Institutskolloquium des IPP 2023

Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium des IPP in Garching und Greifswald mit Videoübertragung


Fusion Start-ups - a broad range of alternatives

Institutskolloquium

Where do most black holes in the Universe come from?

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 01.12.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Hans-Walter Rix
  • Hans-Walter Rix is director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and professor at the University of Heidelberg faculty for physics and astronomy. In his thesis work with Simon White he figured out that most large elliptical galaxies also have sizable stellar disks, and hence must have a different formation history than thought at the time. He also had the opportunity to work with Craig Hogan on gravitational lensing, with Marcia and George Rieke on infrared imaging and spectroscopy, and with Rob Kennicutt. He then went on to the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, working on some of the very first Hubble Space Telescope data on gravitational lensing and giving in to the numerous, exciting scientific diversions that Princeton has to offer. After a year at MPA, Garching and three years on the faculty at the University of Arizona, he came to MPIA late 1998. In the first five years, his focus was on galaxy evolution, helping to draw up a comprehensive picture of what the population of galaxies looked like when the Universe was half its age. In recent years he has focused his research on our very own galaxy, the Milky Way, because the intricate detail in which it can be studied, should lead us to a better understanding of galaxy formation as a whole. As of 2016, the Gaia space mission along with other vast spectroscopic surveys of stars, and then Hubble's successor James Webb Space Telescope are the next beacons on his science path.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: karl.krieger@ipp.mpg.de
Over the last 50 years the existence of black holes has been established by different astrophysical means: the dynamics of stars and gas, emission from accretion disks surrounding them and gravitational waves. Black holes appear to exist over a vast range of masses, from a few times the mass of the Sun to a few billion Solar masses. But in many circumstances black holes have remained undetectable by current detection efforts, and we may just see the tip of the population iceberg. I’ll discuss some of the ongoing and upcoming efforts (including our own) to detect new parts of the black hole population. And I’ll sketch what this implies for their origin: When do massive stars leave black holes behind? Do all black holes in the Universe ultimately trace back to stellar remnants? [mehr]

How Cybercrime challenges Criminal Law

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 06.10.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Dr. Florian Nicolai
  • Dr. Florian Nicolai, Akademischer Rat a.Z. at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, passed the first state examination in 2017. He completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Nuremberg (OLG Nürnberg) with the second state examination in 2019. From 2019 to 2023 he was part of the Research Training Group 2475 “Cybercrime and Forensic Computing” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Within the context of his research in the Research Training Group he was a guest researcher at the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Center (Stockholm University) in 2022, where he continues to give guest lectures. In 2023 he received a doctorate in law with a thesis on the impact of the Internet of Things on Criminal Law (Duncker&Humblot, in press). His doctoral thesis was awarded with the doctoral prize of the Department of Law of the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. In his current position as a postdoc Nicolai is involved in teaching as well as research. He is the author of several legal essays, comments on judgements, contributions to anthologies and other publications. Together with Prof. Dr. Mustafa Temmuz Oğlakcıoğlu (Saarland University) he founded the podcast "Räuberischer Espresso", which is published by the legal educational magazine "Juristische Arbeitsblätter".
  • Ort: IPP Greifswald
  • Raum: Günter-Grieger-Lecture Hall (Greifswald)
  • Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de

The rise of the private fusion industry and how Kyoto Fusioneering accelerates fusion power on the grid

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 29.09.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Dr. Colin Baus
  • Colin is a physicist with a PhD at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (CMS experiment) on heavy-ion cross sections and the connection to astroparticle physics. As co-author of the hadronic interaction tool CRMC, he has deep knowledge in nuclear physics. After several years in the private industry, Colin joined Kyoto Fusioneering. Here, he is author of the high-temperature fusion blanket SCYLLA design and currently oversees technical development of the UNITY programme for fusion thermal cycle and fusion fuel cycle in Japan. He is also a visiting researcher at Kyoto University.
  • Ort: IPP Greifswald
  • Raum: Günter-Grieger-Lecture Hall (Greifswald)
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de

From Data to Discovery: Harnessing AI in Medicine for Improved Patient Care

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 22.09.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Lars Kaderali
  • Prof. Koderali is a director of the Institute for Bioinformatics at Greifswald University. He made his master in computer science in the University of Cologne in 2001 and got his PhD from the same university in bioinformatics in 2006. He worked in Heidelberg and Dresden before acquiring a chair of bioinformatics in Greifswald in 2015. He serves as an editor in PLoS one and a chief editor in Frontiers in Virology. He was a member of the expert council in COVID-19of the German Federal Chancellor.
  • Ort: IPP Greifswald
  • Raum: Günter-Grieger-Lecture Hall (Greifswald)
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de

Laser-driven inertial confinement fusion: principles, status and perspective for energy production after the achievement of ignition at the NIF

Institutskolloquium

Alternative Divertor Configurations in the New Upper Divertor of ASDEX Upgrade

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 14.07.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Dr. Tilmann Lunt
  • Tilmann Lunt is a research scientist in the Plasma Edge and Wall Department (E2M) at IPP Garching. His scientific interests include alternative divertor configurations and the physics of the plasma edge, in particular the effects of 3D magnetic field perturbations. He is also responsible for the visual and near-infrared camera systems of the ASDEX Upgrade experiment.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: karl.krieger@ipp.mpg.de

Ignition and the Path Towards an Inertial Fusion Energy Future

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 29.06.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragende: Dr. Tammy Ma
  • Tammy Ma is the Lead for the Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Institutional Initiative at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the U.S. She was a member of the team achieving burning plasma, followed by fusion ignition in December 2022 at the National Ignition Facility, demonstrating more energy gain from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it. She is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) and currently sits on the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). She also chaired the 2022 DOE Basic Research Needs Workshop and Report in Inertial Fusion Energy and served on the German Expert Panel that authored the Memorandum on Laser Inertial Fusion Energy.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: karl.krieger@ipp.mpg.de

Proxima Fusion’s stellarator reactor program

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 16.06.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Dr. Francesco Sciortino
  • Francesco is a co-founder and CEO of Proxima Fusion, a startup headquartered in Munich working on QI stellarators. Following his undergraduate studies at Imperial College and EPFL, Francesco did his PhD at MIT, working on spectroscopy and particle transport in tokamaks. He then joined IPP to do research on divertor spectroscopy and reduced edge modeling at ASDEX Upgrade. In 2022, he was one the EuroFusion Scientific Coordinators for negative triangularity, considered a potential path to tokamak power plants. In January 2023, Francesco and his co-founders co-founded Proxima Fusion to pursue a new path with public-private partnerships to develop QI stellarators in Europe.
  • Ort: IPP Greifswald
  • Raum: Günter-Grieger Lecture Hall (Greifswald) and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de

The physics basis for a Q≈1 high-field, compact, axisymmetric mirror*

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Persönliche Erinnerungen zur Geschichte der Fusionsforschung

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Advancing the Concept of the Quasi-isodynamic Stellarator

Institutskolloquium

What is a complex system – And what does mathematics teach us about the dynamics of democracies?

Institutskolloquium

Sustainable Steel Making

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 31.03.2023
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Dierk Raabe
  • Dierk Raabe is director of the Department for Microstructure Physics, Alloy Design and Sustainable Synthesis of Materials at Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf and professor at RWTH Aachen
  • Ort: Zoom
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: daniel.told@ipp.mpg.de

Ultrafast laser technology. From experimental setup for dark matter detection to a commercial product.

Institutskolloquium

Quantum correlations in quantum causal structures

Institutskolloquium

How music making changes brain function and stucture: Music making as a model for functional and dysfunctional neuroplasticity

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