insect hotels

CRC1601 insect hotels are ready for moving in

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The CRC’s Sustainability Board is responsible for coordinating the evaluation of the environmental impact of the CRC’s activities and proposing measures to reduce it. 
In addition, the Sustainability Board organises talks and workshops for the CRC members to raise awareness of sustainability issues and establish solutions for daily work. 
During the sustainability barbecue on October 17, among other topics, the University of Cologne’s sustainability strategy and the problem of conference trips were discussed. In the afternoon, several workshops took place, one of which involved participants building their own insect hotels. This Thursday, a total of seven insect hotels were put up around the physics department of the University of Cologne.
Insect hotels provide shelter and nesting facilities for a variety of insects during winter. Introducing insect hotels can help with pollination and ecosystem diversity.

Foto and Video by Helen Kupfer and Annemarie Sich

https://www.volkssternwartekoeln.de

Talks at the Public Observatory Cologne

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The first 2025-guest talks of our cooperation partner, the Public Observatory Cologne are online. Please check their website via the QR-code or have a look here: https://sfb1601.astro.uni-koeln.de/volkssternwarte/

The Public Observatory Cologne is a private institution which is run by the members of the “Vereinigung der Sternfreunde Köln e.V.” on a voluntary basis. This association of interested amateurs and amateur astronomers was founded in 1922 with the aim of disseminating basic astronomical knowledge to the public and promoting the training and further education of active amateur astronomers within the scope of the available possibilities.With the 60cm refractor “Cologne Large Telescope” (CLT) installed in 2012, the Volkssternwarte Köln operates the largest freely accessible telescope in North Rhine-Westphalia

Astronomy on Tap November

Last Astronomy on Tap event for 2024

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Program 14.Nov.2024

  • “Betrug in der Wissenschaft” – Dr. Oskar Asvany (Universität zu Köln)

Eine kurze Geschichte der Datenmanipulation in der Wissenschaft, insbesondere in der Physik (und Astronomie)

  • “Neighbourhood Watch: What’s going down in our Galaxy’s Center?” – Myank Singhal (Charles University Prague)

We still have so much to learn about our own Galactic Center, the supermassive black hole, the mysterious collection of dust, and the paradox of youth! The talk will not answer all these questions but will provide an overview of the core of our own galaxy. 

Join us for the last event of Astronomy on Tap Köln in 2024! Program below. 

Every month, Astronomy on Tap Köln brings you fun and enlightening talks in German and English! Join us to find what Astrophysicists are up to in solving the puzzles of the cosmos.

Make sure to show off your smarts in the exciting Pub Quiz. Winners get astronomy goodies from the European Southern Observatory, SOFIA and other cool telescopes, to take home!

Check in now for free here:  https://t.rausgegangen.de/tickets/astronomy-on-tap-koln-5

More information about Astronomy on Tap can be found here: https://sfb1601.astro.uni-koeln.de/events/aot-2/

Astronomy on Tap November

The CRC1601 devotes the afternoon of October 17 to sustainability!

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Did you know that the University of Cologne has its own Sustainability Office? We have invited them to present their daily work and challenges to make our university more sustainable. Do you have an idea on how to improve our university? Then join us and take this opportunity to talk to them directly!

We are happy to organize fruitful discussions where you can bring your ideas how to change our work and research to make the CRC more sustainable.

We will also have a number of workshops, and we will finish with a barbecue and a quiz.
We will offer drinks and a vegetarian barbecue to all participants. You are welcome to bring your own meat/other food if you wish.

