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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)
- Francesco Chiti Tegli (frchiti@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 |
| 21th May | 1 | Sofia Rojas Ruiz (UCLA) | The Physical Properties of Galaxies in the First 700 Million Years as Revealed by JWST. |
| C: Callie Clontz | 2 | Lachlan Lancaster (Flatiron Institute) | The Effects of Complex HII Region Structure on Nebular Emission. |
| 28th May | 1 | Akanksha Kapahtia (MPIA) | The host halo masses of AGNs before Cosmic Noon, with TNG-Cluster, FLAMINGO and other cosmological scale galaxy formation simulations |
| C: Taavet Kalda | 2 | Ben Pennell (MPIA) | Mass-Dependent Multiplicity Fraction in Low Mass Stars Revealed by Gaia Astrometry |
| 4th June | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Fronleichnam |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Fronleichnam |
| 11th June | 1 | Irene Salmaso (INAF, Naples) | A multimessenger view on interacting supernovae |
| C: TBD | 2 | Oleg Gnedin (U Michigan) | Stellar streams of globular clusters |
| 18th June | 1 | Shengxiu Sun (ITP) | Exploring the properties of quasar host galaxies with spectrophotometric decomposition |
| C: Johanna Müller-Horn | 2 | Kiril Maltsev (MPIA) | Cosmic explosions and black hole formation near Earth during its history |
| 25th June | 1 | Joyce Glass (ANU) | Resolving the conditions of molecular gas in cosmic noon galaxies |
| C: Margaux Bergmann | 2 | Kunal Deshmukh (KU Leuven) | Measuring dynamical masses of post-interaction sdO/B + MS binaries with VLTI/GRAVITY (and Gaia?) |
| 2nd July | 1 | Sustainability group (MPIA) | Intentional Travel and an Overview of the Sustainability Committee Activities |
| C: Alex Dimoff | 2 | ||
| 9th July | 1 | Soumavo Ghosh (IIT Indore) | Chasing the ‘butterfly’ (pattern) : Constraining bar properties in the Milky Way using stellar kinematics from Gaia |
| C: Antoine Dumont | 2 | Amrita Singh (University of Chile) | A spatially resolved study of the physical conditions and the chemical abundance discrepancy in the Lagoon Nebula using SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper |
| 16th July | 1 | Yen-Ting Ling (ASIAA) | Evolution of Massive Red Galaxies in Clusters from z = 1.0 to z = 0.3 |
| C: Anirudh Ravishankar | 2 | Pranav Satheesh (U Florida) | What can cosmological simulations tell us about merging massive black holes? |
| 23th July | 1 | Jacob Isbell (Uni. Arizona) | Imaging the parsec-scale torus and outflow in Centaurus A using MATISSE & GRAVITY |
| C: Philip Eitner | 2 | Eduardo Banados (MPIA) | Writing a strong (JWST) proposal |
| 30th July | 1 | Aarya Patil (MPIA) | Euclid's Hidden Treasure: Millions of Stellar Spectra |
| C: Jakob den Brok | 2 | Cheyanne Shariat (Caltech) | A census of massive eclipsing binaries in a Milky Way-like galaxy |
| 6th August | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| 13th August | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| 20th August | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| 27th August | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| 3rd September | 1 | Kartick C Sarkar (Raman Institute) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 10th September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 17th September | 1 | Roberto Infurna (MPIA) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 24th September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 1st October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 8th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 15th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 22nd October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 29th October | 1 | Yunchong Zhang (Uni. Pittsburgh) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |