Winter Term 2024/2025

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Diese Vorlesung ist der erste Teil der Einführung in die Astronomie und Astrophysik, 
also in das physikalische Verständnis unsres Universum jenseits unserer Erde. 
Laut Modulhandbuch werden wir folgende Themenkreise behandeln:
— Astronomische Grundlagen : astronomische Beobachtung;
     elektromagnetische Strahlung; Entfernungsmessung; Sonnensystem 
— Physik der Sterne: Sternaufbau und stellare 
    Energieerzeugung; Sternatmosphären und Spektren
— Phasen der Sternentwicklung: von der sog. Hauptreihe bis 
    zu Supernovae und schwarzen Löchern
— Physik des interstellaren Mediums: Gas und Staub; 
    Heizung und Kühlung; Anreicherung mit Metallen

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See module handbook

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Observational methods using photons (from gamma rays to radio), gravitational waves, other particles, and in-situ exploration

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The lecture is equivalent to the bachelor module parts WPAstro.1+2 during the winter and summer terms but requires a slightly higher level of basic physical knowledge. 


Nevertheless also motivated 3rd semester BSc students are welcome to participate. 
This lecture is organised as a block course with 2 parts from Sep. 23rd - Oct. 11th, 2024. 

Certificates are only given for active participation in the exercises (meaning also being present at all exercises) and passing the written examination.

Homework should/can be done in groups of 2(3)

Bachelor students

You can choose:

WPAstro.1,2:
- 8CP with marks (lab course needed for complete module)
- The written examination will be graded
- Marks count for the full 10CP including the lab course

MVAstro0:
- 8CP, no marks as a master module in the ‘Wahlbereich’
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Master students (MVAstro0)
- 8CP, no marks - only passed
- Can be used as part of MVMod (specialisation in Astrophysics)
- Can be used as an option: just 8CP

PhD (including IMPRS)
Active participation in exercises is strongly recommended, and a successful written exam for certificate

More info on the rules for studying astronomy in Heidelberg: https://www.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/Miscellaneous/Studyplan_Astro_English.pdf


Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Stefan Jordan, Dr. Markus Pössel

Lecture Introduction to Astronomy (V, block)
Time: daily 9:30 - 13:00, 23.09. - 11.10.2024 (1 free day on October 3)
Location: gHS (großer Hörsaal at Phil.12, 2nd floor) 

Exercises to Introduction to Astronomy 
Time: daily 14:30 - 16:00 (group 1), 16:00-17:30 (group 2)
Location: Neuer Hörsaal (at Phil.12)

Exercises are planned for:
Monday, Sep 23, Wednesday, Sep 27, Friday, Sep 29, Wednesday, October 4 (for part I)
Friday, Oct 6, Monday, Oct 9, Wednesday, Oct 11, Friday, Oct 13 (for part II)

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23.9.  Introduction/Fundamentals of Astronomy: Jordan
24.9.  Fundamentals 2: Jordan
25.9.  Sun and Planetary System 1: Jordan
26.9.  Sun an Planetary System 2: Jordan
27.9.  Telescopes and Instruments: Jordan
30.9.  Radiation and stars: Jordan
1.10.  Stellar evolution: Jordan
2.10.  Introduction; Expanding Universes 1: Pössel
4.10.  Expanding Universes 2; Big Bang Phase: Pössel
7.10.  Structure Formation; Basic Galaxy Properties: Pössel
8.10.  Galaxy Spectra; Stellar Motion in Galaxies 1: Pössel
9.10.  Stellar Motions in Galaxies 2; Star Formation in Galaxies; The Milky Way: Pössel
10.10. Central Black Holes; Active Galaxies; Gravitational Lensing: Pössel
11.10. Galaxy Groups and Clusters; Milky Way Archaeology; Galaxy Evolution: Pössel
TBD:  Written exam

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CONTENT: 
Diurnal and annual motions, precession and nutation, sidereal and solar time clocks, Earth-sky trajectory of a planet from its orbital elements

https://wwwstaff.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/mitarbeiter/gparm/celmech.html


COURSE SLIDES: via Moodle.  The `Enrolment key' (`Einschreibeschluessel') will be provided during the first lecture.  It will NOT be provided by email. 


