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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:
- Nadine Neumayer (neumayer@mpia.de)
- Guillaume Guiglion (guiglion@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, (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.
2026
| Date | Slot | Who | What |
| 29th January | 1 | Laurane Frèor (Uni. Vienna) | Robust ellipticity measurements of 29 Galactic globular clusters |
| C: Meng Zhang | 2 | Na’ama Hallakoun (Weizmann Institute of Science) | IK Pegasi and the double-merger path to type Ia supernovae |
| 5th February | 1 | Giulia Pagnini (Obs Strasbourg) | The ecosystem of a stripped nuclear star cluster: a chemo-dynamical analysis of ω Cen |
| C: Nadine Neumayer | 2 | Arn Marklund (Obs Strasbourg) | From pixels to dynamics: Using deep learning to infer extragalactic globular cluster properties |
| 12th February | 1 | Barak Zackay (Weizmann Institute of Science) | The use of gravitational-wave search technology to search for GRBs. Thousands of new detections! |
| C: Marco Troncoso | 2 | Natsuko Yamaguchi (Caltech) | Population demographics of post-interaction WDMS binaries |
| 19th February | 1 | Evgeniya Egorova (ZAH) | Chemodynamic evidence of pristine gas accretion in the void galaxy VGS 12 |
| C: Akanksha Kapahtia | 2 | Kathryn Kreckel (ARI/ZAH, MPIA) | What, and where, is the "Galactic Center" Lobe? |
| 26th February | 1 | Rebecca Davies (Swinburne University) | A recipe to form massive quiescent galaxies in the early Universe |
| C: Dimitris Chatzigiannakis | 2 | Paul Schechter (MIT) | The Non-Simultaneous Flashes of Quadruply Lensed Supernovae: Dis-covery, Pre-covery & Re-covery |
| 5th March | 1 | Alexis Quintana (Paris Observatory) | The structure and star formation history of the local Milky Way revealed by its OB populations |
| C: Dimitris Chatzigiannakis | 2 | Silvia Belladitta (MPIA) | A blazar at z=7: Probing extreme SMBH growth and Jets Physics in the Epoch of Reionization |
| 12th March | 1 | Ignacio Trujillo (IAC Tenerife) | Ultra-Deep Astronomical Imaging to Probe Dark Matter Properties |
| C: Francesco Chiti Tegli | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 19th March | 1 | Letizia Bugiani (Uni. Bologna) | TBD |
| C: Silvia Belladitta | 2 | Goraksh Kolge (MPIA) | The cross-correlation between reionization and galaxies |
| 26th March | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Fachbeirat |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Visiting Committee |
| 2nd April | 1 | Amedeo Romagnolo | TBD |
| C: Fernando Hidalgo Pineda | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 9th April | 1 | Chris Byrohl | TBD |
| C: Annalisa Pillepich | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 16th April | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C:Se Yeon Hwang | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 23rd April | 1 | Takumi Tanaka (IPMU Tokyo) | TBD |
| C: Joey Braspenning | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 30th April | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | GC retreat |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | GC retreat |
| 7th May | 1 | Talia O’Shea (UW-Madison) | TBD |
| C: Joshua Jost | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 14th May | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Christi Himmelfahrt |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Public Holiday |
| 21th May | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Callie Clontz | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 28th May | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Taavet Kalda | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 4th June | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Fronleichnam |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Fronleichnam |
| 11th June | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Jakob den Brok | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 18th June | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Johanna Müller-Horn | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 26th June | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Caitlin Doughty | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 2nd July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Ben Pennell | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 9th July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Antoine Dumont | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 16th July | 1 | Yen-Ting Ling (ASIAA) | TBD |
| C: Anirudh Ravishankar | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 23th July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: Philip Eitner | 2 | TBD | TBD |