NEWS at MPA

Topics of dust dynamics

CAS Seminar

The stellar initial mass function (IMF): a probability density function, or an optimally-sampled distribution?

Special MPE Seminar

Regional Workshop for 2015 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship applicants: “Finishing touch“ for your proposal

EU Workshop

Chemical evolution of star forming galaxies

USM Colloquium

Quantum Mechanics and Geometry of Spacetime"

LMU Talk

The energy-dependence of quasi-periodic oscillations in the microquasar GRS 1915+105

MPE Seminar

Comparing predictions of the re-appearance of the multiply imaged supernova behind MACS1149.5+2223

Lensing Seminar

Porosity and band-strength measurements of multi-phase composite ices

CAS Seminar

Water, methanol, ammonia, formaldehyde and other complex molecules in space viewed through the maser looking glass

CAS Seminar

"Spiral galaxies and Vlasov-Poisson equations" and "The formation of supermassive black holes in high-redshift galaxy mergers"

MPA Galaxy group Meeting

Past the power spectrum at the cosmic dawn

USM Cosmo Seminar
  • Date: Jan 19, 2016
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Paul Sutter
  • Ohio State University
  • Location: USM
  • Room: USM room II13
  • Host: USM

Non-linear violent disc instability with high Toomre's Q in high-redshift clumpy disc galaxies

MPE Seminar

"Absorbers in Super Luminous Supernovae (SLSNe)"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"Exploring a new route towards merging massive black holes" and "Magnetic field amplification in protoneutron stars"

High Energy Seminar: SESTAS Seminar

"The evolution of massive stars: constraints from surface abundances"

MPE Seminar

"Soft and Hard Physics with Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions"

Universe Colloquium

"What can we learn about AGN coronae and jet launching?"

MPE High Energy Seminar

"A quest for young and energetic pulsars in the SMC: The case of IKT 16 & AX J0043-737

MPE High Energy Seminar

"The baryon content of dark matter halos"

Institute Seminar: MPA Institute Seminar

"First scientific results from BRITE satellite mission"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Quantum Gravity - General Introduction and Recent Developments"

MPP Colloquium

IMPRS Workshop

"Bayes vs frequentist: why should I care?"

Fruits of the Universe

"Multiwavelength tests of a dark matter signal from the Inner Galaxy"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

18th Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics

Workshop

IMPRS talks to you - 1st Student Symposium

IMPRS talks to you - 1st Student Symposium

"Formation and Evolution of Giant Molecular Clouds: Gravity or Turbulence"

Star and Planet Formation

"ISM Dynamics and Star Formation"

ESO Lunch Talk

Shedding Light on the Properties of the Circum/Inter-galactic Gas in Emission"

ESO Special Talk: ESO/MPA/MPE `Gas Matters' Club

"Broad [CII] Line Wings as a Tracer of Molecular Outflows"

AGN Club

A Hard X-ray Look at Galaxies

MPE Seminar

Galaxy evolution and environments

USM Galaxy Evolution

"The Evolution of Satellite Galaxy Quenching"

USM Colloquium

MPA's role as a midwife of gravitational wave astronomy

MPA Institute Seminar: MPA Institute Seminar

"Statistical Tools for Discovery and Limits"

MPP Colloquium: MPP Colloquium

"High ionisation absorption in low mass X-ray binaries"

High Energy Seminar

"Describing the matter bispectrum of large-scale structure with three simple shapes"

Cosmology Seminar

"Molecular Clouds and Star Formation"

1st CAS Lecture

"The mass structure of galaxy clusters probed with strong gravitational lensing"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Time-Resolved Two Million Year Old Supernova Activity Discovered in the Earth's Microfossil Record"

MPP Colloquium

"The Two Paths of Cluster Evolution"

CAS Seminar

"The Puzzling Size Growth of Passive Galaxies"

USM Galaxy Evolution

"The Youngest Stars"

2nd CAS Lecture

"Thinking Big (and Small): Frontier Science in the Era of Wide Field Lensing Surveys"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Recombination physics and galaxy clustering"

MPA Institute Seminar

"Meet the MPK Speaker"

Student Event

"On the velocity function of galaxies from the CALIFA survey"

Cosmology Seminar

"Out of this world: exploring the Universe with the largest emission-line surveys"

ESO Lunch Talk

"The dark matter distribution of the Milky Way"

