January 2005

• Mon 10.01 Stefanie Phleps, USM 10:00
  Title:The relation between matter and light - An investigation of the clustering properties of galaxies

• Tue 11.01 Glen van de Ven, MPE 10:00

• Wed 12.01 Joint Seminar USM/MPE, USM 10:00
  
  • Gary Hill:The Hobby-Eberly-Telescope Dark Energy Experiment and VIRUS

• Fri 14.01 Dynamics Meeting, MPE 9.30

• Thu 20.01 Eran Ofek, MPE 10:15
  Title: Constraints on galaxy mass evolution through the lens redshift distribution test

• Tue 25.01 Jesús Falcón-Barroso, MPE 10:00

February 2005

• Tue 01.02 Ignacio Trujillo, USM 10:00
  Title: The evolution of galaxy sizes since z=3

• Mon 07.02 Joint Seminar USM/MPE, USM 10:00
  
  • Stefano Zibetti:Galaxy haloes & intracluster stars: quantifying the role of tidal interactions in galaxy evolution

• Fri 11.02 Dynamics Meeting, MPE 9:30

• Thu 17.02 Distant Galaxies Meeting, MPE 11:30
  
  • Bo Milvang-Jensen:Unrebinned sky-subtraction (20 mins)
  • Georg Feulner:Summary of PhD Thesis (20 mins)
  • discussion (20 mins)

• Thu 24.02 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Dave Wilman:Towards an understanding of the rapid decline of the cosmic star formation rate, E. Bell et al., 2005

March 2005

• Fri 04.03 Dynamics Meeting, MPE 9:30

• Mon 07.03 Joint Seminar USM/MPE, USM 10:00
  
  • Thoorsten Naab:Galaxy Formation: From disks to ellipticals

• Tue 08.03 Peter Erwin, MPE, 11:00 Bulges and Pseudobulges in Early-Type Galaxies

• Thu 10.03 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Roberto Saglia:The mass assembly histories of galaxies of various morphologies in the Goods fields. Bundy et al., astro-ph/0502204

• Thu 17.03 Distant Galaxies Meeting, MPE 11:30
  
  • Armin Gabasch:Summary of PhD Thesis (20 mins)
  • Daniele Pierini:Tully-Fisher studies (20 mins)
  • discussion (20 mins)

• Thu 24.03 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Mara Salvato:Formation of a Spiral galaxy in a major merger. Springel and Hernquist, 2005

April 2005

• Mon 04.04 Joint Seminar USM/MPE, USM 10:00
  
  • NO SEMINAR TODAY

• Thu 07.04 Distant Galaxies Meeting, MPE 11:30
  
  • Stefano Zibetti: NEAR-FIELD COSMOLOGY WITH DWARF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES - Summary of the conference at Les Diablerets, Switzerland

• Thu 14.04 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Bo Milvang-Jensen:Velocity Dispersion of 335 Galaxy Clusters Selected from the SDSS. Goto T., astro-ph/0503089

• Fri 15.04 Dynamics Meeting, MPE 15:00

• Thu 21.04 Distant Galaxies Meeting, MPE 11:30
  
  • Jochen Greiner: GROND, the Gamma-Ray burst Optical Near-infrared Detector (approx title)

• Mon 25.04 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Stefan Noll:UV to mid-ir observations of star-forming galaxies at z~2: stellar masses and stellar populaton. Shapley et al. astro-ph/0503485

May 2005

• Mon 09.05 Joint Seminar USM/MPE, USM 10:00
  
  • Eva Schinnerer:The COSMOS Project from the Radio Perspective

• Tue 10.05, USM 10:00
  
  • Beatriz Ruiz Granados:The contribution of magnetic fields to the CMB anisotropies

• Thu 12.05 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Stefano Zibetti:On the accretion origin of a vast extended stellar disk around the Andromeda Galaxy, R. Ibata et al., astro-ph/0504164

• Fri 20.05, MPE 11:00
  
  • John Kormendy:Structure and Formation of Elliptical Galaxies

June 2005

• Thu 02.06 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Jens Thomas:Discovery of strong lensing by an elliptical galaxy at z=0.0345,

