Institutskolloquium des IPP 2025

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Corollaries of weather dependent electricity generation

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 17.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wagner
  • Friedrich Wagner was born on 16 November 1943 in Pfaffenhofen (Swabia). After studying physics and taking his PhD at the Technical University of Munich in 1972, Wagner then went as a postdoc to Ohio State University, where he did research in the field of low-temperature physics from 1973 to 1974. In 1975 he joined Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, being made head of the ASDEX tokamak experiment in 1986 and appointed Scientific Fellow in 1988. Wagner qualified for lectureship in the same year at the University of Heidelberg, where he held a teaching post till 1991. That year he became Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Munich. From 1989 till 1993 he has been project head of the Wendelstein 7-AS stellarator experiment. From 1993 to 2005 he was member of the Directorate of IPP, from March 1999 till April 2007 Speaker of the Greifswald Branch Institute and from 2003 till 2005 head of the "Wendelstein 7-X Enterprise". In 1987 he was awarded the "Excellency in Plasma Physics" prize by the Plasma Physics Division of the American Physical Society, in 2007 the Hannes Alfvén Prize of the European Physical Society. In 2008 he has been awarded the Stern-Gerlach Medal 2009 by the German Physical Society. Since 1999 he is Ordinary Professor at the Ernst-Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald. Besides his institute commitments, Wagner was from 1996 till 2004 Chairman of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society, from 2007 till 2009 he was President of the European Physical Society. Wagner is Honorary Member of the Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Fellow of the Institute of Physics of the American Physical Society, and Member of the Editorial Board at the Institute of Physics. He retired end of 2008.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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The physics and engineering of the Gauss Fusion GIGA power plant

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 28.02.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Dr. Richard Kembleton and Dr. Samuel Lazerson
  • Dr. Richard Kembleton has been working in fusion physics for over 20 years, starting with a PhD in fusion materials at Cambridge University. He then joined UKAEA (UK Atomic Energy Authority) where he was a member of the Power Plant Technology Group and worked on DEMO, power plant designs, and fusion economics. Dr. Kembleton joined EUROfusion in Garching in 2018 to manage the Prospective R&D programme aimed at realising technology for commercialisation, and then joined Gauss Fusion in 2023 where he now acts as the CSO. --- Dr. Samuel Lazerson has a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Emby-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach Florida, and a Ph.D. in Space Physics from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He has worked on stellarator physics for 15 years as a researcher at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald. He's conducted research on the Large Helical Device, HSX, CNT, DIII-D, NSTX, ITER, and W7-X. In May of last year Samuel joined Gauss Fusion as the stellarator physics lead.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Interfacing supercomputer simulations of galaxy formation with precision cosmology

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 28.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Volker Springel
  • Prof. Volker Springel received his PhD in Astrophysics from the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich in 1999. He went on to be a Post-doc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and subsequently at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, where he became a tenured research group leader in 2005. He was appointed Prof. of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Heidelberg in 2010, where her also became group leader for Theoretical Astrophysics at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and member of the Interdisciplinary Center of Scientific Computing in Heidelberg. Since 2017 Prof. Springel is Director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, and since 2019 he is Honorary Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. He also serves as Vice President of the German Astronomical Society, as Member of the Cosmological Simulation Working Group (CSWG) of the EUCLID satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) and as member of the Research Board of the ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence. From 2017-2023 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Gauß-Center for Supercomputing (GCS) and from 2019-2022 he was member of the Steering Committee of the Max-Planck Princeton Center for Plasmaphysics. in 2016 Prof. Springel was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and in 2020 he became an International Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 2021 he won the Leibniz Award of the DFG.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Quantum Computing and Simulation in the presence of errors

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 04.04.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Ignacio Cirac
  • Prof. Ignacio Cirac is a Spanish theoretical physicist in the field of quantum information theory. With his collaborators, he introduced the first proposals of quantum computers, simulators, and repeaters with atoms, and developed a theory of tensor networks to describe quantum many-body systems. Ignacio Cirac graduated in Theoretical Physics at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) in 1988, and gained his PhD in 1991 at the same university. Between 1991 and 1996, he was Associate Professor at the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), and spent eighteen months at the University of Colorado (US) working with Peter Zoller. From 1996 until 2001 he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). Since 2001 he is a member of the Max Planck Society and director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, Germany). In 2002 he also became honorary professor at the Technical University of Munich. Prof. Cirac has won numerous awards, including the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society in 2018, the Bell Prize in Physics 2019 and the Micius Quantum Prize in 2019.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Open Science and Research Software Engineering: Building Blocks for Quality Research

