MPA News 2018

Seeing How Stars Were Born: Fabrication of Six-metre CCAT-prime Telescope Has Begun

The telescope is scheduled to begin operation in 2021, enabling new insights into the ‘cosmic dawn’ – the birth of stars after the Big Bang – and the formation of stars and galaxies. The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) contributes to the construction of the telescope and MPA scientists will use the data to investigate the very early Universe. more

<p>Universe PhD Award 2018 for Bernhard Flierl and Titouan Lazeyras</p>

Bernhard Flierl (LMU) and Titouan Lazeyras (MPA)are awarded the Universe PhD Award 2018 of the Cluster of Excellence Universe for their outstanding dissertations. The award ceremony will take place during the Science Week 2018 of the Universe Cluster (3. - 6.12.2018). more

<p>Hochsprung Award honours company founded on the basis of information field theory</p>

Inspired by a lecture on information field theory, two former MPA PhD students founded the successful start-up IPT. Honouring this kind of knowledge transfer, both, the company founders and their former supervisor now received the Hochsprung Award presented by the Entrepreneurship Network of Bavarian Universities on October 17. more

<p>Kippenhahn Award for Aniket Agrawal and Jens Stücker</p>

The 2018 MPA summer party was not only a special thank you to this year’s Biermann lecturer Alice Shapley, UCLA, but also the occasion to congratulate two junior MPA scientists to their Kippenhahn Awards. Aniket Agrawal was honoured for his paper on “Large tensor non-Gaussianity from axion-gauge field dynamics”. Jens Stücker received the award for his paper “The median density of the Universe”. more

The 2018 Marcel Grossmann Award for Rashid Sunyaev

Professor Rashid Sunyaev, Director-emeritus of the Max-Planck-Institute for astrophysics has been awarded the 2018 Marcel Grossmann Award. more

New Probes of Distant Galaxies and Their Cosmic Environments During the Peak Epoch of Star Formation

By Professor Alice Shapley, UCLA, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy more

<p>Planck team receives Gruber cosmology prize</p>

Last week the Gruber foundation announced that this year’s cosmology prize is awarded to the Planck team, which includes scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA). From 2009 to 2013 the European Space Agency’s Planck observatory collected data that has provided cosmology with the definitive description of the universe on the largest and smallest scales. “These measurements,” the Gruber Prize citation reads, “have led to the determination of cosmological parameters (matter content, geometry, and evolution of the universe) to unprecedented precision.” more

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