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Event to celebrate the detection of gravitational waves

Public Event

Date: Feb 19, 2016
Time: 01:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall

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Jürgen Ehlers Spring School 2017

Spring School

Start: Mar 6, 2017 09:15 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Mar 17, 2017 12:45 PM
Speaker: diverse
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall

The University of Potsdam and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) offer a crash course on General Relativity and its astrophysical applications. [more]

Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

Nobel Prize

Date: Oct 3, 2017
Time: 11:30 AM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall
Host: Elke Müller
Contact: elke.mueller@aei.mpg.de

On 3rd of October the Nobel Foundation will announce the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. The event is broadcast live from Stockholm. The AEI in Potsdam invites all interested people to watch the live stream together with scientists from the institute. [more]

Jürgen Ehlers Spring School

Springschool

Start: Mar 5, 2018
End: Mar 16, 2018
Speaker: various
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall

The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam offers a crash course on black holes and gravitational wave astrophysics. This course can be attended by European students in the 5th or higher semester in Physics or Mathematics. [more]

21^st Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity

Conference

Start: Jun 25, 2018
End: Jun 29, 2018
Speaker: various
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall

The 21st Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity will be hosted by the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity division of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam. [more]

Third-Generation Science-Case Consortium Meeting

Start: Oct 1, 2018 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Oct 2, 2018 06:00 PM
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm

The goal of this workshop is to present the full science case for the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors on the ground to the entire 3G Science Case Consortium and other 3G working sub-groups of the 3G sub-committee, and to receive feedback on all aspects of the document. [more]

Kolleg Mathematik Physik Berlin

Date: Oct 8, 2018
Time: 09:30 AM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall

Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Mathematical Physics [more]

Special colloquium talk by Jocelyn Bell Burnell: What is that? The discovery of pulsars - a graduate student's story

Special Colloquium

Date: Dec 12, 2018
Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will give a special colloquium entitled "What is that? The discovery of pulsars - a graduate student's story." In her talk, she will describe the discovery of pulsars and their extreme physics. [more]

Jürgen Ehlers Spring School 2019

Start: Mar 11, 2019 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Mar 22, 2019 05:00 PM
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam-Golm
Room: large lecture hall

The AEI offers a crash course on Black Holes and gravitational wave astrophysics. This course can be attended by students studying from the 5th semester Physics or Mathematics. [more]