Veranstaltungen am Institut und mit Beteiligung des MPE

ISAPP School 2026 - Pre-Registration Deadline (TUM PhD Students)

Deadline
  • Datum: 27.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 00:00 - 01:00
PhD students on a TUM contract are requested to pre-register for the ISAPP School 2026 (20–31 July 2026, Garching) via an internal spreadsheet by 28 April 2026. [mehr]

"Latest Results from the NIKA2 mm Camera"

MPE Seminar
  • Datum: 27.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00
  • Vortragende(r): Stefano Berta (IRAM, Grenoble)
  • Ort: MPE
  • Raum: X5/1.1.18b
Stefano Berta presents the latest science results from the NIKA2 dual-band continuum camera operating at the IRAM 30m telescope, covering topics from star-forming filaments and nearby galaxies to galaxy clusters and the high-redshift Universe. [mehr]

"Is There an Ideal Tool to Model Cosmic Reionization?"

MPA Institute Seminar
  • Datum: 27.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): Benedetta Ciardi (MPA)
  • Ort: MPA
  • Raum: 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. [mehr]

"Completing the Puzzle: A High-Energy Perspective on Young Star Clusters and Their Environments"

ESO Star and Planet Formation Seminar
  • Datum: 28.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 11:00
  • Vortragende(r): Stefano Menchiari (IAA-CSIC)
  • Ort: ESO Garching
  • Raum: Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching)

"Efficiently Emulating Distribution Functions in Gigaparsec Volumes for Varying Cosmological Parameters"

MPA Cosmology Seminar
  • This event will take place in Room 006.
  • Datum: 28.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00
  • Vortragende(r): Chris Lovell (Cambridge)
  • Ort: MPA
  • Raum: 006 (downstairs)

"Peering Down the Barrel With DESI DR2: 10,000+ Inflows at z < 0.6"

ESO Lunch Talk
  • Datum: 28.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 12:00 - 12:45
  • Vortragende(r): Simon Weng (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille)
  • Ort: ESO Garching
  • Raum: Auditorium Telescopium

"Recent Progress and Developments in Fusion Research (Where We Are on the Path to a Magnetic Confinement Fusion Reactor)"

MPP Colloquium
  • Datum: 28.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 15:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende(r): Rachael McDermott (IPP)
  • Ort: MPP
  • Raum: A.1.01 - Alps

"Novel Forward and Inverse Approaches to Modelling the Observable Universe"

ORIGINS Guest Lecture
  • Datum: 29.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00
  • Vortragende(r): Chris Lovell (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge)
  • Ort: Universitäts-Sternwarte München (USM), Scheinerstraße 1, 81679 Munich, Germany
  • Raum: 133 (1st floor, main building at Scheinerstr.1)
  • Gastgeber: ORIGINS Excellence Cluster
  • Kontakt: odele.straub@origins-cluster.de
Chris Lovell presents new forward and inverse approaches to simulating the observable Universe, combining zoom simulation frameworks, galaxy emission modelling, and deep learning methods to bridge cosmic-scale structure and individual galaxy evolution. The lecture is also accessible online. [mehr]

"Cluster Bootstrap for Seven-Particle Amplitudes and a Quiver Construction for Form Factor Alphabets"

MPP Theory Seminar
  • Datum: 29.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00
  • Vortragende(r): Jiahao Liu (Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing)
  • Ort: MPP
  • Raum: A.1.01/03 - Alps

"When is a Quantum Computer Really Quantum?"

Wednesday Coffee Talk
  • Datum: 29.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 14:00
  • Vortragende(r): Roberto Giuntini (Università di Cagliari)
  • Department of Education, Psychology, and Philosophy, Università di Cagliari
  • Raum: Online (Zoom)
  • Gastgeber: TUM Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS)
  • Kontakt: events@ias.tum.de
Roberto Giuntini examines how Bell- and Mermin-type inequalities from the foundations of physics can serve as practical benchmarking tools to detect genuinely quantum correlations in today's Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. The talk takes place online via Microsoft Teams. [mehr]

"White Dwarf Binaries: Accretion Physics, Gravitational Wave Sources, and Thermonuclear Supernovae"

SESTAS I
  • Datum: 29.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 14:30
  • Vortragende(r): Boris Gänsicke (University of Warwick)
  • Ort: MPA
  • Raum: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Gastgeber: 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. [mehr]

"3D Insights into SN1987A: ALMA Observations Compared to Hydrodynamical Explosion Simulations"

SESTAS II
  • Datum: 29.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 14:30 - 15:00
  • Vortragende(r): Michael Gabler (University of Valencia)
  • Ort: MPA
  • Raum: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Gastgeber: 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. [mehr]

"Do Galaxy Mergers Increase Star Formation and Turbulence at Cosmic Noon?"

