Program

The meeting starts Monday December 7, 9.30 am and ends Wednesday December 9, 3.30 pm.

Monday, December 7

9h30 – 9h45 Chair: Matthias Steinmetz Welcome Matthias Steinmetz (AIP)
9h45 – 10h15 Verbundforschung, Fachprogramm, Roadmap Process Marc Hempel (PT DESY)
10h15 – 10h45 Weltraumprogramm ESA und national/bilateral Eberhard Bachem (DLR)
10h45 – 11h15 Förderprogramm der DFG, Denkschriften Stefan Krückeberg (DFG)
11h15 – 11h45 Coffee Break
11h45 – 12h30 Chair: Alfred Krabbe Testing Gravity and Extreme States of Matter Thomas Janka (MPA), Luciano Rezzola (Frankfurt), Norbert Wex/Joris Verbiest (MPIfR), Alessandra Buonnano (AEI)
 12h30 – 13h00 Radio facilities Eduardo Ros (MPIfR), Dominik Schwarz (Bielefeld), Christian Vocks (AIP)
 13h00 – 14h00 Lunch
 14h00 – 14h45 Chair: Marcus Brüggen Extrasolar Planets and planet formation Cornelis Dullemond (ITA), Ray van Boekel (MPIA), Ansgar Reiners (Göttingen), Markus Mugrauer (Jena)
 14h45 – 15h15 Astronomy from Space Knud Jahnke (MPIA), Andrea Santangelo (Tübingen), Jörn Wilms (Bamberg), Heike Rauer (DLR)
 15h15 – 15h45 Coffee Break
 15h45 – 16h30 Chair: Jörn Wilms Milky Way and Local Group Glenn van de Venn (MPIA), Norbert Christlieb (LSW), Cristina Chiappini (AIP), Maria-Rosa Cioni (Potsdam)
16h30 – 17h15 Galaxy Kinematics and Evolution Natasha Förster-Schreiber (MPE), Jakob Walcher (AIP), Dominik Bomans (Bochum), Volker Springel (HITS)
17h15 – 17h45 Optical/IR Facilities Frank Eisenhauer (MPE), Roland Gredel (MPIA), Andreas Kelz(AIP), Harald Nicklas (IAG)
19h30 – 22h30 Dinner Hotel Mercure

Tuesday, December 8

9h00 – 09h45 Chair: Joachim Wambsganß Structure and Evolution of the Sun, reference for stellar evolution Hardi Peter (MPS), Markus Roth (KIS), Carsten Denker (AIP), Achim Gandorfer (MPS)
09h45 – 10h30 Stellar Parameters, Structure, Stellar Evolution Maria Bergemann (MPIA), Sidney Barnes (AIP), Achim Weiss (MPA), Fritz Röpke (HITS)
10h30 – 11h00 Theory and computational Astrophysics Thorsten Naab (MPA), Fritz Röpke (HITS), Peter Hauschild (Hamburg), Bernd Bruegemann (Jena), Ralf Klessen (ITA), Willy Kley (Tübingen)
11h00 – 11h30 Coffee Break
11h30 – 12h15 Chair: Knud Jahnke Star Formation and Interstellar Medium Paola Caselli (MPE), Stefanie Walch (Cologne), Sebastian Wolf (Kiel), Eva Schinnerer (MPIA)
12h15 – 13h00 Galactic Nuclei and AGN Andrea Merloni (MPE), Nadine Neumayer (MPIA), Stefan Gillessen (MPE), Marcus Brüggen (Hamburg)
13h00 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 – 14h30 Chair: Linda Tacconi FIR/Sub-mm/mm Facilities Peter Schilke (Cologne), Fabian Walter (MPIA), Friedrich Wyrowski (MPIfR)
14h30 – 15h15 High Energy Phenomena in the Universe Matthias Kadler (Würzburg), Stefan Funk (Erlangen), Martin Pohl (Potsdam), Christoph Pfrommer (HITS)
15h15 – 15h45 Coffee Break
15h45 – 16h15 Chair: Andreas Burkert Non-thermal / AstroParticle Jim Hinton (MPIK), Karl Mannheim (Würzburg), Marek Kowalski (HU Berlin)
16h15 – 17h00 Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Large Scale Structure Thomas Reiprich (Bonn), Jochen Liske (Hamburg), Fabian Schmidt (MPA), Sefan Hilbert (MPA)
17h00 – 17h30 Big Data – Data Mining Harry Enke (AIP), Kai Polsterer (HITS), Thorsten Ensslin (MPA)

Wednesday, December 9

9h00 – 09h45 Chair: Eva Schinnerer The early Universe from inflation to reionization Benedetta Ciardi (MPA), Jochen Weller (USM), Matthias Bartelmann (ITA), Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA)
9h45 – 10h15 Surveys Joe Mohr (USM), Hendrik Hildebrandt (AIfA), Roelof de Jong (AIP), Andreas Brunnthaler (MPIfR)
10h15 – 10h45 Lab Astrophysics Stephan Schlemmer (Köln), Holger Kreckel (MPIK), Cornelia Jäger (Jena)
10h45 – 11h30 Coffee Break
11h30 – 13h00 Chair: Frank Bertoldi Discussion Session I: astrophysical infrastructures
13h00 – 14h00 Lunch
14h00 – 15h30 Chair: Matthias Steinmetz Discussion Session II: next steps
15h30 EOM