• Fri: 10.06, MPE 11:00
  
  • Fabrice Brimioulle:Stellar population in dwarf elliptical galaxies

• Mon 13.06 Joint Seminar USM/MPE, USM 10:00
  
  • Ralf Bender:The triple nucleus of M31

• Thu 16.06 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Daniele Pierini:A study of edge-on galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. II. Vertical distribution of the resolved stellar population, A. C. Seth et al. astro-ph/0506117

• Fri 17.06 Distant Galaxies Meeting, MPE 10:00
  
  • D. Pierini and S. Zibetti:Report on Vulcano's conference:"The origin of the Hubbble sequence"

• Fri 17.06, MPE 11:00
  
  • Tammy Bosler:The CaII Triplet Revisited: A Calibration to Calcium Abundance and the Stellar Abundances of the Leo I and Leo II dSph

• Thu 30.06 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Nina Nowak:Feedback and Brightest Cluster Galaxy Formation: ACS Observations of the Radio Galaxy TN J1338-1942 at z=4.1, Zirm et al., astro-ph/0505610

July 2005

• Mon 11.07 Joint Seminar USM/MPE, MPE 10:00
  
  • Paolo Salucci:The distribution of Dark matter in galaxies out to their virial radii

• Thu 14.07 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Maurilio Pannella:RX J0152.7-1357: Stellar Populations in an X-Ray Luminous Galaxy Cluster at z = 0.83, Joe¸rgense et al. 2005 AJ,129,1249

• Tue 19.07 Distant Galaxies Meeting, MPE 11:30
  
  • D. Wilman and S. Noll:Report on Marseille's conference:"The fabulous destiny of Galaxies"

• Wed 20.07, MPE 11:00
  
  • Chiaki Kobayashi:Chemodynamical Simulation of Elliptical Galaxies and the Fundamental Plane

• Thu 28.07 Journal Club, MPE 11:30
  
  • Larry Nieves:Spectral modeling of star-forming regions in the ultraviolet: Stellar metallicity diagnostics for high-redshift galaxies (Rix et. al (2004) ApJ 615 117)

August 2005

• Mon 01.08, MPE 11:00
  
  • Amanda Bauer:Specific SFRs to z=1.5 and a Different Look at low-z SDSS Galaxy Spectroscopy

October 2005

• Mon 10.10, MPE/USM videocon 10:00
  
  • KIDS meeting

• Tue 11.10, USM 10:00
  
  • Jelte de Jong:Machos in M31

• Tue 11.10, MPE 15:00
  
  • Joerg Fischera:Self-consistent model of the SED of isothermal clouds

• Wed 12.10, MPE 11:00
  
  • Yuri Bialetski:Extragalactic molecular clouds

• Thu 27.10 Distant Galaxies Meeting, MPE 11:30
  
  Constraints on galaxy evolution from globular clusters: review of recent results

November 2005

• Mon 07.11, MPE/USM videocon 10:00
  
  • KIDS meeting

• Wed 9.11, MPE 11:00
  
  • Renato Falomo:The cosmic evolution of quasar hosts

• Thu 10.11, MPE 11:00
  
  • Daniela Bettoni:The WINGS project

• Mon 14.11, LMU 16:15
  
  • Stella Seitz: Sunrise and MACHOS as seen from the Wendelstein Observatory

• Thu 17.11 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Roberto Saglia:The broken hierarchy of galaxy formation, Bower et al., astro-ph/0511338 (plus astro-ph/0511116 and 0508046)

• Wed 23.11, MPE videocon 11:00
  
  • John Nestoras:Variability in astronomy: detection and analysis

• Thu 24.11, MPE/USM videocon 11:00
  
  • Distant galaxies meeting
  • Alexis Halkola: Parametric strong lensing models for Abell 1689
  • Stefano Zibetti: QSO MgII absorbing systems: where is the light?

December 2005

• Thu 01.12 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Daniele Pierini:NGC 4435: a bulge dominated galaxy with an unforeseen low mass central black hole. Coccato et al. 2005 astro-ph/0511696

• Wed 07.12, USM 11:15
  
  • Michael Lerchster:Dark Matter Distribution in Cluster of Galaxies

• Thu 08.12 Dynamics meeting, MPE 11:00
  
  • Flavio De Lorenzi:Modelling Elliptical Galaxies Using the Made-to-Measure Particle Method

• Thu 15.12 Journal Club, MPE 11:00
  
  • Stefano Zibetti: