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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.
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 | Multi-component analysis of SDSS-V galaxy/AGN spectra using the Nbursts technique |
| 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 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| C: TBD | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| 15th August | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| C: TBD | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | summer break |
| 22nd August | 1 | Ting Li (University of Toronto) | "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: Stephen Hannon | 2 | special Galaxy Coffee | talks by MPIA summer students |
| 5th September | 1 | Bartosz Capecki (ITP) | Searching for analogs of the first quasars |
| C: Zhang-Liang Xie | 2 | Jan-Torge Schindler | A galaxy overdensity anchored by a broad-line, low-luminosity AGN at z = 7.3 |
| 12th September | 1 | Jacob Isbell (Uni. Arizona) | NGC 4151: using the LBTI to test the unified model of AGN |
| C: Antoine Dumont | 2 | Anna de Graaff | Early giants: the surprising discovery of massive quiescent galaxies out to z=7 |
| 19th September | 1 | Yanu Khusanova | The interstellar medium in the radio-loud quasar host galaxies at z>6 |
| C: N.Neumayer | 2 | Jianwen Zhou (MPIfR) (online) | Hierarchical hub-filament structures and gas inflows on galaxy-cloud scales |
| 26th September | 1 | Rajsekhar Mohapatra | The importance of resolving type Ia supernovae in simulating massive ellipticals |
| C: Ryan Keenan | 2 | Mahsa Kohandel | Dynamically Cold Disks in the Early Universe; Insights from Zoom-In Cosmological Simulations for JWST-ALMA Synergy Studies. |
| 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 | Gourab Giri (University of Pretoria) | Probing the Interconnection Between Extragalactic Jets and the (Hazardous) Large-scale Environment |
| 17th October | 1 | Samir Nepal (AIP, Potsdam) | Metal-poor to metal-rich: the thin disc of Milky Way is older |
| C: Yanu Khusanova | 2 | Ritali Ghosh (IISc, Bangalore) | Ram pressure stripping in galaxies and multiphase turbulence |
| 24th October | 1 | Anirudh Ravishankar | TBD |
| C: Nils Hoyer | 2 | Bipradeep Saha | Quantifying the impact of AGN feedback on the large-scale matter distribution using two- and three-point statistics |
| 31st October | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Betriebsausflug |
| C: TBD | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Institute outing |
| 7th November | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | Postdoc retreat |
| C: TBD | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Postdoc retreat |
| 14th November | 1 | Simon May | TBD |
| C: Taavet Kalda | 2 | Yanu Khusanova | H-alpha luminosity function at z=6.17 |
| 21st November | 1 | Francesco Ubertosi (University of Bologna) | TBD |
| C: Eduardo Banados | 2 | Sthabile Kolwa | TBD |
| 28th November | 1 | Rodrigo Flores-Freitas | TBD |
| C: Timea Kovacs | 2 | Justus Neumann | Azimuthal Variations of Stellar Populations in Barred Galaxies |
| 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 |