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Solar System Seminars

Requirements in brief
- One seminar talk per year
- Regular seminar attendance

The Solar System Science seminar (also known as IMPRS S3 seminar)

The S3 seminar is the weekly IMPRS doctoral seminar, open to the campus audience. Once a month, the seminar time slot is preceeded by a closed student meeting, and it is sometimes followed by a colloquium talk by an external speaker. Attendance is mandatory for IMPRS students. Every IMPRS doctoral candidate is expected to give one seminar talk per year, normally followed by a meeting with the Thesis Advisory Committee (three talks and TAC meetings in total during the course of the PhD studies). The seminar is co-organised by the IMPRS seminar group. Details for participants (students and advisors) are available in the corresponding Stud.IP course.

Other seminars and colloquia

Regular attendance of further seminars and colloquia offered by the Faculty of Physics, the Institute of Astrophysics, and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is also highly recommended (see info boxes to the right).

Solar System Science seminar: Schedule

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PGS: Planetary volatile element depletion processes inferred from mass-dependent Te isotope variations in iron meteorites (Fiona Speller)

Planetary Group Seminar & M.Sc Theses Defense
  • Date: Feb 23, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Fiona Speller
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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S3 Seminar: Reconstruction of the annual solar irradiance over the past 9 millennia (Duresa Temaj)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Feb 11, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Duresa Temaj
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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PGS: In situ Rb-Sr dating of Martian meteorites, using the Neoma MC-ICP-MS/MS mass spectrometer (Miles Lindner)

Planetary Group Seminar & S3 Seminar
  • Date: Feb 9, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Miles Lindner
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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S3 Seminar: Investigating high-speed outflows from a coronal hole with UV spectroscopy (Mario Roco Moraleda)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Feb 4, 2026
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Mario Roco Moraleda
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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S3 Seminar: Chromospheric Fe I lines in the near-ultraviolet solar spectrum: Simulations and observations (Edvarda Harnes)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Feb 4, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Edvarda Harnes
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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S3 Seminar: Stereoscopic disambiguation of solar vector magnetograms: reliability evaluations, and comparison with single-view disambiguation (Xiang Li)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jan 28, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Xiang Li
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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PGS: Dust growth in protoplanetary disks using Monte Carlo simulations (Vignesh Vaikundaraman)

Planetary Group Seminar & S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jan 26, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Vignesh Vaikundaraman
  • International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science
  • Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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Tools talks

IMPRS Tools Talks
  • Date: Jan 21, 2026
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Jonathan Nölke
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: MPS seminar rooms A+B+C
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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PGS: Core-mantle heat flux and its role in controlling the Earth's dynamo behavior (Illya Lohay)

Planetary Group Seminar & S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jan 19, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Illya Lohay
  • International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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PGS: Volatilization of potential hollow-forming compounds on Mercury (Rody Erftemeijer)

Planetary Group Seminar & S3 Seminar
  • Date: Jan 12, 2026
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Rody Erftemeijer
  • International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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Real-time onboard processing for the Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager (PMI) onboard ESA's Vigil mission (Deepa Muraleedharan)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Dec 17, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Deepa Muraleedharan
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Hörsaal
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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PGS: Modeling Ganymede’s Surface Charging Processes (Betty Pei-Chun Tsai)

Planetary Group Seminar & S3 Seminar
  • Date: Dec 15, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Betty Pei-Chun Tsai
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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Tools talks

IMPRS Tools Talks
  • Date: Dec 10, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: IMPRS
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Hörsaal
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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Planet Formation Initiated by Infall-Induced Pressure Bumps (Haichen Zhao)

Planetary Group Seminar
  • Date: Dec 1, 2025
  • Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Haichen Zhao
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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New High-Sensitivity Ground-Based Microwave Observations of Mesospheric Ozone (Meghna Dutta)

Planetary Group Seminar
  • Date: Nov 17, 2025
  • Time: 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Meghna Dutta
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Auditorium
  • Host: Jan Hellmann
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Tools talks

IMPRS Tools Talks
  • Date: Nov 5, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Hörsaal
  • Host: Sonja Schuh
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Deciphering planet formation using meteoritic data (Nerea Gurrutxaga)

S3 Seminar
  • Date: Oct 29, 2025
  • Time: 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Nerea Gurrutxaga
  • IMPRS
  • Location: Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • Room: Hörsaal
  • Host: Sonja Schuh

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