Astrophysics Colloquium
Our Institute Colloquium takes place in the Lecture Hall of the University Observatory every Wednesday at 11:00 during the lecture period.
Winter Semester 2025/26
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Titele | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2025 | Dr. Julia Stadler | LMU | Forward-modeling the Cosmic Large Scale Structure for Field-level Analysis | Daniel Grün |
| 22 Oct 2025 | Dr. Trent Thomas | Uni Washington, Seattle | Outgassing of Secondary Atmospheres on Terrestrial Exoplanets | Kevin Heng |
| 29 Oct 2025 | Dr. Michelle Ntampaka | STScI, Baltimore | Trustworthy Machine Learning for Astrophysical Discovery | Joe Mohr |
| 5 Nov 2025 | Prof. Alice Shapley | UCLA | Transformative Insights from JWST into the High-Redshift Chemical Enrichment and the Baryon Cycle | Ralf Bender |
| 12 Nov 2025 | Prof. Sara Seager | MIT | Planetary Atmospheres | Kevin Heng |
| 19 Nov 2025 | Prof. Simon White | MPA | LMU Special Astrophysics Colloquium | Joe Mohr |
| 26 Nov 2025 | Dr. Nataliea Lowson | Uni Delaware | Unveiling the Evolutionary Pathways of sub-Saturns using their Physical and Atmospheric Characteristics | Kevin Heng |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Dr. Frederic Courbin | Uni Barcelona | Strong Lensing Time Delays in the Context of the Hubble Tension | Kevin Heng |
| 4 Feb 2025 | Prof. Ignasi Ribas | Uni Barcelona | Decoding Stellar Activity in the Search for exo-Earths | Kevin Heng |
| 25 Mar 2026 | Prof. Boris Gaensicke | Uni Warwick | Polluted White Dwarfs | Kevin Heng |
Summer Semester 2025
| Date | Speaker | Institute | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Apr 2025 | Dr. Chun-Hao To | University of Chicago | Cosmological constraints from the joint analyses of clusters, galaxies and weak lensing | Joe Mohr |
| 07 May 2025 | Dr. Pauline Zarrouk | CNRS, Sorbonne Uni Paris | Latest cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) | Sebastian Bocquet |
| 14 May 2025 | Dr. Kate Storey-Fisher | KIPAC/Stanford | Large-scale structure cosmology with the Quaia quasar catalog | Sebastian Bocquet |
| 21 May 2025 | Prof. Katja Poppenhäger | AIP Potsdam | Stars, exoplanets and their interactions | Kevin Heng |
| 28 May 2025 | Dr. Fabian Schmidt | MPA Garching | How much information is there in large-scale structure? Field-level inference, SBI and new summary statistics | Sophie Vogt |
| 04 Jun 2025 | Prof. Paola Pinilla | University College London | AGE-PRO: the ALMA survey of Gas Evolution in Protoplanetary disks | Til Birnstiel |
| 02 Jul 2025 | Dr. Robert Reischke | Universität Bonn | The legacy analysis of KiDS – a blueprint for Stage 4 surveys | Steffen Hagstotz |
| 09 Jul 2025 | Prof. Lucio Mayer | Universität Zürich | The role of self-gravity in planet and star formation | Kevin Heng |
| 16 Jul 2025 | Prof. Ansgar Reiners | Universität Göttingen | TBA | Kevin Heng |
| 23 Jul 2025 | Prof. Tad Komacek | Oxford | Characterizing the three-dimensional nature of exoplanet atmospheres: from hot gas giants to temperate rocky planets | Kevin Heng |
Suggestions for speakers should be sent to the colloquium organizer Prof. Joseph Mohr.