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Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium

The Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium series this winter semester 2025/26 takes place on Tuesdays at 16:30 at the large lecture hall (gHS), Philosophenweg 12. The colloquium is organised jointly by the Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University (ZAH), the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK), and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). For further information please contact Kathryn Kreckel (kathryn.kreckel@uni-heidelberg.de) or Eduardo Banados (banados@mpia.de).
Website: https://zah.uni-heidelberg.de/hjac
Usual location: Philosophenweg 12, Main lecture hall (gHS)
Contact: Ralf Klessen, Richard Tuffs

Recent Talks:

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Gobblin' mode: how to form stars, planets and black holes quickly
Daniel Price
21 Oct 2025, 16:30

What is interstellar dust? What we've learned from Gaia
Gregory Green
28 Oct 2025, 16:30

Weighing the Universe with the Lightest Elements
Max Pettini
4 Nov 2025, 16:30

Origin of supermassive black holes from dense star clusters: Implications for the Local Universe and for JWST
Dominik Schleicher
11 Nov 2025, 16:30

From Data to Laws: Symbolic Regression and Differentiable Analytic Networks for (Astro)physics
Rodrigo Ibata
18 Nov 2025, 16:30

Nucleosynthesis evidences of extremely massive stars in proto-globular clusters-like conditions from high redshift to the local universe
Corinne Charbonnel
25 Nov 2025, 16:30

A new perspective on giant planet formation
Ravit Helled
2 Dec 2025, 16:30

Jet-driven cavities around powerful galactic particle accelerators
Rob Fender
9 Dec 2025, 16:30

The impact of stellar feedback on galaxies
Stefanie Walch-Gassner
16 Dec 2025, 16:30

Exploring the Universe with high-energy gamma rays using H.E.S.S.
Lars Mohrmann
13 Jan 2026, 16:30

Exoplanets, cool stars, and their interactions
Katja Poppenhäger
20 Jan 2026, 16:30

The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
Anna-Christina Eilers
27 Jan 2026, 16:30

eROSITA’s Legacy in Structure Formation and Evolution and Cosmology
Esra Bulbul
3 Feb 2026, 16:30

Stellar populations as fossil record of galaxy evolution across half of the cosmic history
Anna Gallazzi
21 Apr 2026, 16:30

Strongly Interacting Multiple Planet Systems as a Rosetta Stone for Planet Formation
Trifon Triofnov
28 Apr 2026, 16:30

Solar models and their uncertainties: the current state and the impact for PLATO
Gaël Buldgen
5 May 2026, 16:30

Ultraviolet spectroscopy of metal-poor stars: new advances and new opportunities
Ian Roederer
12 May 2026, 16:30

Early Galactic Disks and Their Connections to Present-Day Galaxies
Oscar Agertz
19 May 2026, 16:30

Stellar evolution & black hole coagulation in AGNs: an analogue of planet formation
Douglas Lin
26 May 2026, 16:30

Decoding the history of our Galaxy in the era of astronomical data
Aarya Patil
2 Jun 2026, 16:30

NLTE effects in the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters
Luca Fossati
9 Jun 2026, 16:30

Stars stripped in binaries: from theory to observation
Ylva Götberg
16 Jun 2026, 16:30

TBD
Rhea-Silvia Remus
23 Jun 2026, 16:30

TBD
Kareem El-Badry
30 Jun 2026, 16:30

TBD
Yuan-Sen Ting
7 Jul 2026, 16:30

The Interstellar Visitors
Colin Snodgrass
14 Jul 2026, 16:30

TBD
Sarah Bosman
21 Jul 2026, 16:30
Today:
There are no scheduled talks today.
Upcoming:
Introduction and assignment of topics

Tue, 14 Apr 2026, 16:00
A multi-ion optical clock with 5 x10^{-19} uncertainty
Melina Filzinger
Wed, 15 Apr 2026, 11:15
TBD
TBD
Thu, 16 Apr 2026, 11:00
Supermassive black hole seeding: from intermediate-mass black holes to Little Red Dots
Igor Chilingarian
Thu, 16 Apr 2026, 11:15
Show Me What You Don’t Know: Efficient Sampling from Invariant Sets for Model Validation
Armand Rousselot
Thu, 16 Apr 2026, 14:00