Astrophysics seminars are hybrid and take place every Tuesday at 14:30 in the Blackett Laboratory/ Huxley Building
Discussion and refreshments follow the seminar at 16:00.
Seminar organiser: Dr Arvind Hughes & Dr Timmy Delage
Astrophysics seminars
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Summer Term (2022-2023)
25 April Vardan Elbakyan (Leicester) – Dust dynamics in protoplanetary discs, accretion outbursts on protostars
2 May Niall Jeffrey (UCL) – Cosmology, Statistical models
9 May Paola Pinilla (MSSL) – Observations of protoplanetary discs
16 May Jim Dunlop (Edinburgh) – Extra-galactic astronomy, Cosmology
23 May Danielle Leonard (Newcastle) – Weak gravitational lensing & Galaxy clustering
30 May TBD
6 June Sebastian Marino (Exeter) – Debris discs, Protoplanetary discs
13 June Sebastiaan Krijt (Exeter) – Early formation of planets, Dust in discs
20 June Duncan Farrah (Hawaii) – Quasars & Cosmology
27 June Matthew Colless (Canberra) – Observational cosmology & Galaxy dynamics
Spring Term (2022-23)
10 January Kevin Heng (Munich) – Planetary atmospheres
17 January Matthew Colless (Canberra) – Observational cosmology & galaxy dynamics
24 January Richard Parker (Sheffield) – Formation & evolution of star clusters
31 January Heather Cegla (Warwick) – Exoplanets
7 February Shirley Ho – Machine learning, Dark energy, CMB
14 February Rescheduled
21 February Rescheduled
28 February Rescheduled
14 March Harry Desmond (Portsmouth) – Cosmology, Statistical methods
21 March Rescheduled
28 March Charlie Hoy (Portsmouth) – Gravitational waves
Autumn term (2022-23)
Oct 11: James Kirk (Imperial) - What can we learn from exoplanet atmospheres and how can we study them?
Oct 18: Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez (DIPC) -Hybrid approaches for structure formation
Oct 25: Oscar Barragan (Oxford) - Detection of planetary signals in cases of extreme stellar activity
Nov 1: Sheona Urquhart (Open University)
Nov 8: Kate Pattle (UCL) - Interstellar Magnetic Fields: From Star Formation to Galaxy Evolution
Nov 15: TBC Nov 22: Hilke Schlichting (UCLA)
Nov 29: TBC
Dec 6: Amy Bonsor (Cambridge)
Dec 13: TBC
Autumn term (2021-22)
Oct 13: Rachael Beaton (Princeton University, USA)
Engineering the Cosmological Measurements with Old Stellar Populations
Oct 20: James Owen (Imperial College London)
UV-SCOPE: A NASA MiDEX mission concept to explore exoplanets inthe UV
Oct 27: Matthias Rempel (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, USA)
Flare simulations with the MURaM radiative MHD code
Nov 3: Trent Dupuy (University of Edinburgh)
Beneath the Surface: Testing Evolutionary Models of Giant Planets and Brown Dwarfs
Nov 10: Rebecca Bowler (University of Oxford)
What bright galaxies can tell us about the first billion years
Nov 17: Amy Steele (McGill University)
Constraining the composition of exo-planetary material around white dwarf stars
Nov 24: Florent Leclercq (Imperial College London)
Bayesian analyses of galaxy surveys
Dec 1: Michael Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College London)
A Search for Planet 9 in the IRAS Data
Dec 8: Daniel Holz (University of Chicago)
Some recent results in gravitational-wave science
Dec 15: Tim Cunningham (University of Warwick)
Convective overshoot in white dwarf stars: insights from 3D radiation hydrodynamics
Winter term (2021-22)
Jan 26: Glenn Starkman (Case Western Reserve University, USA; visitor at Imperial College London)
Gravitational glint: Detectable gravitational wave tails from stars and compact objects
Feb 2: Claudio Dalla Vecchia (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), Spain)
Eagles and Canaries
Feb 9: John Tobin (National Radio Astronomy Obervatory (NRAO), USA)
(General topic: Star formation)
Feb 16: Elisabeth Krause (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA)
Large-Scale Structure Cosmology in the Systematics-Limited Regime
Feb 23: TBD
Mar 2: Manda Banerji-Wright (University of Southampton)
(General topic: Co-evolution of galaxies and super-massive black holes)
Mar 9: Charlotte Mason (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
(General topic: Formation and evolution of galaxies in the early universe)
[NOTE special earlier time: 2:45-4:15 pm (2:45-3:15 pm: Speaker/student discussion; 3:15-4:00 pm: Seminar; 4:00-4:15 pm: Coffee)]
Mar 16: Will Hartley (Université de Genève)
(General topic: Dark Energy Survey)
Mar 23: TBD
Summer term (2021-22)
May 18: Steve Choi (Cornell University, USA)
Next Generation Cosmology from the Atacama Desert
May 25: Amelie Saintonge (University College London)
From cosmic web to molecular clouds: the multiple scales of galaxy evolution
June 1: Claudia Scoccola (University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
(General topic: Cosmology)
June 8: Suvodip Mukherjee (Flatiron Institute / Simons Foundation, USA)
(General topic: Cosmology)
June 8: Suvodip Mukherjee (Flatiron Institute / Simons Foundation, USA)
(General topic: Cosmology)
SPECIAL SEMINAR:
June 9, 11am – 12 pm: Stefano Anselmi (University of Padova, Italy)
Are Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations a Dark Energy Probe?
