PhD Talks 2020

4 Feb 2020, 09:00 → 5 Feb 2020, 12:40 Europe/Stockholm

Lundmarksalen (Faculty of Science)

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

Tuesday 4 February

09:00 → 10:40 Astro: Gaia data and kinematic structure of the Galaxy

09:00 Introduction to Gaia and its Celestial Reference Frame

Speaker: Eero Vaher

09:20 Stellar cluster evolution and galactic orbits

Speaker: Timmi Jorgensen

09:40 Velocity distribution of Gaia stars without radial velocities

Speaker: Daniel Mikkola

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

Speaker: Iryna Kushniruk

10:20 Searching for the Monoceros Ring

Speaker: Rebecca Forsberg

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:40 CBBP: Computational Biology

11:00 Finite-size scaling of protein droplet formation

Speaker: Daniel Nilsson

Slides phd-talk.pdf

11:20 Motif discovery for DNA maps with structural variations

Speaker: Albertas Dvirnas

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

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

Speaker: Johan Appelgren

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

Speaker: Linn Eriksson

Wednesday 5 February

09:00 → 10:40 THEP: Monte Carlo Event Generators

09:00 An introduction to event generators for pp and AA collisions

Speaker: Torbjörn Lundberg

Slides TBslides

09:20 Calculating Scattering Probabilities Using the Chirality Flow Method

Speaker: Andrew Lifson

Slides ALPhDSeminar2020.pdf

09:40 Scale and Scheme Variations in NLO Merging

Speaker: Leif Gellersen

Slides leif_gellersen.pdf

10:00 Hadronic rescattering in PYTHIA

Speaker: Marius Utheim

Slides Hadronic_Rescattering_in_Pythia.pdf

10:20 Novelties of Lund strings in Heavy Ion Collisions

Speaker: Smita Chakraborty

Slides PhD_talk_2020.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee break

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

11:00 Spectroscopic investigation of Al I for astrophysical applications

Speaker: Madeleine Burheim

11:20 How runaway stars change galaxies

Speaker: Eric Andersson

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

Speaker: Christian Sahlholdt

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

12:00 Effective Field Theories and Phenomenology

Speaker: Mattias Sjo

12:20 Precision calculations in high energy particle collisions

Speaker: Timea Vitos

Slides Timea.PhD.pdf