REMARK:
Lecture room to be ventilated regularly.  Please dress up accordingly.

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Lecture on the formation of stars and planets. 
More details can be found on the course website (see link below).

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The diverse astronomical and astrophysical distance determination methods will be introduced and illustrated with examples, covering all distance ranges from parallax measurements of nearby stars to cosmological methods.

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From binaries to Dwarf galaxies and everything in between: Binaries; Star clusters: chemical elements & their formation; dynamics & structure; dwarf galaxies: chemical evolution & Dark Matter; different flavours of star clusters and dwarf galaxies.

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As most of the radiation we receive from galaxies is star light, we can use it to measure and study their properties. These lectures aim at showing how much we can learn about galaxy evolution from the study of their stellar populations (young to old stellar clusters, field stars, resolved and integrated stellar populations). We will review the methods commonly used in this respect, all resting on our understanding of stellar evolution, and discuss the results obtained when we apply them to observational data, such as multi-wavelength photometry and spectroscopy.

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C1: - Basic properties of fluids and plasmas in astrophysics
	Ideal versus dissipative fluids
	Euler and the Navier-Stokes equations
	Compressible, weakly compressible and incompressible fluid flows
	Magnetohydrodynamics
C2: Numerical methods in hydrodynamics
	The equations in the finite space
	Conditionally versus unconditionally stable numerical schemes
Explicit & implicit formulation
	Preconditioning techniques and defect-correction iteration procedure

C3: Introduction to programming and computer-solving of simple      
       equations
C4: Introduction to General Relativity & Relativistic Cosmology
	Derivation of the relativistic & general relativistic Euler and Navier-Stokes equations
	Dynamics of the expanding univbbbberse
	Basic concepts in modern cosmology: 
Black holes, dark matter, dark energy, inflation
C5: Numerical aspects of relativistic Cosmology: UNIMOUN

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Stellar structure, evolution and explosions including practical tutorials based on the MESA stellar evolution code

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Introduction to the dynamics of systems dominated by gravity (from planetary systems to galaxies) and their numerical treatment.

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This lecture is an introduction to molecular astrophysics and astrochemistry.

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This is a five day block course with lectures in the morning and practical hands-on exercises in the afternoon. We will learn the basic technique to use GPU (graphical processing units, graphics cards) for numerical accelerated computing at the example of CUDA - an extension of the C programming language, which is used for the NVIDIA GPU accelerated supercomputer to be used in our course. More general approaches for other systems will be discussed. Concepts of parallel programming are introduced. GPU accelerated parallel computing is a technique, which is now widely used in computational physics and astrophysics. Many supercomputers of EuroHPC Petascale systems use GPU.
Topics: Parallel Computing, GPU Hardware, Elements of CUDA Language, Data Transfer, Vector and Matrix Operations, Simple Application for N-Body Problem.

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- Lessons learned from gravitational wave sources.
- Compact object formation from stars and binary stars.
- Dynamics of compact objects in dense star clusters.
- Merger rate density evolution of binary compact objects across cosmic time.
- Observations and models of dormant compact objects.
- Numerical models of compact-object populations.

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After completion of this course, the students will acquire state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of astrophysical compact objects. They will be aware of the main results of gravitational-wave observatories, and will have advanced knowledge of the formation channels of binary compact objects and dormant black holes. They will run some of the main scripts and codes to model compact object formation (population synthesis codes, direct N-body codes, semi-analytic codes, simplified LIGO-Virgo data analysis scripts).

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The physics of the Universe during the Dark Ages between recombination and reionization.