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are considered one of the most powerful Dark Energy cosmological probes. They are assumed to provide distance measures independent of a specific cosmological model. However, in current measurements, the inference is done assuming parameter values of a fiducial LCDM model and employing prescriptions tested to be unbiased only within some LCDM fiducial cosmologies. Moreover the procedure is plagued by the ambiguity of choosing a specific correlation function model-template to measure cosmological distances. Does this comply with the requirement of model-independent distances useful, for instance, to select cosmological models or characterize tensions? In this talk I will review the subject, answer to compelling questions and explore new promising research directions.
June 15: Giovanni Rosotti (University of Leicester)
(General topic: Protoplanetary Disks)
June 22: NO SEMINAR (1st year ESA talks)
June 29: TBD
Autumn term (2020-21)
Oct 14: Richard Booth (Imperial College London)
Dust and gas evolution in protoplanetary discs
Oct 21: Matthaus Schulik (Imperial College London)
Forming gas giant planets in 3D – Current progress and future challanges
Oct 28: Karina Voggel (Strasbourg Observatory)
The Hidden Black Holes in Surviving Nuclear Star Clusters of Accreted Galaxies
Nov 4: Boris Leistedt (Imperial College London)
Cosmology with galaxy surveys
Nov 11: Ashley Spindler (Univ. of Hertfordshire)
AstroVaDEr – An Unsupervised Approach to Galaxy Classification and Image Synthesis
Nov 18: Selim Hotinli (Imperial College London)
New directions in cosmology: utilising the small-scale signatures in the Universe
Nov 25: Ansgar Reiners (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
M dwarfs, planets, and their atmospheres - results from the CARMENES project
Dec 2: Tana Joseph (University of Amsterdam)
Multi-messenger studies of binary stellar systems with the SKA
Dec 9: Rebecca Nealon (University of Warwick)
Misalignments and shadows in protoplanetary discs
Winter term (2020-21)
Jan 27: Adélie Gorce (McGill University, Canada)
Cosmological signatures of the Epoch of Reionisation: A statistical approach
Feb 3: Sarah Bosman (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Germany)
Beyond the Lyman-α forest: Understanding the end stages of Reionisation
Feb 10: Cynthia Chiang (McGill University, Canada)
Illuminating the Dark Universe with Radio Observations
Feb 17: Marija Jankovic (University of Cambridge)
The inner protoplanetary disc and the formation of super-Earths
Feb 24: Giovanna Tinetti (UCL)
Ariel: enabling planetary science across light-years
Mar 3: NO SEMINAR
Mar 10: Jane Greaves (Cardiff University)
Updates on phosphine on Venus: any prospect for extant life in the clouds?
Mar 17: Jayne Birkby (University of Oxford)
Exoplanet Atmospheres in High Resolution
Mar 24: Barbara Ercolano (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, University Observatory Munich, Germany)
Thermal disc winds and their role in the formation and evolution of planets
Spring term (2020-21)
NOTE: Seminars this term will start at 16:00, and will continue being held remotely via Zoom.