ESO Galaxy Evolution Coffee
  • Datum: 30.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 10:00 - 10:30
  • Vortragende(r): Isaac Kanowski (Australian National University)
  • Ort: ESO Garching
  • Raum: Library

"How the Atmosphere Determines the Surface Temperature of a Planet"

Geoscience of Exoplanets Seminar
  • Datum: 30.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 14:15 - 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Bernhard Mayer (LMU)
  • Chair of Experimental Meteorology, Meteorological Institute, LMU Munich; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen
  • Ort: LMU, Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Theresienstraße 41C, 80333 München
  • Raum: C307
  • Gastgeber: Munich Center for Geoastronomy, LMU
  • Kontakt: center.geoastronomy@lmu.de
Bernhard Mayer presents a lecture on how atmospheric composition and dynamics determine the surface temperature of a planet, using Earth and Venus as examples, as part of the Geoscience of Exoplanets Seminar Series. The session includes a 15-minute break at 15:00. [mehr]

"Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Signatures of Binary Black Holes With Circumbinary Gas"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
  • Datum: 30.04.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 15:15 - 16:15
  • Vortragende(r): Zoltan Haiman (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
  • Ort: ESO Garching
  • Raum: Auditorium Eridanus
Cookies and coffee from 3 p.m. [mehr]

"Where Does the Time Go? Understanding Performance Using SPACE-Timers"

Code Coffee
  • Datum: 04.05.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 15:00
  • Vortragende(r): Geray Karademir (USM)
  • Member of SPACE (EuroHPC JU, PI Dolag); Interests: Code development, High Performance Computing, GPUs
  • Ort: USM
  • Raum: Seminar Room West, 1st floor
  • Kontakt: code-coffee@usm.lmu.de
Geray Karademir presents a Code Coffee talk on understanding computational performance using SPACE-Timers. [mehr]

Call for Proposals – ESO Science Workshops 2027

Deadline
  • Datum: 11.05.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 00:00 - 01:00
  • Gastgeber: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
  • Kontakt: janderso@eso.org
Call for proposals for ESO science workshops 2027, focusing on scientific collaboration, hybrid participation, and diversity. [mehr]

"Von der Dunkelheit ins Licht – Die Geburt von Sternen und Planeten"

Café & Kosmos
  • Datum: 12.05.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 19:00 - 20:30
  • Vortragende(r): Birgitta Müller (MPE)
  • Ort: Wirtshaus zum Isartal, Brudermühlstraße 2, 81371 München
  • Gastgeber: MPE
  • Kontakt: cafe-kosmos@origins-cluster.de
Birgitta Müller erklärt, wie die Entstehung von Sternensystemen beobachtet und mit Spektrometrie deren chemische Entwicklung erforscht werden kann – von den ersten molekularen Bausteinen in dunklen Staub- und Gaswolken bis hin zu den Grundbausteinen des Lebens. Der Eintritt ist frei. [mehr]

"The Cosmic and Galactic Baryon Cycles"

LMU Astrophysics Colloquium
  • Datum: 20.05.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 11:00 - 12:00
  • Vortragende(r): Celine Peroux (ESO)
  • Ort: University Observatory Munich (USM), Scheinerstrasse 1, Munich
  • Raum: Hörsaal der Universitäts-Sternwarte
  • Gastgeber: Daniel Grün
The festivities will start with coffee around 10:30 a.m., and the talk will begin at 11 a.m. [mehr]

"Continuing the JWST Revolution — Understanding Early Galaxy Formation"

MIAPbP Workshop
  • Beginn: 01.06.2026 00:00
  • Ende: 26.06.2026 00:00
  • Vortragende(r): Pascal Oesch, Richard Ellis, Benedetta Ciardi, Adriano Fontana, Alice Shapley, plus participants
  • International team of leading scientists in early galaxy formation and reionization, from institutions including University of Geneva, UCL, MPA, INAF Rome, and UCLA.
  • Ort: MIAPbP
  • Raum: MIAPbP
  • Gastgeber: MIAPbP
  • Kontakt: info@munich-iapp.de
A four-week MIAPbP workshop in Garching on early galaxy formation, black holes, and reionization in the era of JWST, ALMA, SKA, and ELT.Registration is open; deadline September 7, 2025. Held June 1–26, 2026. [mehr]

CMF2IMF – The Origin of the Stellar Initial Mass Function

ESO Workshop
  • Beginn: 08.06.2026
  • Ende: 12.06.2026
  • Vortragende(r): Various Speakers
  • Ort: ESO Headquarters, Garching
  • Raum: Main Conference Hall
  • Gastgeber: ESO
  • Kontakt: CMF2IMF@eso.org
The Origin of the Stellar Initial Mass Function: From Core Mass Function to Stellar Mass Distribution [mehr]
Portrait von Ludwig Biermann

Let There Be Noise

Biermann Lectures
  • Datum: 24.06.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): Prof. Benjamin D. Wandelt, Johns Hopkins University
  • Ort: MPA
  • Raum: MPA, new seminar room E.0.11
All lectures take place in the MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 [mehr]

Registration Deadline – MIAPbP Neutrino Workshop

Deadline
Registration deadline for the MIAPbP Neutrino Workshop (February 8 – March 5, 2027). [mehr]

"Primordial Cosmology: Novel Perspectives From Scattering Amplitudes, Holography and the Bootstrap"