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- Observable signatures of black holes and binaries thereof, calculations of predictions in GR
- Post-Newtonian approximation
- 3+1, Numerical Relativity
- Black Hole images with Very-Long baseline Interferometry (EHT): theory and data analysis
- Accreting black holes, GRMHD
- Bayesian Methods
- Simulated data generation and utilization: eht-imaging, PyCBC, Bilby, Themis

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In dieser Vorlesung für Neugierige, sprich: für Hörer*innen aller Fachbereiche (bis 2023 hieß die Reihe noch „...für Nichtphysiker*innen“) beschäftigen wir uns mit dem aktuellen Stand der relativistischen Astrophysik, speziell mit Schwarzen Löchern und den seit Ende 2015 nachgewiesenen Gravitationswellen. Zunächst erarbeiten wir uns dabei die Grundlagen, im zweiten Teil der Vorlesung geht es dann um eine Reihe von Erkenntnissen mit Bezug zur modernen Forschung, die wir zu Schwarzen Löchern und Gravitationswellen haben.

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• Review of basic quantum mechanics
• Dirac equation and relativistic corrections
• Quantization of the electromagnetic field and consequences • Many-electron atoms
• Molecular structure
• Interaction with electromagnetic fields
• Time-dependent processes
• Scattering and collisions
• Quantum statistics and quantum gases
• AMO Physics in Heidelberg (with laboratory visits)

Goal

After completing this course the students will be able to ż describe the experimental and theoretical concepts of modern atomic, molecular and optical physics, ż analyse standard experimental approaches of modern atomic, molecular and optical physics, ż design simple experimental set-ups in modern atomic, molecular and optical physics, ż apply the theoretical methods to simple practical examples.

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• Ray optics
• Wave optics
• Beam optics, Gaussian optics • Fourier optics
• Interference and coherence • Photons and atoms
• Laser theory and lasertypes • Ultra-short laser pulses
• Non-linear optics
• Modern applications

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After completing this course the students will be able to ż describe the basic principles and experimental methods of optics and photonics, ż analyse standard experimental approaches to optics and photonics, ż design experimental set-ups in optics and photonics, ż apply the methods to simple experimental examples.

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• Einführung in die Chemie anorganischer und organischer Moleküle

• Prinzipieller Aufbau und Funktion der Zelle (Membranen, Zellorganellen, Zellkern, Metabolismus, Transkription, Translation)

• Thermodynamik in Biosystemen und physikochemische Reaktionen, Enzymkinetiken, -kaskaden

• Physikalische Eigenschaften, elektrostatische und thermodynamische Wechselwirkungen funktioneller Biomoleküle (Proteine, Fette, Kohlenhydrate, DNA, RNA)

• Selbstorganisation und Konformationsumwandlungen von Biomolekülen (Proteinfaltung, DNA-Organisation, strukturelle Phasenumwandlungen, Membranorganisation), molekulare Erkennung

• mechanische Kräfte und molekulare Motoren in zellulären Systemen

• Elektrostatik, Elektrodynamik und Signalübertragung im neuronalen und kortikalen System sowie im Kardialsystem

• Grundlagen photophysikalischer Bioprozesse

• Biophysikalische Techniken (z.B. Zellsortierung, DNA-Amplifikation etc.)

• mikroskopische Methoden der Biophysik

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- Verständnis der wesentlichen Grundlagen der Biophysik - Verständnis komplexer selbstorganisierender Systeme - interdisziplinäres Arbeiten

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Basic physical principles in imaging techniques such as X-ray/CT and MRI.

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-- CANCELLED FOR WINTER TERM 2024/25 -- 
The seminar is organized as journal club.

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The participants will select a paper given in the Materials selection below and present the content to the group followed by a discussion.  Afterwards, the paper is summerized in a report.

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Biospectrscopy
Lasers in Medicine

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https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/med-phys

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Siehe Webseite:

https://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/cmm/teaching/2025/ecm

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Vorgaben des Bildungsplans Physik Gymnasium 
Einführung in fachdidaktische Denk- und Arbeitsweisen 
Grundlagen der Planung und Analyse von Physikunterricht zu ausgewählten Teilgebieten der Physik unter Einbeziehung heterogener Lerngruppen 
Experimente, Medieneinsatz und Aufgabenkultur im Physikunterricht 
Leistungsbewertung im Physikunterricht 
Fachdidaktische Reflexion von Physikunterricht