May 5: Rebecca Smethurst (University of Oxford)
The growth of supermassive black holes in the absence of mergers and the effect on their host galaxies
May 12: Cathie Clarke (University of Cambridge)
Using simulations and observations of protoplanetary discs to understand planetary system formation
May 19: Steven Murray (Arizona State University, USA)
Building Confidence in Next-Generation 21cm Cosmology: A Forward-Model Approach
May 26: Neal Turner (NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, USA)
(Hyperion: exploring the evolution of star-forming clouds and planet-forming disks with far-UV spectroscopy from space)
Jun 2: Evgenya Shkolnik (Arizona State University, USA)
(A Holistic View of Exoplanets, their Environments, and their Potential to Host Life)
Jun 9: Jinyi Yang (University of Arizona, USA)
(General topic: High-z quasar searches)
Jun 16: NO SEMINAR (PG 1st year talks)
Jun 23: Marius Millea (UC Berkeley, USA)
(General topic: CMB lensing)
Jun 30: NO SEMINAR (PG late review talks)
Autumn term (2019-20)
Oct 2: Daniel Bayliss (Univ. of Warwick)
Exoplanet Science with NGTS and TESS
Oct 9: ICIC seminar: Daniel Mortlock (Imperial College London)
Hubble Trouble
Oct 16: ICIC seminar: Natalia Porqueres (Imperial College London)
Inferring the Dynamical Growth of Structures at High Redshift
Oct 23: ICIC seminar: Fabian Schmidt (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching)
New Approaches to Galaxy Clustering
Oct 30: Jonathan Tan (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)
A Light in the Dark: Massive Star Birth Through Cosmic Time
Nov 6: Cora Uhlemann (DAMTP, Univ. of Cambridge)
Cosmology and fundamental physics with counts-in-cells
Nov 13: Sarah Casewell (Univ. of Leicester)
Irradiated brown dwarfs: Providing insights into exoplanet atmospheres
Nov 20: Ian Parry (Univ. of Cambridge)
Searching for the 763nm oxygen "bio-signature" with large space telescopes
Nov 27: Anastasia Fialkov (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Univ. of Cambridge)
Unveiling cosmic dawn
Dec 4: Mark Wyatt (Univ. of Cambridge)
(General topic: Debris disks and planet formation)
Dec 11: Anne Hutter (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen, Netherlands)
(General topic: Reionisation and galaxy formation)
Spring term (2019-20)
Jan 15: Beatriz Mingo Fernandez (Open Univ.)
(What can LOFAR teach us about AGN? LoTSS!)
Jan 22: NO SEMINAR (Astro Open Day)
Jan 29: Mark Wyatt (Univ. of Cambridge)
(Exocomets and their effect on inner planet atmospheres)
Feb 5: Nikos Nikolaou (University College London)
(Pushing the Limits of Exoplanet Discovery via Direct Imaging with Deep Learning)
Feb 12: Chris Manser (Univ. of Warwick / Imperial College: Imperial College Research Fellow)
(Planetary systems at white dwarfs)
Feb 19: Rajesh Mondal (Univ. of Sussex)
(General topic: Computational cosmology)
Feb 26: Hannah Wakeford (Space Telescope Science Institute (USA) / Univ. of Bristol)
(General topic: Characterising exoplanet atmospheres)
Mar 4: ICIC seminar: Chieh-An Lin (Univ. of Edinburgh)
(General topic: Cosmology, gravitational lensing)
Mar 11: Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton Univ.)
(General topic: Astroparticle physics, dark matter)
Mar 18: NO SEMINAR
Summer term (2019-20)
Apr 29: Laura Kreidberg (Harvard Univ. (USA) / MPIA Heidelberg)
Big Steps Toward Small Worlds: Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization in the Next Decade and Beyond
May 6: Ilse Cleeves (Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA))
Illuminating the Chemistry of Planet Formation with X-ray Flares
May 13: Konrad Kuijken (Univ. of Leiden)
Cosmology from Gravitational Lensing with the Kilo-Degree Survey
May 20: Hannah Wakeford (Univ. of Bristol)
(General topic: Exoplanets)
May 27: Alan Heavens (Imperial College London)
Should Dark Galaxies Exist?
Jun 3: Blake Sherwin (Univ. of Cambridge)
(General topic: Cosmology, lensing)
Jun 10: Michael Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College London)
A search for Planet 9 in the IRAS data
Jun 17: NO SEMINAR (Astro student talks)
Jun 24: ICIC seminar: Chieh-An Lin (Univ. of Edinburgh) (NOTE: 11 am UK time)
(General topic: Cosmology, gravitational lensing)
Autumn term (2018-19)
Oct 3: Rebecca Canning (Stanford Univ., USA)
The Cluster AGN Topography Survey: Disentangling AGN and Large-Scale Structure
Oct 10: Kate Rowlands (Johns Hopkins Univ., USA) (note: 2:30 start)
Caught in the Act: Charting Galaxy Transformation over Cosmic Time
Oct 17: TBD
TBD
Oct 23 (Tuesday): Yamila Miguel (Univ. of Leiden) (note: 3-4 pm, Blackett 741. Special seminar replacing Wed Oct 24)
The Interior of Jupiter Revealed by Juno
Oct 24: CANCELLED, replaced by above
Oct 31: Colin McNally (Queen Mary Univ. London)
Towards a new understanding of planet migration in modern models of protoplanetary discs
Nov 7: Julian Adamek (Queen Mary Univ. London)
Relativistic Effects in Cosmic Large-scale Structure
Nov 14: Annelies Mortier (Univ. of Cambridge)
Stellar Spectroscopy in Exoplanet Research
Nov 21: Brooke Simmons (Lancaster Univ.)
