Thesis Topics (BSc & MSc)
Write your BSc or MSc thesis at USM! Here you find all the available thesis topics sorted by the chairs or research groups offering them.
Research Groups / Chairs that offer BSc- or MSc-Theses:
What does the ACAI-Research Group do?
In order to create a statistical model that integrates all the signatures of cosmic structure available to us, Prof. Daniel Grün and his group are developing and reusing the latest approaches to analyzing and interpreting cosmological data, including innovative machine learning techniques as well as sophisticated theoretical techniques to gain insights into cosmic structure formation
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What does the PhysCos group do?
The group's main research interest is in confronting modern cosmological theories with observations. Here they have in particular a strong research program in exploiting galaxy clusters and cosmic voids, but also in more general probes of the large-scale structure and the cosmic microwave back ground.
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What does CAST do?
Scientists of the Computational Astrophysics (CAST)-Group, led by Professor Andreas Burkert, are developing state-of-the-art simulations of cosmological and astrophysical phenomena. The focus especially lies on the interplay between the condensation of molecular clouds into stars and associated feedback processes, the link between formation and evolution of AGN and galaxy evolution and their imprint on the intergalactic medium (IGM) or inter cluster medium (ICM).
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What does the group do?
At the Chair for Cosmology and Structure Formation, Professor Joseph Mohr and his team are addressing questions about the origins of cosmic structures, the nature of dark matter and the causes of the cosmic acceleration using studies of cosmic structures, including the Universe’s most massive objects – galaxy clusters – as well as the large scale structure and populations of galaxies and AGN. Professor Mohr and his team employ data across the electromagnetic spectrum together with weak gravitational lensing and numerical simulations to fully understand and use these structures for cosmological analyses.
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What does the ExGal-Group do?
Our group investigates the structure and evolution of galaxies and their distribution in space and time. We employ imaging and spectroscopy at optical and infrared wavelengths to study their stellar populations, their internal dynamics, and mass distributions. We also use the gravitational lens effect to analyse the nature of Dark Matter in and around galaxies and galaxy clusters. The large-scale distribution of galaxies and gravitational lensing also provide direct insight into the properties of Dark Energy. In the nearby universe, we search for extrasolar planets and explore their properties with transits and radial velocities.
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What does the group do?
Professor Birnstiel and his group work towards understanding the processes involved in the formation of planets. The group uses mainly computational tools to model and simulate the structure and evolution of circumstellar disks and the growth processes that lead from sub-micrometer sized dust particles all the way to terrestrial planets or giant planets.
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What does the group do?
The research group focuses on star and planet formation, two fundamental processes in astrophysics which are coupled to each other by the so-called protoplanetary disc.
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What does the group do?
Professor Kevin Heng and his newly arrived chair work on the signatures that different processes of planet evolution - in particular, the existence of life - leave in planetary atmospheres. In addition, they develop innovative statistical and machine learning techniques to detect those signatures in observational data.
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What does the group do?
The Young Stars & Star Formation group at the Universitäts-Sternwarte München (USM) is lead by Prof. Dr. Thomas Preibisch. The group performs, analyzes, and interprets observations of individual young stars and whole star forming regions at optical, infrared, X-ray, and sub-mm wavelengths.
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