Teaching
I supervise the Advanced Lab Course for physics at the University of Heidelberg.
Below you find some of my lectures.
2026
SS 2026: Schlüsselexperimente der Teilchenphysik (PSem)
Website of the seminarSS 2026: AI-assisted Python Coding
Website of the lecture
2025
WS 2025/26: Machine Learning and Algorithms in Experimental Particle Physics (MVSem)
Website of the seminarSS 2025: Schlüsselexperimente der Teilchenphysik (PSem)
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2024
WS 2024/25: Schlüsselexperimente der Teilchenphysik (PSem)
Website of the seminarLecture at the HASCO summer school:
Heavy-Ion Physics (pdf)SS 2024: Schlüsselexperimente der Teilchenphysik (PSem)
Website of the seminarSS 2024: Introduction to the Julia programming language
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2023
WS 2023/24: Statistical Methods in Particle Physics
WebsiteSS 2023: Modern Aspects of Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics
Website of the lectureStudierendentage 2023:
Introduction to Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Physics
2022
- Studierendentage 2022:
Introduction to Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Physics
2021
WS 2021/22: Statistical Methods in Particle Physics
WebsiteSS 2021: Seminar on Advanced Analysis Methods for Heavy-Ion Data
Introduction to Machine Learning in Physics:Studierendentage 2021:
Introduction to Data Analysis and Machine Learning in Physics
2020
WS 2020/21: Statistical Methods in Particle Physics
WebsiteLecture notes:
2019
SS 2019: Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics
WebsiteSS 2019: Seminar on Advanced Analysis Methods for Heavy-Ion Data
Introduction: Multivariate Analysis and Machine Learning (pdf)WS 2019/20: Seminar on Advanced Analysis Methods for Heavy-Ion Data
Introduction to symbolic regression (pdf)
2017
WS 2017/18: Statistical Methods in Particle Physics
WebsiteLecture notes:
SS 2017: Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics
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2016
Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion Physics: A Brief Introduction
Three lectures given at the Arbeitstreffen Kernphysik, Schleching, February 2016
PDFOutline:
- Introduction: motivation and history
- Thermodynamics of the QGP
- Global properties of heavy-ion collisions
- Strangeness and the statistical model
- Space-time evolution of the QGP
- Jet quenching
- J/ψ and quarkonia
- Thermal photons and lepton pairs
2015
WS 2015/16: Seminar: Nobel Prizes in Particle Physics
WebsiteSS 2015: Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics – from fixed target to LHC
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2014
- SS 2014: Journal Club: Ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the physics of the quark-gluon plasma
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2013
- SS 2013: Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics – from fixed target to LHC
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2012
Direct Photons in p+p and A+A Collisions: A Short Introduction
Two lectures for the Helmholtz Research School – Quark Matter Studies, April 2012
2011
WS 2011/12: Advanced Topics in Particle Physics: Physics at the LHC
(with R. Stamen and J. van Tilburg)
WebsiteSS 2011: Quark-Gluon Plasma Physics – from fixed target to LHC
(with J. Stachel)
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2010
Data Analysis Methods
Helmholtz Research School – Quark Matter Studies, November 2010
H-QM website- Part 1: Invariant mass analyses
PDF - Part 2: Statistics
PDF - Hands-on exercises (tgz)
- Part 1: Invariant mass analyses
First p+p Results from ALICE
Graduate Days of the Graduate School of Fundamental Physics, Heidelberg, October 2010
PDFQGP and High-pT Physics
Helmholtz Graduate School Winter School Obergurgl 2010
2009
Probing the High Energy Frontier at the LHC
(with U. Husemann and U. Uwer)
WebsiteHigh-Energy Collisions with ALICE at the LHC
Graduate Days of the Graduate School of Fundamental Physics, Heidelberg, October 2009