"Meet the speaker" at 10:00 for all students.
- 7 Oct 2026: Twenty Years of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Winn (Princeton)
Host: Kevin Heng - 14 Oct 2026: Shine Torches Through Protoplanetary Disks: A New Method to Probe Dust Properties
Speaker: Dr. Gabriele Cugno (University of Zürich)
Host: Til Birnstiel - 21 Oct 2026: Detecting novel activity in SMBHs with time-domain surveys and ML
Speaker: Dr. Paula Sánchez Sáez (ESO)
Host: Daniel Hernandez - 28 Oct 2026: The Pristine Nature of Cosmic Voids in the Next Era of Galaxy Surveys
Speaker: Dr. Nico Schuster (CPPM Marseille)
Host: Jochen Weller - 4 Nov 2026: Special LMU Astrophysics Colloquium 2026 (Große Aula um 12 Uhr)
Speaker: Prof. Rashid Sunyaev (MPA)
Host: Joe Mohr - 11 Nov 2026: TBA
Speaker: Prof. Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech)
Host: Daniel Grün - 18 Nov 2026: From Quiescence to Activity: Galactic Nuclei as a Unified Cosmic Laboratory
Speaker: Prof. Elisa Resconi (TUM)
Host: Daniel Grün - 25 Nov 2026: Thousands of Supernovae and a Handful of Cosmic Mirages: New Routes to Precision Cosmology
Speaker: Prof. Ariel Goobar (Uni Stockholm)
Host: Mansi Kasliwal - 2 Dec 2026: Starbursts in Low Mass Galaxies and the Diversity of Their Rotation Curve Shapes
Speaker: Prof. Guinevere Kauffmann (MPA)
Host: Joe Mohr - 9 Dec 2026: Towards the decade of Venus: a unique laboratory for Earth and rocky exoplanet evolution
Speaker: Prof. Anna Gülcher (Uni Freiburg)
Host: Kevin Heng - 16 Dec 2026: Characterisation of Young, Transiting Exoplanets
Speaker: Dr. Oscar Barragan (Uni Warwick)
Host: Louise Nielsen - 13 Jan 2027: USM All Hands Meeting
Host: Daniel Grün - 17 Feb 2027: TBA
Speaker: Dr. Gabriele Ponti (Observatory Brera-Merate)
Host: Klaus Dolag
Suggestions for speakers should be sent to the colloquium organizer Prof. Joseph Mohr.