SFB 1601

Massive stars, due to their short lifetime and high energy output, drive the evolution of galaxies across cosmic time. Hence, they substantially contribute to shaping the present-day Universe. The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) will unravel the “habitats of massive stars across cosmic time”. “Habitats” are the gaseous environments within which massive stars are born and which they interact with via their feedback. Over the anticipated 12-year lifetime of this new CRC initiative, we aim to connect the physical processes that govern the habitats of massive stars across the full range of environments hosting massive stars – from sub-parsec to mega-parsec scales and from the Milky Way to the high-redshift Universe, where massive stars leave their cosmological fingerprint by driving cosmic reionisation.

Key Profile Area
“Dynamics of the Universe”

Our universe is full of fascinating, mysterious and often surprising phenomena. Understanding and explaining this in physical terms is the task of the new key profile area Dynamics of the Universe.

The Dynamics of the Universe key profile area establishes an excellent environment for training, early contact with current research, and exchange in international co-operations and competitions. In addition, the interdisciplinary collaboration between the fields of physics, computer science and applied mathematics will be strengthened in the long term. This is particularly important given the need to meet unprecedented challenges arising from the large amounts of observational data being generated by way of innovative ideas and algorithms, and to enable and efficiently advance complex simulations using new hardware technologies.

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1^st funding period: 10/2023 – 06/2027

Day 1	25.03.2025	Lecture Hall	seminar room 1	seminar room 2	seminar room3
08.00	Departure Cologne
08.45	Departure Bonn
9.45-10.30	Registration / welcome coffee
Chair: Lucas Labadie
10.30 – 10.45	Stefanie Walch-Gassner	Welcome
10:45 – 11:00	Stefanie Walch-Gassner	CRC 1601 – the big questions
11:00 – 11:25		Progress on project area A
11:25 – 11:50		Progress on project area B
11:50 – 12:15		Progress on project area C
12:15 – 12:25	Volker Ossenkopf-Okada	Sustainability Board
12.30 – 13.30	Lunchbuffet
Chair:
13:30 – 13:45	Working group ogrzanizers: Chinmaya Nagar, Divita Gupta, Ina Galić, Masato Kobayashi, Simon Dannhauer, Vittoria Brugaletta, Wonju Kim, and Zein Bazzi	Achievement and progress report from SFB working groups.
13:45 – 14:00		Planning of discussion rounds
14.00 – 15.00		Student Meeting (incl. Student Council)	PI meeting	Discussion groups	Discussion groups
15:00 – 16:00		Discussion groups	PI meeting	Discussion groups	Discussion groups
16:00 – 16:30:00	Coffee break
Chair:
16.00 – 16.25	Petra Fackendahl, Isabelle Breloy	Report from TP Z & Financial
16:30 – 17:50	all	Discussion groups	Discussion groups	Discussion groups	Discussion groups
18.00	Dinner

Day 2	26.03.2025	Lecture Hall	seminar room 1	seminar room 2	seminar room3
08.00 – 09.00	Breakfast
Chair:
9:00 – 9:30	TBD	Wrap up of day 1, results of discussion groups
9:30 – 10:00		Discussion groups	Sustainability Board Meeting	Diversity Board Meeting	Executive Board Meeting
10:00 – 10:30		Discussion groups	Discussion groups	Discussion groups	Executive Board Meeting
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11.00-15.00	Hiking
Chair: Dominik Riechers
15:00 – 16:00	all	Poster presentations (2min)
16:00 – 17:00	Coffee Break & Poster reception
17:00 – 18:30	all	Discussion groups	Discussion groups	Discussion groups	Discussion groups
19:00 – 24:00	Dinnerparty

Day 3	27.03.2025	Lecture Hall
08.00 – 09.00		Breakfast
Chair:
9:00 – 10:30	TBD	Wrap up of day 2, results of discussion groups
10.30 – 11.00		Coffee Break
Chair:
11.00 – 11.15		Report by the Sustainability Board
11.15 – 11.30		Report by the Student Council
11.30 – 11.45		Report by the Diversity Board
12:10 – 12:25		Summary
12.30 – 13.30		Lunchbuffet
13.30 – 15.30		Members Assembly (obligatory)
16:00		Departure

Key Profile Area “Dynamics of the Universe”

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Key Profile Area
“Dynamics of the Universe”