The Speaker Karsten Danzmann and the Deputy Speaker Bernard Schutz of the IMPRS on Gravitational Wave Astronomy (IMORS-GW) ( 2006-2023) created “IMPRS Lecture Weeks”, introduced in 2008. This started as a week of block lectures in general relativity, data analysis or numerical relativity (alternating), and experimental gravitational wave physics (with changing topics), taking place in a seminar hotel in the surroundings of Hannover or Berlin.

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2008

Lecture Week - The Beginning -

November 2 - 7, 2010
Location:
Landhotel Potsdam, Relnert,ergstraße 33 14476 Potsdam

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2009

Lecture Week

August 23 - 28, 2009
Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
Program

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2010

From 2010 on we extended this concept to three lecture weeks per year.

Lecture Week 1

February 28 - March 5, 2010
Location:
Bildungszentrum Erkner, Seestraße 39, 15537 Erkner

Lecture Week 2

May 30 - June 4, 2010
Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
Program

Lecture Week 3

February 13 - 18, 2011
Location:
Hotel Residenz am Motzener See, Töpchiner Straße 4, 15749 Mittenwalde OT Motzen
Program

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2011

Lecture Week 1

March 6 - 11, 2011
Location:
Dämeritz Seehotel, Kanalstraße 31, 12589 Berlin
Program

Lecture Week 2

July 19 - 24, 2011
Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
Program

Lecture Week 3

October 30 - November 4, 2011
Location:
Hotel Iberostar Royal Cristina,Carrer de Bartomeu Xamena, s/n, Platja de Palma, 07610 Playa de Palma, Illes Balears, Spanien
Program

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2012

Lecture Week 1

March 4-9, 2012
Location:
Hotel Residenz am Motzener See, Töpchiner Str. 4, 15749 Mittenwalde
Program

Lecture Week 2

July 17 - 22, 2012
Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
Program

Lecture Week 3

October 28 - November 2, 2012
Location:
Hotel Iberostar Royal Cristina,Carrer de Bartomeu Xamena, s/n, Platja de Palma, 07610 Playa de Palma, Illes Balears, Spanien
Program

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2013

Lecture Week 1

March 3-8, 2013
Location:
Landhotel Burg im Spreewald, Ringchaussee 125, 03096 Burg (Spreewald)
Program

Lecture Week 2

June 16 - 21, 2013
Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
Program

Lecture Week 3

October 6 - 11, 2013
Location:
Iberostar Playa de Muro, Av. de s'Albufera, 8, 07458 Playa de Muro, Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spanien
Program

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2014

Lecture Week 1

March 2-7, 2014
Location:
Iberotel Fleesensee, Seeblick 30 17213 Göhren-Lebbin
Program

Lecture Week 2

June 29 - July 4, 2014
Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge
Program

Lecture Week 3

October 5 - 10, 2014
Location:
Iberostar Playa de Muro, Av. de s'Albufera, 8, 07458 Playa de Muro, Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spanien
Program

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2015

From the Lecture Week 3 of this year, the IMPRS-GW Lecture Weeks are joined by the geo-Q (2014-2019) Research Training Group.

Lecture Week 1

March 8-13, 2015
Location:
Hotel Esplanade, Seestraße 49, 15526 Bad Saarow
Program

Lecture Week 2

June 7 - 12, 2015
Location:
Crieff Hydro Hotel, strathearn house, Ferntower Rd, Crieff PH7 3LQ, Vereinigtes Königreich
Program

Lecture Week 3 - Project Week -

Joint with University of Balearic Island

September 20-25, 2015
Location:
Mallorca, Spain
Overview

2015 Lecture Notes

2015

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2016

Lecture Week 1

Joint Lecture week between geo-Q RTG and IMPRS-GW

March 6-11, 2016
Location:
Motzener See\\, Motzen, Germany
Programme for IMPRS
Programme for geo-Q RTG

Lecture Week 2

For geo-Q RTG Students

June 19-24, 2016
Location:
Strandhotel in Mardorf, Germany
Schedule
Overview

Lecture Week 3 - Project Week -

Joint Lecture week between geo-Q RTG, IMPRS-GW and University of Balearic Island

September 25-30, 2016
Location:
Mallorca, Spain
Schedule for all participants
Programme for IMPRS Students
Programme for geo-Q Students