MIAPbP Workshop
  • Beginn: 29.06.2026
  • Ende: 24.07.2026
  • Vortragende(r): Various Speakers
  • Ort: Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP), Boltzmannstraße 2, 85748 Garching bei München
  • Gastgeber: MIAPbP
  • Kontakt: workshop@munich-iapp.de
Workshop on the origin of structure in the universe, focusing on new theoretical perspectives in primordial cosmology. [mehr]

"Supermassive Black Holes and Blue Notes Conference 2026"

Conference
  • Beginn: 29.06.2026
  • Ende: 03.07.2026
  • Vortragende(r): Various Speakers
  • Ort: Campus MIL, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
  • Raum: Main conference halls (on-site)
  • Gastgeber: Université de Montréal (UdeM), in collaboration with international partners
  • Kontakt: smbh2026@phys.umontreal.ca
Supermassive Black Holes and Blue Notes: Advancing the Frontiers of Astrophysics [mehr]
Portrait von Ludwig Biermann

Learning the Universe

Biermann Lectures
  • Datum: 01.07.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): Prof. Benjamin D. Wandelt, Johns Hopkins University
  • Ort: MPA
  • Raum: MPA, new seminar room E.0.11
All lectures take place in the MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 [mehr]

"AGN Feedback Across All Scales and Time"

ESO Workshop
  • Beginn: 06.07.2026 09:00
  • Ende: 10.07.2026 16:00
  • Vortragende(r): Various Speakers
  • Ort: ESO Garching
Scientific workshop dedicated to the study of AGN feedback across different spatial scales, gas phases, and cosmic epochs. [mehr]
Portrait von Ludwig Biermann

A New Dawn of Science

Biermann Lectures
  • Datum: 08.07.2026
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): Prof. Benjamin D. Wandelt, Johns Hopkins University
  • Ort: MPA
  • Raum: MPA, new seminar room E.0.11
All lectures take place in the MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 [mehr]

"Expanding Horizons: What Are the Astronomical Challenges of the 2040s"

Expanding Horizons
  • Beginn: 13.07.2026
  • Ende: 17.07.2026
  • Ort: ESO Garching
  • Gastgeber: ESO – European Southern Observatory
  • Kontakt: ExpH_workshop@eso.org
A community-wide five-day workshop bringing together astronomers from a wide range of research backgrounds to identify the key scientific challenges of the 2040s and the transformational ground-based facilities required to address them. In-person participation is limited to 150 participants; remote participation is free of charge. [mehr]

"Geoastronomy and Origins of Life"

Exoplanets by the Lake IV
  • Beginn: 19.07.2026 15:00
  • Ende: 24.07.2026 12:00
  • Ort: Hotel Seespitz Gästehaus
  • Gastgeber: janhvi.jaiswal@lmu.de
Focused summer school on geoastronomy and origins of life, featuring leading experts in planetary science and astrobiology. [mehr]

"The Low Energy Frontier – Dark Matter and Neutrinos in Theory and Experiments"

ISAPP School 2026
  • Beginn: 20.07.2026
  • Ende: 31.07.2026
  • Gastgeber: MPP & LMU
  • Kontakt: isapp@mpp.mpg.de
The ISAPP Summer School 2026 introduces PhD students and young researchers to the low-energy frontier of astroparticle physics, with a focus on dark matter and neutrinos from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. The two-week programme at the Garching Research Campus combines lectures by international experts with interactive discussions, Q&A sessions, and hands-on sessions. [mehr]

"Bridging Gaps in High-Mass Star Research: Physical Parameters, Formation and Evolution"

MIAPbP Workshop
  • Beginn: 10.08.2026 09:00
  • Ende: 04.09.2026 18:00
  • Vortragende(r): Sergio Simón-Díaz, Alceste Bonanos, Sylvia Ekström, Miguel A. Urbaneja, Ashley Barne
  • Ort: MIAPbP, Boltzmannstraße 2, 85748 Garching
  • Gastgeber: Munich Institute for Astro-, Particle and BioPhysics (MIAPbP)
  • Kontakt: info@munich-iapbp.de
An interdisciplinary MIAPbP programme advancing research on massive stars from formation to final fate. [mehr]

Europlanet Science Congress 2026

Europlanet Science Congress 2026
  • Beginn: 06.09.2026
  • Ende: 11.09.2026
  • Ort: The Hague, Netherlands
  • Gastgeber: Europlanet Science Congress
Annual planetary science conference featuring sessions on star and planet formation, exoplanets, and planetary science research. [mehr]

"Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Chemical Reaction Networks: From Cell Metabolism to Design Principles for Synthetic Life"

MIAPbP Workshop
  • Beginn: 07.09.2026
  • Ende: 18.09.2026
  • Vortragende(r): Various Speakers
  • Ort: MIAPbP, Munich, Germany
  • Raum: MIAPbP Conference Hall
  • Gastgeber: MIAPbP
  • Kontakt: workshop@munich-iapp.de
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Chemical Reaction Networks: from Cell Metabolism to Design Principles for Synthetic Life [mehr]

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

MIAPbP Neutrino Workshop
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. [mehr]
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