MPP Colloquium

"On the Velocity Function and Enrichment Histories of Galaxies"

MPE Seminar

"Galactic Cold Cores and the study of dense interstellar medium"

CAS Seminar

"Meet the MPK speaker"

Student Event

"Weak lensing by galaxy troughs with modified gravity"

Cosmology Seminar

"New Avenues in Microwave Spectroscopy: Ultraspecific Chemical and Chiral Analysis on Earth and Beyond"

CAS Seminar

"Astrochemistry in the age of broadband radio astronomy"

CAS Seminar

"The amazing diversity of the gas content of an X-ray unbiased sample of galaxy clusters"

USM Colloquium

"Tracing Outflows in AGN Forbidden Region with SINFONI"

AGN Club

"Cloud fragmentation and dense core formation"

CAS Seminar

"Instability of mass transfer in a planet-star system"

MPA Institute Seminar

"The properties of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and their connections with the LCDM paradigm"

ESO Lunch Talk

"A deep ALMA image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
I will present new results from the first deep ALMA continuum image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), designed to better connect our UV/optical and FIR/mm views of the high-redshift Universe. From a mosaic of 45 ALMA pointings we have constructed a 1.3mm image covering the full 4.5 sq arcmin of the HUDF as previous imaged with WFC3/IR and ACS on Hubble. This new image reaches an rms depth of 35 micro-Jy at a resolution of of 0.7 arcsec. I will describe the design and implementation of this project, and the analysis of the final data product both for source discovery and stacking in the galaxy mass/redshift plane. After presenting our results I will discuss the implications of our findings for our understanding of the 1.3mm background, the mass dependence of star formation and dust obscuration, and the history of cosmic star-formation density. I will close by discussing the prospects for future progress. [more]

"Radiative Feedback and the Formation of Massive Stars and Stellar Clusters"

Special USM Colloquium

"VMC star clusters science: an overview"

ESO Lunch Talk

"The Hunt for kpc-scale cold-gas outflows in nearby AGN-host galaxies"

AGN Club
  • Date: Jun 23, 2016
  • Time: 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Boris Nedelchev
  • University of Hertfordshire
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library

"Secular evolution and the growth of pseudobulges in disk galaxies"

USM Galaxy Evolution

"Galaxy Evolution in 3D"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"The Mu3e Experiment at PSI"

MPP Colloquium

"Planck Cluster and Large Scale Structure Science after the 2015 Results"

USM Colloquium

"Effective equation of state for small-scale perturbations in the ICM"

ESO Galaxy Cluster

''Meet the speaker''

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium

"The Long-Term Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei"

MPE High Energy Seminar

"The Cosmic Baryon Cycle:  Accretion, Star Formation, Winds - Part 1: Assessing the gas reservoir for star formation''

Universe Guest Lecture

"High-Field Lasers and Applications"

MPP Colloquium

"Bayesian Component Separation"

Special Seminar

Optical turbulence profiler for a Multi Conjugated Adaptive Optics System and knowing SINFONI

MPE Seminar

"Superluminous supernovae: state of art and future directions"

MPE High Energy Seminar

"Particle and Nuclear Physics"

Introductory Course on Particle and Nuclear Physics
There will be coffee, tea and croissants during the lectures. [more]

"Particle and Nuclear Physics"

Introductory Course on Particle and Nuclear Physics
There will be coffee, tea and croissants during the lectures. [more]

"Development of the Physics of Spin Isomers and its application to Astrochemistry"

1st Lecture

"At the edge of galaxy clusters: splashback and accretion shock"

ESO Galaxy Cluster
  • Date: Sep 23, 2016
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Xun Shi
  • MPA
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library
  • Host: ESO

"Development of the Physics of Spin Isomers and its application to Astrochemistry"

1st Lecture
"Symmetry and orders of magnitude, the two pillars of spectroscopy" [more]

Regional Workshop: The European Research Council (ERC) "Focus: Starting & Consolidator Grants"

EU Workshop
see announcement on black board [more]

"Galactic positrons from peculiar supernovae"

MPE High Energy Seminar

"Astrophysics and Cosmology" Part1

Universe Cluster Course

 "Planet formation in protoplanetary discs"

