15 Oct
04 Feb

LMU Astrophysics Colloquium winter semester 2025/26

Date:

Wednesdays at 11:00 am

15 October 2025 - 4 February 2026

Location:

Lecture hall of the University Observatory 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
    Speaker: Prof. Simon White (MPA)
    Host: Joe Mohr -- Note: in the LMU Große Aula starting 12:15
  • 26 Nov 2025: Unveiling the Evolutionary Pathways of sub-Saturns using their Physical and Atmospheric Characteristics
    Speaker: Nataliea Lowson (Uni Delaware)
    Host: Kevin Heng
  • 28 Jan 2025: Strong Lensing Time Delays in the Context of the Hubble Tension
    Speaker: Dr. Frederic Courbin (Uni Barcelona)
    Host: Kevin Heng
  • 25 Mar 2026: Polluted White Dwarfs
    Speaker: Prof. Boris Gaensicke (Uni Warwick)
    Host: Kevin Heng

Suggestions for speakers should be sent to the colloquium organizer Prof. Joseph Mohr. A list of the colloquia of past semesters can be found here.