Events and Seminars at or with MPE
"How Do Exoplanet Atmospheres Change in Space and Time?"
ESO Star and Planet Exchange (SPEX)
- Date: Nov 24, 2025
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Matthew Murphy (Michigan State University)
- Location: ESO Garching
- Room: ESO room Centaurus (C.2.01)
"New Ways to Torture the Strongest Magnets in the Universe"
MPA Institute Seminar
- Date: Nov 24, 2025
- Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia University)
- Location: MPA
- Room: New Seminar Room, E.0.11
Weekly institute seminar at MPA featuring current research in astrophysics and cosmology. About 60 minutes including questions; open to the MPA community and guests.
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"Lecture 6: Lectures on Landau Analysis"
MPP Theory Seminar
- Date: Nov 24, 2025
- Time: 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Cristian Vergu (MPP)
- Location: MPP
- Room: A.1.01/03 - Alps
"A Matter of Gravity, Galaxies and Time: Testing Fundamental Physics With Gravitational Redshift"
MPA Cosmology Seminar I
- Date: Nov 25, 2025
- Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Sveva Castello (MPA)
- Location: MPA
- Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
"Imprints From Axion Inflation With Non-Abelian Gauge Fields"
MPA Cosmology Seminar II
- Date: Nov 25, 2025
- Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Ben Wibking (MSU)
- Location: MPA
- Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
"KILOGAS: A Legacy Survey for the Resolved Extragalactic ISM"
ESO Lunch Talk
- Date: Nov 25, 2025
- Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Timothy Davis (Cardiff University)
- Location: ESO Garching
- Room: Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching)
"Scattering Rate of sub-GeV Dark Matter in Materials: A Theoretical Upper Bound"
Munich Dark Matter Meeting
- Date: Nov 25, 2025
- Time: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Michal Iglicki (Chalmers University of Technology)
- Location: MPP
- Room: A.2.25/27 - Atlas
- Host: ORIGINS Excellence Cluster
- Contact: darkmatter@mpp.mpg.de
The Munich Dark Matter Meeting connects researchers across Munich with a monthly seminar supported by the ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence. Talks last 40 minutes followed by discussion.
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"High-Energy Blazars at Parsec Scales"
MPP Colloquium
Various Titels
ESO Informal Discussion
- Date: Nov 26, 2025
- Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Multiple Speakers
- Location: ESO Garching
- Room: Library (ESO HQ, Garching)
"Unveiling the Evolutionary Pathways of Sub-Saturns Using Their Physical and Atmospheric Characteristics"
LMU Astrophysics Colloquium
- Date: Nov 26, 2025
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Nataliea Lowson (Uni Delaware)
- Location: University Observatory Munich (USM), Scheinerstrasse 1, Munich
- Room: Main Lecture Hall
- Host: Ralf Bender
"Meet the speaker" at 10:00 for all students.
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"PAHs Under Pressure: Tracing Star Formation in the Harsh Environments of AGN"
ESO AGN Coffee Club
- Date: Nov 26, 2025
- Time: 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Yaherlyn Diaz (IEA)
- Location: ESO Garching
- Room: Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching)
"Fremdes Leben im Universum? Die astrophysikalische Forschung zu Exoplaneten"
Wissenschaft für jedermann
- Date: Nov 26, 2025
- Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Sascha Patrick Quanz (ETH Zürich)
- Astrophysiker mit Schwerpunkt Exoplanetenforschung
- Location: Deutsches Museum München, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München
- Room: Auditorium (Ebene 0)
- Host: Deutsches Museum München
- Contact: h.kiesewetter@deutsches-museum.de
Öffentlicher Abendvortrag aus der Reihe „Wissenschaft für jedermann".
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"The Tip of the Iceberg - Unveiling the Origin of Neutron Star-Black Hole Mergers Through Eccentric Outliers"
Garching Supernova Meeting
- Date: Nov 27, 2025
- Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Jakob Stegmann (MPA)
- Location: MPA
- Room: MPA, Old Lecture Hall 401
"From Dust to Giants: Planet Formation in the Solar System and Abroad"
Geoscience of Exoplanets Seminar
- Date: Nov 27, 2025
- Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Alex Cridland (LMU, Theoretical Astrophysics of Extrasolar Planets)
- Location: LMU, Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Theresienstraße 41C, 80333 München
- Room: C307
- Host: Munich Center for Geoastronomy, LMU
- Contact: janhvi.jaiswal@lmu.de
Lecture in the Geoscience of Exoplanets Series by Alexander Cridland.