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Die Studierenden   ż kennen die Vorgaben des aktuellen Bildungsplans und grundlegende Methoden im Physikunterricht  ż kennen Konzepte fachbezogener Bildung und können diese kritisch analysieren, bewerten und anwenden.  ż können fachdidaktische Lerninhalte vernetzen und situationsgerecht anwenden   ż verfügen über erste reflektierte Erfahrungen im Planen, Gestalten und Durchführen von kompetenzorientiertem Unterricht

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Lecture on the physics of the climate system, its statistical nature, energy and mass transfer, its sensitivity to external forcing and internal feedback. Climate variability will be discussed on different time scales as well as the cycles of water and green house gases and some important aspects on the response of system compartments on forcing. Lastly, a glimpse is given on climate modelling of present and past climate.

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Students achieve an advanced understanding of the climate system and the methods to study it, including its changes in the past and the modern human impact on it. They are able to solve advanced problems and interpret the results in the context of current research questions and societal implications. They can competently and critically assess the public discourse on climate change on the basis of the current scientific literature. They have developed a knowledge base that enables them to conduct independent master research projects in physics of climate.

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- Stratification and circulation of lakes, Navier Stokes – eq.
– solutes, solubility, electrical conductivity
– density, stability and mixing, deep water renewal
– surface waves, seiche, interfacial waves
– internal waves
- properties of internal waves
- Permanent stratification, meromixis, climate sensitivity
- Turbulence I: Introduction to turbulence
- Turbulence II: Spectral characteristics and measurements
- Turbulence III: Momentum and mass transport in turbulent boundary layers
- Turbulence IV: Living in turbulence: biological – physical interactions 
- tracers in aquatic environments

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Strahlung und Strahlungstransport:
• Anwendungen Planck´sches Strahlungsgesetz, reale Spektren von Sonne und langwelliger terrestrischer Ausstrahlung, Kirchhoff, Stefan-Boltzmann
• Strahlungstransport: Absorption (Lambert-Beer), Emission und Streuung (Rayleigh, Mie), Schwarzschild-Gleichung
• Energiehaushalt der Erde und Treibhauseffekt; Strahlungsantrieb, Klimasensitivität und Feedbacks

Fluiddynamik:
• Einführung in die geophysikalische Fluiddynamik, Euler/Lagrange
• Navier-Stokes Gleichung im rotierenden System (Coriolis)
• Dimensionsanalyse (für synoptische atmosphärische und ozeanische Strömungen, Seen, Grundwasser) - einfache Lösungen der Navier-Stokes Gleichung
• Phänomenologie der Turbulenz

Transportprozesse:
• Brown´sche Bewegung, molekulare und turbulente Diffusion (eddy correlation); Advektions-Diffusionsgleichung
• Grenzschichten, Austausch Ozean-Atmosphäre

Klimasystem:
• Die Kompartimente des Klimasystems (Atmosphäre, Ozean, Kryosphäre, hydrologischer Kreislauf)
• Kohlenstoffkreislauf, Emissionen, Szenarien, Treibhausgasbudgets
• Grundlagen der Klimamodellierung, Modelltypen, Klimapro-jektionen
• Klimaschutz und Klimaanpassung, Nachhaltige Entwicklung

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Nach erfolgreicher Teilnahme am Modul  - kennen und verstehen die Studierenden die Grundlagen, Methoden und Konzepte im Bereich Strahlung, Fluiddynamik und Transportprozesse mit deren wichtigsten Anwendungen - haben die Studierenden die notwendigen mathematischen Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten die zum Verständnis der genannten Themenbereiche notwendig sind - besitzen die Studierenden die Fertigkeiten, Problemstellungen aus den genannten Bereichen eigenständig zu strukturieren, differenziert zu analysieren und mit den vermittelten Konzepten und Methoden Lösungsansätze zu erarbeiten, diese aus physikalischer Sicht zu bewerten und zu kommunizieren - sind die Studierenden in der Lage, sich weitere, verwandte Themen und Methoden durch Literaturarbeit selbst zu erschließen.

