The S3 takes place every second Wednesday afternoon from 13:00 to 16:30. It consists of up to three talks by students on their PhD projects (each 20 min talk plus 10 min discussion), an extended coffee break for further discussion and a tutorial talk (60 min).
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| 05 February 2014 | ||
| 22 January 2014 | ||
| 18 December 2013 (extra date) | ||
| 11 December 2013 | ||
| 20 November 2013 (extra date/instead of 27 November) | ||
| 13 November 2013 | ||
| 30 October 2013 | ||
| 16 October 2013 | ||
| 10 July 2013 | Chaitanya Giri | Strategies for detecting complex organics on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with COSAC |
| Guneshwar Thangjam | Potential olivine or High-Ca Pyroxene rich exposures on Vesta using Dawn FC | |
| Julie Brisset | SPACE on REXUS: Dust Aggregation on a Suborbital Rocket | |
| 26 June 2013 | Philippe Bourdin | Observation vs. Model vs. Theory - Solar corona above an active region |
| Shahin Jafarzadeh | Dynamics of magnetic bright points in the lower solar atmosphere | |
| 12 June 2013 | Domenico Meduri | Reversals in geodynamo models and paleomagnetic data: a statistical analysis |
| Nafiseh Masoumzadeh | Photometric Analysis of Small Bodies | |
| Tue 28 May 2013 | David Bühler | Properties of solar plage from a spatially coupled inversion |
| Jisesh Sethunadh | Three-dimensional modeling of the stratospheres of gas giants | |
| 27 Feb 2013 | Tijmen van Wettum | Parametrized study of coronal heating |
| Anuradha Kar | Analysis of Ca II K spectroheliograms for solar irradiance studies | |
| Feng Chen | A coupled model for the formation of an active region corona | |
| 20 Feb 2013 | Christoph Koenders | Revisiting cometary bow shock positions |
| Rakesh Yadav | Bridging planets and stars in dynamo models: Preliminary results and future plans | |
| Farhad Shakeri | The cycle-related solar VUV variability | |
| 30 Jan 2013 | Jayant Joshi | 3D Structure of Sunspot: From Photosphere to Chromosphere |
| Bastian Gundlach | Surface Processes of Small Solar System Bodies | |
| 16 Jan 2013 | Maria Andriopoulou | Using energetic electron microsignatures as tracers of electric fields in Saturn's magnetosphere |
| Anna Kotova | Modeling of the energetic ion observations in the vicinity of Rhea | |
| Stephan Barra | Coronal active region modeling based on SDO data | |
| 19 Dec 2012 | Kok Leng Yeo | Sources of variation in solar irradiance |
| Konstantin Finke | Dynamo mechanism of the turbulent spherical Couette flow | |
| Lucia Duarte | Anelastic dynamo models with variable electrical conductivity: an application to gas giants | |
| 5 Dec 2012 | Yoann Vernisse | Stellar winds and planetary bodies simulation: transition by magnetic dipole variation |
| Stefan Wiehle | Hybrid simulations of Venus' dynamic plasma environment | |
| Patricio Munoz | Theory and numerical simulations of current sheet instabilities in the solar corona | |
| 21 Nov 2012 | Kun Li | The fate of cold ion outflow from polar ionosphere |
| Guneshwar Thangjam | Lithological variation and mapping of Vesta | |
| Sebastian Höfner | Thermal modeling of active regions of cometary nuclei | |
| 7 Nov 2012 | Emanuele Papini | Propagating linear waves in a convectively unstable solar model: a perturbative approach |
| Björn Löptien | Synthetic helioseismic data for Solar Orbiter | |
| Jan Langfellner | Probing vortical motions with helioseismology | |
| 18 July 2012 | Marc Hofmann | Granular flow in low gravity: Experiment |
| Jinhua Shen | Hard X-ray observation and extrapolation of coronal magnetic field | |
| Iulia Chifu | 3D reconstruction of solar coronal features | |
| 4 July 2012 | Daniel Heisselmann | An experimental view on ice-particle collisions in Saturn's rings |
