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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 |
| 9th January | 1 | Aashiya Anitha Shaji (Paris Observatory) | A peculiar merging group falling onto Abell 2142 |
| C: Peter Smith | 2 | Barun Maity | Exploring Epoch of Reionization using FRBs |
| 16th January | 1 | Stefano Souza | Tracing back the ancient globular cluster of a star captured by the Galactic bar |
| C: Jiadong Li | 2 | Joey Braspenning | Understanding hydrostatic mass bias for galaxy groups and clusters |
| 23th January | 1 | Jaime Villaseñor | The role of metallicity in the multiplicity properties of massive stars |
| C: Johanna Müller-Horn | 2 | Jiadong Li | The stellar initial mass function (IMF) variations of low-mass field stars from LAMOST and Gaia |
| 30th January | 1 | Mariia Demianenko | Consistency of black hole mass estimations for a candidate to rapidly accreting intermediate-mass black hole |
| C: Barun Maity | 2 | Callie Clontz | The Formation History of Omega Centauri: Ages of SGB stars and helium enhancement as a function of metallicity |
| 6th February | 1 | Johanna Müller-Horn | The binary properties of the globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104) |
| C: Ben Pennell | 2 | Hamid Hassani (University of Alberta) | The Hidden Life of Stars: Embedded Beginnings to AGB Endings with Mid-IR Peaks in the PHANGS-JWST Sample |
| 13th February | 1 | Ayan Acharyya (INAF-Padova) | Unraveling past physical processes using present chemical abundance maps of galaxies: do simulations and observations agree? |
| C: Justus Neumann | 2 | Henry Willems (MPIA) | Determining the physical parameters of eclipsing binaries from the B-Type Binaries Characterization programme (BBC) with PHOEBE |
| 20th February | 1 | Arthur Alencastro Puls (Goethe University Frankfurt) | Exploring the third r-process peak with the CERES survey |
| C: Marine Prunier | 2 | Sachin Pradeep (McGill university) | Plasma Double-lensing in Fast Radio Bursts |
| 27th February | 1 | Po-Feng Wu (National Taiwan University) | Neutral outflow from a high-z quiescent galaxy |
| C: Fred Davies | 2 | Paola Domínguez Fernández (CfA Harvard&Smithsonian) | AGN jets in merging galaxy clusters |
| 6th March | 1 | Laura Martinez (MPIA) | AGNfitter-RX: Modeling the radio-to-X-ray spectral energy distributions of AGNs |
| C: Kerry Paterson | 2 | Jacob Isbell (University of Arizona's Steward Observatory) | Any progress towards a Unified Model of AGN? |
| 13th March | 1 | Dimitris Chatzigiannakis (MPIA) | The temperature and metallicity distributions of the ICM: Insights with TNG-Cluster for XRISM-like observations |
| C: A. Ravishankar | 2 | Frederick Davies (MPIA) | A small-scale crisis(?) in the high-redshift intergalactic medium |
| 20th March | 1 | Zixian (Purmortal) Wang (Utah) | Dust and chemical abundances of ω Cen from MUSE observations |
| C: Aarya Patil | 2 | Klaudia Protusova (ITP) | A unique window into the Epoch of Reionisation: A double-peaked Lyman-a emitter in the proximity zone of a quasar at z~6.6 |
| 27th March | 1 | Robert Harris (Durham University) | TBD |
| C: Dimitris Chatzigiannakis | 2 | Erika Korb (University of Padova) | TBD |
| 3rd April | 1 | Jakub Klencki (ESO) | TBD |
| C: Bipradeep Saha | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 10th April | 1 | Marine Prunier(MPIA) | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 17th April | 1 | Benedetta Mestichelli (GSSI) | Simulating intermediate-mass black holes in the first star clusters |
| C: | 2 | Anna de Graaff (MPIA) | A black hole star |
| 24th April | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 1st May | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| 8th May | 1 | Coryn Bailer-Jones, Aarya Patil et al. | Getting involved with Rubin / LSST at the MPIA |
| C: | 2 | Coryn Bailer-Jones, Aarya Patil et al. | Getting involved with Rubin / LSST at the MPIA |
| 15th May | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 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 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 12th June | 1 | Chao Liu (NAO, CAS) | The coming spaceborne survey---Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) |
| C: | 2 | Andrea Weibel | TBD |
| 19th June | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Corpus Christi |
| 26th June | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 3rd July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 10th July | 1 | Melanie Kaasinen | TBD |
| C: | 2 | Condor Team | TBD |
| 17th July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: | 2 | TBD | TBD |