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Dense cores are the places where stars are formed within the supersonic Molecular Clouds. These dense regions (n~10^5 cc) are cold (T~10 K) and display subsonic levels of turbulence (Mach ~ 0.5), and represent the initial conditions for both star...

Speakers:
Verena Klemm (Institute of Arabic Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany)
Stefanie Brinkmann(Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig)
Boris Liebrenz (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig)
Thomas Efer (Sächsische...

The detection of an Earth twin (an Earth-mass planet orbiting a Sun-like star within the habitable zone) has recently become feasible for the first time thanks to advances in observational technology. The Terra Hunting Experiment is a 10-year...

For homogeneous affine Springer fibers (those with $G_m$ symmetry), we realize them as Lagrangian cycles inside ambient symplectic varieties, and make sense of microlocal sheaves supported on these affine Springer fibers. We also propose a...

A half-decade ago, LIGO first allowed us to detect gravitational waves. However, just like electromagnetic light, gravitational waves have a broad spectrum of emission frequencies over which different objects will emit. I will describe efforts in...

Ultralight axions have gained great relevance in modern cosmology, becoming a promising candidate to describe the dark matter of the Universe. Axion models in which the scalar field potential includes only the quadratic term, usually referred as the...