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 11.04.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragende: Dr. Heidi Seibold
  • Dr. Heidi Seibold is co-founder co-executive director of the Digital Research Academy, a trainer network focused on Open Science, Data Literacy and Research Software Engineering. Her research used to be at the intersection of statistics, machine learning and medicine, before wandering into the field of Open Science. She left her academic career in 2021 to pursue her passion of helping researchers improve the quality of their research through good scientific practices and Open Science. She is in the steering group of the German Reproducibility Network and initiated the Open Science Retreat, an unconference that is in its third year now. Heidi writes a successful newsletter on open and reproducible data science with >2000 subscribers and has been involved in various podcast productions. Heidi is an avid cyclist and hiker and tries to avoid cars and airplanes as much as possible.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Why leadership is so important for cooperation: Insights from behavioral economics

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 09.05.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Matthias Sutter
  • Prof. Matthias Sutter is Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn, and also Professor for Experimental Economics at the University of Cologne and the University of Innsbruck. Matthias Sutter, born in 1968, received his doctorate in economics from the University of Innsbruck in 1999, where he also habilitated in 2002. From 2003 to 2005, he was C3-professor at the Max Planck Institute for Economics in Jena. Subsequent positions included chairs at the University of Cologne (2005-2006, 2015-2017), the University of Innsbruck (2006-2013) and the European University Institute in Florence (2013-2014). From July 2007 to June 2013, he was also a part-time professor at the University of Gothenburg. Since 2017, Sutter is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and leads the experimental economics group. He is still part-time professor at the Universities of Cologne and Innsbruck where he teaches experimental economics. He has published in all Top-5 journals in economics, but also in “Science”, “Nature Communications” or “PNAS”. Sutter also writes popular science books, like “Behavioral Economics for Leaders” (2023). His German books “Die Entdeckung der Geduld” (2018) and “Der menschliche Faktor” (2022) both hit the Austrian bestseller lists.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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JT-60SA: getting ready for scientific operation

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 16.05.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Dr. Sam Davis
  • Sam Davis started work at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in the UK, working first on materials and magnet development and then on tokamak upgrade projects. He joined the JT-60SA project in 2010, working for Fusion for Energy in Garching, Germany. He first followed the manufacturing of the cryostat base on which the tokamak rests and its delivery from Spain. He was then fully occupied in the design, manufacturing and assembly of the toroidal field magnet. After launching a range of enhancement projects he moved to Naka, Japan in 2020. During 2020-2023 he supported the integrated commissioning of the JT-60SA tokamak and the modifications necessary to reach the first plasma. He was appointed as JT-60SA Project Leader in December 2023.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Energy Economics: climate policies to avoid the rush-to-burn

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 23.05.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Kai Konrad
  • Kai A. Konrad completed his doctoral studies in economics in 1990 and habilitated in 1993 at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich. From 1994 to 2009, he was a university professor in the Department of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, and from 2001 to 2009, he was also the director of the Department of Market Processes and Governance at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). Since 2009, he has been a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, since 2011 he is serving as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. Since 1999, Konrad has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Finance, serving as its chair from 2011 to 2014. He is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the German Academy of Engineering Sciences (acatech), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academia Europaea. He holds an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Basel in 2023, primarily for his ‘fundamental theoretical contributions to the economic analysis of strategies in tournaments with applications in industrial economics as well as in political economy’.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Divertor tokamak test facility: status of the construction and preparation for the exploitation

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 13.06.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Francesco Romanelli
  • Prof. Francesco Romanelli is the President of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility at ENEA Frascati Research Center. He has been working in nuclear fusion since 1980. He has led from 1996 to 2006 the ENEA activities in Physics of Magnetic Confinement Fusion. In 2006 he became Leader of JET, the largest magnetic fusion experiment in operation, and from 2009 to 2014 Leader of the European Fusion Development Agreement. In 2015 he moved to the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he is now professor of Physics of Nuclear Energy. He is also Editor in Chief of Nuclear Fusion, the largest impact factor fusion journal.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Farewell Colloquium Arne Kallenbach

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 04.07.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Arne Kallenbach
  • This will be the farewell Colloquium for Arne Kallenbach.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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The transition to post-quantum cryptography

