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Maria Werhahn honoured with the Carl Ramsauer Prize

November 30, 2023

MPA postdoc Maria Werhahn has been awarded the Carl Ramsauer Prize by the Physikalische Gesellschaft zu Berlin for her doctoral thesis “Simulating Galaxy Evolution with Cosmic Rays: The Multi-Frequency View”. The award ceremony took place on 22 November 2023 at the Technical University of Berlin, where she also presented her work in a short lecture.

Volker Springel becomes Vice President of the Astronomical Society

October 11, 2023

At its 2023 Annual Meeting, the German Astronomical Society elected Volker Springel, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics as Vice President.

Spirals, waves and gliding along

September 06, 2023

While concerned with massive objects such as neutron stars and black holes in her work, Martyna Chruslinska loves the lightweight feeling of figure skating in her spare time.

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The First Spatially-resolved Detection of 13CN in a Protoplanetary Disk and Evidence for Complex Carbon Isotope Fractionation

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The Circum-Galactic Medium: Observations meet Simulations

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Microlensing@High-Res.ESO: New Frontiers in Black Hole and Exoplanet Discoveries

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To shrink or not to shrink: how accretion from a circumbinary disk affects the orbit of binary stars and black holes

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Searching for “Lonely” Dark Objects with Microlensing

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How do Be stars tick?

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A machine learning approach to understanding the ionised ISM in nearby galaxies

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Present and past activity of Sgr A*

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Do we understand cosmic structure growth? Insights from new CMB lensing measurements with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

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Type I X-ray bursts as probes of the neutron star accretion environment

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Fundamental physics without spacetime: ideas, results and challenges from quantum gravity and beyond

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Spirals, waves and gliding along

September 06, 2023

While concerned with massive objects such as neutron stars and black holes in her work, Martyna Chruslinska loves the lightweight feeling of figure skating in her spare time.

Kavli Summer Program In Astrophysics 2023:
The lives, deaths and afterlives of interacting stars

The study of stellar structure and evolution, the lives and sometimes explosive deaths of stars, has involved numerous insights into physics and astrophysics. This summer school will bring together experts in stars and their interactions, including specialists in relevant modern computational tools, to work together with the student fellows to improve our understanding of the physics, outcomes, and significance of stellar interactions.

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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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
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Prof. Dr. Werner Tscharnuter

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Pia Fischhaber

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