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The legacy analysis of KiDS – a blueprint for Stage 4 surveys

Jul 2, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

The importance and difficulty of far-infrared astronomy

Jul 2, 2025 from 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM (Local Time Germany)

ESO Lunch Talk

Jul 2, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

A Meta-Learning Framework for decoding black hole information from optical variability

Jul 2, 2025 from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Galactic Ecosystems Under The Microscope: Lessons From Highly-Resolved Studies

from Jul 7, 2025 12:00 AM to Jul 11, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Galactic Ecosystems Under The Microscope: Lessons From Highly-Resolved Studies

from Jul 7, 2025 12:00 AM to Jul 11, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Mental Load—How to Stay Positive During Change and Crises

Jul 8, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Galactic Ecosystems Under The Microscope: Lessons From Highly-Resolved Studies

from Jul 7, 2025 12:00 AM to Jul 11, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Galactic Ecosystems Under The Microscope: Lessons From Highly-Resolved Studies

from Jul 7, 2025 12:00 AM to Jul 11, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Galactic Ecosystems Under The Microscope: Lessons From Highly-Resolved Studies

from Jul 7, 2025 12:00 AM to Jul 11, 2025 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Upcoming seminars

From Random Forests to Transformers: Evolving Machine Learning for Time-Domain Astronomy in ALeRCE

Jul 1, 2025 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Headquarters, Garching, Room: ESO Auditorium "Telescopium" and online

The impact of close encounters and planets on the formation and evolution of solar system analogs, the debris disk systems

Jul 1, 2025 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Headquarters, Garching, Room: ESO Auditorium "Fornax" and online

Flux calibration: For the physics in astrophysics shouldn't we use SI-units (and why SI and not IS)

Jul 2, 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Headquarters, Garching, Room: ESO Library

The legacy analysis of KiDS – a blueprint for Stage 4 surveys

Jul 2, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
USM, Scheinerstr. 1, München, Room: and via zoom

The importance and difficulty of far-infrared astronomy

Jul 2, 2025 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
Boltzmannstarße 2, Garching, Room: Cluster, Groud Floor Seminar Room

ESO Lunch Talk

Jul 2, 2025 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Headquarters, Garching, Room: ESO Auditorium "Eridanus" and online

Job Offers

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Meet our MPA fellows

A look back forward
​​​​​​​​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. Eiichiro Komatsu

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 30000-3980
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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