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• Foundations of statistics, information, entropy
• Statistical description of physical systems
• Ensembles, density of states
• Irreversibility
• State variables, ideal and real gases, thermodynamic potentials, the fundamental laws of thermodynamics,
• Material constants, equilibrium of phases and chemical equilibrium, law of mass action, ideal solutions
• Fermi- and Bose-statistics, ideal quantum gases
• Phase transitions, critical phenomena (Ising model)
• Transport theory (linear response, transport equations, master equation, Boltzmann equation, diffusion)
• The theory of the solid state as an example for a non-relativistic field theory
• Applications, for example specific heat of solids, thermodynamics of the early universe etc.

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After completing the course the students ż have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the laws of thermodynamics and of the description of ensembles in the framework of classical and quantum statistics and there applications to phase transitions, condensed matter, plasma and astrophysics ż have acquired the necessary mathematical knowledge and competence for an in-depth understanding of this research field, ż have advanced competence in the fields of theoretical physics covered by this course, i.e. the ability to analyze physical phenomena using the acquired concepts and techniques, to formulate models and find solutions to specific problems, and to interpret the solutions physically and communicate them efficiently, ż are able to broaden their knowledge and competence in this field of theoretical physics on their own by a systematical study of the literature.

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• Quantizing scalar fields
• Interacting fields, S-matrix
• Feynman rules, cross sections
• Quantizing spin 1/2 fields
• Dirac equation
• Quantizing spin 1 fields
• Maxwell equations
• Coupling to Dirac fermions
• Quantum Electrodynamics
• QED processes at tree level
• Radiative corrections
• Classical non-abelian gauge theory

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After completing the course the students ż have a thorough knowledge and understanding of relativistic field equations and the theory of free quantum fields, ż will be able to use Feynman rules to calculate on the tree level scattering amplitudes and cross sections for ż4-theory and for simple reactions in QED, ż have acquired the necessary mathematical knowledge and competence for an in-depth understanding of this research field, ż have advanced competence in the fields of theoretical physics covered by this course, i.e. the ability to analyze physical phenomena using the acquired concepts and techniques, to formulate models and find solutions to specific problems, and to interpret the solutions physically and communicate them efficiently, ż are able to broaden their knowledge and competence in this field of theoretical physics on their own by a systematical study of the literature.

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Infos auf unserer Website: https://sciai-lab.org/teaching/24w/mlph/

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For details about content and exercises see
https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/manitop/StandardModel2/index.html

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All relevant information can be found under
https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~hebecker/Strings/strings.html

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Time: Wed 14:15-16:00, Place: Phil.Weg 12 / gHS

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We will give an introduction to classical non-equilibrium physics, both on the macroscopic (thermodynamic) and the microscopic (kinetic) level.

We will start by generalizing equilibrium thermodynamics to spatial degrees of freedom. By allowing for small currents (of heat or particles, for instance), the theory of linearly irreversible thermodynamics will be developed. A major insight will be the occurrence of cross-coupling effects, like the Peltier and Soret effect, obeying important symmetries (Onsager relations, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1968). The occurrence of instabilities (I. Prigogine, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977) will also be discussed.

We will then switch to the microscopic scale and motivate the famous Boltzmann equation, the foundation of transport theory. We will solve it by several approximation methods and use it to derive macroscopic balance equations, yielding a microscopic foundation of the processes described in the first part of the lecture.

Finally, we make a close connection to equilibrium statistical physics, by discussing linear response theory and deriving the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The main insight will be that the response of a system to a small perturbation, i.e. the outcome of a non-equilibrium situation, can be calculated within equilibrium theory.

If time permits, at the end we will discuss few current research topics, like the use of Boltzmann-type equations in the modeling of 'active' systems (collective motion of animals, dynamics of cellular extracts) and the occurrence of nonequilibrium phase transitions in boundary-driven transport (asymmetric exclusion processes).

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see https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/vorlesung/20242/1925

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We review the Peccei-Quinn mechanism to generate out of a massless U(1)_A Goldstone boson a massive one. The Veneziano-Witten formula is reviewed. Then we compute the axion mass for the deconfining phase of an SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. For the confining phase phenomenological extractions are used within the fuzzy dark matter paradigm. We then address the question how ultralight axions may determine the dark sector of the cosmological model and how one can extract specific cosmological parameters.