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 11.07.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:15
  • Vortragender: Prof. Peter Schwabe
  • Peter Schwabe is scientific director at MPI-SP and professor at Radboud University. He graduated from RWTH Aachen University in computer science in 2006 and received a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology in 2011. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Information Science and the Research Center for Information Technology Innovation of Academia Sinica, Taiwan and at National Taiwan University. His research area is cryptographic engineering; in particular the security and performance of cryptographic software. He published more than 70 articles in journals and at international conferences presenting, for example, fast software for a variety of cryptographic primitives including AES, hash functions, elliptic-curve cryptography, and cryptographic pairings. He has also published articles on fast cryptanalysis, in particular attacks on the discrete-logarithm problem. In recent years he has focused in particular on post-quantum cryptography. He co-authored the "NewHope" and "NTRU-HRSS" lattice-based key-encapsulation schemes which were used in post-quantum TLS experiments by Google and he is co-submitter of seven proposals to the NIST post-quantum crypto project, all of which made it to the second round, five of which made it to the third round, and 3 of which were selected after round 3 for standardization. In 2021, he co-founded the Formosa-Crypto project, an effort by multiple research groups to build (post-quantum) cryptographic software with formal proofs of functional correctness and security.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Farewell Colloquium Uli Stroth

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 18.07.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:15
  • Vortragender: Prof. Uli Stroth
  • This will be the farewell Colloquium for Uli Stroth.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Particle Accelerators for High Energy Physics Based on Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefields

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 25.07.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:15
  • Vortragender: Prof. Allen Caldwell
  • The scientific work carried out by Prof. Allen Caldwell currently includes the development of novel particle accelerator technology based on plasma wakefields, the study of the quarks and gluons and their interactions, the fundamental properties of neutrinos and, more recently, the search for a new candidate for Dark Matter - axions. In addition, he has a great interest in probability and statistics, and lectures on data analysis techniques and Monte Carlo methods at the Technical University of Munich. The plasma based accelerator experiment is explained in the video How can plasma and proton beams be used in building next generation particle accelerators? Prof. Caldwell was born in Verdun/France in 1959 and has the double citizenship of the USA and France. He studied physics at Rice University in Texas, then moved to the University of Wisconsin where he earned his doctorate. He then spent 15 years at Columbia University, where he eventually became professor. In 1997, he became head of the ZEUS experiment at the HERA accelerator at DESY in Hamburg. In 1999, he was made director of the Nevis Laboratory at Columbia University in New York; since 2002 he has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Physics. He currently heads the AWAKE experiment at CERN .
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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The evolution of evolvability

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 19.09.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:15
  • Vortragender: Prof. Paul Rainey
  • Born 1962 in New Zealand. Bachelors, masters and PhD at the University of Canterbury, UK. From 1989 until 2005 he was based in the UK where most of his time was as researcher and then professor at the University of Oxford. He began transitioning back to New Zealand in 2003, firstly as Chair of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Auckland, in 2007 he moved to the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study as one of its founding professors. Paul Rainey is currently Director of the Department of Microbial Population Biology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön (since 2017), Professor at ESPCI in Paris, and he retains an adjunct professorial position at the NZIAS in Auckland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a Member of EMBO and honorary professor at Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (since 2019). Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Quantum Gravity, Strings and the Swampland

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 10.10.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:15
  • Vortragender: Prof. Dieter Lüst
  • The theoretical physicist Prof. Dieter Lüst investigates string theory, a fundamental theory that attempts to explain all physical forces and particles. In 2000, the German Research Foundation considered his scientific achievements worthy of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, one of the most highly endowed German research prizes. In the context of the “Origin and Structure of the Universe” Cluster of Excellence in 2012 he was awarded an “Advanced Grant”, a program with which the European Research Council ERC funds new research projects of outstanding scientists. Prof. Lüst was born in Chicago in 1956 and studied physics in Munich, completing his doctorate there as well in 1985. He spent 1985 and 1986 as a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, then moved to the Max Planck Institute for Physics for the first time, remaining there until 1988. His next appointment was at CERN in Geneva where he undertook research work until 1990 and also gained the German postdoctoral lecturing qualification at the LMU Munich. In 1993, he was appointed professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since 1998, he has been an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam. In 2004, he returned to the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich as Director and at the same time became professor of mathematical physics at the LMU Munich, where he is also spokesperson of the Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics. Since Juni 2018 he has been heading the Max Planck Institute for Physics as Managing Director.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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COMPASS Upgrade - building a 5 T tokamak from scratch

