We meet every Monday at 1.30pm to discuss the new developments in the fields of research relevant for GRAPPA members and affiliates. The idea is to discuss briefly, with the help of a projector, the results of ~5 interesting papers recently appeared on the arXiv, or anywhere else. Please choose one posted e.g. this week in your field and tell us about it in 5-10 minutes. Feel free to join us even if you haven't read anything.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Monday, October 1st

Today we will meet the new postdocs and students, and hear what they are working on.

We will also discuss Jet Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in 
M87, perhaps our astro friends have comments?


Monday, September 24, 2012

Monday, September 24


Monday, September 17, 2012

Monday, September 17


  • Gf will give an overview of IDM 2012 and discuss the plans for IDM 2014
  • Ben will tell us about "Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?" by Polchinski et al http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.3123
  • Maria will tell us about "Nuclear uncertainties in the spin-dependent structure functions for direct dark matter detection" by Cerdeno et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6426

Monday, September 3, 2012

Monday, April 23, 2012

Monday, April 23

1. No Dark Matter in the solar neighborhood?

http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1217/eso1217.pdf

From last week:

  1. arXiv:1204.0626: "Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrino Disappearance in the RENO Experiment", RENO collaboration. 
  2. arXiv:1204.1923: "Mantle geoneutrinos in KamLAND and Borexino", G. Fiorentini, G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, F. Mantovani, A. M. Rotunno. 

Monday, April 16, 2012

Monday, April 16, 2012


  1. arXiv:1204.0626: "Observation of Reactor Electron Antineutrino Disappearance in the RENO Experiment", RENO collaboration. 
  2. arXiv:1204.1923: "Mantle geoneutrinos in KamLAND and Borexino", G. Fiorentini, G. L. Fogli, E. Lisi, F. Mantovani, A. M. Rotunno. 

Monday, April 2, 2012

Monday, April 2

Dark Matter Direct Search Rates in Simulations of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Stream
Chris W. Purcell, Andrew R. Zentner, Mei-Yu Wang