News at MPA

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"Bridging Gaps in High-Mass Star Research: Physical Parameters, Formation and Evolution"

from Aug 10, 2026 09:00 AM to Sep 4, 2026 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

“GraphGP: Scalable Gaussian Processes With Vecchia’s Approximation and Application to the SPHEREx Survey”

Sep 1, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Special MPA Cosmology Seminar

"Bridging Gaps in High-Mass Star Research: Physical Parameters, Formation and Evolution"

from Aug 10, 2026 09:00 AM to Sep 4, 2026 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Bridging Gaps in High-Mass Star Research: Physical Parameters, Formation and Evolution"

from Aug 10, 2026 09:00 AM to Sep 4, 2026 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Bridging Gaps in High-Mass Star Research: Physical Parameters, Formation and Evolution"

from Aug 10, 2026 09:00 AM to Sep 4, 2026 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Boron in the Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy: From Astrochemistry to Prebiotic Chemistry"

Sep 4, 2026 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

LMU Open Science Summer School 2026 – Track 2: Open Science Instructor Training

from Sep 14, 2026 09:00 AM to Sep 15, 2026 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Cluster Lensing in the Stage-IV Era"

Sep 15, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

"Black Holes as Telescopes"

Sep 15, 2026 from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

TBA

Sep 16, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Claude Code: 24/7 Research Assistant"

Sep 16, 2026 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Stellar Siblings: The Concurrent Formation of Binary Stars and Star Clusters"

Sep 21, 2026 from 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

"The Golden Age of Stellar-Mass Black Holes: Do Observations Match Our Predictions?"

Sep 23, 2026 from 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

"Simulating Self-Interacting Dark Matter on GPUs"

Sep 23, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

Exceptionally on Wednesday instead of Tuesday

"Filaments to Subfilaments: Uncovering the Hierarchical Structure and Dynamics of the Cosmic Web"

Sep 23, 2026 from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Exceptionally on Wednesday instead of Tuesday

"Software Containerisation for Scientific Applications"

Sep 23, 2026 from 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"The Many Scales of Stellar Feedback – A Journey Across 9 Orders of Magnitude"

Sep 24, 2026 from 03:15 PM to 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)

ORIGINS RU-D Science Day

Sep 29, 2026 from 09:00 AM to 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"SuperCDMS SNOLAB: Current Status and Future Sensitivity to Sub-GeV Dark Matter"

Sep 29, 2026 from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

"The Universe at High Speed: The Digital Telescope"

Sep 30, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Upcoming seminars

"Stellar Siblings: The Concurrent Formation of Binary Stars and Star Clusters"

Sep 21, 2026 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPA, Room: New Seminar Room, E.0.11

"Simulating Self-Interacting Dark Matter on GPUs"

Exceptionally on Wednesday instead of Tuesday
Sep 23, 2026 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
MPA, Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11

"Filaments to Subfilaments: Uncovering the Hierarchical Structure and Dynamics of the Cosmic Web"

Exceptionally on Wednesday instead of Tuesday
Sep 23, 2026 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPA, Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11

"Software Containerisation for Scientific Applications"

Sep 23, 2026 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPP, Room: A.1.01 - Alps Süd

"The Many Scales of Stellar Feedback – A Journey Across 9 Orders of Magnitude"

Sep 24, 2026 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Garching, Room: Auditorium Eridanus

Job Offers

Meet our MPA fellows

​​​​​​​​2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Max Planck Society. On February 26, 1948, in Göttingen, the proven concept of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society as a successful model of non-university research funding was rescued for the young Federal Republic, but also changed in a forward-looking way. Both are the basis of the MPG in its present form and success. The anniversary is celebrated as the most important caesura within the history of the MPG, which goes back to 1911, and at the same time sets the course for the future viability of the society, which must be discussed again and again.
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About MPA

Structure

Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Selma E. de Mink

Scientific Members, Kollegium, Directors
Prof. Dr. Selma E. de Mink
Prof. Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann
Prof. Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu
Prof. Dr. Volker Springel

Emeritus Directors
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillebrandt
Prof. Dr. Rashid Sunyaev
Prof. Dr. Simon White

External Scientific Members
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Prof. Dr. Werner Tscharnuter

Head of the administration
Pia Fischhaber

Contact

Press and Public Relations
Dr. Hannelore Haemmerle
Phone: 089 30000-2179
email: pr@mpa-garching.mpg.de

Dr. Hans-Thomas Janka
Phone: 089 30000-2228
(contact per phone only)

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
Postfach 1317
D-85741 Garching, Germany

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