Special MPA Colloquium
The detection of large populations of pebbles of mm-cm sizes in protoplanetary discs around young stars has motivated the study of pebble accretion as a driver of planetary growth. This seminar covers all aspects of planet formation by pebble accretion, from dust growth over planetesimal formation to the accretion of planetary embryos and fully-grown planets with gaseous envelopes.  Pebbles are accreted at a very high rate, orders of magnitude higher than accretion of planetesimals, and the rate decreases only slowly with distance from the central star. This allows planetary cores to start their growth in much more distant positions than their final orbits. The giant planets orbiting our Sun and other stars, including systems of exoplanets in very wide orbits, can therefore be formed in complete consistency with planetary migration. I will demonstrate tracks of planetary mass versus semi-major axis for all the major classes of planets and outline priorities for future research directions in planet formation. [more]

"From chips to Higgs and back--tracking detectors in modern particle physics experiments"

MPP Colloquium

    "Towards Accurate Lightcones for Cosmology"

Universe Cluster Course

"Dissecting the Milky Way. Report on the 2016 IAP Paris Conference on The Milky Way and Its Environment"

Special MPE Seminar

"The primordial magnetic field in our cosmic backyard"

MPA Institute Seminar

"Gas accretion via galactic fountains"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"The electron capture in Ho-163 experiment ECHo: towards sub-eV sensitivity on the electron neutrino mass"

MPP Colloquium

"Mergers of Galaxy Clusters and their Implications in Structure Formation"

High Energy Seminar

"Detect first star signatures with PopII GRB and DLA"

MPA Institute Seminar

Meet the speaker "Building planets - a journey along 40 orders of magnitude"

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium

"Large deviation statistics for the cosmic density field" and "The growth of galaxies through fountain-driven gas accretion"

Cosmology Seminar: Cosmology Seminar

"Known unknowns and unknown unknowns: the search for new astronomical molecules in the laboratory"

CAS Seminar

"Behind the scenes: how negative molecular ions were discovered in space"

CAS Lecture

"The formation of massive black-hole binaries: Understanding the Advanced LIGO detections"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Simultaneous Bayesian Location and Spectral Analysis of Gamma-Ray Bursts"

Bayes Forum

"Galaxy Formation through the dark ages until today"

USM Seminar

"Circumgalactic Cosmology"

MPA Institute Seminar

"Probing structure formation and cluster evolution in the outskirts of galaxy clusters"

MPE Talk

"Tracing Galaxies by their Shadows: Evolution of Metals and Dust in Galaxies from Quasar Absorption Systems"

ESO Lunch Talk

"NUEX: how NUcleosynthesis can constrain EXplosions?"

Special Seminar

"Cosmic Ray Acceleration in Galactic Interactions and its Implications"

USM Colloquium

"Nebular Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae"

Master Colloquium

"The many flavours of star cluster dynamics"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Haloes like Lego: an exploration into the variability and correlations of L* accreted stellar haloes using toy models"

MPA Institute Seminar

"The Molecular Outflows in NGC 253 and Circinus as Revealed by ALMA"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Hunt for neutrinoless double beta decay with large bolometric arrays: the CUORE experiment"

MPP Colloquium

Symmetries in the early Universe

Universe Cluster Science Week
Please safe the date! A detailed program will be announced later. But as usual we are going to have talks from all Cluster research areas, i.e. astronomy, cosmology, astroparticle, particle and nuclear physics. Prizes for the two Universe PhD Awards 2016 will be given. In addition, there will be a General Assembly of all Cluster members on Wed., 7 Dec, including elections for Research Area Leaders and Cluster Coordinators.Everybody is welcome. There will be no registration, no fee. [more]

"Inferring the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism with gravitational waves"

Special Seminar

"Understanding the ionized gas in galaxies -- simulations and observations"

MPA Visitor Seminar

"Ethics in Astronomy"

*KES: Knowledge Exchange Series

Meet the speaker"Twisting DNA: The role of twist-bend coupling"

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium
  • Date: Dec 12, 2016
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Enrico Carlon
  • KU Leuven, Belgien
  • Location: LMU
  • Room: HU 123
  • Host: LMU/TUM

"Using cosmology surveys to probe the dark matter interactions" and "Probing CGM and IGM with Lyman-alpha Absorption"

Cosmology Seminar

"Granularity for Discovery and Precision in Particle Physics"

