Events and Seminars at or with MPE

"Fundamentals of Deep Learning"

MPCDF Workshop
  • Date: Oct 27, 2026
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF)
  • Contact: ai-training@mpcdf.mpg.de
The Max‑Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), in partnership with NVIDIA, is pleased to invite you to a one‑day, online, hands‑on Deep Learning workshop. [more]

"A Brief History of Herbig (Ae/Be) Stars and the Current Perspective on This Population"

ESO Star and Planet Formation Seminar
  • Date: Oct 27, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Miguel Vioque (ESO)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Telescopium
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"Constrained Gravity"

MPA Cosmology Seminar I
  • Date: Oct 27, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Anamaria Hell (IPMU)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Patricia Diego, Rosie Talbot & Rüdiger Pakmor
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 Rüdiger Pakmor. [more]

"Linearity in a Nonlinear World: Modeling the Evolution of Voids"

MPA Cosmology Seminar II
  • Date: Oct 27, 2026
  • Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nico Schuster (CPPM)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Patricia Diego, Rosie Talbot & Rüdiger Pakmor
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 Rüdiger Pakmor. [more]

"Probing Atmospheric Diversity of Exoplanets With the VLT and ELT"

ESO Lunch Talk
  • Date: Oct 27, 2026
  • Time: 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Paulina Palma-Bifani (LIRA/Paris)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Telescopium
[more]

"Recent Results From the LZ Experiment"

MPP Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 27, 2026
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bjoern Penning (University of Zürich)
  • Location: MPP
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"ORIGINS CN1 Cosmological Connector Mid-Year Pulse "

ORIGINS Workshop
  • Date: Oct 28, 2026
  • Time: 09:30 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPE
  • Room: New seminar room 1.1.18 (basement)
  • Host: ORIGINS
This working session is a follow-up to the kick-off workshop that launched the exchange activities between the "CN1 Cosmological Connector", part of the Cluster of Excellence ORIGINS, and the Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry. [more]

"The Pristine Nature of Cosmic Voids in the Next Era of Galaxy Surveys"

LMU Astrophysics Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 28, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nico Schuster (CPPM Marseille)
  • Location: University Observatory Munich (USM), Scheinerstrasse 1, Munich
  • Room: Hörsaal der Universitäts-Sternwarte
  • Host: Jochen Weller
The colloquium will start with coffee around 10:30 a.m., and the talk will begin at 11 a.m. [more]

"Impact of 3D Macrophysics on Massive Pre-Supernova Stars: Convective Shell Boundary Mixing by Internal Gravity Waves"

SESTAS I
  • Date: Oct 28, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Praneet Pathak (University of Victoria, Canada)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: New Seminar Room, E.0.11
  • Host: Jinhao Cai, Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Jakub Klencki & Thibault Lechien
Stellar astrophysics seminar series with student-accessible talks focused on the lives, deaths, and afterlives of stars. Topics include the physics of stellar interiors, stellar explosions, binaries and multiple stars, and gravitational astrophysics. [more]

"3D-Informed Oxygen-Carbon Shell Merger Nucleosynthesis"

SESTAS II
  • Date: Oct 28, 2026
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Joshua Issa (University of Victoria, Canada)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Jinhao Cai, Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier, Jakub Klencki & Thibault Lechien
Stellar astrophysics seminar series with student-accessible talks focused on the lives, deaths, and afterlives of stars. Topics include the physics of stellar interiors, stellar explosions, binaries and multiple stars, and gravitational astrophysics. [more]

UNIVERSE+ Online Seminar (32/34)

MPP Particle Cosmology
  • Date: Oct 28, 2026
  • Time: 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Lizzie Pratt (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physic)
  • Lizzie is a mathematician interested in combinatorial algebraic geometry and geometric structures arising in scattering amplitudes. Lizzie graduated from Berkeley in 2026 under the supervision of Bernd Sturmfels, spent five months as a Chancellor's Fellow at UC Davis, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
  • Location: MPP
This is the Online Seminar Series of the ERC Synergy Grant UNIVERSE+ [more]

"A HOMERUN Into the High-Z ISM: Hidden Complexity and Extreme Conditions"

ESO Galaxy Evolution Coffee
  • Date: Oct 29, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bianca Moreschini (University of Florence/ INAF)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Library
[more]

"Chemical Abundances in the Nuclear Star Cluster"

MPE Special Seminar
  • Date: Oct 29, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mathias Schultheis (OCA Nice)
  • Location: MPE
  • Room: New Seminar Room, X5, 1.1.18
In-person only! [more]

“What Do Galaxy Surveys Really Measure? Introduction to Relativistic Effects and Cosmological Tests of Gravity”