Illuminating the Growth of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
Nov 28: Paul Rimmer (Univ. of Cambridge)
Abiogenesis Zones around M-Dwarfs
Dec 5: Nate Bastian (Liverpool John Moores Univ.)
The E-MOSAICS Project: Simulating the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies and their Globular Cluster Systems across Cosmic History
Dec 12: Jason McEwan (UCL) (note: ICIC seminar)
High-dimensional uncertainty quantification in astrophysics
Dec 19: Chiaki Hikage (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam data
Winter term (2018-19)
Jan 16: Tom Theuns (Durham Univ.)
An analytical model of galaxy formation
Jan 23: NO SEMINAR (Astro Open Day)
Jan 30: Grant Kennedy (Univ. of Warwick)
Disks and their interactions with (sub-)stellar companions
Feb 6: Catherine Walsh (Univ. of Leeds)
The chemistry of planet-forming disks in the era of ALMA
Feb 13: Matthew Genge (Imperial College, Dept. of Earth Science & Engineering)
Interplanetary dust and the origins of life on Earth
Feb 20: Giulio Fabbian (Univ. of Sussex)
Challenges for Cosmology and Astrophysics with CMB lensing and galaxy surveys cross-correlations
Feb 27: CANCELLED
Mar 6: Roman Rafikov (DAMTP, Univ. of Cambridge)
Nature and Origin of 'Oumuamua - First Interstellar Visitor to the Solar System
Mar 13: Cassandra Hall (Univ. of Leicester)
Gravitational instability and substructure in protoplanetary discs
Mar 20: Bill Chaplin (Univ. of Birmingham)
Asteroseismology and Exoplanets
Spring term (2018-19)
May 1: Harry Desmond (Univ. of Oxford)
Fifth force searches in galaxies
May 8: Clare Dobbs (Univ. of Exeter)
Simulations of the galaxy M33 - determining the spiral structure and properties of GMCs
May 15: Shirley Ho (Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, USA)
Machine Learning the Universe: Opening the Pandora Box
May 22: CANCELLED
May 29: Keir Rogers (Stockholm Univ.) (note: ICIC seminar)
Bayesian emulator optimisation: optimised interpolation of astrophysical simulations
Jun 5: Tassia Ferreira (Federal Univ. of Esprito Santo, Brazil / Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA)
The tale of two projects: covariance matrices and interaction in the dark sector
Jun 12: Emre Isik (MPS, Göttingen; Turkish-German Univ., Istanbul)
Forward modelling of magnetic activity diagnostics in Sun-like stars
Jun 19: Suzanne Aigrain (Univ. of Oxford)
Getting the most out of radial velocity planet searches by embracing the stellar noise
Jun 26: Ed Gillen (Univ. of Cambridge)
(General topic: Early evolution of stellar and planetary systems)
Autumn term (2017-18)
Oct 4: David Valls-Gabaud (Observatoire de Paris)
The MESSIER Surveyor: Lifting the Veil on the Ultra-Low Surface Brightness Universe
Oct 11: Ali Dariush (Univ. of Cambridge)
A Multi-Dsciplinary Approach Towards Analysing Medical Images
Oct 18: Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida, Gainesville)
The Search for Axions
Oct 25: Nikku Madhusudhan (Univ. of Cambridge)
Chemical Characterisation of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Nov 1: Amaury Triaud (Univ. of Birmingham)
The Plurality of Worlds
Nov 6: Special Seminar: Adam Burgasser (Univ. of California San Diego)
Spectral Binaries: A Novel Approach for Measuring the Binary Fraction of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Nov 8: Richard Alexander (Univ. of Leicester)
Building Planetary Systems
Nov 15: Prof. Joseph Conlon (Univ. of Oxford )
Search for Axions and Dark Matter from Active Galactic Nuclei
Nov 22: Alkistis Pourtsidou (Queen Mary Univ. of London)
Synergies between 21-cm Intensitity Mapping, Optical, and CMB Surveys
Nov 29: Rachael Ainsworth (Univ. of Manchester)
Young Sun-Like Stars at Metre Wavelengths & Open Science in Astronomy
Dec 6: Nina Hatch (Univ. of Nottingham)
Dec 13: Guillem Anglada (Queen Mary Univ. of London)
Winter term (2017-18)
Jan 10: cancelled
