January 2007

• Mon 15.1 Distant galaxies meeting, MPE 14:00
  
  • Roberto Saglia: Informal report from Melbourne

• Wed 17.1 Seminar, USM 9:00
  
  • Arti Garg: Determining Detection Efficiency for the SuperMACHO Microlensing Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Thu 18.1 Distant galaxies meeting, MPE 11:00
  
  • Stefanie Phleps: Pan-STARRS and the accoustic peak

• Mon 22.1 Distant galaxies meeting, MPE 11:00
  
  • Luigi Guzzo: The combined evolution of galaxies and large-scale structure as seen by VVDS and COSMOS

• Thu 25.1 Distant galaxies meeting, MPE 11:00
  
  • Stefan Noll: The Evolution of Galaxy Dust Properties at 1 < z < 2.5

February 2007

• Thu 1.2 Distant Galaxies meeting, MPE 11:00
  
  • Barney Rowe: Dark matter substructure from weak gravitational flexion

• Mon 19.2 Distant Galaxies meeting, USM 11:00
  
  • Frank Grupp: LAMOST (Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope)

• Wed 21.2 Distant Galaxies meeting, MPE 10:00
  
  • Lukasz Wyrzykowski: Microlensing with OGLE
  • Simon Kozlowski: The first direct detection of a gravitational microlens towards the Galactic bulge

• Mon 26.2 Dark Energy Seminar, MPE 16:00
  
  • Dragan Huterer: Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy

March 2007

• Thu 1.3 Distant Galaxies meeting, MPE 14:15
  
  • Baptiste Meneux: Large-scale structures in the Universe: a new view with the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey

• Thu 22.3 Dark energy meeting, MPE 11:15
  
  • Jochen Weller: Probing the Nature of Dark Energy

• Tue 27.3 Distant Galaxies meeting, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ariel Sanchez: The galaxy power spectrum: 2dFGRS - SDSS tension?

April 2007

• Mon 2.4 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Eva Noyola: Sauron 10 results

• Mon 16.4 Distant Galaxies meeting, MPE 14:30
  
  • Francesco Montesano: Quintessence fluctuations and Large Scale Structure

• Mon 23.4 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Stella Seitz: TBA

• Thu 26.4 Distant galaxies seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Bianca Poggianti: The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy Cluster Survey (WINGS)

May 2007

• Thu 10.5 Distant galaxies seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Mike Lerchster: Shear-Tomography with clusters of galaxies - theory, methods and first preliminary results

• Mon 14.5 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Max Fabricius: Star Formation and the Growth of Stellar Mass, Bell et al. 2007 (astro-ph/0704.3077)

• Thu 24.5 Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Arno Riffeser: M31 modelling for microlensing

• Thu 24.5 Special Seminar, MPE 14:00
  
  • Arno Riffeser and Johannes Koppenhöfer: Pan-STARRS data handling

• Thu 31.5 Distant galaxies meeting, MPE 11:00
  
  • Joe Mohr: The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System

June 2007

• Mon 4.6 Special Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Sebastiano Calchi Novati: Microlensing in M31 - the Point AGAPE project

• Tue 5.6 Special Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Nicolas Martin: Stellar structures around M31

• Mon 11.6 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ralf Koehler: Constraining dark energy via baryon acoustic oscillations in the (an)isotropic light-cone power spectrum

• Mon 18.6 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Fabrice Brimioulle: Ellipticity of dark matter halos with galaxy-galaxy weak lensing

• Thu 21.6 Distant galaxies seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Lodovico Coccato: VIMOS-VLT integral field kinematics of the Giant Low Surface Brightness galaxy ESO323-G064: data and simple mass model

• Thu 28.6 Distant galaxies seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Peter Erwin: The Three Types of Galaxy Disks

July 2007

• Thu 5.7 Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Filiberto Braglia: "Flaming bright galaxies along the filaments of a massive galaxy cluster"

• Thu 12.7 Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Dave Wilman: Unveiling massive galaxies: a passive sequence in the IR

• Thu 19.7 Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Eiichiro Komatsu: Perturbation Theory Reloaded: Modeling the Power Spectrum in High-redshift Galaxy Surveys

• Mon 23.7 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Dave Wilman: The Color Magnitude Distribution of Field Galaxies to z~3: the evolution and modeling of the blue sequence

• Thu 26.7 Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Niv Drory: Report from the Bulges conference in Oxford

August 2007

• Thu 9.8 Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Flavio de Lorenzi: TBA

September 2007

• Thu 7.9 Seminar, MPE 14:00
  
  • Kambiz Fathi: First results with GHAFAS, the new Fabry-Perot interferometer on the William Herschel Telescope

• Thu 27.9 Seminar, MPE 14:00
  
  • Rene Fassbender: How many photons make a cluster? On the possibilities, challenges, and limitations of finding X-ray galaxy clusters in the XMM era

October 2007

• Thu 4.10. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Marco Montalto: TBA

• Mon 15.10. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Mike Lerchster: Distributions of Galaxy Spectral Types in the SDSS

• Thu 18.10. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Thorsten Naab: The formation of massive galaxies

• Mon 22.10. Journal Club, MPE 14:00
  
  • Payel Das: ''The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. IV: The Mass Density Profile of Early-Type Galaxies to 100 Effective Radii''

• Mon 29.10. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Jens Thomas: Dynamical models of elliptical galaxies in z=0.5 clusters I. Data-Model comparison and evolution of galaxy rotation

November 2007

• Thu 8.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ralf Koehler: ROE JSPS 2007: Decrypting the Universe - Conference Summary

• Mon 12.11. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Stefanie Phleps: "On the robustness of the acoustic peak", Eisenstein et al. 2007, and "Eppur si muove: On the motion of the acoustic peak in the correlation function", Smith et al. 2007

• Thu 15.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Sebastian Nuza: Using cosmological simulations to study Gamma Ray Burst Host Galaxies and Damped Lyman-alpha systems

• Mon 19.11. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Peter Erwin: TBA

• Thu 22.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Gabriella de Lucia: Modern theories of galaxy formation. Methods, aims, and limits

• Mon 26.11. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Lodovico Coccato: Luis Ho - Bulge and Halo Kinematics across the Hubble Sequence 2007, ApJ, 668, 94

• Thu 29.11. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Erin Hicks: The Morphology and Kinematics of Stars and Gas in the Central 100 pc of AGN

December 2007

• Thu 6.12. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Max Fabricius: VIRUS-w: An IFU-spectrograph for the new 2m Wendelstein telescope

• Mon 10.12. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Nina Nowak: A New Approach to the Study of Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxies: K-band Spectral Indices and an Application to the Fornax Cluster, Silva et al. 2007, astro-ph/0710.5529

• Thu 20.12. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Luigi Guzzo: A test of the origin of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions

January 2008

• Thu 10.1. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Nicolas Bouche: TBA

• 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
  
  • Ric Davies: A cautionary tale of nuclear star clusters and black hole masses

• Mon 21.1. Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Stella Seitz: The survival of dark matter haloes in the cluster CL0024+16

• Thu 24.1. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Natascha Foerster-Schreiber: TBA

• Thu 31.1. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Andres Balaguera Antolinez: TBA

February2008

• Thu 21.2. Seminar, MPE 11:00
  
  • Ryan Houghton: TBA