July 2025
21/07/25 (Monday)
15:30, MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 (MPA, Garching) | ESO Garching
MPA Institute Seminar
Talk — The First Magnetic Fields: Open Questions
Kandaswamy Subramanian (IUCAA)
19:00, Center for Advanced Studies at LMU, Seestrasse 13, Munich | ESO Garching
CAS Seminar
Talk — Essence of Life: What Does Science Know About Life?
Andreas Burkert (Astrophysics, LMU), Ahmad Milad Karimi (Islamic Philosophy, University of Münster), Petra Schwille (Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry)
22/07/25 (Tuesday)
09:00, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
ORIGINS Workshop
Talk — From Disk Formation to Exoplanetary Systems
Various
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — An independent path to the cosmological distance scale: The SBF method – recent results and future prospects
Michele Cantiello (INAF)
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The surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) method offers a powerful, independent route to measuring extragalactic distances and plays a key role in calibrating the cosmic distance scale. In this talk, I will provide a brief overview of the SBF technique and its place within the broader landscape of distance indicators. I will then highlight recent scientific results based on SBF measurements, focusing in particular on the TRGB-SBF project with JWST and its implications for the ongoing "Hubble tension." I will also present early results from SBF studies using Euclid and LSST-precursor data. Finally, future prospects for the method with upcoming facilities, including Roman and the ELT will be presented.
13:00, MPP A1.01/03 Alps | ESO Garching
MPP Theory Seminar
Talk — Parity Violation in Cosmology Cosmological Correlators (1/1)
Eiichiro Komatsu (MPA)
13:30, MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 (MPA, Garching) | ESO Garching
EU Grants and Fellowships Seminar
Talk — EU Grants and Fellowships for Post-Docs in Horizon Europe
EU Office Bavaria Team
15:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Star and Planet Formation Seminar
Talk — The initial conditions for disk evolution and planet formation
Leonardo Testi (University of Bologna)
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One of the key goals of the ECOGAL project has been to derive realistic constraints on the initial conditions of disks in
different galactic environments. In this talk I will discuss why this is an important, necessary , and difficult problem to tackle,
the approach that we have been following and the results so far. I will highlight the need to develop and test realistic numerical
simulations, our progress in this area, and why the simple observational estimates of disk bulk properties that are commonly
published may result in profound mistakes (e.g. if used in planet population synthesis models).
23/07/25 (Wednesday)
10:00, MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 (MPA, Garching) | ESO Garching
MPA Seminar
Talk — From Cosmic Dawn to Present Day: Galaxy Formation, Kinematics and Dynamics through Cosmic Time
Rhea-Silvia Remus (LMU / MPA)
10:00, Library (ESO HQ, Garching) | ESO Garching
Informal Discussion
Talk — A Live Guide to Analysing Spectral Emission Lines and More with STAR‑MELT
Justyn Campbell-White (ESO, Garching)
11:00, MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 (MPA, Garching) | ESO Garching
Cosmology Seminar
Talk — 1: TBA; 2: The Milky Way in Context: The Formation of Galactic Discs and Chemical Sequences From a Cosmological Perspective
Speaker 1: Yu Hamada (DESY); Speaker 2: Matt Orkney (Barcelona)
11:00, USM, Scheinerstr. 1, Munich | ESO Garching
LMU Astrophysics Seminar
Talk — Characterizing the Three-Dimensional Nature of Exoplanet Atmospheres: From Hot Gas Giants to Temperate Rocky Planets
Tad Komacek (Oxford University)
11:00, ORIGINS basement seminar room (across from MIAPbP building) | ESO Garching
ORIGINS Cluster Visitor Talk
Talk — The Murales Project: The Properties of the Ionized Gas in a Sample of Radio Galaxies Observed With the Optical Integral Field Spectrograph MUSE
Barbara Balmaverde (INAF, Observatory of Turin, Italy)
14:15, LMU, Room 307, Theresienstrasse 41C, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, | ESO Garching
The Geoscience of Exoplanets for Astrophysicists
Talk — Machine Learning Interatomic Potential for Earth Materials: Predicting Phase Diagrams, Equations of State, Diffusivity, and Interfacial Properties
Xin Zhong (CLADE Biotechnology, Germany; formerly Freie Universität Berlin)
24/07/25 (Thursday)
10:00, Library (ESO HQ, Garching) | ESO Garching
Galaxy Evolution Coffee
Talk — Probing hot gas in galaxy groups: Insights from X-rays and simulations
Viktoriia Toptun (ESO, Garching)
11:00, MPA Large Seminar Room E.0.11 (MPA, Garching) | ESO Garching
40th Cosmology Lecture
Talk — Axion Birefringence: Probing Ultra-Light Particles with Polarized Light
Patricia Diego Palazuelos (MPA)
11:00, MPA Old Lecture Hall 401 | ESO Garching
Garching Supernova Meeting
Talk — Star Formation Near the Sun Is Quenched by Expansion of the Local Bubble
Leonard Romano (MPA)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — Big Science with small telescopes: Understanding the importance and evolution of the most compact binaries using large scale time-domain surveys
Thomas Kupfer (University of Hamburg)
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Compact object binaries are a class of binary systems with periods below a few hours and physical separations
between components as small as the Earth-Moon distance consisting of compact objects such as white dwarfs,
compact helium stars and in rare cases even neutron stars. The study of these short period systems and their
subsequent mergers are important to our understanding of a wide range of areas including supernova Ia progenitors,
binary evolution and they are predicted to be the strongest Galactic gravitational wave sources in the LISA band. Compact binaries
are believed to form in interacting binaries through various phases of mass-transfer, which requires poorly understood
physical processes. As such the evolution of these systems is still uncertain. In this talk I will show how the development
of large-scale sky surveys, such as Gaia, the Zwicky Transient Facility, BlackGEM as well as SDSS-V help us to shape our
understanding of the final stages of compact binary evolution. I will also present a few highlights, including the discovery of
a candidate supernova Ia progenitor, and a new class of mass transferring compact helium stars.
29/07/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Mar Mezcua (Institute of Space Sciences, Barcelona)
September 2025
02/09/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Alison Mitchell (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
16/09/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Sebastian Grandis (University of Innsbruck)
18/09/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Raffaella Margutti (Berkeley)
23/09/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Filippo Mannucci (INAF Arcetri)
25/09/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Jarle Brinchmann (ESO)
30/09/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Mara Claudia Ramrez-Tannus (MPIA)
October 2025
02/10/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Chris Martin (Caltech)
07/10/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Seona Lee (ICRAR/Perth)
09/10/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Izaskun Jimenez-Serra (CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CAB)
21/10/25 (Tuesday)
12:00, Auditorium Telescopium (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Lunch Talk
Talk — to be announced
Giovanna Liberato (Observatory of Valongo)
23/10/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Andrew Fox (Space Telescope Science Institute)
30/10/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Brandon Hensley (Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA)
November 2025
06/11/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Melissa McClure (Leiden University)
13/11/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Zhaohuan Zhu (University of Nevada)
20/11/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Linda Podio (INAF)
27/11/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — Cosmic Fireworks: Building Discovery Engines for Time-Domain Astronomy
Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech)
December 2025
04/12/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Brett A. McGuire (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11/12/25 (Thursday)
15:15, Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching) | ESO Garching
Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
Talk — to be announced
Salvatore Orlando (INAF)