Jan 17: no seminar (PG Open Day)
Jan 24: Tamara Rogers (Univ. of Newcastle)
Magnetism in Hot Jupiters
Jan 31: Florent Leclercq (Imperial)
Bayesian large-scale structure inference, likelihood-based and likelihood-free approaches
Feb 7: Fabio Antonini (Univ. of Surrey)
Nuclear clusters and (supermassive) black holes
Feb 14: Daan Meerburg (Univ. of Cambridge)
Cosmological challenges: neutrino mass
Feb 21: Ben Farmer (Imperial)
Global fits and Bayesian naturalness
Feb 28: Cancelled
Mar 7: Cancelled
Mar 14: Min-Kai Lin (ASIAA Sinica, Taiwan)
Mar 21: Michael Rowan-Robinson (Imperial)
Spring term (2017-18)
May 2: Jay Farihi (UCL)
Exoplanetary Archaeology: The Fossil Record of Rocky Planetary Systems
May 9: Will Handley (Univ. of Cambridge)
Nested Sampling: an efficient and robust Bayesian inference tool for
astrophysics and cosmology
May 16: Jack Line (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)
A rundown of the MWA EoR experiment
May 23: Duncan Farrah (Virginia Tech, USA)
Insights into galaxy assembly from luminous AGN in the distant Universe
May 30: Caroline Dorn (Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland)
Interior characterization for multiplanetary systems: Trappist-1
June 6: Samantha Penny (Univ. of Portsmouth)
Examining low mass galaxy evolution through SDSS-IV MaNGA spatially resolved spectroscopy
June 13: Helen Russell (Univ. of Cambridge)
Massive molecular gas flows and AGN feedback in galaxy clusters
June 20: Jessica Spake (Univ. of Exeter)
Helium in the upper atmospheres of exoplanets
June 27: Richard Nelson (Queen Mary Univ. of London)
Migration and growth of planets in non-turbulent protoplanetary discs
AUTUMN TERM 2016
Oct 5
Eric Feigelson (Penn State)
Astrostatistics: The role of statistics in astronomical research
Oct 12
Michael Burgess (KTH Stockholm)
Exploring Gamma-ray Bursts via the Bayesian Paradigm
Oct 19
Nick Kaiser (IfA, University of Hawaii)
Gravitational Redshifts in Clusters of Galaxies
Oct 26
Heather Campbell (University of Surrey)
How SNe Ia host galaxy properties affect cosmological parameters and Gaia Science Alerts
Nov 2
Sarah Rugheimer (University of St. Andrews)
Impact of UV on Characterizing Pale Blue Dots around Other Stars
Nov 9
Anne Green (University of Nottingham)
Probing the astrophysics and particle physics of WIMPs with direct detection experiments
Nov 16
Matthew Auger (IoA, University of Cambridge)
The Evolution of Dark and Stellar Mass in Massive Stellar Galaxies
Nov 23
Mark Sullivan (University of Southampton)
The transient universe: Cosmic explosions and dark energy
Nov 30
Steve Longmore (Liverpool John Moores University)
The Galactic Centre: A template for understanding star formation and feedback in a high-pressure environment
Dec 7
Piero Madau (University of California Santa Cruz)
The Dark and Light Side of Galaxy Formation
Dec 14
Matt Browning (University of Exeter)
Magnetism, Buoyancy and Dissipation in Convective Stars and Planets
SPRING TERM 2017
Jan 18
Thomas Bisbas (MPE Garching)
The Effect of Cosmic Rays on the Observability of H2 Gas in the Universe
Jan 25
Tom Haworth (Imperial College London)
Multiphysics Modelling in Astronomy
Feb 1
cancelled
Feb 8
Suman Majumdar (Imperial College London)
Various Estimators of the Redshifted 21-cm Signal from the Epoch of Reionisation
Feb 15
Julie Wardlow (University of Durham)
Unveiling Extreme Dusty Star Formation at z > 2
Feb 22
cancelled
Mar 1
Jan Forbrich (University of Hertfordshire)
The Orion Radio All-Stars: New Perspectives in Stellar Radio Astronomy
Mar 8
Stephen Wilkins (University of Sussex)
Observations and Simulations of the Epoch of Reionisation
Mar 15
Aaron Vincent (Imperial College London)
Dark Matter in the Sun
Mar 22
Carole Mundell (University of Bath)
Black Hole Driven Explosions and the Dynamic Universe
SUMMER TERM 2017
May 3
Farzana Meru (Univ. of Cambridge)
