Till Kranz

I'm a postdoc of Prof. Dr. Annette Zippelius in the Statistical Physics and Complex Systems Group

Research Interests

• Granular Gases both dilute and dense
• Mode Coupling Theory
• (Classical) Many Particle Physics

CV

2000

Abitur (grade 1.3) (high school degree) from CJD Braunschweig

2000-2003

Study of Physics at University of Augsburg

2002

Vordiplom

2003-2006

Study of Physics (continued) at University of Göttingen

2006

Diplom (grade 1.0) Thesis: Kinetik Granularer Gase

2006-2011

Working towards a PhD

8/2008

Guest of Dr. M. Sperl at the Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum , DLR

2011

PhD (summa cum laude) Thesis: Dense Granular Fluids and the Granular Glass Transition

Publications

1. Kranz, W. T., M. Sperl and A. Zippelius, Glass Transition for Driven Granular Fluids,
   PRL 104, 225701 (2010); arXiv:1002.2150
2. Kranz, W. T., N. V. Brilliantov, Th. Pöschel and A. Zippelius, Correlation of spin and velocity in the homogeneous cooling state of a granular gas of rough particles,
   EPJ ST 179, 91 (2009); arXiv:0808.1952
3. Uecker, H., W. T. Kranz, T. Aspelmeier and A. Zippelius, Partitioning of Energy in Highly Polydisperse Granular Gases,
   PRE 80, 041303 (2009); arXiv:0906.0482
4. Brilliantov, N. V., Th. Pöschel, W. T. Kranz and A. Zippelius, Translations and rotations are correlated in granular gases,
   PRL 98, 28001 (2007); arXiv:cond-mat/0609213

Teaching

WiSe 2006/07

TA Theoretical Mechanics

Spring Break 07

TA Computer based Numerics

SoSe 2007

TA Introduction to Programming in the Natural Sciences

SoSe 2008

Main Assistant: Multidimensional Analysis for Physicists

Talks, Conferences, Workshops, ...

1. DPG Tagung Dresden 2011
   Talk: Tagged Particle Dynamics Close to the Glass Transition of a Driven Dissipative System
2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Göttingen 2011
   Talk: Driven Granular Fluids, Mode Coupling Theory & The Glass Transition
3. DPG Tagung Regensburg 2010
   Talk: Glass-Transition for Dissipative Systems under Driving
4. Dynamics Days Europe 2009, Göttingen
   Poster: Mode Coupling Theory for a Driven Granular Fluid
5. MPI Dynamics & Selforganization. Göttingen 2009
   Talk: Driven Granular Fluids, Mode Coupling Theory & The Glass Transition
6. Statistical mechanics of static granular media, Leiden 2009
   Poster: Mode Coupling Theory for a Driven Granular Fluid
7. DPG Tagung Dresden 2009
   Talk: The Velocity Autocorrelation Function of a Driven Granular Fluid
8. Granular Gases 2008, Bayreuth
   Poster: Correlations in Granular Media with Volume Driving
9. Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, DLR Köln 2008
   Talk: Granular Gases: An Overview
10. DPG Tagung Berlin 2008
    Talk: Correlations in Granular Media with Volume Driving
11. Crystallization and Jamming in Soft Matter under Driving - Colloidal Suspensions, Granular Media, Foams, and Complex Plasmas, Leiden 2008
    Poster: Correlations in Granular Media with Volume Driving
12. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Göttingen 2007
    Talk: Correlation of Translation and Rotation in Granular Gases
13. StatPhys 23, Genua 2007
14. Statics and Dynamics of Granular Media and Colloidal Suspensions, Neapel 2007
15. DPG Tagung Regensburg 2007
    Talk: Binary Mixtures of Inelastic Hard Spheres
16. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Göttingen 2006
    Talk: Binary Mixtures of Inelastic Hard Spheres
17. Powders & Grains 2005 Stuttgart