43rd Cosmology Lecture
  • Date: Oct 29, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Sveva Castello (MPA)
  • Location: MPA
  • Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11
  • Host: Eiichiro Komatsu
  • Contact: komatsu@mpa-garching.mpg.de
[more]

"Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Light Curves From Stellar Interactions"

ORIGINS Guest Lecture
  • Date: Oct 29, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Natasha Ivanova (University of Alberta, Canada)
  • Natasha Ivanova works on interacting binary stars, including mass transfer, stellar mergers, and common-envelope evolution.
  • Location: LMU Universitätssternwarte (USM), Scheinerstraße 1, 81679 München
  • Room: Seminarraum West
The talk below is especially tailored for the broad ORIGINS community. We encourage PhD students and postdocs to join! [more]

"From Dust to Giants: Planet Formation in the Solar System and Abroad"

Geoscience of Exoplanets Seminar
  • Date: Oct 29, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Alex Cridland (LMU Munich)
  • Location: LMU, Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Theresienstraße 41C, 80333 München
  • Room: C307
  • Host: Munich Center for Geoastronomy, LMU
  • Contact: center.geoastronomy@lmu.de
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores how concepts and methodologies from geosciences, planetary sciences, and astrophysics can be integrated to advance our understanding of planets within our solar system and the wide variety of exoplanets beyond it. [more]

"Towards Field-Level Inference of Galaxy Clustering"

Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquium
  • Date: Oct 29, 2026
  • Time: 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Julia Stadler (USM/LMU)
  • Location: ESO Garching
  • Room: Auditorium Eridanus
Cookies and coffee from 3 p.m. [more]

"Wie Wärme dem Leben auf die Sprünge half"

Wissenschaft für jedermann
  • Date: Nov 11, 2026
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Christof Mast (LMU/IDSL)
  • Location: Deutsches Museum München, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München
  • Room: Auditorium (Ebene 0)
Ein Vortrag im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Wissenschaft für jedermann in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Museum. [more]

"Degassing and Volatile Transport in Volcanic Systems"

Geoscience of Exoplanets Seminar
  • Date: Nov 12, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Janine Birnbaum (LMU Munich)
  • Location: LMU, Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Theresienstraße 41C, 80333 München
  • Room: C307
  • Host: Munich Center for Geoastronomy, LMU
  • Contact: center.geoastronomy@lmu.de
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores how concepts and methodologies from geosciences, planetary sciences, and astrophysics can be integrated to advance our understanding of planets within our solar system and the wide variety of exoplanets beyond it. [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]

"The JWST View of Star Formation and Feedback"

MPE Seminar
  • Date: Nov 17, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Daniela Calzetti (University of Massachusetts)
  • Location: MPE
  • Room: 1.1.18 (X5)
  • Host: Benjamin Herfert
  • Contact: herfert@mpe.mpg.de
[more]

"Atmospheric Chemistry of Terrestrial Exoplanets"

Geoscience of Exoplanets Seminar
  • Date: Nov 26, 2026
  • Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Marrick Braam (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)
  • Location: LMU, Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Theresienstraße 41C, 80333 München
  • Room: C307
  • Host: Munich Center for Geoastronomy, LMU
  • Contact: center.geoastronomy@lmu.de
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores how concepts and methodologies from geosciences, planetary sciences, and astrophysics can be integrated to advance our understanding of planets within our solar system and the wide variety of exoplanets beyond it. [more]

Application Deadline – MPCDF & NVIDIA Deep Learning Workshop on December 8, 2026

Deadline
  • Date: Nov 28, 2026
  • Time: 12:00 AM - 01:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Host: Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF)
  • Contact: ai-training@mpcdf.mpg.de
The Max‑Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), in partnership with NVIDIA, is pleased to invite you to a one‑day, online, hands‑on Deep Learning workshop. [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]

"Der Fingerabdruck der Materie: Ionen, Moleküle und die Geheimnisse des Universums"

Wissenschaft für jedermann
  • Date: Dec 2, 2026
  • Time: 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Klaus Blaum (MPIK, Heidelberg)
  • Location: Deutsches Museum München, Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München
  • Room: Auditorium (Ebene 0)
Ein Vortrag im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe Wissenschaft für jedermann in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Museum. [more]

"Fundamentals of Deep Learning"

MPCDF Workshop
  • Date: Dec 8, 2026
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Online
  • Host: Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF)
  • Contact: ai-training@mpcdf.mpg.de
The Max‑Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF), in partnership with NVIDIA, is pleased to invite you to a one‑day, online, hands‑on Deep Learning workshop. [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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