Talks

Here is a list of talks that were given by me or one of my collaborators on different occasions.
They are ordered by topics.

About gravitational lensing

• Nonparametric mass reconstructions for CLASH
  CLASH fall meeting, Heidelberg, 18.10.2011
  [pdf] [Keynote]
• CLASH - Gravitational Lensing
  Conference on a "New Generation of Galaxy Cluster surveys", Sesto, Italy, 05.07.2011
  [pdf] [Keynote]
• Pandora's Cluster meets the CLASH
  Workshop on dark matter, Bologna, Italy, 27.06.2011
  [pdf] [Keynote]
• Abell 2744: A new bullet
  Winter meeting and final workshop of the DUEL network, Sorrento, Italy, 28.10.2010
  [pdf]
• Joint cluster reconstructions on GPUs
  CLASH: kickoff-meeting, IAA Granada, Spain, 20.09.2010
  [pdf]
• Joint cluster reconstructions on GPUs
  Ten years of cosmic shear, International conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 20.07.2010
  [pdf]
• An advanced method to recover mass profiles through gravitational lensing
  Lensing seminar, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Bonn, 01.06.2010
  [pdf]
• An advanced method to recover mass profiles through gravitational lensing
  IMPRS retreat, University of Cologne, 28.05.2010
  [pdf]
• High cluster concentrations - A comparison using SUBARU and MareNostrum
  Winter meeting of the DUEL network, Castle Ringberg near Tegernsee, 26.01.2010
  [pdf]
• SaWLens 1.4
  INAF meeting on galaxy clusters, Tor Vergata Rome, 17.12.2009
  [pdf]
• Flexion revisited
  GAGs meeting at Osservatorio Astronomico in Bologna, 28.10.2009
  [pdf]
• Presentation of my work on weak and strong lensing
  Institute seminar at Osservatorio Astronomico in Bologna, 27.10.2009
  [pdf]
• Working plan for my Ph.D. project
  Group seminar at ITA Heidelberg, 09.07.2009
  [pdf]
• Talk during the "Francesco Lucchin" summer school
  Bertinoro, Italy, 25.05.2009
  [pdf]
• Talk about my work during the LiHD meeting
  MPIA Heidelberg 29.04.2009
  [pdf]
• Combining weak and strong lensing
  Winter meeting of the DUEL network, IWH Heidelberg 15.01.2009
  [pdf]
• Talk during the 2nd TRR 33 winter school
  Passo del Tonale, Italy, 09.12.2008
  [pdf]
• Presentation of new results
  Group seminar at ITA Heidelberg, 18.07.2008
  [pdf]
• Presentation of my Ph.D. project to the IMPRS
  IMPRS seminar Heidelberg, 17.04.2008
  [pdf]
• Summary of my diploma thesis
  Group seminar at ITA Heidelberg, 11.01.2008
  [pdf]
• Presentation of my diploma project, group seminar at ITA Heidelberg, 21.06.2007
  [pdf]

Topics on cosmology

• Towards an understanding of galaxy clusters
  Cosmology seminar at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg, 26.10.2011
  [pdf] [Keynote]
• Kosmische Kollisionen dunkler Materie
  Public talk at the Planetarium am Insulaner, Berlin, 28.09.2011
  [Keynote]
• Pandora's Cluster: a cosmic crash test
  Talk for DAAD-RISE scholars, ITA Heidelberg, 22.07.2011
  [pdf] [Keynote]
• Towards an understanding of galaxy clusters
  Astronomy seminar at JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, California, 09.05.2011
  [pdf]
• Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: Observations meet High-Performance-Computing
  Evaluation of the Heidelberg Centre for Astronomy, Heidelberg, 07.02.2011
  [pdf]
• New ideas in lensing reconstructions
  Talk during the EUCLID meeting at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, 04.03.2010
  [pdf]
• Die dunkle Seite des Universums - Dunkle Materie und dunkle Energie
  Public talk during the astronomia exhibition in Ravensburg, 26.06.2009
  [pdf]
• Gravitationslinsen - Ein Blick auf die dunkle Seite des Universums
  Public talk during the astronomia exhibition in Ravensburg, 26.06.2009
  [pdf]
• Gauge invariant perturbation theory
  Within the cosmology seminar about the CMB at ITA Heidelberg, 09.04.2009
  [pdf]
• Cuscuton dark energy
  Within the cosmology seminar with free choice of topic at ITA Heidelberg, 04.12.2008
  [pdf]
• Triple unification of inflation, dark matter and dark energy
  Within the cosmology seminar with free choice of topic at ITA Heidelberg, 09.05.2008
  [pdf]
• Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects
  Within the cosmology seminar on galaxy clusters at ITA Heidelberg, 18.01.2008
  [pdf]
• Scalar fields and vacuum fluctuations
  Within the cosmology seminar on inflation at ITA Heidelberg, 12.07.2007
  [pdf]

Miscellaneous

• GPU Computing and Alternative Architecture
  Talk during a meeting on future directions of cosmological simulations, Edinburgh, Scotland, 09.11.2010
  [pdf]
• Supercomputing Techniques in Lensing
  Talk during the LiHD meeting, MPIA Heidelberg 28.04.2010
  [pdf]
• Medium Performance Computing
  INAF meeting on galaxy clusters, Tor Vergata Rome, 17.12.2009
  [pdf]
• IMPRS and the University Institutes
  Overview talk about the IMPRS at the Academy of Sciences in Prague, 10.03.2009
  [pdf]
• Toward understanding massive star formation
  Within the IMPRS literature seminar at Heidelberg University, 13.11.2008
  [pdf]
• Numerics on a grid
  Within the seminar numerics in physics at Heidelberg University, 04.06.2007
  [pdf]