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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)
- Mariia Demianenko (demianenko@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 |
| 1st September | 1 | Yana Khusanova | The [CII] and FIR properties of z > 6 radio-loud quasars |
| C: Gregor Seidel | 2 | Eduardo Banados | The highest redshift blazar |
| 8th September | 1 | Verena Fürnkranz | The orbit-space clustering of stars in the Milky Way disk |
| C: Matthew Smith | 2 | Rebecca Levy (U. of Arizona) | The Morpho-kinematic Architecture of Super Star Clusters in the Center of NGC253 |
| 15th September | 1 | Xander Byrne | Searching for high-redshift lensed quasars with unsupervised machine learning |
| C: Maria Bergemann | 2 | Himanshu Verma (IIT Bombay) | Astrometric Microlensing of Primordial Black Holes with Gaia |
| 22nd September | 1 | Siwei Zou | The CGM observation in the all-sky survey and JWST era |
| C: G. Mattia
in the HdA auditorium | 2 | Hans-Walter Rix | After Summer logistics/planning all-hand group meeting |
| 29th September | 1 | Oliver Völkel | New developments for the virtual conferencing & networking tool sci-an |
| C: N. Truong | 2 | Eric Rohr | First steps towards jellyfish galaxies as probes of the cosmic gas |
| 6th October | 1 | Uddipan Banik (Yale) | TBD |
| C: M. Demianenko | 2 | Haowen Zhang | TBD |
| 13th October | 1 | Folkert Nobels (Leiden) | TBD |
| C: J. Wojno | 2 | Romain Meyer | A ~200 pc view of z>6.5 quasar host galaxies |
| 20th October | 1 | Annalisa Pillepich | Computing resources of MPIA - in house and at MPCDF |
| C: M.S. Nitschai | 2 | Julien Wolf | TBD |
| 27th October | 1 | Carl Ferkinhoff (Winona State U.) | TBD |
| C: E. Zari | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 3rd November | 1 | Melanie Kaasinen | To see or not to see a high-z galaxy. That is the question. |
| C: S. Rojas | 2 | Thomas Jackson | Tuparev AstroTech - Software, Space Junk and Robotic Observatories |
| 10th November | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: René Andrae | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 17th November | 1 | Kerry Paterson | TBD |
| C: Frederick Davies | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 24th November | 1 | Richard de Grijs (Macquarie) | Triggering of chromospheric activity in late-type stars |
| C: Yash Mohan Sharma | 2 | Sebastian Heinz (University of Wisconsin–Madison) | TBD |
| 1st December | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Leindert Boogaard | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 8th December | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Irina Smirnova-Pinchukova | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 15th December | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Sarah Bosman | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 22nd December | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Happy Holidays |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Happy Holidays |