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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, under 2G rules*.
Up to 50 people can attend in person. We ask everyone (except the speakers during the talk) to wear a mask.
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:
- Nadine Neumayer (neumayer@mpia.de)
- Romain Meyer (meyer@mpia.de)
- Alina Böcker (boecker@mpia.de)
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, but 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.
2022
| Date | Slot | Who | What |
| 19th Mai | 1 | Silvia Bonoli (DIPC) | The J-PAS survey: looking at the sky in 56 colors |
| C: M. Neeleman | 2 | Jianhui Lian | The Milky Way structure probed by APOGEE survey |
| 26th Mai | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Public Holiday |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Public Holiday |
| 2nd June | 1 | Ling Zhu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory) | Environmental effects on the assembly of dynamically cold disks in Fornax cluster galaxies |
| C: F. Nogueras-Lara | 2 | Francisco Aros (Indiana University) | Revealing the mass-to-light ratio of globular clusters from their kinematics |
| 9th June | 1 | Michael Maseda (U Wisconsin-Madison) | Ubiquitous [OII] emission in z~0.8 quiescent galaxies |
| C: A.Hughes | 2 | Soumavo Gosh | Age dissection of the spiral-driven vertical breathing motions in Milky Way-like galaxies - https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.02343 |
| 16th June | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Public Holiday |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Public Holiday |
| 23rd June | 1 | Bhargav Vaidya (Indian Institute of Technology) | Unravelling the role of shock acceleration in peculiar radio galaxies - https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01347 |
| C: E. Banados | 2 | Adam Leroy (OSU) | Molecular Cloud Populations in the Context of Their Host Galaxy Environments - https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07055 |
| 30th June | 1 | Gregory Green | Deep Potential - recovering the gravitational potential from stellar phase-space measurements |
| C: J. Isbell | 2 | Kareem El-Badry | Binaries galore with Gaia DR3 |
| 7th July | 1 | Thomas Connor (JPL) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Chris Hayward (CCA) | TBD |
| 14th July | 1 | Francesca Fragkoudi | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Michael Backer (UNAM - Namibia) | TBD |
| 21st July | 1 | Olga Borodina | On the Tremaine-Weinberg method: how much can we trust gas tracers to measure pattern speeds? |
| C: | 2 | Hans-Walter Rix | TBD |
| 28th July | 1 | Christopher Clark (STScI) | Dramatic Evolution in the Dusty ISM Across the Local Group |
| C: | 2 | David Hogg | TBD |
| 4th August | 1 | Yana Khusanova | The [CII] and FIR properties of z > 6 radio-loud quasars |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 11th August | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 18th August | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 25th August | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 1st September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 8th September | 1 | Verena Fürnkranz | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 15th September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 22nd September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 29th September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 6th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 13th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 20th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 27th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 3rd November | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 10th November | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 17th November | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 24th November | 1 | Richard de Grijs (Macquarie) | On the cosmological distance scale |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 1st December | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 8th December | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 15th December | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 22nd December | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Happy Holidays |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Happy Holidays |