| Eugene Shalygin | Study of the Venus surface using Venus Monitoring Camera images | |
| Tue 5 June 2012 | Juanjo Piqueras | Assessing effects of space radiation on the image sensor for SO/PHI |
| Jisesh Sethunadh | General circulation modeling of stratospheres of cold and warm Jupiters | |
| Antoine Genetelli | Multi wavelength analysis of emerging flux using SDO | |
| 23 May 2012 | Nafiseh Masoumzadeh | Surface structure analysis of small bodies on the different scales |
| Chaitanya Giri | Carbon, Comets and COSAC | |
| Kun Li | The source region of the cold ion outflowing from the Earth's ionosphere | |
| 9 May 2012 | Wieland Dietrich | Can the heterogeneous magnetization of the Martian crust originate from an ancient hemispherical dynamo? |
| Hendrik Kriegel | Hybrid simulations of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Rhea compared with Cassini magnetometer data | |
| Benjamin Beeck | Magnetoconvection in cool stars - 3D simulations and spectral line synthesis | |
| Jürgen Blum (Braunschweig) |
Building planets in the lab | |
| 25 Apr 2012 | Tijmen van Wettum | Different heating mechanisms for the solar corona |
| Dennis Röhrbein | Analysis of 3D-MHD simulations of solar-magneto convection | |
| 14 Mar 2012 | Navdeep Panesar | A polar crown prominence observed by SDO and STEREO |
| Juan Sanchez | Phase reddening on near-Earth-asteroids: Implications for mineralogical analysis, taxonomic classification and space weathering | |
| 29 Feb 2012 | Shahin Jafarzadeh | Structure and dynamics of isolated internetwork bright points in the lower solar atmosphere observed by SUNRISE |
| David Bühler | Does the quiet Sun magnetic flux vary with time? | |
| Lucia Duarte | Towards more realistic dynamo models of the gas giants | |
| 15 Feb 2012 | Neda Dadashi | The average Doppler shift of transition region and coronal lines |
| Farhad Shakeri | Cycle-related solar EUV variability | |
| Christoph Koenders | The massloading process and the cometary bow shock position | |
| 1 Feb 2012 | Megha Bhatt | Iron abundance estimations using the SIR-2 and other VIS-NIR spectrometers on-board Chandrayaan-1 |
| Jayant Joshi | Spectroscopy of Sunspot Penumbra in C I 5380.3 A | |
| Karsten Schindler | Detector Characterization Activities and Studies for Future VIS-NIR Spectrometers | |
| 18 Jan 2012 | Yeon Joo Lee | Venus cloud structure and radiative energy balance in mesosphere |
| Yoann Vernisse | Classification of the interaction of planetary bodies with stellar winds by hybrid simulation | |
| Stefan Wiehle | Hybrid simulations of Venus ionospheric magnetization states | |
| Ilya Usoskin (Oulu) |
Cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere | |
| 14 Dec 2011 | Marc Hofmann | Shape modeling of small bodies and implications to granular flow on the surface of asteroid (21) Lutetia |
| Domenico Meduri | Statistical Analysis of Reversals: Geomagnetic Field and Dynamo Models | |
| 7 Dec 2011 | Maria Andriopoulou | Energetic-particle kinematics in Saturn's inner magnetosphere |
| Kok Leng Yeo | Modelling Solar Irradiance | |
| Julie Brisset | Suborbital Particle Aggregation and Collision Experiment (SPACE): Preparing for the flight on REXUS | |
| 23 Nov 2011 | Armando Gonzalez | The origin of water in Jupiter stratosphere. Part III: Results |
| Chemeda Tadese Ejeta | Polarimetric characterisation of Saturn's moon Iapetus | |
| Philippe Bourdin | A solar corona model driven by photospheric observations of an active region | |
| Mark Cheung (Palo Alto) |
Simulation of active region formation | |
| 9 Nov 2011 | Konstantin Finke | Simulations of the kinematic dynamo onset of spherical Couette flows |
