Upcoming Seminars and Lectures

"OpenCode and Local LLMs"

Code Coffee
  • Date: Oct 12, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Til Birnstiel (LMU)
  • Location: USM, Scheinerstraße 1
  • Room: Seminar Room (West)
  • Contact: code-coffee@usm.lmu.de
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"Dark Energy in Grey Matter"

MPA Institute Seminar
  • Date: Oct 12, 2026
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Torsten Enßlin (MPA)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: New Seminar Room, E.0.11
Weekly institute seminar at MPA featuring current research in astrophysics and cosmology. About 60 minutes including questions; open to the MPA community and guests. [more]

"Is There a Relationship Between the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate and Protostellar Disk Radius?"

ESO Star and Planet Formation Seminar
  • Date: Oct 13, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Travis Thieme (ASIAA - Taiwan)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Telescopium
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"Design of Moth-Eye Antireflection Structures for Sapphire Half-Wave Plates Using Anisotropic RCWA"

MPA Cosmology Seminar I
  • Date: Oct 13, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Kiyoshi Ikuma (Okayama Unisersity)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Patricia Diego, Rosie Talbot & Ruediger Pakmor
In each seminar there are typically two talks of 30 min each (20 min of presentation followed by 10 min of discussion). Other schedules may be arranged upon request.If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Patricia Diego , Rosie Talbot or Ruediger Pakmor. [more]

"Tide-And-Seek: Revealing Anisotropic Scale-Dependent Bias Through Selection Effects"

MPA Cosmology Seminar II
  • Date: Oct 13, 2026
  • Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Yong-Sheng Yap (Cambridge)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
In each seminar there are typically two talks of 30 min each (20 min of presentation followed by 10 min of discussion). Other schedules may be arranged upon request.If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Patricia Diego , Rosie Talbot or Ruediger Pakmor. [more]

"Euclid Transforms the Field of Strong Gravitational Lensing"

ESO Lunch Talk
  • Date: Oct 13, 2026
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Leon Roman Ecker (LMU / MPE)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Telescopium
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"Life in the Standard Model Desert: Dark Sectors and Cosmological Tensions"

MPP Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 13, 2026
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Martin Schmaltz (MPP)
  • Location: MPP
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"Why Binary Stars and Cluster Assembly May Solve All Our Multiple Population Problems in Globular Clusters"

ESO Informal Discussion
  • Date: Oct 14, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alison Sills (McMaster University)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Library
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"Shine Torches Through Protoplanetary Disks: A New Method to Probe Dust Properties"

LMU Astrophysics Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 14, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Gabriele Cugno (ETH Zurich)
  • Location: University Observatory Munich (USM), Scheinerstrasse 1, Munich
  • Room: Hörsaal der Universitäts-Sternwarte
  • Host: Til Birnstiel
The colloquium will start with coffee around 10:30 a.m., and the talk will begin at 11 a.m. [more]

"Investigating the Heart of Cassiopeia A: High Resolution Mapping of the Unshocked Ejecta With JWST"

SESTAS I
  • Date: Oct 14, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Danielle Dickinson (Purdue University)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: New Seminar Room, E.0.11
  • Host: Jinhao Cai, Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Jakub Klencki & Thibault Lechien
Stellar astrophysics seminar series with student-accessible talks focused on the lives, deaths, and afterlives of stars. Topics include the physics of stellar interiors, stellar explosions, binaries and multiple stars, and gravitational astrophysics. [more]

"Formation and Evolution of Extremely Massive and Super Massive Stars: A Pathway to Globular Cluster’s Multiple Populations and Little Red Dots"

SESTAS II
  • Date: Oct 14, 2026
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jaime Roman-Garza (University of Geneva)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Jinhao Cai, Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Jakub Klencki & Thibault Lechien
Stellar astrophysics seminar series with student-accessible talks focused on the lives, deaths, and afterlives of stars. Topics include the physics of stellar interiors, stellar explosions, binaries and multiple stars, and gravitational astrophysics. [more]

UNIVERSE+ Online Seminar (31/34)

MPP Particle Cosmology
  • Date: Oct 14, 2026
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPP
Special Online Seminar Session [more]

"Globular Cluster Systems in Dwarf Galaxies: Linking Dark Matter and Star Formation"

ESO Galaxy Evolution Coffee
  • Date: Oct 15, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Raimundo Ferreira (Valongo Observatory)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Library
  • Host: Ilaria Marini
  • Contact: ilaria.marini@eso.org
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"A Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 15, 2026
  • Time: 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ruth Durrer (Université de Genève)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Eridanus
Cookies and coffee from 3 p.m. [more]

TBA

Munich Dark Matter Meeting
  • Date: Oct 20, 2026
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Valentin Thoss (LMU)
  • Location: MPP
  • Room: A.2.25 - Atlas West
  • Host: ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence
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“What Do Galaxy Surveys Really Measure? Introduction to Relativistic Effects and Cosmological Tests of Gravity”

43rd Cosmology Lecture
  • Date: Oct 29, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sveva Castello (MPA)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Eiichiro Komatsu
  • Contact: komatsu@mpa-garching.mpg.de
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"NUCLEI 2026: Galaxy Nuclei – Diversity, Dynamics, and Hidden Mass in Galactic Centers"

ESO Workshop
  • Start: Nov 16, 2026
  • End: Nov 20, 2026
  • Location: ESO Santiago, Chile
  • Host: ESO
  • Contact: NUCLEI2026@eso.org
NUCLEI 2026 is a five-day ESO workshop focused on the structural and dynamical diversity of galactic nuclei, covering nuclear star clusters, intermediate-mass black holes, supermassive black holes, stripped galactic nuclei, and ultra-compact dwarfs. The workshop provides a forum to assess recent progress, present first results from new facilities, and discuss the future of galaxy nuclei science. [more]

"Showcasing Science and Synergies in Thermal Infrared Astronomy"

IR2026
  • Start: Nov 30, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 4, 2026 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Various Speakers
  • Location: ESO Chile, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
  • Host: ESO
  • Contact: ir2026@eso.org
IR2026 is an ESO conference on thermal infrared astronomy, examining the legacy of current facilities such as VISIR, MATISSE, ERIS, and JWST/MIRI, and preparing the community for upcoming instruments including ELT/METIS, VLTI/NOTT, TAO/MIMIZUKU, and future space missions. Registration is open. [more]

"Neutrinos as Cosmic Messengers: A Decade of Discovery and the Path Forward"

MIAPbP Neutrino Workshop
  • Start: Feb 8, 2027 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 5, 2027 05:00 PM
  • Host: MIAPbP
  • Contact: info@munich-iapbp.de
This workshop brings together theoretical and experimental experts to address key questions in neutrino astrophysics, including cosmic neutrino sources, multi-messenger synergies, and future detection strategies. [more]
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