Meeting dinner
A self-paid meeting dinner will be organised for Tuesday evening. More information will be given here.
Please indicate your interest, number of accompanying persons, and dietary preferences in the registration form.
AIP Babelsberg campus. Photos: I. Traulsen / AIP
Babelsberg tour
Campus Babelsberg of AIP was founded in 1913 in the eastern part of the Royal Park Babelsberg to provide a site with lower air and light pollution for the Berlin Observatory. It is part of UNESCO's World Heritage Site. Today, about 280 employees, students, and guests work in eight research and infrastructure buildings, built between 1913 and 2025. Research topics involve the Sun, stars, and exoplanets, MHD and turbulence, Milky Way, Local Volume, and Galactic Halo, galaxies, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics. AIP also has a strong profile in research infrastructure and development of research technology including robotics, high-resolution and multi-object spectroscopy, astrophotonics, and a large technical section.
We will offer a guided tour over the campus for meeting participants and open some doors for you. For planning purposes, please indicate your interest in the registration form.
Historical buildings on Telegrafenberg. Photos: AIP (archive)
Telegrafenberg tour
The "Science park Albert Einstein" is located on the hill Telegrafenberg south of Potsdam main station. The Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam was founded there in the 1870s, which was later merged with the Berlin Observatory into today's AIP. It hosts large research institutes on geosciences, climate impact research, and polar and marine research, and meteorogical site as well as many historical research facilities.
Meeting participants are invited to visit the campus within a guided tour, the reconstructed optical telegraph, and in particular the Great Refractor from 1899 and the solar observatory in the Einstein Tower. For planning purposes, please indicate your interest in the registration form.
