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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 or Wednesday evening at the Wirtshaus zum Isartal.

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.

From the beginning of the universe: How far back can we look?

Café & Kosmos on February 24, 2026

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Black Holes from the Big Bang – A Clue to Dark Matter?

Café & Cosmos on January 21, 2026

Shortly after the Big Bang, tiny black holes may have formed in the young universe. These primordial objects - first proposed in 1971 by Stephen Hawking - have once again become a major focus of astrophysical research. Perhaps these so-called…

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Uncertainty – from Heisenberg to quantum field theory

Café & Kosmos on October 21, 2025

Café & Kosmos on October 21, 2025

100 years ago, physicists such as Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Born fundamentally revolutionized our understanding of physics with the establishment of quantum mechanics. Although the quantum world often contradicts…

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