Winter term 2025
EXPLORE VI
Explore VI (EXPeriential Learning Opportunity through Research and Exchange) is an academic course for international student research collaboration. It is an innovative teaching initiative offered by the Goethe University (Germany), York University, and University of Alberta (Canada). Canadian students from York University must apply for participation - please check below! See also below for details on the registration for Goethe-University students!
Research topics:
Gravitational Waves from Dark Phase Transitions (Laura Sagunski, Jürgen Schaffner-Bieliech)
Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Milky Way dark matter halo (Nassim Bozorgnia)
Navigating the Landscape of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Using Galaxy Rotation Curves (Adam Smith-Orlik, Leo Kim)
Self-interacting Dark Matter in Massive Galaxies (Sean Tulin)
RR lyr stars as probes of the mass and chemistry of the Milky Way (Camilla Hansen)
Format: The lecture will be given in English and will take place Online via Zoom]
Lecturer(s): Prof. Laura Sagunski | Prof. Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich | Prof. Camilla Hansen | Prof. Nassim Bozorgnia | Prof. Sean Tulin |
Head Tutor(s): Daniel Schmitt
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Course organisation
Format of the lecture
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Since EXPLORE is an international collaborative project, all lectures and tutorials will be taking place online via Zoom. Click here to enter the Zoom room.
Note that the first two EXPLORE meetings in Mid October will be recorded and uploaded to this Google Drive folder.
Communication between lecturer(s), tutors and students
- We use a common Discord channel for communication. The invitation link will also be distributed among the participants in the first sessions.
Participation & Tasks (Studienleistung)
- With your peers from Germany and Canada, you will work in small groups exploring and working on real research topics (see below). These will be accompanied by lectures providing the basic knowledge of the topics and Python tutorials to learn scientific computing. Additionally, there will be weekly team meetings with your group mentor to exchange your ideas and receive feedback.
Examination (Prüfungsleistung)
- You will have successfully passed the EXPLORE course after your presentation of your research project results in a scientific workshop at the end of the semester. The amount of Credit Points a participant will receive from their university will be also announced soon.
Recommended literature & Course material
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EXPLORE for students: Folder with course material
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GitHub Repository for Python Programming Learning
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Recorded Lecture 1 from a previous EXPLORE edition: Introduction (Mentors) and Cosmology (Laura Sagunski)
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Recorded Lecture 2 from a previous EXPLORE edition: Dark Matter (Sean Tulin & Nassim Bozorgnia)
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Recorded Lecture 3 from a previous EXPLORE edition: Gravitational Waves (Saeed Rastgoo) & Quasars (Patrick Hall)
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Recorded Lecture 4 from a previous EXPLORE edition: Machine Learning (Jim Mertens) & Neutron Stars and compact objects (Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich)
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Recorded Lecture 5 from a previous EXPLORE edition: Near-field cosmology with stars (Camilla Hansen)