Conferences

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The multiscale environment of AGN across cosmic time

Nov 23 - Nov 28 2025
Schloss Ringberg, Tegernsee (Germany)
Advancements in instrumentation and the development of new facilities have enabled the study of AGN with unprecedented detail, ranging from their nuclear engines to their host galaxies, halos, and large-scale megaparsec environments. The conference will convene leading experts from diverse career stages, representing observational and theoretical perspectives on each of the distinct scales surrounding AGN.

Stellar Populations and their Explosions: Bridging the Gap

Nov 10 - Nov 14 2025
Schloss Ringberg, Tegernsee (Germany)
Stars and their final explosions are of pivotal importance for the evolution of the universe as producers of heavy chemical elements and as birth sites of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes, which play a role as sources of gravitational waves and as important laboratories for nuclear, neutrino, and beyond-standard-model particle physics. more

Modelling of Multiphase Astrophysical Media

Nov 2-7, 2025
A wide range of astrophysical systems are multiphase. Gas phases at vastly different temperatures are co-spatial, interact with each other, and often lie at the core of understanding the matter and energy flows determining the dynamics of those systems. more

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Theoreticians or Observers Alike: Get Ready to submit a successful PLATO Open Time Proposal

20 – 21 Oct 2025
ESA's PLATO space mission is in the final assembly stage before its launch. Its core science program covers time domain astronomy for exoplanets and stellar oscillations. A call for proposals for its Open Time Program is anticipated for spring 2026.
If you are keen to explore whether PLATO can be used for your brilliant ideas in time-domain astronomy, but you are not very familiar with its instrumentation yet, then this workshop is for you. Our team and fellow participants will work with you to prepare and test your ideas in a welcoming and collaborative atmosphere, helping you get ready to write a successful proposal. more

LISA Astrophysics Working Group Meeting 2024

Nov 5-7 2024

We are pleased to invite you to the Astrophysics Working Group Meeting. This meeting will be conducted in a hybrid format, allowing for both in-person and virtual participation. The in-person sessions will be hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Garching, Germany. more

Wolfgang Hillebrandt’s 80th Birthday Symposium

August 05, 2024

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

26.6. - 4.8. 2023 more

Modelling of Multiphase Astrophysical Media

30.05. - 2.06.2023 more

Visualizing simulations of turbulence and beyond

3 May 2023 more

Present and Future of Line-Intensity Mapping

Line-Intensity mapping (LIM) is a novel technique to map cosmological volumes which allows to access unexplored regimes and unique cosmological and astrophysical information. The workshop “Present and Future of Line-Intensity Mapping”, which will take place on April 18-21 at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, in Garching, Germany, will cover the study of the final stages of reionization, cosmic noon and low redshift with LIM (i.e., z <~ 10). Special emphasis will be put on the challenges (instrumental, observational and theoretical) that need to be addressed to fulfill LIM's potential and turn this technique into a mature cosmological and astrophysical probe. more

VFTS Collaboration Meeting

We are happy to announce that the next VFTS meeting will take place between the 27-29 of March 2023 at MPA in Garching by Munich. This is a closed meeting open to members of the VFTS collaboration and those who have received a personal invitation. more

The Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium

26 February - 3 March, 2023 more

Lyman-X Day

5 October 2022
The main goal of the workshop is to connect scientists within the Munich community that work on Lyman lines (both emission and absorption; Lyman-alpha, Lyman-beta, …) and Lyman continuum - so called Lyman-X, and to spark a discussion for future collaborations. more

Gas Flows around Galaxies

May 24, 2022 more

XXth Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics

2. - 5.11. 2021
Schloss Ringberg, Tegernsee (Germany)

This meeting is the 20th in the series of Nuclear Astrophysics Workshops on Ringberg Castle. As in previous workshops, the goal is to bring together scientists from nuclear astrophysics, galactic evolution, and stellar and supernova theory and observations. more

Inward Bound: Bulges from high redshifts to the Milky Way

23-27 November 2020, ESO

B-mode from Space

16–19 December 2019 at MPA, Garching

This is the third of the “B-mode from Space” workshop series. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the science goals, status of CMB polarization projects, foregrounds and mission design, technologies and challenges for the space-borne observations of CMB polarization. The synergies with ground-based/balloon and other cosmological experiments/surveys will be discussed.

