When Worlds Collide: Inauguration of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy

Name: When Worlds Collide: Inauguration of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy
Start: 2026-10-05T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-06T16:30:00+02:00
Location: LMU Main Building (Hauptgebäude)

5–6 Oct 2026

LMU Main Building (Hauptgebäude)

Europe/Berlin timezone

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MCGA Coordination Office

center.geoastronomy@lmu.de

Speaker & Talk Details

Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego, USA)
- Author in Keynote Talk: Bridging Stars to Planets: Geoastronomy with Brown Dwarfs
Mark Chaussidon
- Author in Keynote Talk: The First Minerals and Rocks of the Solar System
Donald Dingwell (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München)
- Author in Scientific Talk: Planetary surface constraints on Volcanic degassing
Marie Edmonds (Cambridge University, U.K.)
- Author in Keynote Talk: Volcanic Outgassing Across Time and Space
Cyril Gapp (LMU, Munich)
- Author in Scientific Talk: Landscapes of other worlds: Towards mapping exoplanet atmospheres
Frank Grupp (LMU and MPI-Extraterrestrial Physics, Munich)
- Author in Scientific Talk: The HECATE space mission. A German Helium Geocorona and Atmosphere exploration satellite
Kevin Heng (LMU, Munich)
- Author in Closing remarks by Co-Directors of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy
- Author in Welcome speech | Co-Directors of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy
Heiner Igel (LMU, Munich)
- Author in Scientific Talk: Probing the subsurface of planetary objects
Lisa Kaltenegger (Cornell University and Carl Sagan Institute, U.S.A)
- Author in Keynote Talk: Searching for Alien Earths
Yan Lavallée (LMU, Munich)
- Author in Closing remarks by Co-Directors of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy
- Author in Welcome speech | Co-Directors of the Munich Center for Geoastronomy
Stephen Mojzsis (Bavarian Geoinstitute (BGI), Bayreuth)
- Author in Scientific Talk: Photosynthesis as an Engineering Problem
Joshua Winn (Princeton University, USA)
- Author in Keynote Talk: To See a World in a Point of Light: The Past, Present, and Future of Exoplanet Detection