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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

2024

Date Slot Who What
11th July 1 Ling Zhu (Shanghai) The diverse origins of dynamical hot bulge
C: G. Guiglion 2 Zhang-Liang Xie Quasars on amplifier: Do radio-loud quasars grow faster?
18th July 1 Jing Li Discovery of ∼2200 new supernova remnants in 19 nearby star-forming galaxies with MUSE spectroscope
C: Diego Sotillo Ramos 2 Maike Clausen Size evolution of massive quiescent galaxies with HST and JWST
25th July 1 Stefano Souza Tracing the Galactic bulge history using globular clusters
C: M. Green 2 Xiaoying Pang (Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University) Rotation of Star Clusters: From N-body Simulations to Observations.
1st August 1 Nadiia Kallweit-Pulatova TBD
C: Nico Winkel 2 Benedetta Spina (ITP Heidelberg) Damping wings in the Lyman-alpha forest: a model-independent measurement of the neutral fraction at 5.4<z<6.1
8th August 1 TBD TBD
C: Stephen Hannon 2 TBD TBD
15th August 1 TBD TBD
C: Zhang-Liang Xie 2 TBD TBD
22nd August 1 Ting Li "Probing the Nature of the Faintest and Smallest Milky Way Satellites: Dwarf Galaxies or Star Clusters?"
C: Sara Jamal 2 Matthew Green The hunt for short-period black hole companions to Sun-like stars
29th August 1 special Galaxy Coffee talks by MPIA summer students
C: TBD 2 special Galaxy Coffee talks by MPIA summer students
5th September 1 Bartosz Capecki (ITP) "Searching for analogs of the first quasars"
C: Fabian Walter 2 TBD TBD
12th September 1 TBD TBD
C: Albrecht Kamlah 2 TBD TBD
19th September 1 TBD TBD
C: Ruoyi Zhang 2 TBD TBD
26th September 1 Rajsekhar Mohapatra The importance of resolving type Ia supernovae in simulating massive ellipticals
C: Ryan Keenan 2 TBD TBD
3rd October 1 No Galaxy Coffee public holiday
C: TBD 2 No Galaxy Coffee public holiday
10th October 1 Ander Artola (ITP) "Signatures of warm dark matter in the cosmological density fields extracted using Machine Learning"
C: Xiangyu Zhang 2 Hiroya Umeda (The University of Tokyo) TBD
17th October 1 TBD TBD
C: Yana Khusanova 2 TBD TBD
24th October 1 TBD TBD
C: Nils Hoyer 2 TBD TBD
31st October 1 No Galaxy Coffee Betriebsausflug
C: TBD 2 No Galaxy Coffee Institute outing
7th November 1 TBD TBD
C: Jonas Klevas 2 TBD TBD
14th November 1 TBD TBD
C: Taavet Kalda 2 TBD TBD
21st November 1 Francesco Ubertosi (University of Bologna) TBD
C: Eduardo Banados 2 TBD TBD
28th November 1 TBD TBD
C: Timea Kovacs 2 TBD TBD
5th December 1 TBD TBD
C: Markus Kuhlberg 2 TBD TBD
12th December 1 TBD TBD
C: Katherine Lee 2 TBD TBD
19th December 1 TBD TBD
C: Cormac Larkin 2 TBD TBD
26th December 1 No Galaxy Coffee public holiday
C: TBD 2 No Galaxy Coffee public holiday

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