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MPA Cosmology Seminar

MPA New Lecture Hall (E.0.11), Tuesdays at 11:00

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.


Fall 2026

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
December 15
December 8
December 1 Abhijeet Anand (IUCAA): TBA Shawn Knabel (UCLA): TBA
November 24
November 17
November 10 Baptiste Blachier (UCLouvain): TBA Nicola Bianchetti (Milan): TBA
November 3 Aniruddh Herle (Leiden): TBA
October 27 Anamaria Hell (IPMU): TBA Nico Schuster (CPPM): Modeling the Universal Evolution of Voids
October 20 Hanyu Cheng(Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai): TBA
October 13
October 6 Ashu Kushwaha (Institute of Science Tokyo): TBA
September 29 Ronan Kerr (U. of Toronoto): TBA
September 22 Oliver Zier (CfA): TBA Saee Dhawalikar (U Salamanca): TBA
September 15 Charlie Mpetha (NASA Goddard): Cluster Lensing in the Stage-IV Era Pablo Vega del Castillo (LMU): Quasi-Periodic Lensing of Starlight: A Novel Signature for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
September 14 (Monday 15:30) Jose Alberto Rubino Martin (IAC): CMB Experiments at the Teide Observatory: Current Status and Future Prospects Carlos Hernandez Monteagudo (IAC): Adding galaxies' redshifts to 2D angular LSS tomography: Cosmology with angular redshift fluctuations

Spring 2026

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
Jul 28 Biwei Dai (Institute for Advanced Study): Prior-volume effect inflates the inferred gravitational-wave background in pulsar timing arrays
Jul 21 Ken Nagamine (Osaka University): Probing Feedback via Baryon Distribution in CROCODILE cosmological simulation Ralf Konietzka (CfA): Constraining Baryonic Feedback with Fast Radio Bursts: Forward-Modeling Dispersion Measures in Cosmological Simulations
Jul 14 Pranav Satheesh (Florida): Massive Black Hole Mergers in Cosmological Simulations Tatsuya Daniel (McGill): Probing Theories Beyond Standard Cosmology
Jul 7 Mini workshop on Cosmological Inference Mini workshop on Cosmological Inference
Jun 30 Azadeh Maleknejad (Swansea University): Probing Fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves Beyond Current Limits Lu Yin (Shanghai University): Joint constraints on cosmic birefringence and early dark energy
Jun 23 Kaito Yura (Nagoya University): Parity violation in the primordial curvature trispectrum from helical primordial magnetic fields Qinglin Ma (Tshinghua): Galaxy Structural Evolution Across Mass Scales: From Dwarfs to Massive Galaxies
Jun 16 Suchetha Cooray (Stanford): Forward Modeling and Optimal Inference of Galaxy Populations in the Era of Next Generation Surveys Arianna Dolfi (La Serena): Coupling between stellar and HI lopsidedness in Milky Way-mass galaxies
Jun 9 (A006) Oleg Gnedin (Michigan): Evolution of Globular Cluster Systems from High Redshift to the Present Manish Tamta (AEI Potsdam, Bangalore Indian Inst. Sci.): Wave-Optics Gravitational Lensing: From X-rays to Gravitational Waves
Jun 2 Marko Simonovic (University of Florence): A perturbative description of the reconstructed galaxy density field Marko Simonovic (University of Florence): A perturbative description of the reconstructed galaxy density field
May 26
May 19
May 12 LOFAR EoR workshop LOFAR EoR workshop
May 5
Apr 28 (A006) Chris Lovell (Cambridge): Efficiently emulating distribution functions in gigaparsec volumes for varying cosmological parameters
Apr 21 Talia O'Shea (U Wisconsin Madison): Differentiating direct and preventative AGN jet feedback via jet deceleration
Apr 14
Apr 7 Kai Wu (Heidelberg): Multi-scale Stellar Dynamics in Dense Clusters: From Planetary Debris to Black Hole Seeds
Mar 31
Mar 24 Why do we do astrophysics in the era of AI? (Part I) Why do we do astrophysics in the era of AI? (Part II)
Mar 17 (A006) Sophie Vogt (USM): Understanding nDGP gravity with galaxy clusters - constraints from SPTx(DES+HST) with Planck CMB Phil Hopkins (Caltech): TBA
Mar 10 FACHBEIRAT FACHBEIRAT
Mar 3 Linda Blot (IPMU): Detecting dark energy perturbations in the large-scale structure of the Universe Adriaan Duivenvoorden (MPA): Robust CMB B-mode analysis with simulation-based inference
Feb 24 Daniel Gruen (USM): DES-y6 3x2pt results (Part I) Daniel Gruen (USM): DES-y6 3x2pt results (Part II)
Feb 17 Ken Osato (Chiba University): Multi-wavelength Full-sky Cosmological Simulations for Stage-IV Surveys Agustina Colazo (Cordoba): Probing galaxy-halo alignments across cosmic time with IllustrisTNG
Feb 10 IMPRS Symposium IMPRS Symposium
Feb 3 Erin Hayes (Cambridge): Time-Delay Cosmography in the Era of LSST: Estimating Precise Time Delays for Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae with Gaussian Processes
Jan 27 Mahlet Shiferaw (Stanford): How do Uncertainties in Galaxy Formation Physics Impact Field-Level Galaxy Bias?
Jan 22 (Thursday) Evan Saraivanov (Stony Brook): 2-loop EFT Power Spectrum and Application to Roman Cosmic Shear


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