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After a (condensed) review of the Standard Model of Particle Physics and of features of nature that we do not yet understand, I will present ways to extend the SM at high energies and (theoretical and experimental) guidance we have on our road to find out how nature could look like at shortest distances.

Topics covered in the lecture include Electroweak Symmetry Breaking and its Dynamics, Models of a Composite Higgs, Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions, and further approaches to understand the puzzling hierarchies we observe in nature. Moreover, I will discuss Effective Field Theory, Flavor Physics & Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter, Baryogenesis and other aspects of Cosmology, as well as the Strong CP Problem and Axions.

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https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/%7Eamendola/lss-ws2024.html

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- Basic concepts of numerical simulations, continuous and discrete simulations
- Discretization or ordinary differential equations, integration schemes of different order
- N-Body problems, molecular dynamics, collisionless systems
- Discretization of partial differential equations
- Finite element and finite volume methods
- Lattice methods
- Adaptive mesh refinement and multi-grid methods
- Matrix solvers and FFT methods
- Monte Carlo methods, Markov Chains, applications in statistical physics

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After completion of this module, the students are endowed with the capacity to identify and classify numerical problems. They have reached active understanding of applicable numerical methods and algorithms. They are able to solve basic physical problems with adequate numerical techniques and to recognize the range of validity of numerical solutions.

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https://www.h-its.org/teachings/ws-2024-25-lectures-and-hands-on-sessions-in-computational-molecular-biophysics/ 

Only a limited number of students can be accepted. Please register in advance by sending an Email to Frauke.Graeter@h-its.org.

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https://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/content/optimization-machine-learning-WiSe24

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Please find all information here:

https://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/content/computer-vision

*** Formalities:

Teaching assistants (main point of contact): Friedrich Feiden: johann-friedrich.feiden@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de; Zavadski, Denis: denis.zavadski@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de

Registration: Moodle: https://moodle.uni-heidelberg.de/course/view.php?id=24146


Prerequisite: no prerequisites, but it is recommended to have Machine Learning Background, e.g. Fundamentals of Machine Learning or equivalent

Exam: Either oral exam or mini-project (as in last years).
Leistungspunkte: 6 LP
Usability: Physics, MSc., Angewandte Informatik, MSc. Scientific Computing

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- Brief Introduction to necessary Machine Learning (incl. U-Net, ResNet, Vision Transformers) - Basic Image Processing (incl. linear/non-linear Filtering) - Sparse feature Detection and Description (incl. SIFT and LIFT) - Projective Geometry, Epipolar Geometry - Sparse 3D Reconstruction , SLAM and Camera Localization - Neural Randiance Fields (NERF) - Robust Matching (incl. Differentiable RANSAC) - Object Tracking (incl. Particle Filter, Kalman Filter, ) - Object Recognition - Image Generation (incl. GAN, Diffusion, VAE, Flows) - Training Data Generation

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zaorp0tHFz-oyY6wDrJ2xseTx_3fyi50/view

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https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/med-phys

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Von der Entstehung der Sonne, über die Entwickliung der Protoplanetaren Scheibe zu Planeten mit ihren Ringen und Satelliten, Exo-Planeten und die Frage der Bewohnbarkeit.

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Journal Club on all issues related to galaxy evolution.

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Presentations of and discussions on new literature and research projects of the stellradynamics group at ARI

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Detection of Extrasolar Planets, including observing methods, data analysis and technical questions

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presentations and discussions on current research in the field of hot stars

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In this seminar, we will cover YOUR topic of interest in physics. If you still want to find and/or develop your passion for a specific science area, I can provide some stimulus in terms of topics to choose from.  However, I highly appreciate if you already know your topic of choice and introduce it to your fellow students and myself, and we can all discuss it together.

This seminar, in general, aims at current and foundational experimental and theoretical advances of physics. 

