Seminars at MPS

Interested visitors are very welcome to join in all seminars held and talks given at the MPS. The presentations are mainly given in English. More detailed information can be found at the seminars' pages. Invited guest scientists of other institutes report on the successes and results of their research in institute seminars and colloquia. PhD students of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) present their work in S3 seminars. In the Seminars about Planets and Comets, as well as in the Seminars about the Sun and sunlike Stars, the scientists of the respective departments report on the latest results and progress made in their projects and introduce new missions. All seminars are concluded with a short discussion or a questions-and-answers sessions.

MPS Seminar: Atmospheres of hot rocky exoplanets as probes of interior state and composition (Paolo Sossi)

  • Date: May 29, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Paolo Sossi
  • Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, ETH Zürich
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Johannes Wicht
A rocky celestial body in blue hues in front of a dark blue background. The body's shape is spherical, and it is surrounded by much smaller, also spherically-shaped bodies. The scene's vicinity has a nebular quality to it, which is partially illuminated by a bright light on the top right.

PGS: Optimisation of future in situ Martian soil analyses with MOMA GC-MS (Guillaume Leseigneur)

Planetary Science Seminar
  • Date: Jun 8, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Guillaume Leseigneur
  • MPS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
A solar system school logo in cartoon style drawn in black on white background, combining graphical elements of a doctoral hat and a sun with orbits around it. Beneath the sun/hat, the words Solar System School are written and are adorned with an additional comet making up the first o in the word School.

IMPRS Defense: Solar inertial modes as probes of rotation and convection (Prithwitosh Dey)

IMPRS Defense
  • Date: Jun 15, 2026
  • Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prithwitosh Dey
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Laurent Gizon
A rocky celestial body in blue hues in front of a dark blue background. The body's shape is spherical, and it is surrounded by much smaller, also spherically-shaped bodies. The scene's vicinity has a nebular quality to it, which is partially illuminated by a bright light on the top right.

PGS: tba (Aryavart Anand)

Planetary Science Seminar
  • Date: Jun 15, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Aryavart Anand
  • MPS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
A solar system school logo in cartoon style drawn in black on white background, combining graphical elements of a doctoral hat and a sun with orbits around it. Beneath the sun/hat, the words Solar System School are written and are adorned with an additional comet making up the first o in the word School.

IMPRS Defense: Measuring multiscale solar flows using local correlation tracking (Neelanchal Joshi)

IMPRS Defense
  • Date: Jun 19, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Neelanchal Joshi
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Laurent Gizon
A solar system school logo in cartoon style drawn in black on white background, combining graphical elements of a doctoral hat and a sun with orbits around it. Beneath the sun/hat, the words Solar System School are written and are adorned with an additional comet making up the first o in the word School.

IMPRS Defense: Modelling Magnetic Induction and Lorentz Force-Driven Flows in Europa’s Subsurface Ocean (Ilse de Langen)

IMPRS Defense
  • Date: Jun 25, 2026
  • Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ilse de Langen
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Johannes Wicht
A rocky celestial body in blue hues in front of a dark blue background. The body's shape is spherical, and it is surrounded by much smaller, also spherically-shaped bodies. The scene's vicinity has a nebular quality to it, which is partially illuminated by a bright light on the top right.

PGS: Mercury surface analysis using MESSENGER and BepiColombo data (Azar Arghavanian)

Planetary Science Seminar
  • Date: Jun 29, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Azar Arghavanian
  • MPS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
A Sun drawn in comic style with an active surface, with ten rays of various lengths emerging from its disk forming a spiked wheel shape that supports colorful planets as well as a comet and a cloud of pebbles positioned at its various end points.

S3 Seminar: Turbulence in Keplerian flow (Abhiroop Bhadra)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jul 1, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Abhiroop Bhadra
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
A Sun drawn in comic style with an active surface, with ten rays of various lengths emerging from its disk forming a spiked wheel shape that supports colorful planets as well as a comet and a cloud of pebbles positioned at its various end points.

S3 Seminar: Magnetic Synoptic Maps: Vector Fields and Polar Regions (Francisca Santos)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jul 1, 2026
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Francisca Santos
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
A Sun drawn in comic style with an active surface, with ten rays of various lengths emerging from its disk forming a spiked wheel shape that supports colorful planets as well as a comet and a cloud of pebbles positioned at its various end points.

S3 Seminar: Quantifying the effect of passband on observations in the Ca II K line (Ajay Yadav Kumar)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jul 22, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ajay Yadav Kumar
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
A Sun drawn in comic style with an active surface, with ten rays of various lengths emerging from its disk forming a spiked wheel shape that supports colorful planets as well as a comet and a cloud of pebbles positioned at its various end points.

S3 Seminar: Measuring and Modeling Stellar Magnetic Activity Effects in Transit Spectroscopy (Rosa Keers)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jul 22, 2026
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rosa Keers
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
A Sun drawn in comic style with an active surface, with ten rays of various lengths emerging from its disk forming a spiked wheel shape that supports colorful planets as well as a comet and a cloud of pebbles positioned at its various end points.

S3 Seminar: Thermal evolution of coronal loops (Bhinva Ram)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jul 22, 2026
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Bhinva Ram
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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