| Bastian Gundlach | Heat conductivity of porous dust layers | |
| 26 Oct 2011 | Daniel Verscharen | Parametric decay and kinetic cascade - spectral transfer in space plasmas |
| 13 July 2011 | Daniel Heyner | The feedback dynamo |
| Daniel Heißelmann | An experimental view on the collisional properties of water-ice particles in Saturn's rings | |
| 29 June 2011 | Peter Kollmann | Saturn's radiation belts |
| Juanjo Piqueras | Camera development for PHI onboard Solar Orbiter | |
| Wieland Dietrich | The convective origin of hemispherical dynamos | |
| 15 June 2011 | Neda Dadashi | The quiet-Sun average Doppler shift of transition regions and coronal lines up to 2 MK |
| Jisesh Sethunadh | Development of a General Circulation Model for the stratosphere of Jupiter | |
| Bastian Gundlach | Experimental study of the outgassing of icy bodies in the Solar System | |
| 1 June 2011 | Jonas Hesemann | Limb observations by Venus Monitoring Camera |
| Vedat Tanriverdi | Spectral analysis of the induction equation | |
| Jayant Joshi | Convection in sunspot penumbra | |
| 18 May 2011 | Tino Riethmüller | Comparison of Bright Point properties between MHD simulations and Sunrise data |
| Benjamin Beeck | (Magneto-)Convection in Cool Stars | |
| Nadine Nettelmann (Rostock) |
Giant planets: far out, close-in, and deep inside | |
| 4 May 2011 | Tijmen van Wettum | Heating the Solar Corona |
| Maria Dasi Espuig | Reconstruction of total solar irradiance since 1878 | |
| 20 Apr 2011 | Eugene Shalygin | Retrieving the surface emissivity from the Venus Monitoring Camera night-side infra-red images |
| Hendrik Kriegel | Influence of negatively charged plume grains on the structure of Enceladus' Alfven wings: hybrid simulations versus Cassini MAG data | |
| 2 Mar 2011 | Lucia Duarte | Explaining the simplicity of Saturn's magnetic field |
| Juan Sanchez | Phase angle and temperature-induced effect on the spectral analysis of asteroids | |
| Ronny Lutz | Searching for exoplanets around post-RGB stars | |
| Günther Wuchterl (Tautenburg) |
CoRoT: planet-formation and a physical theory of planetary mass | |
| 16 Feb 2011 | Navdeep Panesar | Clouds and hazes of Venus |
| Yeon Joo Lee | Radiative energy balance in the Venus cloud layer | |
| Iulia Chifu | 3D reconstruction of CMEs | |
| 2 Feb 2011 | Chemeda Ejeta | Spectropolarimetry of the two sides of Saturn's moon Iapetus |
| Konstantin Finke | Simulations of mechanically driven dynamos in spherical geometry | |
| Christoph Koenders | Hybrid simulations of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko | |
| 19 Jan 2011 | Megha Bhatt | Derivation of the Iron Abundance Mapping Equation using SIR-2 data |
| Shahin Jafarzadeh | Structure and Dynamics of the Sunrise Ca II H Bright Points | |
| David Bühler | Long-term variation of quiet-Sun magnetic flux patches | |
| 15 Dec 2010 | Armando Gonzalez | The origin of water in Jupiter stratosphere. Part II: Photochemistry |
| Daniel Verscharen | Compressive high-frequency waves riding on a Alfven-cyclotron wave in a multi-fluid plasma | |
| Dennis Röhrbein | Analysis of 3D-MHD simulations of solar magnetoconvection | |
| 1 Dec 2010 | Jinhye Park | Dependence of solar proton events on their associated activities: Flare parameters |
| Hyunnam Kim | Ground-based solar observations at the Vacuum Tower Telescope VTT | |
| Minsup Jeong | The basics of lunar photometry | |
| 17 Nov 2010 | Lars Guicking | Low-frequency magnetic field fluctuations at Venus |
| Jong Yeob Park | Development of an automatic programm to count the number of sunspots using visual C++ | |
| Judith de Patoul | 3D reconstruction of polar plumes from the three vantage positions of STEREO/SECCHI A,B and SOHO/EIT using the Hought-wavelet transform | |
