January 2008

• Mon 14.1. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Baptiste Meneux: Large-Scale Anisotropic Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies, Okumura et al. 2007

• Thu 17.1. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Nicolas Bouche: Probing the global properties of high-z galaxies using SINFONI

• Mon 28.1. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Roberto Saglia: Variations in the IMF?: A Review

• Thu 31.1. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Thomas Kronberger: Simulating galaxy - environment interactions

February2008

• Mon 4.2. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Marco Montalto: BVRIJHK photometry and proper motion analysis of NGC 6253 and surrounding field

• Thu 14.2. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Baptiste Meneux: Recent results from an analysis of VVDS and zCOSMOS data

• Mon 18.2. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ayse Ulubay Siddiki: Hypervelocity Stars: From the Galactic Center to the Halo, Kenyon et al. 2008

• Thu 21.2. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ryan Houghton: Are your kinematics `correct'? Exploring covariances, their effects and how to deal with them

• Thu 28.2. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • David Fisher and Niv Drory: Results from the Spitzer Bulge Survey

March 2008

• Mon 3.3. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Arno Riffeser: "A Revised Mass Model For The Andromeda Galaxy", Seigar et al. 2006, "Visible and dark matter in M31 - I. Properties of stellar components", Tamm et al. 2007, and "Visible and dark matter in M 31 - II. A dynamical model and dark matter density distribution", Tempel et al. 2007

• Thu 6.3. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ariel Sanchez: What is the best way to measure baryonic acoustic oscillations?

• Mon 10.3. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ralf Bender: Photo-z

• Thu 13.3. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Holger Schlagenhaufer: A reference cosmology for xi(r_p,pi)

• Thu 20.3. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Eva Noyola: Which globular clusters have central black holes?

• Thu 27.3. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Leonardo Castañeda: Cosmological perturbation theory in a field approach

• Mon 31.3. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Fabrice Brimioulle: CARS: The CFHT-Archive-Research Survey I. Five-Band Multi-colour data from 37 sq. CFHTLS-Wide observations, Erben et al.

April 2008

• Thu 3.4. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ortwin Gerhard and Payel Das: Highlights from the Strasbourg dynamics conference

• Mon 7.4. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Andres Balaguera-Antolinez: The 2dF-SDSS LGR and QSO survey: Evolution of the clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies since z=0.6, Wake et al. 2008

• Mon 21.4. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Flavio De Lorenzi: TBA

• Thu 24.4. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Sean Moran: Observing the Transformation of Cluster Spirals into S0s at z~0.5

• Mon 28.4. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Dave Wilman: GMASS Ultradeep Spectroscopy of Galaxies at 1.4<z<2. ii="" superdense="" passive="" galaxies:="" how="" did="" they="" form="" and="" evolve="" cimatti="" et="" al="" 2008="" i="">

May 2008

• Mon 5.5. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Johannes Koppenhoefer: TBA

• Thu 15.5. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Christoph Raeth: Model independent tests for (scale dependent) non-gaussianities

• Mon 19.5. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Simone Weinmann: Galaxy Ecology in the SDSS

• Thu 29.5. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Jochen Liske: Deconstructing Galaxies - Why we need surveys of galactic components

June 2008

• Mon 2.6. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Max Fabricius: First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the combined results with DAMA/NaI, Bernabei et al. 2008, astro-ph/0804.2741

• Thu 5.6. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Dimitri Gadotti: Towards understanding pseudo-bulges and bars: new findings from bulge/bar/disk decomposition of 1000 galaxies

• Mon 9.6. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Guillermo A. Blanc: The VIRUS-P Pilot Survey for Lyman Alpha Emitters at 2<z<4: first="" results="" --4:--="">

• Wed 11.6. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Kai Noeske: Mass-Dependent Galaxy Star Formation Histories from Deep Surveys

• Thu 12.6. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Vivienne Wild: Ubiquitous QSO driven outflows at z=1-2?

