PD Dr. Dieter Schmitt

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Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung · Max-Planck-Straße 2 · 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau · Germany
Phone: +49-(0)5556-979-431 · Fax: +49-(0)5556-979-190
Email: schmitt@mps.mpg.de

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Home: Hellerbreite 3 · 37120 Bovenden · Germany · Phone: +49-(0)5594-8558

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Coordinator of
International Max Planck Research School
on Physical Processes in the Solar System and Beyond
at the Universities of Braunschweig and Göttingen

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Curriculum vitae (English, German)

Research interests: Theoretical solar and plasma physics

• Solar dynamo
• Galactic dynamo
• Earth dynamo
• Theory of alpha-effect
• Prominences
• MHD stability
• Further research interests (see also supervision of diploma and PhD theses)
• Penumbra · Evershed-effect · Superpenumbra
• Solar oscillations · Helioseismology · Sunspot seismology
• Solar-stellar relations · Solar-terrestrial relations

Publications

Teaching

• University of Göttingen
• International Max Planck Research School
• XLAB Göttingen

Lecture notes

• Helioseismology and Internal Rotation, IMPRS, February 2002
  PDF online version (3.8MB), PDF print version (3.6MB)
• Why does the magnetic field of the Earth reverse?, IMPRS, June 2002
  PDF online version (4.3MB), PDF print version (4.2MB)
  
• Magnetohydrodynamics, IMPRS, June 2002
  PDF online version (0.6MB), PDF print version (0.5MB)
• The Solar Dynamo, IMPRS, March 2003
  PDF online version (11MB), PDF print version (11MB)
• Geomagnetic Dynamo Theory, ISSS, L'Aquila, April 2008
  PDF (6.5 MB)
• Extrasolare Planeten, Universität Göttingen, May 2008
  PDF (2.1 MB)
• Introduction to Hydromagnetic Dynamo Theory with Applications to the Sun and the Earth, IMPRS, June 2008
  PDF (12 MB)

Some talks

• Magnetic field reversals and secular variation in a bistable geodynamo model,
  Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, September 2003
  PDF (4.4MB)
• The Solar Dynamo, Dipartimento de Scienze Fisiche,
  Università di Napoli "Federico II", October 2003
  PDF (5.7MB)
• Stochastic resonance in a bistable geodynamo model, Freiburg, October 2004
  PDF (2.5MB)
• Origin of solar magnetic variability, Monte Porzio Catone, June 2005
  PDF (two slides per page, 0.9MB)
• Klimaveränderung - Treibhauseffekt oder Sonnenaktivität?, Hannover, November 2005
  PDF (two slides per page, 3.9MB)
• Der Sternhimmel im Frühling, Göttingen, Januar 2006
  PDF (two slides per page, 0.7MB)
• Das Magnetfeld der Sonne, Ilmenau, June 2007
  PDF (six slides per page, 2.9MB)
• Der Sternhimmel im Sommer, Seesen, Lindau, Göttingen, July 2008
  PDF (3.8MB)
• Dynamo acrion in an ambient field, Stara Lesna, September 2009
  PDF (3.1MB)

Personal

Links

• IMPRS Solar System Physics
• MHD group in Lindau
• MHD-Day 1999
• Göttingen: Sternwarte, Geophysik, Physik, SUB, Universität, GWDG
• AG, IAU, ESO, Copernicus Gesellschaft / EGS
• ADS, CDS, A&A, ApJ, MNRAS
• AltaVista, Google
• www.stromboli.net
• Goldschmiedeatelier Claudia Schmitt