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 17.10.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:15
  • Vortragender: Dr. Petr Vondráĉek
  • Dr. Vondráĉek is deputy leader of department of Technological development and leader of the engineering group at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. His PhD topic was "Plasma heat flux to solid structures in tokamaks". He is currently a team member of the COMPASS-Upgrade tokamak.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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Deep Generative Modeling for Data-Driven Simulation

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 14.11.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Prof. Vlado Menkovski
  • Dr. Vlado Menkovski is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he leads the Machine Learning for Physical Science research group. His work centers on developing computational methods that accelerate scientific discovery across a range of disciplines, including materials science, mechanical engineering, and nuclear fusion. His core expertise lies in machine learning, with a particular focus on deep generative modeling and geometric deep learning. He works on advancing surrogate modeling techniques and physically consistent, data-driven simulations that bridge the gap between machine learning and the physical sciences. Dr. Menkovski earned his Ph.D. from TU/e in 2013 and holds an M.Sc. from Carnegie Mellon University (2008). Prior to rejoining academia in 2016, he worked as a Research Scientist at Philips Research and as a Data Scientist in industry. Since his return, he has played a key role in expanding TU/e’s machine learning capabilities in both research and education, especially at the intersection of AI and fundamental science.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Günter-Grieger Lecture Hall (Greifswald) and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de
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The search for life on Mars - recent results and challenges

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 21.11.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragende: Dr. Sandra Siljestrom
  • Dr. Siljestrom a Research Scientist at the RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in Stockholm, specializing in the intersection of geochemistry, astrobiology, and space technology. Her primary focus is contributing to international space exploration efforts, where she serves in both scientific and technical roles. Key Missions & Experience: NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover: she is currently a Participating Scientist on the NASA Mars 2020 team, specifically working on the Returned Sample Science program. Her critical task is to help select the rock and soil samples that the rover is collecting for eventual return to Earth. ESA Rosetta Mission: Dr Siljestrom served as a Co-Investigator (Co-I) for the COSIMA instrument during the successful ESA Rosetta Mission. ESA ExoMars Rover (2028): currently a Co-Investigator for the MOMA instrument (Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer), an exciting future mission focused on the search for signs of life on Mars. Background: Her academic path includes an M.Sc. in Engineering Biology (Linköping University, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Geochemistry (Stockholm University, 2011), followed by post-doctoral work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Since 2011, Dr. Siljestrom has maintained her research position at RISE.
  • Ort: IPP
  • Raum: Günter-Grieger Lecture Hall (Greifswald) and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Dmitry Moseev
  • Kontakt: dmitry.moseev@ipp.mpg.de
Mars today is a cold and dry desert seemingly devoid of life. However, in the past, about 4 billion years ago, the red planet was a much different place with thicker atmosphere, flowing water on its surface and thus with much better potential to harbour life. The first mission to Mars to search for life, the Viking mission, in 1975, found neither traces of extant or extinct life nor organic molecules on the surface of Mars, which was both disappointing and to some extent surprising. However, lately the exploration of Mars by NASA Curiosity and Perseverance rovers have shown promising results, including the identification of at least two past habitable environments on Mars in Gale and Jezero craters, and the find of the building blocks of life such as organic molecules. In this lecture I will present some of the latest results and challenges in the search for life on Mars. This includes the find of a potential biosignatures in Jezero crater by the Perseverance rover as recently announced by NASA. I will also discuss future plans for exploration of Mars including the ESA Rosalind Franklin rover, Mars sample return, and potential human exploration. [mehr]

Staged Z-pinch for Fusion Energy and a Neutron source

Institutskolloquium
  • Datum: 05.12.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 12:15
  • Vortragender: Dr. Hafiz Rahman
  • Dr. Hafiz Rahman is the President and Chief Scientist at Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technology Inc. (MIFTI) headquartered in Tustin, CA. Dr. Rahman was a faculty member in the University of California and retired 2012, from Department of Physics and Astronomy University of California Irvine. He has over four decades experience in the field of fusion energy and space physics research. His research spans on all three areas of experiment, theory, and computational physics. His particular emphasis on research has been on dense Z pinches for fusion energy, Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) laboratory simulation of space plasma structures, and propagation of neutralized plasma beams. Dr. Rahman invented the Staged Z-pinch (SZP) fusion concept, while working as principal investigator on SZP fusion which is based on magneto-inertial confinement involving a pinch-on-target process.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: Arnulf-Schlüter Lecture Hall in Building D2 and Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: stefan.possanner@ipp.mpg.de
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