The idea is to prepare presentations and to discuss topics of interest in physics, such as landmark historical or recent experiments but also experimental or numerical methods (e.g. computational physics), depending on interest and initiative of you as participants.  Each seminar talk, given by a student, should introduce into the fundamentals of the chosen topic in a manner understandable to any general physics student of your own academic age, and present one or two noteworthy recent results or achievements in this field.


A key goal is to explore and develop your own scientific curiosity and passion for physics questions of interest to you, concepts, necessary methodology and past, current and potential future research.  It thus requires from you as participants the openness towards these goals, readiness for lively discussions, creative new ways of sharing knowledge, as well as independence in searching for, organizing, presenting novel information with your fellow student participants of this seminar series and engaging them in (constructive as well as critical) discussions.

Looking forward to learning together with you.

Our first meeting will be on 14(!) October 2024, 17:00 (note the unusual time for our first meeting, the seminar will afterwards run Mondays from 16:15-17:45) in SeminarRoom 1.404 at KIP (INF227) where we will assign the dates for your presentations.  We will then meet at this time in the same place for the following seminar meetings as well.

Webpage Seminar: https://uebungen.physik.uni-heidelberg.de/vorlesung/20242/1928
Webpage Pfeifer Division: https://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/pfeifer/

Goal

see above

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Medical imaging (MRI, CT, nuclear medicine), radiation therapy and biology, optical imaging / microscopy.

https://medphysrad-teaching.dkfz.de/seminar.html

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Overview talks regarding current status of research and specialized talks concerning advanced topics.

Summer semester: Radiation oncology

For more information, please see:
https://medphysrad-teaching.dkfz.de/mp2_sem.html

Schedule will be published here:
https://www.dkfz.de/en/medphysrad/department/seminar.html

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Advanced seminar: This seminar will discuss the status of current research projects at the DKFZ regarding the development of medical imaging (especially MRI, CT, hyperpolarization, PET).

Additional information: https://medphysrad-teaching.dkfz.de/abteilungsseminar.html

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Introduction, final decision to participate in this seminar, and assignment of topics will be done during the first seminar session. 

Typical topics are:
- Probing Magnons by Electron Spin Resonance Studies
- 1D Quantum Spin Systems
- Quantum Spin Liquids in Magnetically Frustrated 2D Materials
- Cathode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries: Relevance of the Electronic Structure
...

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Overarching theme of the seminar in WS24/25:
Exploring the Processes of the Earth System: Recent Advances in Environmental Physics

Details:
•  during the seminar, 13 talks on specific research areas of environmental physics are given and actively discussed by all course participants.  
• Each participant will prepare and present an advanced topic in environmental physics 
• Beside the oral presentation of the research topic also is write-up of the presented talk is required.

Goal

After completion of this module, the student can describe the intentions and difficulties of modern research in physics. The student can handle modern literature and can extract information from present-day physics publications.

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Reduktion der fachwissenschaftlichen Kenntnisse auf den gymnasialen Physikunterricht 
Vorbereitung auf das Referendariat nach dem Master of Education
Schwierigkeiten und Lösungen bei der Vermittlung von Physik
didaktische Prinzipien
Methoden und Konzepte

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Grundlagen der Fachdidaktik für das gymnasiale Lehramt

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- Präsentation von Unterrichtsthemen durch einen Seminarteilnehmer 
- Diskussion der Präsentation durch die Teilnehmer 
- Praktikum in kleinen Gruppen zu Versuchsaufbauten und zur Nutzung von Computern im Unterricht. 

Themengebiete: Elektrische und magnetische Felder, Schwingungen und Wellen, Quanten- und Atomphysik 

Lehr- und Lernformen in Seminar und Praktikum: Aufbau und Demonstration von Versuchen (mit praktischen Übungen) und Einsatz von Computern im Unterricht

Goal

Die Studierenden kennen typische Schulversuche für die gymnasiale Oberstufe und sind in der Lage, diese selbstständig ins Werk zu setzen. Sie sind geübt in der Präsentation der theoretischen Grundlagen mit eingebundener Demonstration möglichst vielfältiger Versuchsanordnungen inklusive des Einsatzes von Computern. Sie beherschen die Grundlagen des Schulstoffs.