• Mon 16.6. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Joshua Adams: Modeling and Integral Field Spectroscopy of the Lyman Alpha halo arround the high-z radio galaxy B2 0902+34

• Mon 23.6. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Jennifer Connelly: Galaxy Zoo, Lintott et al. 2008 (astro-ph/0804.4483), Land et al. 2008 (astro-ph/0803.3247)

• Thu 26.6. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Bodo Ziegler: Evolution of Spiral Galaxies

• Mon 30.6. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Eva Noyola: "Uniting Old Stellar Systems: From Globular Clusters to Giant Ellipticals", Forbes et al, arXiv:0806.1090

July 2008

• Thu 3.7. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Cristiano da Rocha: Intragroup light in compact groups of galaxies, a dynamical evolution indicator

• Mon 7.7. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Patricia Spinelli: Discovery of a Very Bright Strongly Lensed Galaxy Candidate at z ~ 7.6, Bradley et al. 2008

• Mon 14.7. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Francesco Montesano: Probing Dark Energy Inhomogeneities with Supernovae, Blomqvist et al. 2008, astro-ph/0806.0496v1

• Tue 15.7. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Arno Riffeser: Pan-STARRS

• Thu 17.7. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Anne Bauer: The Palomar-QUEST Survey: AGN Variability... and Strong Lensing?

• Mon 21.7. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Thomas Eichner: Strong Lensing in Abell 1703: Constraints on the slope of the Inner Dark Matter Distribution, Limousin et al. 2008 TBA

• Thu 24.7. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Sadegh Khochfar: TBA

• Mon 28.7. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Chien Hsiu Lee: TBA

• Wed 30.7. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Matteo Barnabe: SLACS galaxies: Combining lensing and dynamics

August 2008

• Mon 4.8. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Karl Gebhardt: Report from the Leiden meeting

• Wed 6.8. Seminar, MPE 14:00
  
  • Marc Sarzi: The Ionising Mechanisms for the Gas of Early-type Galaxies

• Thu 7.8. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Eiichiro Komatsu: Beyond Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs)

Summer Break

September 2008

• Thu 25.9. Seminar, MPE 14:00
  
  • Marcelo Alvarez: Galaxy and Halo Assembly Rates Since z=5

October 2008

• Tue 7.10. - Sat 11.10
  
  • The 3rd Biennial Leopoldina Conference on Dark Energy at LMU, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

• Wed 15.10. Seminar, Excellence Cluster 11:00
  
  • Martin Crocce: Structure Formation from Theory and Simulations

• Mon 20.10. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ralf Koehler: Postponed

• Thu 23.10. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Olga Cucciati: The relation among galaxy colour, mass and environment in zCOSMOS data

• Mon 27.10. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ariel Sanchez: Clustering of luminous red galaxies I: large scale redshift space distortions. A. Cabre & E. Gaztanaga, 2008.

• Thu 30.10. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Jens Thomas: The flattening and anisotropy of early type galaxies

November 2008

• Mon 3.11. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Sadegh Khochfar: Growth of central and satellite galaxies in simulations. Simha et al., 2008, Keres et al., 2008. POSTPONED.

• Thu 6.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Johannes Koppenhoefer: TBA

• Mon 10.11. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Anne Bauer: The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. V. The Full ACS Strong-Lens Sample. Bolton et al., 2008.

• Thu 13.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Stefania Giodini: The stellar and total baryon content of COSMOS galaxy groups

• Mon 17.11. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Niv Drory: The scale-free character of the clusteer mass function and the universality of the stellar imf. Selman & Melnick, 2008.

• Thu 20.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Raul Angulo: Properties and fate of substructures in cold dark matter haloes

• Mon 24.11. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Claudio Grillo: The relative concentration of visible and dark matter in clusters of galaxies. Boni & Bertin, 2008.

• Thu 27.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Sascha Trippe:: Stellar Dynamics in the Central Parsec of the Milky Way

December 2008

• Mon 1.12. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ralf Koehler: The clustering of Ly-alpha emitters in a LCDM Universe. Orsi et al. 2008.

• Thu 11.12. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Sara Lucatello: TBA

• Thu 11.12. Seminar, MPE 14:00
  
  • Fabian Schmidt: Structure Formation in Modified Gravity

• Thu 18.12. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Aleksi Halkola: TBA