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"Cosmic Fireworks: Building Discovery Engines for Time-Domain Astronomy"
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
- Date: Nov 27, 2025
- Time: 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech)
- Location: ESO Garching
- Room: Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching)
Cookies and coffee from 3 p.m.
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ORIGINS Science Week 2025
ORIGINS Conference
- Start: Dec 1, 2025 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Dec 5, 2025 05:00 PM
- Location: Kloster Seeon, Bavaria
- Host: Excellence Cluster ORIGINS
Annual Science Week of the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS with scientific highlights, keynote talks, networking opportunities, and the General Assembly.
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"Sulfur - A (Short) Tale of a Very Elusive Element"
MPE HYBRID-CAS Seminar
- Date: Dec 3, 2025
- Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Julián José Miranzo Pastor (Centro de Astrobiología (CAB))
- Location: MPE
- Room: New Seminar Room, X5, 1.1.18 b
33rd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
ASU Symposium
- Start: Dec 8, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Dec 12, 2025 12:00 AM
- Location: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Host: Arizona State University
- Contact: TexasSymposium2025@exchange.asu.edu
International conference on relativistic astrophysics featuring leading researchers and plenary talks on cosmology, black holes, gravitational waves, high-energy astrophysics, and the fundamental laws of the universe.
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#EXCELLerate and connect!
LMU Postdoc Career Day 2025
- Date: Dec 10, 2025
- Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Location: LMU Biomedical Center (BMC), Großhaderner Str. 9, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried
- Host: LMU Unit for Research Funding Programs (VIII.3)
- Contact: forschungsfoerderung@lmu.de
Interactive career day for postdocs with workshops, talks, a networking fair, and "Living Library".
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"Fill the Gap: Signatures of Electronic Excitations in Dark Matter and Neutrino Direct Detection Experiments"
MIAPbP Workshop
- Start: Mar 2, 2026 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Mar 27, 2026 12:00 AM
- Speaker: Karoline Schäffner, Josef Pradler, Francesco Vissani, Riccardo Catena, Vanessa Zema
- An international team of coordinators from MPP, University of Vienna, INFN, Chalmers University, and MPP.
- Room: MIAPbP
- Contact: info@munich-iapp.de
An international MIAPbP workshop bringing together theory and experiment to explore electronic excitations in direct-detection platforms and their implications for dark matter and neutrinos. Registration deadline: August 31, 2025.
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"Continuing the JWST Revolution — Understanding Early Galaxy Formation"
MIAPbP Workshop
- Start: Jun 1, 2026 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Jun 26, 2026 12:00 AM
- Speaker: Pascal Oesch, Richard Ellis, Benedetta Ciardi, Adriano Fontana, Alice Shapley, plus participants
- International team of leading scientists in early galaxy formation and reionization, from institutions including University of Geneva, UCL, MPA, INAF Rome, and UCLA.
- Location: MIAPbP
- Room: MIAPbP
- Host: MIAPbP
- Contact: info@munich-iapp.de
A four-week MIAPbP workshop in Garching on early galaxy formation, black holes, and reionization in the era of JWST, ALMA, SKA, and ELT.Registration is open; deadline September 7, 2025. Held June 1–26, 2026.
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"Primordial Cosmology: Novel Perspectives From Scattering Amplitudes, Holography and the Bootstrap"
MIAPbP Workshop
- Start: Jun 29, 2026
- End: Jul 24, 2026
- Speaker: Various Speakers
- Location: Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP), Boltzmannstraße 2, 85748 Garching bei München
- Host: MIAPbP
- Contact: workshop@munich-iapp.de
Workshop on the origin of structure in the universe, focusing on new theoretical perspectives in primordial cosmology.
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"Bridging Gaps in High-Mass Star Research: Physical Parameters, Formation and Evolution"
MIAPbP Workshop
- Start: Aug 10, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
- End: Sep 4, 2026 06:00 PM
- Speaker: Sergio Simón-Díaz, Alceste Bonanos, Sylvia Ekström, Miguel A. Urbaneja, Ashley Barne
- Location: MIAPbP, Boltzmannstraße 2, 85748 Garching
- Host: Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP)
- Contact: info@munich-iapbp.de
An interdisciplinary MIAPbP programme advancing research on massive stars from formation to final fate.
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