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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 |
| 2nd October | 1 | Vasily Beskin (LPI, MIPT) | On the angular anisotropy of the distribution function of radiating particles in relativistic jets |
| C: Mariia Demianenko | 2 | Benedetta Spina (ITP) | Measuring the IGM correlation length at 5<z<6.1: a fast change at the end of Reionization |
| 9th October | 1 | Alexander Stone-Martinez (NMSU, MPIA) | Improving Stellar Age Estimates with Normalizing Flows |
| C: Jaime Villasenor | 2 | Marco Troncoso (MPIA) | Physical Properties of AGN-Hosting Galaxy Mergers from Multiwavelength SED fitting |
| 16th October | 1 | Lukas Eisert (LSST at SLAC) | Observing at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory |
| C: Marco Troncoso | 2 | Ryan Leaman (U Vienna) | Taste-testing recipes for baking galactic disks |
| 23rd October | 1 | Kirill Grishin (APC Laboratory, CNRS) | Multiwavelength studies of intermediate-mass black holes and their host galaxies |
| C: Nicholas Storm | 2 | Aarya Patil (MPIA) | An overview of the Astropy Project |
| 30th October | 1 | Eileen Herwig (MPA) | The environment of z~3 quasar pairs |
| C: Meng Zhang | 2 | Daisaburo Kido (Uni. of Tokyo) | Theoretical modeling of Little Red Dots and open challenges |
| 6th November | 1 | Daniel R Wik (U of Utah) | Electron–Ion Equilibration in the Merging Galaxy Cluster Abell 665 and Beyond |
| C: Knud Jahnke | 2 | Soumya Shreeram (MPE) | Forward modeling the hot circumgalactic medium in X-rays |
| 13th November | 1 | Anna Parul (Paris Observatory, Meudon) | Gas accretion and alpha-bimodality in FIRE-2 galaxies |
| C: Yash Mohan Sharma | 2 | Stephane Werner (Durham University) | The formation and assembly of intracluster light in proto-clusters |
| 20th November | 1 | Ryan Keenan (MPIA) | TBD |
| C: Stefano O. Souza | 2 | Rogelio Albarracin (MPIA) | TBD |
| 27th November | 1 | Avinash Chaturvedi (AIP) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Marcelo Vergara (ARI) | TBD |
| 04th December | 1 | Jonathan Stern | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Markus Ambrosch (VL University) | TBD |
| 11th December | 1 | Dimitris Chatzigiannakis (MPIA) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Daniel Marin Pina (ICCUB Barcelona & ITA) | The dynamical origin of Gaia BH3 |
| 18th December | 1 | Chris Byrohl (Stanford University) | THOR: Lightning-Fast Emission Line Modeling |
| C: | 2 | Olga Sil'chenko (SAI) | Outer gas accretion regimes and the origin of S0 galaxies |
| 8th January | 1 | Polina Usynina (MPIFR) | Searches for signatures of ultra-light axion dark matter in polarimetry data of the EPTA using Bayesian statistics |
| C: | 2 | Alankar Dutta (MPA) | TBD |
| 15th January | 1 | Silvia Belladitta (MPIA) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Dylan Nelson (ITA) | The Synthetic Absorption Line Spectral Almanac (SALSA) |
| 22nd January | 1 | Jakob Möhrle (MPIA) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 29th January | 1 | Laurane Frèor (Uni. Vienna) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 5th February | 1 | Giulia Pagnini (Obs Strasbourg) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Arn Marklund (Obs Strasbourg) | TBD |
| 12th February | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 19th February | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 26th February | 1 | Rebecca Davies (Swinburne University) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Paul Schechter (MIT) | TBD |