| 3 Nov 2010 | Peter Kollmann | Energetic particles at Saturn |
| Kyoung Sun Lee | Spectroscopic analysis of EUV brightenings in AR 10926 observed by Hinode/EIS | |
| Hongdal Jun | Intrusion of a magnetic field through the overlying field in the solar atmosphere induced by ballooning instability | |
| 20 Oct 2010 | Anne Angsmann | Magnetic fields in the ionosphere of Venus |
| Narges Fathalian | Transverse oscillations of longitudinally stratified coronal loop systems | |
| 7 July 2010 | Benjamin Beeck | Magneto-convection in cool stars - Introduction and first results |
| Tilaye Tadesse | Nonlinear force-free extrapolation of a SOLIS/VSM vector magnetogram in spherical geometry | |
| Maria Dasi | Modelling solar irradiance with the use of simulated magnetograms | |
| 30 June 2010 | Wieland Dietrich | Lateral cmb heat flux variations as a model for Martian paleomagnetic field |
| Hendrik Kriegel | Hybrid simulations of Enceladus' plasma interaction and comparison with Cassini magnetometer data | |
| Eugene Shalygin | Synthetic images of the Venus surface based on VMC images | |
| Thu 17 June 2010 | Vedat Tanriverdi | Spectrum of the numerical geodynamo |
| Setareh Javadi | Relative importance of compressional heating and current dissipation for the formation of coronal X-ray bright points | |
| Juanjo Piqueras | Detector development for PHI onboard Solar Orbiter | |
| Tue 1 June 2010 | Chemeda Ejeta | Spectropolarimetry of the two faces of Saturn's moon Iapetus |
| Raphael Attie | Soft-Xray emission related to magnetic reconnection | |
| Ramy El Maarry | What do Crater Floor Polygons and Sun Dried Tomatoes have in common? | |
| 19 May 2010 | Daniel Heißelmann | Laboratory experiments on planteary rings: getting a handle on the 'handles' |
| Tino Riethmüller | Bright points in the quiet Sun as observed in the visible and near UV by the balloon-born telescope Sunrise | |
| Arianna Piccialli | Cyclostrophic wind in the mesosphere of Venus from Venus Express observations | |
| 5 May 2010 | Yana Maneva | Preferential heating and acceleration of fast solar wind ions - hybrid simulations |
| 10 Mar 2010 | Juan Sanchez | An overview of asteroids |
| Philippe Bourdin | 3D MHD coronal model on supercomputers, Granularity effects | |
| Peter Kollmann | Sources and sinks of energetic protons in Saturn's magnetosphere | |
| 24 Feb 2010 | Ferdinand Plaschke | The magnetopause: a membrane under tension? |
| Joachim Müller | A.I.K.E.F.: An adaptive hybrid model with application to fossil magnetic fields in Titan's ionosphere | |
| 10 Feb 2010 | Antoine Genetelli | Photospheric flows and coronal dynamics |
| Ronny Lutz | Searching exoplanets around evolved stars | |
| Supriya Deshpande | Study of temporal evolution of small scale magnetic features in the solar atmosphere | |
| 27 Jan 2010 | Daniel Verscharen | Kinetics of solar wind turbulence - feedback on the proton distribution function |
| Dennis Röhrbein | Analysis of 3D-MHD simulations of solar magneto-convection | |
| Yacine Saidi | A web-based system for travel-time sensitivity kernels computation | |
| 13 Jan 2010 | Armando Gonzalez | The origin of water in Jupiter stratosphere. Part I: Introduction |
| Megha Bhatt | Understanding lunar surface by combining SIR-2 and HySI spectrometers response | |
| Ramy El Maarry | Crater Floor Polygons (CFPs): Signs of desiccated Paleolakes on Mars? | |
| 9 Dec 2009 | Manuela Lippi | The composition of cometary ices from high resolution spectroscopy in the IR |
| Kristofer Hallgren | First detection of tides in mesospheric water vapor | |
| Anna Müller | Energetic particle injections in the Kronian magnetosphere | |
| 25 Nov 2009 | Yeon Joo Lee | Radiative energy balance in the Venus atmosphere |