2016 Lecture Notes

2016

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2017

Lecture Week 1

Joint Lecture week between geo-Q RTG and IMPRS-GW

April 18-22, 2017
Location:
Harnack-Haus Tagungsstätte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Potsdam, Germany
Overview for all participants
Lecture list for geo-Q students

Lecture Week 2

Joint with geo-Q, IMPRS-GW and IMPP with University of Glasgow

June 11-16, 2017
Location:
Edinburgh, UK
Overview and Schedule

Lecture Week 3 - Project Week -

Joint with IMPRS-GW, geo-Q RTG and University of Balearic Island

September 17-22, 2017
Location:
Mallorca, Spain
Overview and Schedule

2017 Lecture Notes

2017

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2018

Lecture Week 1

Joint Lecture week between geo-Q RTG and IMPRS-GW

March 11-16, 2018
Location:
Fintel, Germany
Overview for geo-Q students
Overview for IMPRS-GW students

Lecture Week 2

Joint with geo-Q and IMPRS-GW

July 1-6, 2018
Location:
Mardorf, Germany
Overview and Schedule

Lecture Week 3 - Project Week -

Joint with IMPRS-GW, geo-Q RTG and University of Balearic Island

September 17-22, 2018
Location:
Mallorca, Spain
Overview and Schedule

2018 Lecture Notes

2018
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2019

The QuantumFrontiers International Research School joined the Lecture Week effort.

Lecture Week 1

Joint with QFIRS, geo-Q RTG, RTG Models of Gravity and IMPRS-GW

March 3-8, 2019
Location:
Fintel, Germany
Timetable and Lecture list

Lecture Week 2

Joint with QFIRS, geo-Q RTG and IMPRS-GW

July 14-19, 2019
Location:
Mardorf, Germany
Timetable and Lecture list

Lecture Week 3

Joint with QFIRS, IMPRS-GW and University of Balearic Island

September 15-20, 2019
Location:
Mallorca, Spain
Time table and Lecture list

2019 Lecture Notes

2019

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2020

All lecture weeks were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation.

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2021

The joint Lecture Week of QuantumFrontiers and IMPRS-GW was joined by TerraQ Research Training School.

Lecture Week 1

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG and IMPRS-GW

April 12-22, 2021 excluding Saturday and Sunday
Location:
Online (zoom)
Time table and lecture list

Lecture Week 2

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG and IMPRS-GW

October 4-8, 2021
Location:
AEI seminar room 103
Address: Callinstr.38, 30167 Hannover
For Friday lecture at 10:00, seminar room 309
Address: Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover
Time table and Lecture list

2021 Lecture Notes

2021

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2022

Lecture Week 1

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG, IMPRS-GW and Models of Gravity

May 8-13, 2022
Location:
Fintel, Germany
All participants should make an Elevator Pitch during the presentation hours.
One person has 3 minutes of time to talk about their research topics in a way understandable for audience with various scientific backgrounds.
We will keep the time and inform you when the 3 minutes is over.
Time table

Registration Closed on March 20, 2022

Lecture Notes

LW1_2022

Lecture Week 2

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG, IMPRS-GW

August 7-12, 2022
Location:
Soderstorf
Hof Thansen 2
21388 Soderstorf

Travel Information

There is a bus from Hannover central station to the hotel on August 7th, at 16:00.

On August 12th after the lectures, participants will travel to ALPS DESY for a guided laboratory tour and study more about particles shining through a wall introduced at the LW1. Participants will take a bus from the hotel to ALPS DESY starting from the hotel at 13:00.

On August 12th, participants will take public transportation from ALPS DESY back. For those coming back to Hannover Hbf or via Hannover Hbf, there will be a group train ticket.

Details are shown on the Lecture Overview and Schedule.

We expect a very large number of registered people due to the lack of in-person Lecture Weeks in the past years. We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures. Therefore we will limit the number of participants to 30 for LW2.

Registration
Registration closed on May 30, 2022.

Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes will be collected and uploaded here.
The folder is password protected. The password will be given to participants at the lecture week.

Lecture Week 3

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG, IMPRS-GW and Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn

November 19th -24th, 2022

Location:
Hotel Haus Oberwinter (Am Unkelstein 1A, 53424 Remagen)
and Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (Auf dem Hügel 69 D-53121 Bonn-Endenich)

Programme
This is a Project week. Groups of ECRs will work to create a project and present it at the end of the week. Details will be announced on the first day of the project week.

