Events in 2020

Blue and orange abstract graphic with a stylized gravitational-wave signal.

IMPRS Lectures for Graduate Students

IMPRS Lectures

Start: Nov 20, 2019 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Feb 7, 2020 12:30 PM
Speaker: Jonathan Gair
Location: AEI Potsdam, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam
Room: Seminar room 0.01

As part of the International Max Planck Research School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, the AEI in Potsdam organises lectures for graduate students. The first course "Making sense of data: introduction to statistics for gravitational wave astronomy" will take place in Fall/Winter 2019/2020. [more]

Conference in Schloss Ringberg: Gravitational wave searches and parameter estimation in the era of detections

Conference

Start: Jan 12, 2020
End: Jan 18, 2020
Speaker: several
Location: Schloss Ringberg, Schlossstrasse 20, 83708 Kreuth
Host: Collin Capano, Badri Krishnan, Gabriele Richardson

This meeting brings together experts in all aspects of gravitational wave data analysis with scientists interested in using gravitational wave data to understand neutron stars and black holes. [more]

Visualization of two compact objects orbiting each other and emitting gravitational waves. The waves propagate outward as concentric, alternating turquoise and orange rings.

WinterUNI of Leibniz Universität Hannover “Mit Einsteins Gravitationswellen die dunkle Seite des Universums hören”

Public Event

Date: Jan 29, 2020
Time: 03:00 PM - 04:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: diverse
Location: AEI Hannover, Callinstr. 38
Room: 103
Host: Benjamin Knispel
Contact: benjamin.knispel@aei.mpg.de

Event as part of the WinterUNI of Leibniz Universität Hannover for students of grades 10-13. [more]

Abstract visualization of a multidimensional geometric structure, with smooth curved surfaces and interconnected shapes in blue, purple, orange, and white, illustrating concepts related to string theory and quantum gravity.

Public talk (in German) “Stringtheorie, Kompaktifizierungen und unser Universum”

Public talk

Date: Feb 14, 2020
Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Emanuel Malek
Location: Bruno-H.-Bürgel-Sternwarte
Room: Vereinsheim Heerstraße

Public talk in German about quantum gravity and string theory. [more]

Photograph of a large-scale laser interferometer with long vacuum tubes and detector structures in a rural landscape, illustrating an observatory used to detect gravitational waves.

Einstein-Telescope: German Community Meeting

Workshop

Start: Feb 17, 2020 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Feb 18, 2020 01:00 PM
Speaker: various
Location: AEI Hannover, Callinstr. 38
Host: Harald Lück, Achim Stahl
Contact: harald.lueck@aei.mpg.de

[more]

Colorful scientific visualization of two compact objects spiraling toward each other, surrounded by concentric, distorted wave patterns representing gravitational waves emitted during a binary merger.

10th Central European Relativity Seminar

CERS meeting

Start: Feb 20, 2020 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
End: Feb 22, 2020 12:00 PM
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam
Room: large lecture hall

This seminar is designed to provide a forum for younger researchers to present their work, and to expand their research horizons, in all topics of research in general relativity. [more]

Artistic visualization of a black hole in space, with intense yellow-orange light and curved gravitational fields surrounding a bright central region, set against a dark cosmic background.

Opening night: Black Holes (in German)

Public Event

Date: Feb 20, 2020
Time: 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jan Steinhoff
Location: Zeiss-Großplanetarium Berlin

Opening night of the show "Black Holes" with a keynote speech by Jan Steinhoff. [more]

Public talk (in German) “Big Bang”

Public talk

Date: May 7, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Jean-Luc Lehners
Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam
Room: Seminar room

Public talk by Jean-Luc Lehners as part of the event series “Science2Go” at the Potsdam Science Park. [more]

Colorful illustrated summer-themed collage featuring a girl in a sun hat, flowers, green leaves, bubbles, and colorful signs, including a green sign reading ‘Sommer’ and a yellow sign with partially visible text.

Girls only – the Summer Uni

Online Lecture

Start: Jul 20, 2020
End: Jul 24, 2020
Speaker: Markus Otto
Location: online

Part of this year's Summer Uni program is “Von Ladungen und Blitzen - eine Einführung in die Elektrostatik” an exciting physics lecture with experiments by AEI lecturer Dr. Markus Otto. [more]

picture of the landscape with green fields around it

Faszination Astronomie Online „GEO600 - eine virtuelle Führung durch den deutsch-britischen Gravitationswellen-Detektor“

Public talk

Date: Jul 21, 2020
Time: 07:00 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Benjamin Knispel
Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjRF6d81wyM&feature=youtu.be

Fascination Astronomy Online offers half an hour of astronomy every Tuesday and Thursday at this place at 7 pm. [more]

Promotional graphic for an online astronomy event, featuring the Milky Way above a research building at night. Text announces ‘Faszination Astronomie Online’ and a live event about astronomy with IceCube on August 20, 2020.

Faszination Astronomie Online “Neutrinoastronomie mit IceCube”

Public talk

Date: Aug 20, 2020
Time: 07:00 PM - 07:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
Speaker: Thorben Menne
Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvN9oJDu9R0

Faszination Astronomie Online bietet immer dienstags und donnerstags an dieser Stelle um 19 Uhr eine halbe Stunde Astronomie. [more]

red scientific visualization of two compact objects spiraling toward each other, surrounded by concentric, distorted wave patterns

Workshop: Rethinking the Relativistic Two-Body Problem. A Universe of Gravitational Waves

Virtual Workshop

Start: Aug 24, 2020 02:55 PM (Local Time Germany)
End: Aug 28, 2020 08:30 PM

This invitation-only virtual workshop will gather scientists from several complementary research fields in order to re-evaluate approaches to the general relativistic two-body problem. [more]