| Neda Dadashi | The average Doppler shift of solar transition region and coronal lines | |
| Anne Angsmann | Structure and dynamics of the upper ionosphere of Venus | |
| 11 Nov 2009 | Judith de Patoul | Stereoscopy reconstruction of polar plumes from STEREO/SECCHI data using a Hough-wavelets transform |
| Daniel Heyner | Magnetospheric feedback on the dynamo of Mercury | |
| Franz Josef Ahlers (Braunschweig) |
The new material Graphen and why a metrologist is interested in using it | |
| 15 July 2009 | Vedat Tanriverdi | Shell model for MHD turbulence |
| Tilaye Tadesse | Nonlinear force-free coronal magnetic field modeling and preprocessing of vector magnetogram in spherical geometry | |
| M. Oppenheim (Boston) |
Meteor impacts: from a steady rain to showers | |
| 1 July 2009 | Martin Asplund (Garching) |
The solar chemical composition: Does the Sun have a subsolar metallicity? |
| 17 June 2009 | Sofie Spjuth | Disk-resolved photometry of small bodies |
| Raphael Attie | Transient X-ray brightenings at supergranular junctions | |
| Masanao Kadowaki | Simulation of Martian dust cycle using Mars general circulation model | |
| Doug Hamilton (Maryland) |
Jupiter's dusty ring system | |
| 27 May 2009 | Christian Koch | Extraction of Mercury's static and time-dependent topography by a local basis function expansion of synthetic BepiColombo laser altimeter data |
| Shuo Yao | Prominence material in magnetic clouds | |
| 20 May 2009 | Jingnan Guo | Is convective electric field an efficient accelerator around a 3D null point? |
| 13 May 2009 | Rick Binzel (MIT Cambridge) |
Where do meteorites come from? |
| 22 Apr 2009 | Silvia Protopapa | Surface characterization of Pluto, Charon, and (47171) 1999 TC36 |
| Julia Thalmann | How to calculate the current and magnetic helicity of magnetic fields | |
| Hui Tian | Solar transition region above sunspots | |
| Francois Forget (Paris) |
The climate of planet Mars | |
| 25 Feb 2009 | Maria Dasi | Sunspot tilt angle dependance on solar cycle global parameters |
| Setareh Javadi | Influence of heat conduction and radiative cooling in temperature variation of a coronal bright point | |
| 11 Feb 2009 | Joachim Müller | A.I.K.E.F. - Adaptive Ion Kinetic Electron Fluid Simulation Model |
| Erik Johansson | Hybrid simulations of the stellar wind interaction with close-in extrasolar planets | |
| Lars Guicking | Magnetic field oscillations in Venus' plasma environment | |
| 28 Jan 2009 | Michal Drahus | Microwave radiative transfer simulations for the neutral gas coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Prospects for observations with the Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) |
| Arianna Piccialli | Thermal zonal winds in the Venus mesosphere | |
| 14 Jan 2009 | Tilaye Tadesse | Nonlinear force-free reconstruction in spherical coordinates for active regions of the Sun using optimization method |
| Jean-Baptiste Vincent | A numerical model of dust coma structures in active comets | |
| Ronny Lutz | Secular period changes in pulsating subdwarf B stars | |
| 17 Dec 2008 | Ramy El Maarry | Aqueous alteration products and the role of impact events: insights from Phoenix |
| Thorsten Stahn | Attempting a global fit for oscillation parameters of alpha Cen A | |
| Kristofer Hallgren | Ground based observations of short term water vapor variability in the upper mesosphere | |
| Tetsuya Tokano (Köln) |
Variation in Titan's rotation caused by the atmosphere | |
| 3 Dec 2008 | Anne Angsmann | Structure and dynamics of the upper ionosphere of Venus |
| Judith de Patoul | 3D reconstruction of solar polar plumes from STEREO/SECCHI images using the Hough transform | |
| Ferdinand Plaschke | The magnetopause: A membrane under tension? |