MPP Colloquium

Mixing in stars in the era of high-performance computing

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Mixing in the radiative zones of stars is one of the least well understoodcomponents of stellar evolution, and yet can, in many instances, play acrucial role. In recent years, however, much progress has been made inquantifying mixing by a variety of hydrodynamic instabilities, thanks tonumerical experiments that have strongly benefited from advances insupercomputing. I will review the state of the field, and presentperspectives on what can and should be done next by the stellar evolutioncommunity, and by the astrophysical fluid dynamics community. [more]

''Modelling the dust content of galaxies over cosmic time''

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"Spatially resolved star formation relation in two HI-rich galaxies with central post-starburst signature

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

Meet the speaker - Particle physics beyond colliders

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium

"The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics"

Arnold Sommerfeld Lectures

"Symmetries, Duality and the Unity of Physics"

Arnold Sommerfeld Lectures

"Duality in 2+1 Dimensions"

Arnold Sommerfeld Lectures

"The strong gravitational lensing tool in the era of space and ground-based wide field surveys"

Special Cosmology Seminar

Hunting dark matter: All Bases Covered

Special Cosmology Seminar

"Interpreting ALMA Observations of the Interstellar Medium During the Epoch of Reionization"

Special Structure Formation

"Testing cosmology with small and large scales"

Special Structure Formation

"Losing sight of CO in galaxies: cosmic rays and the CMB effect"

ESO Lunch Talk

"The dark matter content and structure of dwarf galaxies"

Special Galaxy Seminar

"Quenching, black hole feedback and anisotropic thermal conduction"

Special Structure Formation

"Action-based dynamical modeling for the Milky Way disk with Gaia

Special Structure Formation

"Supernova Feedback: from Multiphase ISM to Galactic Outflows"

Special Galaxy Seminar

Bayesian metamodels for astronomical image analysis

MPA Institute Seminar

"Parameter estimation from CMB data sets"

Cosmology Lectures

"Phase-space reconstruction of the cosmic large-scale structure"

Cosmology Seminar

"Precision Physics at the Energy Frontier -- New Physics without Bumps"

MPP Colloquium

"HPC Architectures of the next generation"

MPA Talk

"Resolving the Physics of environmental effects and gas stripping phenomena in local Clusters of galaxies"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"The assembly of galaxies in dark matter haloes"

MPA Institute Seminar

"The Radial Acceleration Relation: linking baryons and dark matter in galaxies"

ESO Lunch Talk

"Galaxy Cluster Studies with the South Pole Telescope"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium

"Surrogate minimization in high dimensions"

Bayes Forum

"Search For GeV Emission From Several `Dark' TeV Sources"

Astroparticle Physics Seminar

"Secular evolution of Milky Way-type galaxies"

Special MPA Seminar

"Stars and stellar evolution"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
ALMA has been producing stunning images and results for stars acrossthe mass and evolutionary ranges. In this talk, I will focus on someresults for Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars (AGB), Planetary Nebulae, RedSupergiants (RSG) and Supernovae. An area of particular interest is theshaping process by which AGB stars evolve to form often highly axisymmetricPlanetary Nebulae - what are the roles of binarity and magnetic fields? Aswell as the mechanisms by which some of the stars are losing large amountsof mass (10-7 to 10-4 Msun/yr) to the interstellar medium. Finally I willdiscuss how ALMA long baseline and high frequency data are starting tohelp answer some of the long-standing questions in stellar evolution. [more]

"Molecular shocks in the interstellar medium"

CAS Seminar

"New clues on the origin of nitrogen in the solar system"

CAS Seminar

"Cosmological Weak Lensing: Recent Results"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Cosmological Weak LensingWeak gravitational lensing is a unique technique to map the distribution of dark matter in the universe. It is also a sensitive probe of large scale structures in the universe and cosmological parameters. I will first briefly describe the principles of weak lensing. I will then review the current observational status of this field, highlighting several new measurements especially from the ongoing Dark Energy Survey (DES). I will then discuss the status of tensions between cosmological probes and results for a new integrated approach to combine them. [more]

"EU Grants and Fellowships for Post-Docs in Horizon 2020

EU/Horizon 2020

"Jets from black-hole X-ray binaries: formation, content, and destruction"

Special MPE Seminar

Mapping the accretion flow around black holes through X-ray reverberation

High Energy Seminar

Meet the Speaker: Frank Schreiber "Watching structure formation in real time"

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium

"Performance optimisation of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics algorithms for multi/many-core architectures"

"When Physics Meet Medicine: Targeted Radionuclide Therapy of Cancer for Precision Oncology"

