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Galaxy Coffee is the informal seminar of the "Galaxies & Cosmology" Department at the MPIA. It is held each Thursday every week at 11:00 am on the third floor at the MPIA.
Currently, we run Galaxy Coffee in hybrid mode in the auditorium/Hörsaal.
If you would like to participate via zoom, please contact the organisers for the zoom link.
Please contact any of the organizers if you would like to volunteer for the free slots available:
- Nadine Neumayer (neumayer@mpia.de)
- Guillaume Guiglion (guiglion@mpia.de)
- Mariia Demianenko (demianenko@mpia.de)
Galaxy Coffee rules:
- keep the talk brief - as a guideline, focus on one punchline.
- make sure to introduce the topic for the "general" audience, i.e. students and people not working in the field.
- we encourage black board presentations, (few) slides are also welcome
- talk time: 10 - 15 minutes.
- discussion time: 5 - 10 minutes (during or after the talk).
- total time per slot must not exceed 25 minutes.
- including some buffer for announcements and general discussions ('I always wondered if / how / why XYZ works' et al.), total Galaxy Coffee time is ~ 60 minutes.
2024
| Date | Slot | Who | What |
| 18th April | 1 | Antti Rantala (MPA) | Hierarchical star cluster assembly boosts IMBH formation |
| C: U.Dudzeviciute | 2 | Kirill Shiianov (Capgemini Engineering) | From Atoms to Galaxies - Introduction to quantum computing and how it can help advancing astrophysics |
| 25th April | 1 | Soumavo Ghosh | Closing the 'gap': secular evolution of bar-induced dark gaps in presence of thick disks |
| C: A.Ravishankar | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 2nd May | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: A.Dumont | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 9th May | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Ascension Day |
| 16th May | 1 | Sahar Shahaf (Weizmann) | Stellar BH Searches |
| C: L.R.Seeburger | 2 | Akanksha Kapahtia | reionization (TBD) |
| 23rd May | 1 | Heidi Korhonen | Introducing the technical department |
| C: P. Gaikwad | 2 | Heidi Korhonen & colleagues | workshop tour |
| 30th May | 1 | No Galaxy Coffee | public holiday |
| C: | 2 | No Galaxy Coffee | Corpus Christi |
| 6th June | 1 | Vedant Chandra (Harvard) | TBD |
| C: Y.M. Sharma | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 13th June | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: F.Walter | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 20th June | 1 | Martin Fournier (Uni Hamburg) | The life and death of cold filaments in cool-core clusters |
| C: T. Cantat | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 27th June | 1 | Tavisha Dharmawardena | TBD |
| C: N.Storm | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 4th July | 1 | Emily Griffith (Colorado) | TBD |
| C: M. Schirmer | 2 | Zhang-Liang Xie | Quasars on amplifier: Do radio-loud quasars grow faster? |
| 11th July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: TBD | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 18th July | 1 | TBD | TBD |
| C: TBD | 2 | TBD | TBD |
| 25th July | 1 | Katherine Zucker(CfA) | TBD |
| C: TBD | 2 | TBD | TBD |