Events and Seminars at or with MPE

"Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Chemical Reaction Networks: From Cell Metabolism to Design Principles for Synthetic Life"

MIAPbP Workshop
  • Start: Sep 7, 2026
  • End: Sep 18, 2026
  • Speaker: Various Speakers
  • Location: MIAPbP, Munich, Germany
  • Room: MIAPbP Conference Hall
  • Host: MIAPbP
  • Contact: workshop@munich-iapp.de
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Chemical Reaction Networks: from Cell Metabolism to Design Principles for Synthetic Life [more]

"IBS Munich Workshop on Fundamental Physics"

MPP Workshop
  • Start: Sep 14, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 16, 2026 10:00 PM
  • Location: MPP
Building New Scientific Connections between Korea and Europe [more]

LMU Open Science Summer School 2026 – Track 2: Open Science Instructor Training

LMU Open Science Summer School 2026
  • Start: Sep 14, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Sep 15, 2026 05:00 PM
  • Location: Philologicum Library, Ludwigstraße 25, München
  • Host: LMU Open Science Center (OSC)
  • Contact: s.grebmer@lmu.de
Track 2 of the LMU Open Science Summer School 2026 equips early career researchers and research support staff with pedagogical skills to promote open science through teaching. No prior teaching experience is required. The track is available in-person and online. [more]

"Stellar Cores Live Long and Prosper in Cuspy Dark Matter Halos"

MPA Visitor Seminar
  • Date: Sep 14, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jenni Häkkinen (University of Helsinki)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: MPA Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Thorsten Naab
  • Contact: naab@mpa-garching.mpg.de

“Simulating the High-Redshift Evolution of Massive Quiescent Galaxies”

MPA Visitor Seminar
  • Date: Sep 14, 2026
  • Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Max Mattero (University of Helsinki)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: MPA Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Thorsten Naab
  • Contact: naab@mpa-garching.mpg.de

“Dynamics of Massive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations: From Wanderers to Supermassive Binaries”

MPA Visitor Seminar
  • Date: Sep 14, 2026
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Atte Keitaanranta (University of Helsinki)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: MPA Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Thorsten Naab
  • Contact: naab@mpa-garching.mpg.de

"Adding Galaxies’ Redshifts to 2D Angular LSS Tomography: Cosmology With Angular Redshift Fluctuations"

Special MPA Cosmology Seminar I
  • Special Seminar on Monday, 3:30 p.m.
  • Date: Sep 14, 2026
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Carlos Hernandez Monteagudo (IAC)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
In each seminar there are typically two talks of 30 min each (20 min of presentation followed by 10 min of discussion). Other schedules may be arranged upon request.If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Patricia Diego , Rosie Talbot or Ruediger Pakmor. [more]

"CMB Experiments at the Teide Observatory: Current Status and Future Prospects"

Special MPA Cosmology Seminar II
  • Special Seminar on Monday, begins at 3:30 p.m.
  • Date: Sep 14, 2026
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jose Alberto Rubino Martin (IAC)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
In each seminar there are typically two talks of 30 min each (20 min of presentation followed by 10 min of discussion). Other schedules may be arranged upon request.If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Patricia Diego , Rosie Talbot or Ruediger Pakmor. [more]

"A Data-Driven, Non-Parametric Separation Between Spectral Lines and Continuum From a Datacube"

ESO Star and Planet Formation Seminar
  • Date: Sep 15, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Reiji Arai (Shizuoka University)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Eridanus

"Cluster Lensing in the Stage-IV Era"

MPA Cosmology Seminar I
  • Date: Sep 15, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Charlie Mpetha (NASA Goddard)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
In each seminar there are typically two talks of 30 min each (20 min of presentation followed by 10 min of discussion). Other schedules may be arranged upon request.If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Patricia Diego , Rosie Talbot or Ruediger Pakmor. [more]

"Black Holes as Telescopes"

MPA Cosmology Seminars II
  • Date: Sep 15, 2026
  • Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Selin Ustundag (MPI Grativational Physics)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
In each seminar there are typically two talks of 30 min each (20 min of presentation followed by 10 min of discussion). Other schedules may be arranged upon request.If you are interested in giving a talk, then please contact Patricia Diego , Rosie Talbot or Ruediger Pakmor. [more]

"The Time We Thought We Were the Center of the Universe (Not as Long Ago as You Think)" and "Mo Data, Mo Problems"

Astronomy on Tap Munich: Astronomy on Tap Munich
  • Date: Sep 15, 2026
  • Time: 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Daniel H. Lang (USM/LMU) and Rance Solomon (USM/LMU)
  • Location: The Keg Bar, Trautenwolfstr. 1, 80802 Munich (Next to U6 Giselastrasse)
  • Host: Astronomy on Tap Munich
Astronomy on Tap is a monthly outreach event where astronomers from Munich and Garching bring their favorite cosmic curiosities to the Münchners — one Maß at a time. The audience can also participate in a pub quiz and win astronomy-themed prizes! [more]

