Speaker
Gisela Anton
(FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Description
Astronomy is normally done with light. We detect the light from distant objects in our telescope and start to think about its origin. What are the objects which emit this light and how can they do this? We can go a step further and ask what other kind of information from such objects can reach us at Earth. Neutrinos are an example of such another kind of messenger. I will introduce the research which is addressed with neutrino telescopes and I will present the IceCube detector, which is the largest neutrino telescope at Earth involving great technological challenges at an extreme site.