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium

"Rescuing Gauge Mediation with Neutrinos"

Universe Colloquium

"Retracing some key landmarks in the ultrafast world"

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium

Tag der offenen Tür am MPP

Tag der offenen Tür am MPP

"New models for the clumpy obscurer around AGN"

AGN Club

"The Higgs as a way to discover new physics"

Special Universe Talk

"Type Ia Supernovae: Observed properties, explosion physics, and open questions" (part 1)

Special Universe Talk

"The formation of slow and fast rotating elliptical galaxies"

USM Colloquium

"Predicting the Radiative Display of Type Ia Suprnovae: 1. Testing the Standard Model" (part 2)

Special Universe Talk

"Planet formation" TBD

Special Universe Talk

"Integrated approach to cosmology"

USM special Seminar

"Hydrodynamics of the deflagration in the oxygen-neon-magnesium core: Sensitivity of the input physics to the collapse condition"

MPA Special Seminar

"A high-energy view of the galaxy-scale metal gas at z=0.5-3"

Special Universe Talk

"Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment and Low Energy e+e- Annihilation"

Fruits of the Universe

"An ALMA Survey of CO isotopologue emission from Protoplanetary Disks in Chamaeleon I"

Star and Planet Formation

"Physicists in the area of risk & finance"

CARSEM

"Gas inflow and outflow in an interacting high-redshift galaxy: The remarkable host environment of GRB 080810 at z=3.35"

ESO/MPA/MPE Gas Matters Club

"Ultra-deep imaging in the nearby Universe: tracing the Magellanic Clouds interaction with telephoto lens"

ESO Informal Discussion

"Precision Gauge Unification in the MSSM"

Fruits of the Universe

Precision Gauge Unification in the MSSM

Fruits of the Universe Talk

Research Area C Science Day

Research Area Science

"Self-similar spherical collapse"

http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~komatsu/lectureseries/ [more]

"Exploring transient detections with the WFI onboard Athena?

"Observations of young hydrogen-rich supernovae and new instruments to study them"

ESO Lunch Talk
  • Date: Oct 17, 2017
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Adam Rubin
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library
  • Host: ESO

"Determining ground layer turbulence statistics using a SLODAR type method"

Special Seminar

"On the LIGO-VIRGO announcement"

Informal Discussion

"Observations of Dust Disks around the Youngest Protostars: Characterizing Frequency, Dust Properties, & Magnetic Fields"

CAS Seminar

"The Origin of Spirals in Galaxies"

Opinas: Opinas Seminar

"New (radio astronomical) tools for fundamental physics"

MPE Seminar

" A Study of the Close Environment of AGN with X-Ray Obscuration"

AGN Club
  • Date: Nov 30, 2017
  • Time: 11:10 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Teng Liu
  • MPE
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: ESO library

"Axisymmetric Dynamical Models of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"

ESO Lunch Talk

Gravitational Waves Core-Collapse Supernova Science with Advanced and Future Generation Interferometers"

MPA Visitor Seminar
The study of Gravitational Waves (GW) from Core-Collapse Supernova (CCSNe) can help elucidate the explosion mechanism and give us information about the physical properties of the collapsed core.Given the variety of possible GW morphologies (usually long and broadband), the reconstruction of the waveform and extraction of physical information is a difficult task. It requires an understanding of multi-dimensional CCSN simulations, data analysis caveats, detector response, as well as understanding how insights provided by neutrino and electromagnetic messengers help us extract GW signals from the detector noise.In the LIGO/Virgo Supernova Working Group we need all the aspects of this research program.In this talk I will review the techniques used to search for GW from CCSNeand current work on O3 preparation and detection perspectives with possible future GW Observatories. [more]

"Bayesian calibration of predictive computational models of arterial growth"

Bayes Forum

"Heavy neutrinos in particle physics and cosmology" (part 1)

Universe Cluster Course

"Heavy neutrinos in particle physics and cosmology" (part 2)

Universe Cluster Course

"What the Sub-mm Variability of Embedded Protostars Tells Us about Accretion: Past,Present, and Future"

CAS Seminar

"Star formation in the Vela region traced by Gaia"

USM Colloquium

"Probing neutrino mass and searching for sterile neutrinos with KATRIN

Muenchner Physik Kolloquium
16:00 - meet the speaker (for students) Seminarroom 3076 (upper floor) [more]
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