Previous Events – SFB 1601

The SFB1601 visits the DLR (6.11.2025)

SFB1601 members visited the DLR Cologne, kindly invited by Alexander Rüttgers and Achim Basermann. After learning about the history of Astronautics we started our visit in the European Astronaut Center (EAC) with highly interesting information about ESA astronaut training, how to survive in space and how the ISS was built while watching live pictures from space. Actual experiments on the effects of space and the lack of gravity on the human body as well as radiation were the main topics in the Institute of Aerospace Medicine

Join us for Astronomy on Tap Bonn’s Halloween edition on October 28

Join us for Astronomy on Tap Bonn’s Halloween edition! You can attend exciting astronomy talks in English and German at Fiddlers Pub (Frongasse 9, Endenich) on Tuesday 28 at 19:00.

Join us for the Halloween special of Astronomy on Tap Köln on October 30

CRC 1601 Sustainability Day

The CRC 1601 Sustainability Board invites you to the next Sustainability Day. A full afternoon is dedicated to interesting topics and workshops and will be completed by a vegan BBQ accompanied by a quiz.

New Program of the Public Observatory Cologne

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

Lange Nacht der Astronomie (13.09.2025 at the Public Observatory Cologne)

Beobachten, staunen, erleben – das Universum entdecken mit der bundesweiten Langen Nacht der Astronomie!

Join us for the next event of Astronomy on Tap Köln

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! or simply respond to this email with the no. of people you plan to bring to the event (not mandatory but helps us to make adequate arrangements)

You are invited to Astronomy on Tap Bonn on April 29, 2025!

Join us for Astronomy on Tap Bonn! You can attend exciting astronomy talks in English and German at Fiddlers Pub (Frongasse 9, Endenich) on Tuesday 29 at 19:00.

Visit to the Effelsberg Radio Telescope

With a diameter of 100 meters, the Radio Telescope Effelsberg is one of the largest fully steerable radio telescopes on earth. Members of the CRC 1601 were invited to a tour that included beside the visitors pavilion and the observation platform also the control rooms and the first platform of telescope.

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29^th Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, 25. – 29. August 2025

The 29^th Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy (HRMS) was held at the Physics Institutes of the Universität zu Köln, organized locally by the “Laboratory Astrophysics Group” of the I. Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln.

https://hrms2025.astro.uni-koeln.de

Scientific Program:

There were be 10 plenary lectures and 3 mini-symposia with 10 invited speakers. Parallel sessions will feature 72 contributed talks. There will be four poster sessions with more than 130 contributions. The scientific fields covered are:

High resolution rotational, vibrational, and electronic spectroscopy of molecules (radicals, ions, complexes, clusters, …)
Molecular dynamics
Theory assisting the prediction, simulation, and interpretation of spectra
New techniques for high-resolution spectroscopy
Applications to atmospheric sciences, astrophysics, planetology, combustion, gas-phase biomolecules, metrology and fundamental physics, cold molecules, etc.

Meeting of the Astronomical Society 2024 in Cologne

The International Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society was held at the University of Cologne during the week September 09-13, 2024.

The meeting included invited plenary talks, splinter sessions, and working group meetings of the Astronomical Society.

https://ag2024.astronomische-gesellschaft.de

Programm Download

Poster-AGMeeting Download

Video recordings of the plenary talks are available for registered participants. Please, follow the links in the rightmost column under “Abstracts”.

Video recording of the public talk given by Andrina Nicola.

Conference photo (2024-09-12)

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

29th Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, 25. – 29. August 2025

Meeting of the Astronomical Society 2024 in Cologne

29^th Colloquium on High-Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy, 25. – 29. August 2025