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.

Image of the universe from the “eRosita” space telescope (Photo: MPE/IKI)

eROSITA: Seven X-ray eyes explore the universe

Café & Kosmos on 11 February 2025

The eROSITA satellite observes the entire sky in the X-ray range. Developed and built at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 13, 2019, and has carried out a…

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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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