PhD Talks 2020

Feb 4, 2020, 9:00 AM → Feb 5, 2020, 12:40 PM Europe/Stockholm

Lundmarksalen (Faculty of Science)

Annual Ph.D. talks at the Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics

Tue, February 4

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Astro: Gaia data and kinematic structure of the Galaxy

9:00 AM Introduction to Gaia and its Celestial Reference Frame

Speaker: Eero Vaher

9:20 AM Stellar cluster evolution and galactic orbits

Speaker: Timmi Jorgensen

9:40 AM Velocity distribution of Gaia stars without radial velocities

Speaker: Daniel Mikkola

10:00 AM Resolving the nature of the HR 1614 moving group

Speaker: Iryna Kushniruk

10:20 AM Searching for the Monoceros Ring

Speaker: Rebecca Forsberg

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM CBBP: Computational Biology

11:00 AM Finite-size scaling of protein droplet formation

Speaker: Daniel Nilsson

Slides phd-talk.pdf

11:20 AM Motif discovery for DNA maps with structural variations

Speaker: Albertas Dvirnas

11:40 AM → 12:20 PM Astro: Planet formation and evolution

11:40 AM Dust clearing by radial drift in evolving protoplanetary disks

Speaker: Johan Appelgren

12:00 PM The fate and formation of planetesimals at planetary gap-edges

Speaker: Linn Eriksson

Wed, February 5

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM THEP: Monte Carlo Event Generators

9:00 AM An introduction to event generators for pp and AA collisions

Speaker: Torbjörn Lundberg

Slides TBslides

9:20 AM Calculating Scattering Probabilities Using the Chirality Flow Method

Speaker: Andrew Lifson

Slides ALPhDSeminar2020.pdf

9:40 AM Scale and Scheme Variations in NLO Merging

Speaker: Leif Gellersen

Slides leif_gellersen.pdf

10:00 AM Hadronic rescattering in PYTHIA

Speaker: Marius Utheim

Slides Hadronic_Rescattering_in_Pythia.pdf

10:20 AM Novelties of Lund strings in Heavy Ion Collisions

Speaker: Smita Chakraborty

Slides PhD_talk_2020.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Astro: Galactic evolution and star formation

11:00 AM Spectroscopic investigation of Al I for astrophysical applications

Speaker: Madeleine Burheim

11:20 AM How runaway stars change galaxies

Speaker: Eric Andersson

11:40 AM Early formation history of the Milky Way as revealed by high-velocity stars

Speaker: Christian Sahlholdt

12:00 PM → 12:40 PM THEP: Effective Field Theory and Precision Calculations

12:00 PM Effective Field Theories and Phenomenology

Speaker: Mattias Sjo

12:20 PM Precision calculations in high energy particle collisions

Speaker: Timea Vitos

Slides Timea.PhD.pdf