Organizational Matters - Summer Semester 2024
This article documents all agreements, arrangements, talks, etc. within the scope of the astrophysical laboratory course.
Talk program
An extensive overview on how to prepare talks in a scientific context can be found here.
| Date | Talk | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 02.05. | Spectroscopy with the OST: description of the observation, data reduction, and data analysis | Emily Loessnitz |
| 02.05. | Photometry with the OST: description of the observation, data reduction, and data analysis | Jan-Marco Kubat |
| 23.05. | The Sun: structure, dynamo, and magnetic field. The solar observatory at the Einsteinturm | Laurent Stütz |
| 23.05. | The Sun: solar activity, solar cycle, solar spots, and Zeeman effect measurements | Anurag Talele |
| 30.05. | Stars: spectral types and the HRD | Noel Hofmann |
| 06.06. | Binary stars and radial velocity measurements as a tool to determine stellar properties | Clemens Dittmer |
| 13.06. | Eclipsing binaries and other methods to determine stellar masses | Kira Knauff |
| 20.06. | Exoplanets and the methods of their detection | Sebastian Frischmann |
| 20.06. | Photometry - stellar magnitudes, extinction, photometric bands, modern photometry | Soumya Dhavale |
| 27.06. | Principles of optical telescopic observations I. - reflectors, magnification, aberrations. OST | Ritwik Sharma |
| 27.06. | Spectroscopy - different types of spectrographs and basic principles. OST | Alankar Kamble |
| 04.07. | Principles of optical telescopic observations II. - astronomical coordinates, telescope mounts, astroclimat. OST | Lidhya Shilu |
| 04.07. | The largest ground based optical telescopes and future perspectives (telescopes and instruments) | Aravind Nagesh |
| 11.07. | Variable and pulsating stars. Light-curves. Asteroseysmology | Maryna Bakhmat |
| 11.07. | Stellar evolution and evolutionary tracks on the HRD and CMD | Infant Ronald Reagan Johnson Amalraj |
| 18.07. | Solar System Planets and how to observe them with the OST | Joshua Kupka |
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| apl. Prof. Lidia Oskinova | 2.135 | lida | organization, talks, protocols |
| M.Sc. Sabela Reyero | 2.115 | sabela | organization, talks |
| B.Sc. Fabian Mattig | 2.008 | fmattig | telescope support, data reduction support |
| B.Sc. Jonas Brinkmann | 2.008 | jbrinkmann | telescope support, data reduction support |
| Rainer Hainich | 2.009 | rhainich | technical support |