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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:

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.

List of previous talks

2026

Date Slot Who What
3rd September 1 Kartick C Sarkar (Raman Institute) A theoretical view of the jet-ISM interaction
C: G. Guiglion 2 Anell Cornejo (ANU) Chemical abundances ​of the dwarf galaxy Sculptor from MUSE resolved spectroscopy
10th September 1 Nicolas Bouché (CRAL) The science cases for a wide-field IFU at 1mu
C: Francesco Chiti Tegli 2 Sarah Bosman (ITP) The First ultra-metal-poor DLA
17th September 1 Roberto Infurna (MPIA) TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
24th September 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
1st October 1 Zehava Katabi (Tel Aviv Uni.) TBD
C: 2 Tom Sayada (Tel Aviv Uni.) TBD
8th October 1 Tsevi Mazeh TBD
C: 2 Ryan Leaman (Uni. Vienna) TBD
15th October 1 Martje Slob (Leiden University) TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
22nd October 1 Alina Böcker (Vienna) The physical reason behind young, metal-poor stellar populations in star forming nuclear rings
C: 2 Prem Kumar (Vienna) Orbital decomposition and evolution of LEGA-C-like Galaxies in IllustrisTNG
29th October 1 Yunchong Zhang (Uni. Pittsburgh) TBD
C: 2 Katherine Ormerod (Liverpool John Moores Uni.) TBD
5th November 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
12th November 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
19th November 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
26th November 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
3rd December 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
10th December 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD
17th December 1 TBD TBD
C: 2 TBD TBD

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