A visit to 100m Telescope is planed on November 19th.

For overview of lectures and travel information.

Number of Participants
Number of participants is limited to 23, excluding lecturers and organisers.

We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures. Therefore we will limit the number of participants to 35 ( of which 23 from Hannover and 12 from Bonn) for LW3.

Registration
Number of participants is limited to maximum 23.
Please refer to an email with a subject „Lecture Week 3 registration“ sent by Fumiko Kawazoe on August 17th, 2022.
Please register by the end of August 31, 2022.
Registration closed on September 1st, 2022.

2022 Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes will be collected and uploaded here.
The folder is password protected. The password will be given to participants at the lecture week.

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2023

Lecture Week 1

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG, IMPRS-GW and Joint week with ALPS DESY in Hamburg

March 26 - 31, 2023

Location:
Eurostrand, Bruchweg 11, 27389 Fintel

Programme
Two lectures on ALPS DESY will be given and 13 lectures from Hannover team will be given.
Laboratory visit is planned.
Program here.

Participants must fill in their travel forms at their institutes.

Number of Participants
Number of participants should be around 30.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
Please register here by February 13th, 2023.

Lecture Week 2

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG, IMPRS-GW

June 18 - 23, 2023

Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge

Programme

Click here to see our schedule.

Participants must fill in their travel forms at their institutes.
Please make a copy electronically and send it to: the QF Study Officer and TerraQ RTG PI.

Number of Participants
Number of participants should be around 30.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
Please register here by no later than June 2nd, 2023.

Lecture Week 3

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG, IMPRS-GW and Vigo University in Spain

October 1 - 6, 2023

Location:
Parador de Santo Estevo 32162 Provincia de Orense Nogueira de Ramuín, Spain

Programme

Preliminary Program available here.

Participants must fill in their travel forms at their institutes.

Number of Participants
Number of participants is limited to 30.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
Registration is now closed due to the number of registrations exceeding the maximum number of participants.

2023 Lecture Notes

Lecture Notes from 2023 Lecture Weeks here.
The folder is password protected. The password will be given to participants at the lecture week.

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2024

Although the IMPRS-GW concluded on December 31, 2023, the first Lecture Week of this year was still organized under its framework.

Lecture Week 1

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG

July 22 - 26, 2024

Location:
Strandhotel Weißer Berg, Kiefernweg 20, 31535 Neustadt am Rübenberge

Time table
The time table is here.

Number of Participants
The maximum number of participants is around 30.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
The link to register is distributed by Fumiko Kawazoe via email.

General Information
Participants must fill in their travel forms at their institutes.
Depending on hotel occupancy, participants should share accommodation with other attendees.

Lecture Week 2

The lecture week initiative continues with support from alternative funding sources in collaboration with TerraQ and QFIRS.

Joint with Maastricht University, Aachen University, QFIRS and TerraQ RTG

September 16-20, 2024

Location:
Dormio Resort Eifeler Tor Heimbach, Germany

Time table
Here is our time table.

Number of Participants
The maximum number of participants is 10 from our groups.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1430261/registrations/106950/

Registration fee
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1430261/page/34930-payment

Accomodation
Participants will stay in a large house with the option of a single or double room. Housemates will prepare breakfast together and a minivan will be available for trips to the nearest village for groceries.

General Information
Participants must fill in their travel forms at their institutes.
Depending on hotel occupancy, participants should share accommodation with other attendees.

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After each Lecture Week, lecture slides and notes will be available here in a password-protected area.

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2025

Winter Lecture Week

Joint with QFIRS, TerraQ RTG and GFZ Potsdam

February 10 - 14, 2025

Lecture Week Venue:
Seminar rooms 1-3 in Haus H in Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam - Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam

You can find the campus map here.

Accommodation:
A hotel room at the Mercure Hotel Potsdam City will be reserved for participants who register by November 30, 2024.
Address: Lange Brücke, 14467 Potsdam

Travel Information:
Participants should prepare their travels.

Schedule
Here is a program and a schedule. Please note that it is still tentative and subject to minor changes.

Number of Participants
The maximum number of participants is 25.
We want to ensure a high level of interaction during lectures.

Registration
The link to register is distributed by Fumiko Kawazoe via email.

General Information
Participants should request their business travel at their institute and have it accepted before the event.

Contact: Fumiko Kawazoe