Events in 2019

Blue graphic showing concentric circles around Earth and the Moon, with a vertical measuring scale on the left.

Maße jenseits menschlicher Dimensionen - Naturkonstanten und Paralleluniversen

Public Event
  • Date: Jan 19, 2019
  • Time: 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Wissenschaftsforum, Markgrafenstraße 37, 10117 Berlin
  • Room: Konferenzraum
Hermann Nicolai, Director at the AEI in Potsdam, and Alexander Blum, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin discuss the relevance of natural constants for modern science and the measure of everything measurable. [more]
Green and orange abstract visualization resembling overlapping gravitational-wave patterns, with the text “Jürgen Ehlers Spring School.”

Jürgen Ehlers Spring School 2019

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]
Poster “Future Day” (Zukunftstag) for girls and boys at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover.

Zukunftstag 2019 am AEI Hannover

Public Event
  • Date: Mar 28, 2019
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 12:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: diverse
  • Location: AEI Hannover, Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover
  • Room: 103
  • Host: Benjamin Knispel
  • Contact: benjamin.knispel@aei.mpg.de
The “Future Day” (Zukunftstag) for girls and boys at AEI Hannover. [more]
Poster for Future Day (Zukunftstag) 2019 at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam.

Future Day (Zukunftstag) 2019 at AEI Potsdam

Zukunftstag
  • Date: Mar 28, 2019
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: various
  • Location: AEI Potsdam, Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam-Golm
  • Host: Elke Müller
  • Contact: elke.mueller@aei.mpg.de
The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam will participate in the Brandenburg Zukunftstag (Future Day) 2019 on 28th March. The event is fully booked. [more]
Illustration of a black hole surrounded by swirling orange and turquoise rings.

Public talk (in German) “Gravitationswellen-Astronomie – wir hören schwarze Löcher und Neutronensterne verschmelzen”

Public talk
  • Date: Apr 27, 2019
  • Time: 01:30 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benjamin Knispel
  • Location: Kulturzentrum Pavillon, Lister Meile 4, 30161 Hannover
  • Room: Auditorium im „Workshop Hannover“
Popular lecture about how merging black holes sound and what you can learn about them. [more]
Illustration of Earth on a curved grid representing spacetime.

Public talk (in German) “Einsteins Zeit”

Public talk
  • Date: May 9, 2019
  • Time: 08:00 PM - 09:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benjamin Knispel
  • Location: Volkssternwarte Hannover, Am Lindener Berge 27, 30449 Hannover
  • Room: Vortragsraum
Einstein's theory of relativity has revolutionized our understanding of time and space and their relation to each other. What we know about spacetime, time travel and the like is summarized in this lecture. [more]
Potsdam Science Day event banner featuring colorful graphics and the event title.

Potsdam Science Day

Potsdam Science Day
  • Date: May 11, 2019
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Fachhochschule Potsdam, Kiepenheuerallee 5, 14469 Potsdam
  • Room: Foyer in the Main Building
The AEI in Potsdam participates in the Potsdam Science Day. [more]
LISA Waveform Working Group Meeting logo featuring a stylized blue and black gravitational-wave waveform.

LISA Waveform Working Group Meeting

  • Start: May 13, 2019 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: May 15, 2019 06:00 PM
  • Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam
The meeting aims at getting together leading international experts and young scientists to identify pressing tasks concerning LISA waveform modelling in its broadest sense and to foster new international collaborations. [more]
illustration of a black hole.

Black holes and the problem of lo(o)sing information

Public talk
  • Date: Jun 12, 2019
  • Time: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ana Alonso Serrano
  • Location: co.up. Adalbertstraße 8, 10999 Berlin
  • Room: Third Floor
Public talk about black holes. [more]
Aerial view of the GEO600 gravitational-wave detector, with the detector buildings and surrounding fields visible.

Open Day at GEO600

Open Day
  • Date: Jun 16, 2019
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: various
  • Location: GEO600, Schäferberg, 31157 Ruthe
  • Host: Benjamin Knispel
  • Contact: benjamin.knispel@aei.mpg.de
Visit the gravitational-wave detector near Sarstedt. [more]
Soapbox Science Berlin “Go with the quantum flow” event poster featuring a colorful quantum-themed illustration.

Soapbox Science Berlin “Go with the quantum flow”

Public talk
  • Date: Jun 22, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Teresa Bautista Solans
  • Location: Weltzeituhr, Alexanderplatz, Berlin
  • Host: Soapbox Science Berlin
[more]
Aerial view of the GEO600 gravitational-wave detector near Sarstedt, with its two perpendicular detector arms extending across the surrounding fields.

Listen to the Universe

Visit of GEO600
  • Date: Jul 24, 2019
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: diverse
  • Location: AEI Hannover, Callinstr. 38 und GEO600
  • Host: Hörregion Hannover
  • Contact: hoerregion@region-hannover.de
Talk about gravitational-wave astronomy and visit of the GEO600 gravitational-wave detector GEO600 near Sarstedt (in German) on 24th of July 2019. This event is part of the Hörregion Hannover. [more]
Karsten Danzmann giving a public talk in the atrium of Leibniz University Hannover.

Public talk (in German): “Wie klingt der Urknall? Das Universum hören mit Einsteins Gravitationswellen”

Public talk
  • Date: Aug 14, 2019
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Karsten Danzmann
  • Location: Hauptgebäude Leibniz Universität Hannover, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover
  • Room: Lichthof
  • Host: Leibniz Universität Hannover
Public talk by Karsten Danzmann. [more]
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Public talk (in German) “Symmetrie und Vereinheitlichung - Lässt sich die Physik auf eine Formel reduzieren?”

