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MPA Cosmology Seminar

MPA New Lecture Hall, 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 .


Spring 2026

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
Jul 28
Jul 21
Jul 14
Jul 7
Jun 30
Jun 23
Jun 16
Jun 9
Jun 2
May 26
May 19
May 12
May 5
Apr 28
Apr 21
Apr 14
Apr 7
Mar 31
Mar 24 MPA-MPE Workshop at Ringberg Castle MPA-MPE Workshop at Ringberg Castle
Mar 17
Mar 10 FACHBEIRAT FACHBEIRAT
Mar 3
Feb 24
Feb 17
Feb 10 IMPRS Symposium IMPRS Symposium
Feb 3
Jan 27 Mahlet Shiferaw (Stanford)
Jan 22 (Thursday) Evan Saraivanov (Stony Brook): TBA

Fall 2025

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
December 16 Ralf Konietzka (CfA): Fast Radio Burst Cosmology in IllustrisTNG: Simulated Dispersion Measures from Redshift 0 to 5.5 Simona Di Stefano (INAF Trieste): Chemical enrichment of the Universe through metal absorption lines. Insights from the SPICE simulations
December 9 Philipp Girichidis (ITA): How our local environment shapes the Milky Way we observe Marta Monelli (IPMU): Getting ready for the next-generation CMB experiments: understanding and mitigating instrumental systematics on large scales
December 2 Oliver Zier (CfA): High redshift galaxy formation with early dark energy (and some SIDM) Hang Yang (MPA): Could subhaloes capture halo stars? Insights into the origin of ultra-faint satellite galaxies
November 25 Sveva Castello (MPA): A matter of gravity, galaxies and time: testing fundamental physics with gravitational redshift Oksana Iarygina (NORDITA): Imprints from Axion Inflation with non-Abelian gauge fields
November 18 Michiru Uwabo (Ochanomizu University) : Formation of defects associated with both spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking
November 11 Leah Bigwood (Cambridge): Understanding the small-scale universe: bridging galaxy formation and cosmology Rajsekhar Mohapatra (Princeton): Tracing Multiphase Structure in the Circumgalactic Medium: Insights from Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Simulations
November 4 Zvonimir Vlah (Rudjer Boskovic Institute): Cosmological observables, symmetries and parity
October 28 Lena Scheuchl (MPA): Jeffreys Prior for Cosmological Parameter Inference with DESI BAO Data Florian List (MPA): DISCO-DJ: DIfferentiable Simulations for COsmology - Done with Jax
October 21 Timo Kist (Leiden Observatory): Local and global constraints on the ionization topology with quasar IGM damping wings
October 14 Caio Nascimento (University of Washington): A new approach to linear cosmological perturbations in massive neutrino species Kiyoshi Ikuma (Okayama Unisersity): Bayesian Delta-map: Accounting for Spatially Varying Foreground Spectra in CMB B-mode Polarization
October 7
September 30
September 23 Dante Paz (Cordoba): Voids as cosmological and astrophysical laboratories

Spring 2025

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Speaker 3
July 29 Ben Wibking (MSU): Toward Parsec-Scale Simulations of the Milky Way on Exascale Computers Florie Carralot (SISSA): Probing cosmic birefringence axions with simulation-based inference
July 22 Yu Hamada (DESY): Gravitational waves from charge-carrying domain walls Matt Orkney (Barcelona): The Milky Way in context: The formation of galactic discs and chemical sequences from a cosmological perspective
July 15
July 8 Yan-Mei Chen (Nanjing): The impact of external gas acquisition on galaxy evolution Facundo Gomez (La Serena): The Glowing Giants: the influence of clusters' dynamical state on galaxy properties
July 1 Sangjun Cha (Yonsei University): Probing Galaxy Cluster Mergers by Combining Strong and Weak Gravitational Lensing in the JWST Era Wonki Lee (Yonsei University): Statistical Analysis of Radio Relics Using Numerical Simulations
June 24 Qingbo Ma (Guizhou): Constraints on the Galaxy Formation Models during the Epoch of Reionization with High-redshift Observations
June 17 Ludwig Böss (U Chicago): Simulating cosmic rays in the local Universe Jose Benavides (UC Riverside): Formation and Evolution of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in TNG50
June 10 Davide Tornotti (Milano): Unveiling the cosmic web through Ly-alpha: an ultra-deep observation with MUSE
June 3
May 27 Naoki Yoshida (Tokio): Streaming motions, 21cm signature, and magnetic field generation (not an exotic one!) Robert Pascalau (KICC): When Relics were made: vigorous stellar rotation and low dark matter content in the massive, ultra-compact galaxy GS-9209 At z=4.7
May 20 Elena Kozlikin (Uni Heidelberg): Cosmic large-scale structure formation with full phase-space information
May 13 Jiamin Hou (MPE): DESI Results (Part I) Jiamin Hou (MPE): DESI Results (Part II)
May 6 Francisco Maion (DICP): Simulation-based modelling of Intrinsic Alignments Caroline Guandalin (University of Edinburgh): Modelling the full bispectrum of DESI galaxies and quasars
Apr 29 Fumihiro Naokawa (U Tokyo): An independent test of cosmic birefringence using radio galaxies
Apr 22
Apr 15
Apr 8 Akash Vani (MPA): Debugging galaxy evolution at high-z: A deep dive using LGalaxies Daisuke Toyouchi (Osaka University): Bridging theory and observations: Insights into star Formation efficiency and dust attenuation in z > 5 galaxies
Apr 1 Adriaan Duivenvoorden (MPA): Atacama Cosmology Telescope, DR6: cosmological results (Part I) Adriaan Duivenvoorden (MPA): Atacama Cosmology Telescope, DR6: cosmological results (Part II)
Mar 25 Padelis Papadopoupos (Thessaloniki): Surprises in the dynamic and thermal states of molecular clouds: New initial conditions for star formation?
Mar 18 Philipp Grete (Hamburg): MHD turbulence from idealized boxes to exascale simulations of the ICM Angelo Caravano (IAP): Backreaction and cosmic butterflies: a non-perturbative glimpse into the small-scale physics of inflation Ivan Kostyuk (SNS): Characteristics of galactic outflows of high redshift galaxies in the TNG50 simulation
Mar 11 Soumya Shreeram (MPE): Retrieving the hot CGM physics from the X-ray radial profile from eROSITA with a TNG-based forward model
Mar 4 Piyush Sharda (Leiden): The first stars: window to cosmic dawn Ildar Khabibullin (USM, MPA): X-ray emission from WHIM
Feb 25 Richard D'Souza (Vatican Observatory): Constraining the importance of the most important mergers on Milky Way-mass galaxies
Feb 18
Feb 11 Roger de Belsunce (LNBL): Cosmology with the Lyman-a Forest Jed Homer (LMU): Simulation-based inference has its own Dodelson-Schneider effect (but it knows that it does)
Feb 4 Almudena Prieto (IAC): The PARSEC view of star formation and the ISM in galaxies Guang-Xing Li (USM Munich): Reveal hidden regularities in complex astronomical images - Adjacent Correlation Analysis
Jan 28 Rebekka Bieri (Zurich): Unveiling the Impact of Cosmic Rays on Galaxies from Dwarf Scales to Galaxy Groups Freeke van de Voort (Cardiff): Magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium
Jan 21 Laura Sales (UCR): Transition of morphologies in simulated dwarf galaxies: from disks to irregulars
Jan 14 Postdoc Interviews
Jan 7 Postdoc Interviews


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