDEX Dark Energy Experiment |
| 09:30 | Bringfried Stecklum: |
| Accretion outbursts from high-mass young stellar objects |
| 10:00 | Harold Yorke: |
| SOFIA in the Era of JWST and ALMA |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (Foyer Physics)
11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (HS1)
| Chairperson: A. Hatzes |
| 11:00 | Rolf Schlichenmaier: |
| Solar magnetoconvection observed with GREGOR |
| 11:30 | Istvan Dekany: |
| Classical pulsators as population tracers: a journey to the far side of the Milky Way |
| 12:00 | Sebastian Kamann: |
| A MUSE view on Galactic globular clusters |
12:30-12:40 Conference photo (HS1)
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
12:40-13:40 AFN Pizza Lunch Meeting (SR17)
Thursday, 21. September 2017
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (HS1)
| Chairperson: M.-R. Cioni |
| 09:00 | David Sing: |
| A Panchromatic Comparative View of Exoplanet Atmospheres |
| 09:30 | Frank Bertoldi: |
| CCAT-prime: A fast Sub-millimeter Telescope for Large-area Surveys |
| 10:00 | Manami Sasaki: |
| The hot interstellar medium |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (Foyer Physics)
11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (HS1)
| Chairperson: W. Kley |
| 11:00 | Sandra Jeffers: |
| Magnetic stars and their elusive planets |
| 11:30 | Joris Verbiest: |
| Probing the Ionised ISM with LOFAR Pulsar Observations |
| 12:00 | Oliver Pfuhl: |
| First Science Results of the GRAVITY interferometer |
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
19:30-21:00 Public Talk (ZHG009)
| 19:30 | Michael Kramer: |
| Wundervolles mysteriöses Universum - eine (Zeit-)Reise |
Friday, 22. September 2017
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (HS1)
| Chairperson: S. Schuh |
| 09:00 | Benedetta Ciardi: |
| Cosmic reionization and 21 cm observations |
| 09:30 | Thomas Kupfer: |
| The systematic search for gravitational wave sources using synoptic surveys |
| 10:00 | Annalisa Pillepich: |
| IllustrisTNG: the new frontier to understand the co-evolution of dark-matter and galaxies with cosmological simulations of structure formation |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (Foyer Physics)
11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (HS1)
| Chairperson: J. Wambsganß |
| 11:00 | Matthias Rempel: |
| Realistic MHD simulations of the solar atmosphere |
| 11:30 | Maarit Käpylä: |
| Modeller's view to solar and stellar dynamos: perspectives and challenges |
| 12:00 | Mathieu Ossendrijver: |
| Tracking Jupiter with a Trapezoid: Geometrical Methods in Ancient Babylonian Astronomy |
12:30-12:40 Closing (HS1)
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break