The Role of Self-Gravitating Discs in Planet Formation: Recent Developments from Theory and Observations
May 10
Lewis Dartnell (Univ. of Westminster)
Martian Death Rays: Cosmic Radiation and the Search for Life on Mars
May 17
Prof. Raul Jimenez (Univ. of Barcelona)
Our (current) understanding of the Universe
May 24
Andrew Pontzen (University College London)
A New Approach to Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation and Large Scale Structure
May 31
Aline Vidotto (Trinity College Dublin)
Stellar Magnetic Activity and Their Effects on Planets (and vice-versa)
Jun 7
Prof. Sarah Bridle (University of Manchester)
From Astrophysics to Agriculture
Jun 14
Prof. Peter Coles (Cardiff University)
Cosmological Wave Mechanics
Jun 21
Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford)
The Interstellar Medium of Galaxies Near and Far: New Clues for Galaxy Evolution
Jun 28
James Owen (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Clues as to How the Kepler Planets Formed
SPRING TERM 2016
20 January
Gerry Gilmore (IoA Cambridge)
Gaia - Galactic, Extragalactic, Solar System and Cosmology Science
27 January
Tom Kitching (MSSL UCL)
Doing physics with weak lensing surveys
3 February
Sarah Kendrew (Oxford)
High-redshift galaxy kinematics in the E-ELT era
10 February
Michelle Collins (Surrey)
The Faintest Galaxies as probes of cosmology and galactic evolution
17 February
Miguel Quartin (Rio)
The Cosmic Supernova Recycling Program
24 February
Sean Matt (Exeter)
Rotation, Magnetic Activity, and Mass Loss of Sun-Like Stars
2 March
No seminar
9 March
Rubina Kotax (Queen's Belfast)
Eruptions and explosions of massive stars: current enigmas and future prospects
16 March
David van Dyk (Imperial)
Science-Driven Image Analysis in Astronomy and Solar Physics (ICIC seminar)
23 March
Hiranya Peiris (UCL)
Towards fundamental physics with cosmological surveys
SUMMER TERM 2016
27 April
Haley Gomez (Cardiff)
Dusty Galaxies and smoking supernovae
4 May
Xiaohui Fan (Arizona)
The most massive Black Holes in the Early Universe
11 May
Olja Panic (IoA Cambridge)
Warm and cold cradles of giant planets
18 May
Andy Taylor (Edinburgh)
No go for cosmic self-acceleration
25 May
Nick Kaiser (IfA Hawaii)
Biases in the cosmological distance-redshift relation
1 June
Yvonne Unruh (Imperial)
Modelling solar magnetic variability
8 June
Manda Banerji (IoA Cambridge)
Dusty quasars in the high-redshift Universe: supermassive Black Holes in formation?
15 June
Mark Wilkinson (Leicester)
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies: cosmological probes on our doorstep
22 June
Mark Hannam (Cardiff)
When black holes collide: the dawn of gravitational-wave astronomy
SPRING TERM 2015
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Chris Blake (Swinburne)
Testing gravitational physics with cosmological observations
Wednesday 4 February 2015 (ICIC seminar)
Daniel Mortlock (Imperial)
Bayesian model comparison in astronomy and cosmology
Wednesday 11 February 2015
Beth Biller (Edinburgh)
Detecting and Characterising Planets with Direct Imaging
Wednesday 18 February 2015
Amelie Saintonge (UCL)
Gas accretion and star formation: drivers of galaxy evolution
Wednesday 4 March 2015
Monica Grady (Open University)
Rosetta and Philae
Wednesday 18 March 2015 (ICIC seminar)
Iain Murray (Edinburgh)
Machine learning methods for density estimation, as tools for astronomy
SUMMER TERM 2015
29 Apr 2015
Serena Viti (UCL)
Determining the physical and chemical conditions of AGN and starburst galaxies
6 May 2015
Jonathan Tan (Florida)
Inside-out Planet Formation
13 May 2015
Natasha Karpenko (Southampton)
Bayesian numerical recipes for supernova data analysis: cosmology and photometric classification
(ICIC seminar)
20 May 2015
George Efstathiou (KICC Cambridge)
Cosmology with Planck 2015
27 May 2015
Andrei Mesinger (Pisa)
What can we learn from observations of reionisation?
