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Organizational matters - winter semester 2016/17
This article documents all agreements, arrangements, talks, etc. within the scope of the astrophysical laboratory course.
Talk program
This is the current program:
An extensive overview on how to prepare talks in a scientific context can be found here.
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10.04. | Organization Meeting | |
| 17.04. | Astro-Quiz | … |
| 24.04. | Astro-Quiz | … |
| 08.05. (I) | Principles of optical telescopic observations I. - reflectors, magnification, aberrations. OST | |
| 08.05. (II) | Principles of optical telescopic observations II. - astronomical coordinates, telescope mounts, astroclimate. OST | |
| 15.05. (I) | Stars: spectral types and the HRD | |
| 15.05. (II) | Spectroscopy - different types of spectrographs and basic principles. OST | |
| 22.05. (I) | Stellar evolution, evolutionary tracks, and isochrones on the HRD and CMD | |
| 22.05. (II) | Photometry - stellar magnitudes, extinction, photometric bands, modern photometry | |
| 05.06. (I) | N2: Description of the observation, data reduction, and data analysis | |
| 05.06. (II) | N1: Description of the observation, data reduction, and data analysis | |
| 12.06. (I) | The Sun: structure, dynamo, and magnetic field. The solar observatory at the Einsteinturm | |
| 12.06. (II) | The Sun: solar activity, solar cycle, solar spots, and Zeeman effect measurements |
Contacts
If you want to contact us, you can find our email address at prakt@astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de, since it allows to reach all instructors.
| Name | Room | Responsibilities | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. Lidia Oskinova | 2.135 | lida | organization, talks, protocols |
| M.Sc. Magaritis Chatzis | 2.115 | chatzis | organization, talks, reports |
| B.Sc. Oliver Steppohn | 0.033 | - | telescope support, data reduction support |
| B.Sc. Jonas Brinkmann | 2.008 | jbrinkmann | telescope support, data reduction support |
| Rainer Hainich | 2.009 | rhainich | technical support |