"Monte Carlo Simulations of Extensive Air Showers"

ESO Informal Discussion
  • Date: Sep 16, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Radek Privara (ESO)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Library

TBA

MPP Theory Seminar
  • Date: Sep 16, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bercel Boldis (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
  • Location: MPP
  • Room: A.2.25 - Atlas West (MPP)

"Claude Code: 24/7 Research Assistant"

Code Coffee
  • Date: Sep 16, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Tommy Chi Ho Lau (University of Chicago)
  • Location: USM, Scheinerstraße 1
  • Room: Seminar Room (West)
  • Contact: code-coffee@usm.lmu.de

"Stellar Siblings: The Concurrent Formation of Binary Stars and Star Clusters"

MPA Institute Seminar
  • Date: Sep 21, 2026
  • Time: 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier (MPA)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: New Seminar Room, E.0.11
Weekly institute seminar at MPA featuring current research in astrophysics and cosmology. About 60 minutes including questions; open to the MPA community and guests. [more]

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Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
  • Date: Sep 24, 2026
  • Time: 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anna F. McLeod (Durham University, UK)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Telescopium
Cookies and coffee from 3 p.m. [more]

ORIGINS RU-D Science Day

ORIGINS Workshop
  • Date: Sep 29, 2026
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: ESO
  • Room: Auditorium Eridanus
The ORIGINS RU-D Science Day is a one-day in-person workshop bringing together scientists from across the Munich area working on the implications of cosmic evolution for habitability across various scales. [more]

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Munich Dark Matter Meeting
  • Date: Sep 29, 2026
  • Time: 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Matthew Stukel (SNOLAB)
  • Location: MPP
  • Room: A.2.25 - Atlas West
  • Host: ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence

"The Universe at High Speed: The Digital Telescope"

LMU Astrophysics Colloquium
  • Date: Sep 30, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Don Pollacco (Uni Warwick)
  • Location: University Observatory Munich (USM), Scheinerstrasse 1, Munich
  • Room: Hörsaal der Universitäts-Sternwarte
  • Host: Kevin Heng
The colloquium will start with coffee around 10:30 a.m., and the talk will begin at 11 a.m. [more]

“When Worlds Collide: Inauguration of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy”

MCGA Inauguration
  • Start: Oct 5, 2026 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Oct 6, 2026 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Various Speakers
  • Location: LMU
  • Room: A 140, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
  • Host: Munich Center for Geoastronomy
  • Contact: center.geoastronomy@lmu.de
The event celebrates the official inauguration of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy, bringing together researchers in Earth and planetary sciences, astrophysics, and related disciplines to explore the connections between Earth, planets, exoplanets, and the cosmos. [more]

"NUCLEI 2026: Galaxy Nuclei – Diversity, Dynamics, and Hidden Mass in Galactic Centers"

ESO Workshop
  • Start: Nov 16, 2026
  • End: Nov 20, 2026
  • Location: ESO Santiago, Chile
  • Host: ESO
  • Contact: NUCLEI2026@eso.org
NUCLEI 2026 is a five-day ESO workshop focused on the structural and dynamical diversity of galactic nuclei, covering nuclear star clusters, intermediate-mass black holes, supermassive black holes, stripped galactic nuclei, and ultra-compact dwarfs. The workshop provides a forum to assess recent progress, present first results from new facilities, and discuss the future of galaxy nuclei science. [more]

"Showcasing Science and Synergies in Thermal Infrared Astronomy"

IR2026
  • Start: Nov 30, 2026 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Dec 4, 2026 05:00 PM
  • Speaker: Various Speakers
  • Location: ESO Chile, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile
  • Host: ESO
  • Contact: ir2026@eso.org
IR2026 is an ESO conference on thermal infrared astronomy, examining the legacy of current facilities such as VISIR, MATISSE, ERIS, and JWST/MIRI, and preparing the community for upcoming instruments including ELT/METIS, VLTI/NOTT, TAO/MIMIZUKU, and future space missions. Registration is open. [more]

"Neutrinos as Cosmic Messengers: A Decade of Discovery and the Path Forward"

MIAPbP Neutrino Workshop
  • Start: Feb 8, 2027 09:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • End: Mar 5, 2027 05:00 PM
  • Host: MIAPbP
  • Contact: info@munich-iapbp.de
This workshop brings together theoretical and experimental experts to address key questions in neutrino astrophysics, including cosmic neutrino sources, multi-messenger synergies, and future detection strategies. [more]
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