Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/E.-H Peng et al; Optical: NASA/STScI

This mini-workshop intends to bring together Heidelberg astronomers working on different aspects of galaxy clusters. The workshop is open for everyone interested!

Final Program:
( → with Abstracts   )

9:30
Welcome address

9:40
Kris Blindert
Mass and light in galaxy clusters from the red-sequence cluster survey (RCS)

10:10
Matthias Bartelmann
Magnetic fields and radio emission in clusters

— 10:40 Coffee break —

11:00
Robert Schmidt
X-ray observations of galaxy clusters

11:30
Wilfried Domainko
H.E.S.S. observations of galaxy clusters at very-high energy gamma rays

12:00
Giulia Vannoni
Acceleration of UHE Protons at Cluster Accretion Shocks and Related Non-thermal Emission

— 12:30 Lunch break —

14:20
Björn Schäfer
Spherical collapse and cluster abundance in modified gravity

14:50
Jochen Heidt & André Germeroth
Cluster environment of QSOs

— 15:20 Coffee break —

15:40
Thorsten Lisker
What dwarf galaxies can tell us about galaxy cluster evolution

16:10
Hans Hippelein
HIROCS – The Heidelberg InfraRed/Optical Cluster Survey

16:40
Joint discussion

— 17:30 End —

SLOC:
Thorsten Lisker, Wilfried Domainko, Robert Schmidt