As we need to plan which room to use for which workshop and we need to buy the material for the insect hotel building we ask everyone to register for their preferred workshop.
Please indicate there as well whether you join for the barbecue and for the drinking so that we can buy the appropriate amounts.
https://sfb1601.astro.uni-koeln.de/sustainability/sustainability-bbq/

Eine Reise in die Dunkelheit – Andrina Nicola

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Das Universum besteht zu 95 Prozent aus zwei mysteriösen, unsichtbaren Komponenten, der Dunklen Materie und der Dunklen Energie. Eines der Hauptziele der Kosmologie ist es, diesen Bestandteilen auf die Spur zu kommen und ihre Eigenschaften einzugrenzen. In diesem Vortrag werde ich die zugrundeliegenden Methoden erläutern und einen Überblick über die Durchmusterungen geben, die uns einen neuen Blick und neue Erkenntnisse über unser Universum geben werden.

A public talk during the Meeting of the Astronomical Society 2024

Andrina Nicola
Universität Bonn, Argelander Institut für Astronomie

Thursday, 12 September 2024, 20:00, Aula, University of Cologne

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Astronomy on Tap Bonn

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Join us next Tuesday, 23rd of April, at 19:00 at Fiddlers, Frongasse 9, Endenich for a new event of Astronomy on Tap Bonn!

The event will be featuring

1) Arunima Dutta: A Pulsar and its Mysterious Companion[en]

2) David Ohse: Warum sind wir hier? [de]

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Leuchtstoffraum 2, Kleinmann-Low 16.1 channel sound installation – Julian Rohrhuber & Volker Ossenkopf-Okada

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AUSSTELLUNG
DÜSSELDORF — WELTKUNSTZIMMER 
Öffnungszeiten: Do–So 14–18 h
Eröffnung • 18. April 2024 / 19.00 h

The Kleinmann-Low nebula in the Orion is a location of intense star formation with a complex spatial and chemical dynamic. Its radiation originates from finely distributed atoms and molecules, which in the light of the young stars emit a characteristic spectrum. The piece „Leuchtstoffraum“ is informed by the unusually precise measurements of the Herschel space telescope from 2010. It is based on the simple principle that the natural laws are the same on earth as in the nebula 1300 light years away. We hear the structure of electromagnetic radiation of a minute point in the sky whose frequencies may be partitioned into series of molecule spectra, known from the laboratory. Leuchtstoffraum 2 is an outcome of a collaboration between Julian Rohrhuber, professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, with the astro-physicist PD Dr. Volker Ossenkopf-Okada, who teaches at I. Physikalische Institut of the University, Cologne.

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Vortrag in der Volkssternwarte

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Vortrag von Slawa Kabanovich (PH1): Sternentstehung im Eiltempo – Fliegende Sternwarte SOFIA liefert überraschende Ergebnisse

Beobachtungen des ionisierten Kohlenstoffs mit dem upGREAT (German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz) an Bord des deutsch-amerikanischen Stratosphärenteleskops SOFIA (Stratosphären-Observatorium für Infrarot-Astronomie) haben gezeigt, dass HII-Regionen sich rasch ausdehnen können, angetrieben durch den Sternenwind. Die Kompression des umgebenden interstellaren Materials initiiert die Entstehung neuer Sterne. Dabei konnten wir feststellen, dass die Sternentstehung auf viel kürzeren Zeitskalen erfolgen kann, als bisher angenommen wurde. Die Beobachtung des ionisierten Kohlenstoffs war ausschließlich durch SOFIA möglich, da die [CII]-Linie vom Erdboden aus nicht beobachtbar ist. Die analysierten Daten ermöglichten es uns, die Bildung interstellarer Wolken zu untersuchen, und darüber hinaus den Einfluss massereicher Sterne auf das interstellare Medium zu erforschen.

 
Monatsvortrag am 24.11.2023 um 20:00 Uhr in der Volkssternwarte Köln:
 
Adresse:
Volkssternwarte Köln
Nikolausstraße 55
50937 Köln
 
Normales Ticket Monatsvortrag   7,00 €
Ermäßigtes Ticket Monatsvortrag 4,00 € (Für Schüler und Studenten)
Ticket-Shop hier:  https://pretix.eu/volkssternwartekoeln.de/2023-11-24/