General Assembly 2025

10 Feb 2025, 09:00 → 14 Feb 2025, 15:00 Europe/Berlin

Campus Treff, TU Dortmund

The SFB1491 “Cosmic Interacting Matters – From Source to Signal” was founded in January 2022 and works on enhancing the understanding of energy transfer between the gas, magnetic field, cosmic rays, and dark matter in galaxies. 

The fourth general assembly will take place at the Campus Treff at TU Dortmund and will focus on the inter-project collaborations within CIM.

The general assembly with all SFB participants will be on February 11 and 12. We will have two days dedicated to scientific exchange, featuring overview presentations by our PIs and invited speakers, collaborative talks by ECRs, and an extensive poster session on Tuesday.

Confirmed invited speakers:

• Daniel Verscharen
• Imre Bartos

 

Furthermore, we will offer special trainings for the ECRs: a mandatory equal opportunity training on February 10 (at meeting place Calla) and a half-day session on funding options on February 13 (at SRG 1/1.001).

In addition, there will be a two-days PI meeting on February 13 and 14 (at meeting place Calla).

Monday 10 February

09:00 → 10:15 ECR Training - Becoming an Active Bystander: Opening presentation

Recognizing and responding to discrimination

09:00 Welcome

Calla:
Vogelpothsweg 85 (Mensaebene),
44227 Dortmund (Campus Nord)

Speaker: Pauline Gagnon

09:10 Opening presentation and brief discussion: What’s wrong with me?

10:15 → 10:25 Short Coffee Break

10:25 → 12:00 ECR Training - Becoming an Active Bystander: Unconscious Biases

Recognizing and responding to discrimination

10:25 Harvard Implicit Association Test

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Goal: Get aware of how deeply unconscious biases affect all of us.

10:45 Brief discussion on the participants’ impressions

11:00 How to react to discriminatory behaviour?

Tools to become an Active Bystander: the 5 D’s or How can everybody help!

11:30 Description of the afternoon exercise

o The group will be divided into 6 working groups of 6-7 people.
o Each working group will receive the description of one situation involving discrimination based on real events experienced or observed by ECRs.
o Each working group will eat together to get to know each other and start discussing about how to deal with their assigned problematic situation.

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 15:00 ECR Training - Becoming an Active Bystander: Practice Session

Recognizing and responding to discrimination

13:00 Putting it in practice

o Each working group will discuss how the target of discriminatory behaviour and the bystanders could have reacted in this situation using the Guidelines for Active Bystanders (5 D’s).
o Redo the exercise changing the gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or social class of the victim and/or offender, including hierarchy issues.

13:30 Plenary discussion on how to be Active Bystanders:

Each working group will have 15-20 minutes to present what was problematic in their assigned situation and propose ways to handle it. The audience will be invited to comment.

14:45 Recap on the day

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

Tuesday 11 February

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:30 Science Session: Session I.1

Convener: Eva Jütte (RUB)

09:00 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Julia Tjus (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

09:45 Update Ö Project

Speaker: Susanne Hüttemeister

GA-CRC1491-2025-02-11.pdf

09:55 News - MGK Project

Speakers: Anna Franckowiak (Ruhr-University Bochum), Johannes Albrecht (TU Dortmund)

MGK_general_assembly_2025.pdf

10:05 Tutorial for the S3 Storage System on the Galileo Cluster

Speaker: Jeremiah Lübke (RUB)

S3 tutorial-1.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Science Session: Session I.2

Convener: Chloé Gaudu (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

11:00 Electron heat flux in structured plasmas: collisions, trapping, and wave-particle interactions

Speaker: Daniel Verscharen

bochum_verscharen.pdf

11:40 Linking MHD simulations of galactic outflows to particle dynamics in intermittent turbulence

Speakers: Frederic Effenberger, Jens Kleimann (Theoretische Physik IV, RUB)

sfb-25_galw-08feb.pdf

12:05 Group Photo

Speaker: Vera Nowak (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 Science Session: Session I.3

Convener: Jeremiah Lübke (RUB)

14:00 Heavy dark matter searches with gamma rays

Speaker: Elisa Pueschel

14:40 Walk through SFB Webpage

Speaker: Eva Jütte (RUB)

14:50 Poster Session

poster_MCgenerator_tuning_mwindau.pdf

Poster_Teaser_F2.pdf

SFB_poster_Apel_GA2025.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 Science Session: Session I.4