(ICIC seminar)
3 June 2015
John Peacock (Edinburgh)
Gravitational lensing and the cosmic photosphere
17 June 2015
Sergey Koposov (IoA Cambridge)
Streams and satellites: Galactic Archaeology with large surveys
24 June 2015
Rita Tojeiro (St Andrews)
The case for fully-resolved star-formation histories: difficult, but worth it
AUTUMN TERM 2015
7 October
Marcel Agüeros (Columbia)
Setting Stellar Chronometers: The PTF Open Cluster Survey
14 October
Bruce Bassett (Cape Town)
Trying to break cosmology
21 October
Baojiu Li (Durham)
Following light through cosmological simulations
28 October
Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv)
Observing the First Stars with 21-cm Cosmology
4 November
Anze Slosar (Brookhaven)
Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha forest
18 November
Franz Elsner (UCL)
Parameter estimation in cosmology - the Planck likelihood
25 November
Tara Murphy (Sydney)
Exploring the dynamic radio sky with the Murchison Widefield Array
2 December
Boris Leistedt (NYU)
From precision to accuracy: cosmology with large imaging surveys
16 December
Amy Bonsor (IoA Cambridge)
Dust, Comets and Planets
ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS
SPRING TERM
Tuesday 7 January 2014
Nick Kaiser (University of Hawaii)
Gravitational Redshifts in Clusters of Galaxies
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Ray Jayawardhana (University of Toronto)
Characterizing exoplanets
Wednesday 29 January 2014 (ICIC Seminar)
Roberto Trotta (Imperial College)
Bayesian model selection of inflationary models:The best inflationary models after Planck
PLEASE NOTE THE EARLIER TIME, AND CHANGED LOCATION.
Wednesday 5 February 2014
John Ellis (King's College)
Planck-Compatible Inflationary Models
Wednesday 19 February 2014
Paul O'Brien (University of Leicester)
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Jaiyul Yoo (Heidelberg)
New Perspective on Galaxy Clustering and Cosmology
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Cristina Popescu (University of Lancaster)
Radiative transfer modelling of galaxies
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Didier Queloz (University of Cambridge)
Exoplanets and the nature of other worlds
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Matt Browning (University of Exeter)
Simulations of Convection and Magnetism in Stars
SUMMER TERM
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Lucia Marchetti (Open University)
The HerMES FIR/SMM Luminosity function evolution,
charting the Obscured Star Formation History of the Universe
SEMINAR POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE
Wednesday 14 May 2014
Karen Masters (Portsmouth)
Galaxy Zoo
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Andrew Pontzen (UCL)
Astrophysical effects that might irritate cosmologists
Wednesday 28 May 2014 (Note location)
Fiona Harrison (CalTech)
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
Location: Huxley 308
Wednesday 4 June 2014
Isobel Hook (Oxford/Rome)
The European Extremely Large Telescope
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Jenni Adams (Canterbury, NZ)
IceCube Neutrino Physics
Wednesday 18 June 2014
Don Pollacco (Warwick)
The Hunt for Earth-2
AUTUMN TERM 2014
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Lyndsay Fletcher (Glasgow)
Energy transport and particle acceleration in solar (and stellar) flares
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Celine Boehm (Durham)
Dark Matter interactions and their impact on cosmological probes
Wednesday 22 October 2014
No seminar
Wednesday 29 October 2014
Ewan Cameron (Oxford)
Three faces of weak convergence with astronomical relevance! (ICIC seminar)
Wednesday 5 November 2014
Andy Connolly (Washington)
Astronomy in the era of the LSST: understanding our universe a bit at a time
Wednesday 12 November 2014
Stuart Sim (Belfast)
Explosion modelling for Type Ia supernovae
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Lucia Marchetti (Open University)
The HerMES FIR/SMM Luminosity function evolution,
charting the Obscured Star Formation History of the Universe
Wednesday 26 November 2014
Department Colloquium
Wednesday 3 December 2014
Francesco Shankar (Southampton)
Empirically constraining the Evolution of Super-massive Black Holes
Wednesday 10 December 2014
Steve Balbus (Oxford)
Convection and rotation in the Sun
Wednesday 17 December 2014
Mario Santos (Cape Town)
Cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
See also 3-PAC Seminars
COSMOLOGY SEMINARS
SUMMER TERM:
Friday 9th May
Stefano Orani (University of Basel)
Hilltop inflation with preinflation from coupling to matter field
Friday 16th May
Chris Clarkson (UCT Astrophysics, Cosmology & Gravity Centre)
Relativistic corrections in cosmological modelling
Friday 6th June
Levon Pogosian (SFU Canada)
