News at MPA

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"Where Does the Time Go? Understanding Performance Using SPACE-Timers"

May 4, 2026 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"The Relationship Between Quasars and Dark Matter Halos Around Redshift 1"

May 4, 2026 from 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Stellar Feedback and Supernovae in Lensed Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies"

May 5, 2026 from 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM (Local Time Germany)

"ANDES"

May 6, 2026 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

TBA

May 6, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Software- und Lizenzworkshop 2026"

from May 6, 2026 02:00 PM to May 7, 2026 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Software- und Lizenzworkshop 2026"

from May 6, 2026 02:00 PM to May 7, 2026 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Call for Proposals – ESO Science Workshops 2027

May 11, 2026 from 12:00 AM to 01:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

"Von der Dunkelheit ins Licht – Die Geburt von Sternen und Planeten"

May 12, 2026 from 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

"The Cosmic and Galactic Baryon Cycles"

May 20, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Führung durch das Schloss

May 22, 2026 from 02:00 PM to 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Call for Proposals – Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation 2026

May 25, 2026 from 12:00 AM to 01:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

Upcoming seminars

"The Relationship Between Quasars and Dark Matter Halos Around Redshift 1"

May 4, 2026 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPA, Room: New Seminar Room, E.0.11

"Stellar Feedback and Supernovae in Lensed Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies"

May 5, 2026 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Garching, Room: Auditorium Eridanus

"Software- und Lizenzworkshop 2026"

May 6, 2026 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany) - May 7, 2026 04:00 PM
MPP

"A Disc Wind Where You Least Expect It: The Outflow in the Short-Period X-Ray Binary UW CrB"

May 6, 2026 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPA, Room: Lecture Hall E.0.11

"Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Signatures of Binary Black Holes With Circumbinary Gas"

May 7, 2026 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Garching, Room: Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching)

"Von der Dunkelheit ins Licht – Die Geburt von Sternen und Planeten"

May 12, 2026 07:00 PM - 08:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Wirtshaus zum Isartal, Brudermühlstraße 2, 81371 München

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Meet our MPA fellows

A look back forward
​​​​​​​​2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Max Planck Society. On February 26, 1948, in Göttingen, the proven concept of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society as a successful model of non-university research funding was rescued for the young Federal Republic, but also changed in a forward-looking way. Both are the basis of the MPG in its present form and success. The anniversary is celebrated as the most important caesura within the history of the MPG, which goes back to 1911, and at the same time sets the course for the future viability of the society, which must be discussed again and again.
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About MPA

Structure

Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Selma E. de Mink

Scientific Members, Kollegium, Directors
Prof. Dr. Selma E. de Mink
Prof. Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann
Prof. Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu
Prof. Dr. Volker Springel

Emeritus Directors
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillebrandt
Prof. Dr. Rashid Sunyaev
Prof. Dr. Simon White

External Scientific Members
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Prof. Dr. Werner Tscharnuter

Head of the administration
Pia Fischhaber

Contact

Press and Public Relations
Dr. Hannelore Haemmerle
Phone: 089 30000-2179
email: pr@mpa-garching.mpg.de

Dr. Hans-Thomas Janka
Phone: 089 30000-2228
(contact per phone only)

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
Postfach 1317
D-85741 Garching, Germany

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