Convener: Alicia Fattorini

16:00 Hadronic interactions at ultra-high energy

Speaker: Felix Riehn

FR_sfb1491-general-meeting-2025.pdf

16:40 Global tuning of event generators with collider and astroparticle data

Speaker: Chloé Gaudu (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

SFB1491_GA_2025_Gaudu.pdf

17:05 Neutrinos to contrain the emission of Cosmic Rays Accelerators

Speakers: Giacomo Sommani (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Silvia Salvatore

Giacomo_Silvia.pdf

Wednesday 12 February

09:00 → 10:30 Science Session: Session II.1

Convener: Dr Björn Adebahr (AIRUB)

09:00 PI overview talk: TBD

Speaker: Christopher Riseley (Astronomisches Institut Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

09:40 Magnetic field structures on AGN-Starburst galaxies

Speaker: Crystal Mele (Astronomical Institute, Ruhr University Bochum)

mele-crystal_magnetic-structures.pdf

10:05 Exploring Dust Transport in Dark Matter Halos Across Stellar Mass Bins with Weak-Lensing Surveys

Speaker: Eray Genc (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Astronomisches Institut)

sfb1491_GA_12022025.key

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Science Session: Session II.2

Convener: Michael Stein (Ruhr University Bochum, Astronomical Institute)

11:00 The Expanding Gravitational Wave Horizon: Emerging Opportunities for Multimessenger Discovery

Speaker: Imre Bartos

11:40 Tearing instability and magnetic reconnection onset in relativistic plasmas

Speaker: Kevin Schoeffler

SFB2025.pdf

12:05 Anisotropy and ultra-high-energy cosmic ray flux composition

Speaker: Janning Meinert

2025.02.12 A3 Status Report.pdf

2025.02.12 A3 Status Report.pptx

12:30 → 13:00 CIM Board Meeting

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:30 Science Session: Session II.3

Convener: Julien Dörner (TP IV RUB)

14:00 Modeling Accretion and Ejection Phenomena in Astrophysics

Speaker: Rolf Kuiper (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

R_KUIPER__2025-02-12__Modeling_Accretion_and_Ejection_Phenomena_in_Astrophysics.pdf

14:40 The Missing Half: How Multi-Wavelength Observations Help Reveal the Hidden Population of TDEs in AGN

Speaker: Patrik Milan Veres (RUB)

15:05 Exploring Dark Matter: From Cosmological Scales to Dwarf Galaxies

Speakers: Athy Aravinthan (Ruhr Universität Bochum), Shiyang Zhang

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:50 → 17:50 KM3Net Webinar: From the deep cosmos to the deep sea - New results from the KM3NeT neutrino telescope

https://www.km3net.org/km3net-webinar/

https://www.youtube.com/live/2jgyZlBpkl8

18:30 → 20:30 Conference Dinner

The Conference Dinner takes place at "Storckshof":

https://www.storckshof.de

Ostenbergstraße 111
44227 Dortmund

Thursday 13 February

09:00 → 12:30 ECR Training - Funding

Map to the Seminar room:
https://www.tu-dortmund.de/campus/campusplaene/#/?vehicle=foot&useHBahn=false&startId=4645384&destinationId=1804030

CRC CIM Research Grants_Career Strategies.pdf

FundingECR-InternationalStays.pdf

funding_reichherzer.pdf

09:00 Overview of funding opportunities in Germany and Europe

Speakers: Felix Stehle (TUDO), Gülay Sagirli (RUB)

10:00 Coffee Break

10:30 Funding options for long international visits

Speaker: Sophie Aerdker (Ruhr University Bochum)

11:00 Postdoc Funding experiences

Speaker: Patrick Reichherzer (University of Oxford)

11:30 From PostDoc to Group Leader

Speaker: Anna Nelles

12:00 Discussion with all speakers

10:00 → 17:00 PI Meeting Day 1

Calla:
Vogelpothsweg 85 (Mensaebene), 44227 Dortmund (Campus Nord)

10:00 Introduction

Speaker: Julia Tjus (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 Presentation of the projects

5 min presentation of each project

Speaker: ALL PIs

13:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Plenum: Discussion of project connections

Speaker: ALL PIs

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Discussion in small groups: project connections

Speaker: ALL PIs

18:00 → 20:00 PI Dinner

The PI Dinner will takes place at "Der Lennhof"

https://www.der-lennhof.de

Menglinghauser Straße 20
44227 Dortmund
Tel.: 0231 75 81 90

Friday 14 February

09:00 → 15:00 PI Meeting Day 2

Calla:
Vogelpothsweg 85 (Mensaebene), 44227 Dortmund (Campus Nord)

09:00 Guiding Principles & Research Questions

Speaker: ALL PIs

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Discussions

12:00 Lunch

13:00 optional: discussions between project PIs