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CGM Berlin 2019

3-5 Oktober 2019, Harnack House, Berlin

The goal of this meeting is to bring together a focused group of experts (~40, see below) who are actively working on the circumgalactic medium, from both the theoretical and observational perspectives, to discuss recent advances. more

Bayesian Imaging Meets Radio Reality II

5-9 August 2019

XIXth Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics

25. - 30.3. 2019
Schloss Ringberg, Tegernsee (Germany)

This meeting is the 19th in the series of Nuclear Astrophysics Workshops on Ringberg Castle. As in previous workshops, the goal is to bring together scientists from nuclear astrophysics, galactic evolution, and stellar and supernova theory and observations. more

Weighing Stars from Birth to Death: How to Determine Stellar Masses?

19-23 November 2018, Lorentz Center, Leiden (NL) Accurate and precise stellar masses, and by implication ages, are not only critical for Galactic archaeology but also for many other fields in astrophysics, from exoplanets studies to the understanding of advanced stages of stellar evolution. The main aim of this workshop is to bring together participants from several fields to discuss and compare the different mass determination techniques used for different types of stars, confront the strengths and weaknesses of all methods, and establish the required level of precision for a wide range of applications. more

IllustrisTNG Science Workshop 2018

15-17 October 2018, MPA

The focus of this meeting lies on discussing science results obtained in analysing IllustrisTNG, but some topics beyond these simulations will also be discussed, both from an observational and theoretical perspective. more

ICM physics and modelling

8-10 October 2018

A Joint Workshop of the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany more

Summer School on Large-Scale Structure

23-27 July 2018 at the Harnack-Haus, Berlin

The field of large-scale structure (LSS) is rapidly evolving, and becoming increasingly technical and specialized. At the same time, there is high demand for a new generation of cosmologists to develop model predictions and exploit the upcoming data sets from galaxy surveys. This school aims to provide a focused, in-depth training for this purpose. more

Bayesian inference meets radio reality 2018

15-20 July 2018

An informal workshop within the D-MeerKAT and D-LOFAR projects.
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CMB in Germany

31 Jan - 1 Feb 2018 at MPA, Garching

We are entering new era of the cosmic microwave background research. Rapid progress in large-scale instrumentation will make it possible to achieve unprecedented sensitivity in microwave band measurements over a large fraction of the sky. There exist great opportunities worldwide: CMB S4 for the ground-based efforts, and LiteBIRD for space, to mention two examples. more

Conferences

The multiscale environment of AGN across cosmic time

Stellar Populations and their Explosions: Bridging the Gap

Modelling of Multiphase Astrophysical Media

Theoreticians or Observers Alike: Get Ready to submit a successful PLATO Open Time Proposal

LISA Astrophysics Working Group Meeting 2024

Wolfgang Hillebrandt’s 80th Birthday Symposium

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

Modelling of Multiphase Astrophysical Media

Visualizing simulations of turbulence and beyond

Present and Future of Line-Intensity Mapping

VFTS Collaboration Meeting

The Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium

Lyman-X Day

Gas Flows around Galaxies

XXth Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics

Inward Bound: Bulges from high redshifts to the Milky Way

B-mode from Space

CGM Berlin 2019

Bayesian Imaging Meets Radio Reality II

XIXth Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics

Weighing Stars from Birth to Death: How to Determine Stellar Masses?

IllustrisTNG Science Workshop 2018

ICM physics and modelling

Summer School on Large-Scale Structure

Bayesian inference meets radio reality 2018

CMB in Germany

CoCoNuT meeting 2017

The Progenitor-Supernova-Remnant Connection

18th Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics

Theoretical and Observational Progress on Large-scale Structure of the Universe

ICM Physics and Modeling

The Near Infrared Background II: From Reionization to the Present Epoch