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Galaxy Coffee is the informal seminar of the "Galaxies & Cosmology" Department at the MPIA. It is held each Thursday every week at 11:00 am on the third floor at the MPIA.

Currently, we run Galaxy Coffee in hybrid mode in the auditorium/Hörsaal.

If you would like to participate via zoom, please contact the organisers for the zoom link.

Please contact any of the organizers if you would like to volunteer for the free slots available:

Galaxy Coffee rules:

  • keep the talk brief - as a guideline, focus on one punchline.
  • make sure to introduce the topic for the "general" audience, i.e. students and people not working in the field.
  • we encourage black board presentations, (few) slides are also welcome
  • talk time: 10 - 15 minutes.
  • discussion time: 5 - 10 minutes (during or after the talk).
  • total time per slot must not exceed 25 minutes.
  • including some buffer for announcements and general discussions ('I always wondered if / how / why XYZ works' et al.), total Galaxy Coffee time is ~ 60 minutes.

List of previous talks

2025

Date Slot Who What
17th July 1 Jing-Ze Ma (MPA) The AREPO-Star project: 3D radiation hydrodynamic simulations of massive stars across the HR diagram
C: Maxim Oweyssi 2 Matteo Bugli (IAP) Numerical models of gamma-ray bursts: tackling the scale separation problem
24th July 1 Chuanming Mao TBD
C: Rhys Seeburger 2 Benny Trakhtenbrot TBD
31st July 1 Stefano Torniamenti TBD
C: 2 Ben Lowe (ANU) The rise of the Milky Way Disk through EMP stars
7th August 1 Aleksei Nikonov (MPIFR) Relativistic outflow in the galaxy M87: The first hundred parsecs
C: 2 Guillaume Guiglion (MPIA) Effects of <3D> NLTE on chemical evolution of oxygen
14th August 1 SUMMER BREAK TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
21st August 1 SUMMER BREAK TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
28th August 1 Joyce Glass (MPIA) Unveiling Star Formation at Redshift 1.5 with Paschen-alpha Line Emitters
C: 2 Nicolas Esser (University of Brussels) Constraints on primordial black holes as dark matter candidates in dwarf galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope photometry
4th September 1 Olga Sil'chenko (SAI) Outer gas accretion regimes and the origin of S0 galaxies
C: 2 TBD TBD
11th September 1 Fedor Kolganov (Leipzig University) TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
18th September 1 Catarina Aydar (MPE) TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
25th September 1 No Galaxy Coffee MPIA outing
C: ---- 2 No Galaxy Coffee MPIA Betriebsausflug
2nd October 1 Vasily Beskin (LPI, MIPT) On the angular anisotropy of the distribution function of radiating particles in relativistic jets
C: 2 TBD TBD
9th October 1 Lisa-Marie Zessner TBD
C: 2 Polina Usynina (MPIFR) Searches for signatures of ultra-light axion dark matter in polarimetry data of the EPTA using Bayesian statistics
16th October 1 Lukas Eisert TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
23rd October 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
30th October 1 Eileen Herwig (MPA) TBD
C: 2 Daisaburo Kido TBD

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