Astrophysics Colloquium – Previous Semesters
Our Institute Colloquium takes place in the Lecture Hall of the University Observatory every Wednesday at 11:00 during the lecture period.
Current Semester
Winter Semester 2025/26
- 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
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 - 11 Feb 2026: The First Chapters of Galaxy Build-up: From the JWST Era to the Future
Speaker: Prof. Pascal Oesch (Uni Geneva)
Host: Daniel Gruen - 25 Feb 2026: Galactic Outflows and Star-Formation Quenching in the Early Universe
Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Davies (Uni Swinburne)
Host: Rhea Remus - 18 Mar 2026: From Simulations to Observables: A Multi-wavelength and Cosmic-Ray Perspective on the Milky Way
Speaker: Dr. Philipp Girichidis (Uni Heidelberg)
Host: Klaus Dolag - 25 Mar 2026: Polluted White Dwarfs
Speaker: Prof. Boris Gaensicke (Uni Warwick)
Host: Kevin Heng
Summer Semester 2025
- 30 Apr 2025: Cosmological constraints from the joint analyses of clusters, galaxies and weak lensing
Speaker: Dr. Chun-Hao To (University of Chicago)
Host: Joe Mohr - 07 May 2025: Latest cosmological results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
Speaker: Dr. Pauline Zarrouk (CNRS, Sorbonne Uni Paris)
Host: Sebastian Bocquet - 14 May 2025: Large-scale structure cosmology with the Quaia quasar catalog
Speaker: Dr. Kate Storey-Fisher (KIPAC/Stanford)
Host: Sebastian Bocquet - 21 May 2025: Stars, exoplanets and their interactions
Speaker: Prof. Katja Poppenhäger (AIP Potsdam)
Host: Kevin Heng - 28 May 2025: How much information is there in large-scale structure? Field-level inference, SBI and new summary statistics
Speaker : Fabian Schmidt (MPA Garching)
Host: Sophie Vogt - 04 Jun 2025: AGE-PRO: the ALMA survey of Gas Evolution in Protoplanetary disks
Speaker: Prof. Paola Pinilla (University College London)
Host: Til Birnstiel - 02 Jul 2025: The legacy analysis of KiDS – a blueprint for Stage 4 surveys
Speaker: Dr. Robert Reischke (Universität Bonn)
Host: Steffen Hagstotz - 09 Jul 2025: The role of self-gravity in planet and star formation
Speaker: Prof. Lucio Mayer (Universität Zürich)
Host: Kevin Heng - 16 Jul 2025
Speaker: Prof. Ansgar Reiners (Universität Göttingen)
Host: Kevin Heng - 23 Jul 2025: Characterizing the three-dimensional nature of exoplanet atmospheres: from hot gas giants to temperate rocky planets
Speaker: Prof. Tad Komacek (Oxford)
Host: Kevin Heng
Suggestions for speakers should be sent to the colloquium organizer Prof. Joseph Mohr.