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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.
2025
| Date | Slot | Who | What |
| 17th April | 1 | Benedetta Mestichelli (GSSI) | Simulating intermediate-mass black holes in the first star clusters |
| C: Andrea Perdomo Garcia | 2 | Anna de Graaff (MPIA) | A black hole star ? |
| 24th April | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | |
| 1st May | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| C: ---- | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| 8th May | 1 | Maximilian Häberle | Observations of omega Cen with the SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper |
| C: Johanna Müller-Horn | 2 | Wonki Lee | Probing Astrophysics with Radio Relics in Merging Galaxy Clusters |
| 15th May | 1 | Coryn Bailer-Jones, Aarya Patil et al. | Getting involved with Rubin / LSST at the MPIA |
| C: Gregory Green | 2 | Coryn Bailer-Jones, Aarya Patil et al. | Getting involved with Rubin / LSST at the MPIA |
| 22nd May | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | GC retreat |
| C: ---- | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | GC retreat |
| 29th May | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| C: ---- | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Ascension Day |
| 5th June | 1 | Jonathan Tan | The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes from Pop III.1 Seeds |
| C: Stefano Souza | 2 | Yetli Rosas (Donostia) | Delving into bar formation with zoom-in simulations |
| 12th June | 1 | Chao Liu (NAO, CAS) | The coming spaceborne survey---Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) |
| C: Stefano Torniamenti | 2 | Andrea Weibel | TBD |
| 19th June | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| C: ---- | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Corpus Christi |
| 26th June | 1 | Ludwig Böss (University of Chicago) | TBD |
| C: Joshua Jost | 2 | Sanna Gulati (NCRA Pune) | TBD |
| 3rd July | 1 | Sven Buder (ANU) | An interdisciplinary mixtape of spectroscopy and galaxy evolution |
| C: Tom Herbst | 2 | Tobias Buck (University Heidelberg) | Simulation-based inference and model comparison for galactic chemical enrichment |
| 10th July | 1 | Melanie Kaasinen | TBD |
| C: Richard Hoppe | 2 | Condor Team | TBD |
| 17th July | 1 | Jing-Ze Ma (MPA) | TBD |
| C: Maxim Oweyssi | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 24th July | 1 | Chuanming Mao | TBD |
| C: Rhys Seeburger | 2 | Benny Trakhtenbrot | TBD |
| 31st July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 7th August | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 14th August | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 21st August | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 28th August | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 4th September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 11th September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 18th September | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 25th September | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | MPIA outing |
| C: ---- | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | MPIA Betriebsausflug |
| 2nd October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 9th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 16th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 23rd October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 30th October | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |