15 Okt
04 Feb

LMU Astrophysik Kolloquium Wintersemester 2025/26

Termin:

Mittwochs um 11:00 Uhr

15. Oktober 2025 - 4. Februar 2026

Ort:

Hörsaal der Universitäts-Sternwarte Scheinerstr. 1 81679 München

"Meet the speaker" at 10:00 for all students.

15 Oct 2025: Forward-modeling the Cosmic Large Scale Structure for Field-level Analysis
Speaker: Dr. Julia Stadler (LMU Emmy Noether Fellow)
Host:Daniel Grün

22 Oct 2025: Outgassing of Secondary Atmospheres on Terrestrial
Speaker: Dr. Trent Thomas (Uni Washington, Seattle)
Host: Kevin Heng

29 Oct 2025:Trustworthy Machine Learning for Astrophysical Discovery
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Ntampaka (STScI, Baltimore)
Host: Joe Mohr

5 Nov 2025: Transformative Insights from JWST into the High-Redshift Chemical Enrichment and the Baryon Cycle
Speaker: Prof. Alice Shapley (UCLA)
Host: Ralf Bender

12 Nov 2025: Planetary Atmospheres
Speaker: Prof. Sara Seager (MIT)
Host: Kevin Heng

19 Nov 2025: LMU Special Astrophysics Colloquium 2025
Title: A puzzle is solved: the world is flat
Speaker: Prof. Simon White (MPA)
Host: Joe Mohr -- Note: in the LMU Große Aula starting 12:00

26 Nov 2025: Unveiling the Evolutionary Pathways of sub-Saturns using their Physical and Atmospheric Characteristics
Speaker: Dr. Nataliea Lowson (Uni Delaware)
Host: Kevin Heng

17 Dec 2025: University Observatory All Hands Meeting
Speaker: various
Host: Daniel Grün

18 Dec 2025: Metastable helium in the upper thermosphere
Speaker: Prof. Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
Host: Kevin Heng- Note: special colloquium starting at 9:30AM in Hörsaal

14 Jan 2025: Gas giant planets caught while feeding
Speaker: Dr. Gabriel-Dominique Marleau (Uni Duisburg-Essen, MPIA, Uni Bern)
Host: Birnstiel und Penzlin

28 Jan 2025: Strong Lensing Time Delays in the Context of the Hubble Tension
Speaker: Dr. Frederic Courbin (Uni Barcelona)
Host: Kevin Heng

4 Feb 2026: Decoding Stellar Activity in the Search for exo-Earths
Speaker: Prof. Ignasi Ribas (Uni Barcelona)
Host: Kevin Heng

25 Feb 2026: TBA
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Davies (Uni Swinburne)
Host: Rhea Remus

25 Mar 2026: Polluted White Dwarfs
Speaker: Prof. Boris Gaensicke (Uni Warwick)
Host: Kevin Heng


Schedule for Summer Semester 2026

24 Jun 2026: Rotation and ages of cool and warm stars
Speaker: Dr. Sidney Barnes (AIP)
Host: Barbara Ercolano

Vorschläge bitte an den Kolloquiums-Organisator Prof. Joseph Mohr senden. Eine Übersicht über Kolloquien vergangener Semester finden Sie hier.