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see seminar page

https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~wolschin/statsem_24_25.pdf

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https://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/content/optml-seminar-WiSe24

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https://www.quanty.org/workshop/heidelberg/september_2024/programme

This is an international summer school accepting 40 participants. Please register at https://www.quanty.org/workshop/heidelberg/september_2024/registration lecture goes one week from 23.9 to 28.9 2024

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Students present recent papers. https://sciai-lab.org/teaching/journal-club/

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Participation only in combination with an internship or thesis in the lab

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20 Beobachtungsabende nach Vereinbarung

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Ausgewählte Themen aus der Mechanik, Elektrizitätslehre, Optik und Strahlenphysik werden in 6 Versuchen (Federpendel, Wheatstone´sche Brücke, RC-Glied, optische Abbildungen, Spektralfotometrie, Röntgenabsorption) inhaltlich vertieft. Dabei wird der Umgang mit physikalischen Messgeräten, die Durchführung und Protokollierung von Experimenten sowie die Auswertung und graphische Darstellung von Messungen mit Fehlerbetrachtung erlernt und geübt.

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Ziel ist es dabei eine Einschätzung zu erhalten, welche Parameter Messgrößen begrenzen und beeinflussen, und wie dies in einem wissenschaftlichen Protokoll dargestellt wird.

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Die Beispiele im Kurs benutzen Physik der
ersten paar Semester.

There are some examples in the course that
are based on physics of the first few semesters.

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Dieser Kurs wurde von Dr. Thomas P. Robitaille entwickelt, der diesen Kurs viele Jahre lang an der Universität Heidelberg gehalten hat. Aufgrund der Beliebtheit dieses Kurses bieten wir nun mehrere Blockkurse parallel an. Dr. Robitaille hat eine andere Stelle angetreten, so dass dieser Kurs nun von anderen Lehrkräften gehalten wird.

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Ziel dieses Kurses ist es, zu lernen, wie man die Python-Programmierung zur Lösung wissenschaftlicher Probleme einsetzt. Es handelt sich um einen interaktiven Learning-by-Doing-Kurs, der auf einer Reihe von Python-Notebooks basiert und zahlreiche Übungen enthält. Er richtet sich an Bachelor-Studenten.

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Dieser Kurs wurde von Dr. Thomas P. Robitaille entwickelt, der diesen Kurs viele Jahre lang an der Universität Heidelberg gehalten hat. Aufgrund der Beliebtheit dieses Kurses bieten wir nun mehrere Blockkurse parallel an. Dr. Robitaille hat eine andere Stelle angetreten, so dass dieser Kurs nun von anderen Lehrkräften gehalten wird.

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Ziel dieses Kurses ist es, zu lernen, wie man die Python-Programmierung zur Lösung wissenschaftlicher Probleme einsetzt. Es handelt sich um einen interaktiven Learning-by-Doing-Kurs, der auf einer Reihe von Python-Notebooks basiert und zahlreiche Übungen enthält. Er richtet sich an Bachelor-Studenten.

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Dieser Kurs wurde von Dr. Thomas P. Robitaille entwickelt, der diesen Kurs viele Jahre lang an der Universität Heidelberg gehalten hat. Aufgrund der Beliebtheit dieses Kurses bieten wir nun mehrere Blockkurse parallel an. Dr. Robitaille hat eine andere Stelle angetreten, so dass dieser Kurs nun von anderen Lehrkräften gehalten wird.

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Ziel dieses Kurses ist es, zu lernen, wie man die Python-Programmierung zur Lösung wissenschaftlicher Probleme einsetzt. Es handelt sich um einen interaktiven Learning-by-Doing-Kurs, der auf einer Reihe von Python-Notebooks basiert und zahlreiche Übungen enthält. Er richtet sich an Bachelor-Studenten.

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Scientific writing is an essential skill: The aim of the seminar is to write a short article about a curious and interesting physics result and potentially publish it in the online journal Phoebe. We guide the student through the writing process.

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being able to write a short, accessible scientific article, understand the essentials of scientific writing