Past seminars:2006

26 December - Christmas
19 December Donate Weghorn Detection of Baryonic Oscillations with Galaxy-galaxy lensing
12 December - -
5 December Tim Schrabback-Krahe

1. On the magnitude dependent shear calibration bias detected for KSB

2. Peter and Tim in Space

28 November - -
21 November Jan Hartlap Ray-Tracing with the Millennium Simulation
14 November Jacqueline Chen The Radial Distribution of Galactic Satellites
7 November Jasmin Pielorz Cosmology with the Halo Model
31 September Marco Hetterscheidt "The CFHTLS Strong Lensing Legacy Survey: I. Survey overview and T0002 release sample" by Cabanac et al. 2006
24 September Tim Eifler Optimal Surveys for Weak Lensing Tomography
17 September Hendrik Hildebrandt Cosmic magnification measured by cross-correlation studies
10 September Alessio Fangano Absorption features of high redshift galactic winds
3 October - Tag der Deutschen Einheit
26 September Thomas Reiprich Constrainig the Nature of Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters
19 September Patrick Simon How accurate is Limber's equation?
12 September - no electric power
5 September Jens Rödiger Constraining the EOS of dark energy and primordial non-Gaussianity with weak lensing
29 August Danny Hudson Cooling Core Clusters:Implications for a Complete, X-ray Flux Limited Sample of Galaxy Clusters
22 August Jan Hartlap Cosmological Simulations using Particles
15 August Thomas Breuel (Kaiserslautern) A Brief Introduction to Geometric Matching in Computer Vision
8 August Sherry Suyu (Caltech) Non-parametric Potential Reconstruction
1 August - Conference in Leiden
25 July Hendrik Hildebrandt Photometric Redshifts in Comparison
4 July - DFG-SPP Summer School
27 June Patrick Hudelot Bayesian Methods in Cosmology
20 June John McKean Recent results from the SLACS strong lens survey
13 June 17:00 Elisabetta Semboloni (IAP) Cosmic Shear Measurement and Cosmological Interpretation
13 June 11:00 Jörg Dietrich Weak lensing cluster search in the XMM-Newton follow-up survey
23 May Marco Hetterscheidt Systematic Errors in Cosmic Shear Surveys
16 May Jasmin Pielorz Sefusatti et al.: "Cosmology and the Bispectrum", astro-ph/0604505 pdf)
9 May Tim Eifler Contour plots of cosmic shear measures using correct(ed) covariance matrices
2 May 11:00 Peter Schneider The ring statistics - how to separate E- and B-modes of cosmic shear correlation functions on a finite interval
28 April 14:00 Douglas Clowe (Tucson) Constraints on the existence and nature of dark matter from interacting clusters of galaxies
25 April Jan Hartlap Shrinkage estimators for covariance matrices
18 April Martin Kilbinger E- and B-mode mixing from incomplete knowledge of the shear correlation function
13 April 14:00 Daniel Harbeck (Wisconsin) The One-Degree Imager at the WIYN Telescope
11 April 11:00 Jens Rödiger The dark matter bispectrum in perturbation theory
4 April 14:00 Kenji Bekki (Sydney) Globular cluster systems and galaxy formation (Abstract)
23 March 16:00 Philippe Héraudeau (Groningen) AstroWISE: the Astronomical Wide Imaging System for Europe
21 March Christoph Lampert (Kaiserslautern) The RAST algorithm for Geometric Matching
9 March Holger Israel (Göttingen) Optimal Image Subtraction for Dense Field Stellar Photometry
7 March Tim Schrabback-Krahe Cosmic Shear with ACS: Recent Progress and Future Plans
28 February - Karneval
21 February Patrick Simon Monte Carlo Markov Chains: An Introduction
20 February Sarah Bühler (Universitätssternwarte München) Novae in M31
14 February Marco Hetterscheidt Cosmic Shear in GaBoDS
7 February Hendrik Hildebrandt Clustering in the high-redshift Universe - recent developments
31 January Noam Libeskind (Durham) The flattening of satellite galaxies and the effect of gravitational recoil on black holes in a hierarchical universe
24 January Jan Hartlap R. Gavazzi et al.: "Probing dark matter caustics with weak lensing", A'n'A 445, 43 (2006, pdf); E. Bertschinger: "Self-similar secondary infall and accretion in an Einstein-de Sitter universe", ApJS 58, 39 (1985, pdf)
17 January Thomas Erben Detection of galaxy clusters in optical data, with emphasis on the GaBoDS lensing sample
10 January Carsten Weidner Promotionskolloquium
3 January - Vorbesprechung