Café & Kosmos

Café & Kosmos - Talk with the scientists: The event series Café & Kosmos is engaged with current research questions "out of the universe," including the Big Bang, string theory, dark energy, dark matter, and many other topics.

These discussion rounds take place once per month, normally on a Tuesday evening at the Muffatwerk or at the Münchner Volkshochschule.

The organizers of Café & Kosmos are research institutions in Munich and Garching: the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, the Max Planck Institute for Physics, the MPI for Astrophysics,  the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, and the SFB 1258 (Neutrinos, Dark Matter, Messengers) at the Technical University of Munich.

Picture: Alexander Fiorioni

Warm air bubbles and the formation of the first cells

Café & Kosmos on 28 January 2025

Cells are the smallest units that we can undoubtedly recognise as alive. The membrane, a complex mixture of lipids and proteins, plays a central role in this because it separates the inside of the cell from the outside world. To form membranes, all…

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The Icecube experiment in the Antarctic (Image: Felipe Pedreros, IceCube/NSF)

Tracking down the mysteries of space with artificial intelligence

Café & Kosmos on 22 Oktober 2024

Neutrinos are like mysterious travelers carrying valuable information about the universe. They deposit their cosmic messages during their rare collisions with the ice of the IceCube neutrino detector. However, sophisticated methods are needed to…

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Image: CERN

70 years of CERN: Milestones in particle physics

Café & Kosmos on 24 September 2024

70 years ago, CERN was founded near Geneva in Switzerland. This was also the birth of an unprecedented research project: the planning and construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator with which researchers from all over the…

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