Events in 2019

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]

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]

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]

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 28^th March. The event is fully booked. [more]

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]

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

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

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]

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]

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”

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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 "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]

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]