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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 .


Fall 2024

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
Dec 17 Silvia Gasparotto (Barcelona): Searching for Ultra Light Dark Matter with Gravitational Waves
Dec 10 Panos Patsis (Athens): Morphologies arising from the gas flow in the innermost kpc of barred spiral galaxies
Dec 3
Nov 26 Ting-Yi (Niels Bohr Institute) : Mapping re-ionized bubbles with JWST observations of galaxy Lyman alpha emissions Stefan Schuldt (University of Milan) : Time-delay cosmography at cluster scale
Nov 19
Nov 12 Carlos Eduardo Hervias Caimapo (UC): Modeling parity-violating spectra in Galactic dust polarization with filaments and its applications to cosmic birefringence searches
Nov 5 Asmaa Maoun (TUM): Constraining an interacting dark sector with galaxy cluster abundance.
Oct 29 Joachim Harnois-Deraps (Newcastle University): DES+KiDS: Cosmic shear cosmology with 127 million galaxies
Oct 22 Nastassia Grimm (University of Geneva): Model-independent tests of General Relativity combining the Weyl potential and redshift-space distortions Yo Toda (Hokkaido University): Varying electron mass solution to the Hubble tension and cosmological parameters
Oct 15 Sveva Castello (University of Geneva): Testing gravity through the distortion of time
Oct 8 Shun Saito (MST): An empirical but realistic high-fidelity synthetic catalog of Lyman-Alpha Emitters at z=2-3 Rajsekhar Mohapatra (Princeton) : The AGB and Type 1a supernovae regulated hot ISM in massive ellipticals
Oct 1
Sep 24 Hong-Ming Zhu (NAO): Systematic Analysis of Parity-Violating Modes in Large-Scale Structure Noah Sailer (Berkeley): What is S_8(z_{low})...actually? -- tomographic structure growth in the linear regime from cross-correlations of DESI galaxies with CMB lensing
Sep 17 Charalampos Nikolis (MPA): The Large Scale Structure Renormalization Group with Primordial non Gaussianity

Spring 2024

Date Speaker 1 Speaker 2
July 30 Facundo Rodriguez (Cordoba): Evolution of central galaxy alignments
July 23 Adi Nusser (Technion): Large Scale Structure from Conventional methods to NN Sophie Vogt (USM): f(R) constraints from SPT clusters with DES and HST weak lensing combined with CMB Planck data
July 16 Jing Wang (Peking): New Ways of Looking into Galaxy Evolution in CGM and Groups/Clusters with New HI Data Xuchen Lin (Peking): Constraining the Co-existent Environmental/CGM Effects on Galaxy Evolution
July 9 Yihao Zhou (Carnegie Mellon): MAGICS: The Crucial Role of Tidal Stripping in Seed Black Hole Binary Evolution Marta Reina-Campos (McMaster, CITA): The SCALES project: connecting star clusters to their host galaxies
July 2 Reserved Reserved
June 25 Tomomi Sunayama (Arizona): Towards precision cosmology with galaxy clusters Oliver Zier (MIT): Accelerating radiative transfer (RT) in AREPO using GPUs
June 18 Michele Pizzardo (Halifax): The growth of clusters of galaxies with IllustrisTNG Nianyi Chen (Carnegie Mellon): Massive black hole binaries from seeds to giants: predictions from the ASTRID cosmological simulation and beyond
June 11 Atrideb Chatterjee (IUCAA): Cosmology from Point Clouds Kandaswamy Subramanian (IUCAA): Challenges in understanding primordial magnetic fields
June 4 Biwei Dai (UCB): Beyond Summary Statistics: Leveraging Generative Models for Field-Level Weak Lensing Analysis
May 28 Grace Lawrence (UCL): Gusts in the Headwind - Uncertainties in Direct Dark Matter Detection Sam Goldstein (Columbia): Non-perturbative techniques to search for massive-ish particles during inflation with large-scale structure surveys
May 21 Leonard Romano (MPE): Metal-Rich Star-Formation by Supernova Implosion
May 14 Stephen Stopyra (OKC/Stockholm): An Anti-halo Void Catalogue of the Local Super-Volume Pengfei Li (Utah): Emulating Extended Lya Halos Around Star-Forming Galaxies
May 7 Mudit Garg (UZH): Astrophysical signatures on Gravitational Waves of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries Leander Thiele (IPMU): Neutrino mass constraint from an Implicit Likelihood Analysis of BOSS voids
Apr 30 Brian Tapia Contreras (UCC): Insights into the physical processes that shape the metallicity profiles in galaxies
Apr 23 Chris Byrohl (Heidelberg): Introducing cosmosTNG: Constrained Cosmological Galaxy Formation Simulations in the COSMOS field Eric Rohr (Heidelberg): The case for a CGM around massive satellites in TNG-Cluster
Apr 16
Apr 9 James Bolton (Notthingham): Testing dark photon dark matter with intergalactic gas Laurence Gong (USM/LMU/MPE): C3NN: Cosmological Correlator Convolutional Neural Network -- an interpretable machine learning tool for cosmological analyses
Apr 2 Thomas Tomlinson (Durham): Digging for the relics of ancient mergers at the heart of the Milky Way
Mar 26 Gen Chiaki (NAO): TBA Rikuto Omae (NAO): Probing the Magnetic Fields of Distant Galaxies to Unravel the Evolution of Galactic Magnetic Fields
Mar 19 Laura Salvati (IAS-Orsay): Cosmology with galaxy clusters detected in mm wavelengths Changhyin Cho (NYU): Simulating Outflow Behavior in Massive Galaxies: A New AGN Feedback Model in the HELLO Simulations
Mar 12
Mar 5 Ben Wandelt (IAP): AI-assisted discovery in cosmological physics
Feb 27 John Silverman (IPMU): Locking in co-evolution between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the early Universe Abhijeet Anand (LBNL): Data Releases of DESI and Archetype-based Redshift Estimation
Feb 20 Giovanni Cabass (RBI Zagreb): BOSS Constraints on Massive Particles during Inflation: The Cosmological Collider
Feb 13 Saleem Zaroubi (Groningen): Direct detection of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in galaxy clusters
Feb 6 IMPRS Workshop IMPRS Workshop
Jan 30 Claudia Muni (UCL): From particles to orbits: precise dark matter density profiles with dynamical information
Jan 23 Ignasi Pérez Ràfols (from the Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya) : Cosmology (& astrophysics) with the Lyman alpha forest
Jan 16 Anja von der Linden (Stony Brook University) : Cluster Cosmology: Orientation Bias and Projection Effects
Jan 9 Chervin Laporte (Barcelona): Tracing dark matter halo wakes with stellar halos
Jan 2


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