Public talk
  • Date: Aug 15, 2019
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Hermann Nicolai
  • Location: Stadthaus Ulm, Münsterplatz 50, 89073 Ulm
  • Host: Ausstellung „Einstein inside“
Popular-science lecture by Hermann Nicolai about the search for a “theory of everything”. [more]
Portrait of Alessandra Buonanno.

The Making of High-Precision Gravitational Waves

Public talk
  • Date: Aug 19, 2019
  • Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alessandra Buonanno
  • Location: ICTS Bengaluru
  • Room: Ramanujan Lecture Hall
  • Host: ICTS
  • Contact: program@icts.res.in
Public lecture by Alessandra Buonanno [more]
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TEDx Cortina „L’eternamente affascinante ORIGINE dell’Universo“

Public talk
  • Date: Aug 23, 2019
  • Speaker: M. Alessandra Papa
  • Location: Alexander Hall, Cortina d’Ampezzo
  • Host: TEDx Cortina
Public talk (in Italian) about the origin of the Universe. [more]
A map of the cosmic microwave background showing temperature variations across the sky.

Public talk (in German) “Der Urknall – Eine Reise zum Anbeginn von Raum und Zeit”

Public talk
  • Date: Sep 3, 2019
  • Time: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Benjamin Knispel
  • Location: Wasserturm im Eichenpark, Stadtparkallee, 30853 Langenhagen
  • Host: Naturkundliche Vereinigung Langenhagen e.V.
Popular science lecture about the Big Bang and cosmology. [more]
Orange line graph showing a fluctuating gravitational-wave signal on a white background.

Gravitational Waves: The Nobel Prize - and what's next?

Public talk
  • Date: Oct 21, 2019
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Harald Pfeiffer
  • Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam
  • Room: large lecture hall
  • Host: Dr. Jana Dotzek
  • Contact: dotzek@mpimp-golm.mpg.de
Public lecture by Harald Pfeiffer as part of the series “Science2Go” in the Science Park Potsdam-Golm. [more]
Bruce Allen speaking during a public talk at the Paulinerkirche in Göttingen.

Public talk (in Englisch): “How black hole mergers can be observed with gravitational waves”

Public talk
  • Date: Oct 21, 2019
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bruce Allen
  • Location: Paulinerkirche, Papendiek 14, 37073 Göttingen
Public talk by Bruce Allen, director at the AEI Hannover. [more]

Soapbox Science Berlin “Go with the quantum flow”

Public talk
  • Date: Nov 7, 2019
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Teresa Bautista Solans
  • Location: U-Bahn-Station Möckernbrücke
  • Host: Soapbox Science Berlin
[more]

Public talk (in German): Schwarze Löcher auf Kollisionskurs: Wenn Raum und Zeit erzittern

Public talk
  • Date: Nov 7, 2019
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jan Steinhoff
  • Location: kunsthaus sans titre, Potsdam
Jan Steinhoff will give a puplic talk (in German) about gravitational waves, black holes and the dark side of our universe. [more]
Colorful poster for Soapbox Science Berlin, showing an apple, a stylized gravitational-wave visualization, and the event title “From Newton's apple to gravitational waves.”

Soapbox Science Berlin “From Newton's apple to gravitational waves”

Public talk
  • Date: Nov 7, 2019
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Dr. Ana Alonso Serrano
  • Location: U-Bahn-Station Alexanderplatz
  • Host: Soapbox Science Berlin
[more]
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]
Event poster with a star-filled background, featuring the text “Leibniz Campus Lecture,” “Stephen Webb,” and “Are We Alone in the Universe?”

Leibniz Campus Lecture “Are We Alone in the Universe? The Fermi Paradox and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence”

Öffentlicher Vortrag
  • Date: Nov 21, 2019
  • Time: 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Stephen Webb
  • Location: Hauptgebäude Leibniz Universität Hannover, Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover
  • Room: Raum E001
  • Host: Mechtild Freiin von Münchhausen
  • Contact: kommunikation@uni-hannover.de
Why does the Universe appear silent and empty when life - and presumably intelligent life - exists elsewhere? [more]
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Symposium "History for Physics: Quantum Gravity"

Symposium
  • Start: Nov 28, 2019 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Nov 29, 2019 05:00 PM
  • Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam
  • Room: Lecture hall
This symposium aims at demonstrating the importance of the history of physics within current research in physics itself. [more]
Workshop poster for “Geometry and Duality” featuring a colorful abstract geometric design.

Workshop "Geometry and Duality"

Workshop
  • Start: Dec 2, 2019 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 6, 2019 05:00 PM
  • Location: Main building Max Planck Campus Potsdam
  • Room: Lecture hall
This workshop will bring together experts from different fields of string theory where dualities and geometry play an important role. [more]
Poster for the public talk “Wenn Schwarze Löcher Raum und Zeit erschüttern,” featuring a black hole illustration and event information.

Public talk (in German) “Wenn Schwarze Löcher Raum und Zeit erschüttern”

Public talk
  • Date: Dec 11, 2019
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Frank Ohme
  • Location: Deutsches Museum Bonn, Ahrstraße 45, 53175 Bonn
In the lecture Frank Ohme describes how gravitational waves help to track down black holes and other compact objects and how nuances in their “sound” can be deciphered with the help of supercomputers. [more]
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