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Hengstberger Award for Dr. Dominika Wylezalek

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at ZAH/ARI, received the Hengstberger Award 2024. The award will support Dr. Wylezalek in organising a scientific symposium at the IWH in 2025. (2024/10/19)

The Landessternwarte mourns the loss of Dr. Gerhard Klare

The Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW) mourns the loss of Dr. Gerhard Klare, who died on July 24, 2024 at the age of 92. (2024/07/25)

Joachim Wambsganss is new director of ZAH

Since July 1, 2024, Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganss (ZAH/ARI) is director of ZAH. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Norbert Christlieb, who was director since July 1, 2021 and who is now ZAH deputy director. (2024/07/01)

Dominika Wylezalek admitted to the Young Academy

The Young Academy welcomed ten young scientists as new members, amongst them Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI). New members have the opportunity to e.g. initiate interdisciplinary research projects and working groups. (2024/06/24)

2024 Copernicus Award for Joachim Wambsganss

German Research Foundation and Foundation for Polish Science jointly honour Heidelberg scientist and his colleague Andrzej Udalski from Warsaw. (2024/05/22)

Ralf Klessen selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

The Harvard Radcliffe Institute announced the selection of Ralf Klessen (ZAH/ITA) as a fellow for the academic year 24/25. This provides him the opportunity to pursue ambitious projects in the unique environment of the Institute. (2024/05/13)

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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM

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Astro & Physics Talks

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Next Astro colloquia
Nov 07
11:15		Bayesian model selection in cosmology (and beyond)
Benedikt Schosser (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Nov 08
11:00		Combining ALMA and VLA observations to shed light on dust growth and planet(esimal) formation
Francesco Zagaria (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Nov 12
16:30		StarDance: the non-canonical evolution of stars in clusters
Professor Elena Pancino (University of Florence)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS)

more colloquia ...

Recent ZAH publications
11/2024
Zhang, Saiyang; Bromm, Volker; Liu, Boyuan
How Do Primordial Black Holes Change the Halo Mass Function and Structure?
ApJ 975, 139(2024)

11/2024
Verma, Kuldeep; Maxted, Pierre F. L. et al. (inc. Ludwig, H. -G.)
A regularization technique to precisely infer limb darkening using transit measurements: can we estimate stellar surface magnetic fields?
MNRAS 534, 3893(2024)

11/2024
Drory, Niv; Blanc, Guillermo A. et al. (inc. Sattler, Natascha; Popa, Silvia Anastasia; Méndez-Delgado, José Eduardo; Klessen, Ralf S.; Li, Jing; Greve, Hannah; Glover, Simon C. O.; Egorova, Evgeniia; Egorov, Oleg; i Saguer, Mar Canal; Pellegrini, Eric W.; Kreckel, Kathryn)
The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Scientific Motivation and Project Overview
AJ 168, 198(2024)

more publications ...