CMB B-modes - the quest for other smoking guns
Friday 13th June
Evaluating the evidence for dark matter annihilation in the Galactic Center
Friday 20th June
Kepa Sousa (UPV/EHU Bilbao)
CMB Anisotropies by Collapsing Textures
Friday 27th June
Pawel Bielewicz (SISSA Italy)
Constraining the topology of the Universe using temperature and polarisation CMB maps
Relativistic corrections in cosmological modelling
SPRING TERM
23 January 2013
Clare Dobbs (University of Exeter)
The formation and evolution of giant molecular clouds
30 January
Lingyu Wang (University of Durham)
The nature of star-forming galaxies
6 February
Rachael Livermore (University of Durham)
Clumpy star formation at high redshift revealed with gravitational lensing
20 February
Sebastiano Cantalupo (UC Santa Cruz)
Dark galaxies and circum-galactic filaments illuminated by high-redshift quasars
27 February
Vivienne Wild (University of St Andrews)
The evolution of star-burst galaxies
6 March
Pratika Dayal (University of Edinburgh)
Galaxies in the first billion years tracing reionization and the cosmic dawn
13 March
Joe Hilbe (Arizona State University)
The use of statistical count models in astrostatistics
20 March Tim Naylor (University of Exeter)
How fast do planets and stars form? A radical revision to the pre-main-sequence age scale
17 April
Anna Feltre (ESO, Garching)
Modelling IR SEDs of AGN with Spitzer and Herschel data
SUMMER TERM
1 May
David Sing (University of Exeter)
A large HST transmission spectral survey of hot-Jupiter exoplanetary atmospheres
8 May
Nick Wright (University of Hertfordshire)
The Dynamics of young star clusters
22 May
Matthew Ruffoni (Imperial College London)
Laboratory studies of atomic spectra for astrophysical applications
29 May
Anna Scaife (University of Southampton)
Magnetic fields in heavenly bridges
5 June
Clare Dobbs (University of Exeter)
The formation and evolution of giant molecular clouds
12 June
Jamie Bolton (University of Nottingham)
Reionisation via the Lyman-alpha line
19 June
Michael Brown (University of Manchester)
Prospects for weak lensing studies with new radio telescopes
20 June
Michelle Knights (University of Cape Town)
Improving stacking techniques with Bayesian statistics
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2 October |
Mike Shull |
Colorado |
New Results from the Hubble Cosmic Origins Spectrograph |
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9 October |
Ilya Mandel |
Birmingham |
GWastrophysics of compact binaries |
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16 October |
(Department Colloquium) |
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23 October |
Karin Lind |
IoA Cambridge |
The two cosmological Li problems |
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30 October |
Will Percival |
Portsmouth |
Cosmological results from BOSS galaxy clustering |
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6 November |
Debora Sijacki |
IoA Cambridge |
Moving mesh cosmology: the hydrodynamics of galaxy formation |
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13 November |
Maria Desi-Espuig |
MPS Lindau |
Reconstructing total solar irradiance since 1700
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20 November |
(Department Colloquium) |
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27 November |
Marzia Rivi |
Oxford |
Visualisation and exploration of huge astrophysical datasets with Splotch |
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4 December |
Tim Harries |
Exeter |
The formation of massive stars |
ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS (2012)
All seminars begin at 2.30pm in room 1004, Blackett Laboratory, unless otherwise indicated below, and are followed by refreshments and discussion. Seminar organiser: Dr Daniel Mortlock (d.mortlock AT imperial.ac.uk)
Wednesday, May 2
Rhodri Evans (Cardiff University)
"Astonomy from a Boeing 747: why and how"
Wednesday, May 9
Luca Fossati (Open University)
"HST observations of the transiting exoplanet WASP-12b: deepening into a complex system"
Wednesday, May 23
Chiara Arina (Aachen University)
"Dark Matter direct detection and Bayesian statistics"
Wednesday, May 30
Chris Carilli (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
"A molecular deep field"
Wednesday, June 6
Michael Rowan-Robinson (Imperial College)
"Interstellar dust in the inner solar system"
Wednesday, June 20
Elisabetta Valianted (University of Cardiff)
"Submillimetre observations of galaxy evolution"
Wednesday, June 27
Roberto Maiolino (University of Cambridge)
"The evolution of the metals and dust content in galaxies throughout the cosmic epochs"
COSMOLOGY SEMINARS (2012)
All seminars begin at 12 noon in the Theoretical Physics seminar room, Room 503, Huxey Building, unless otherwise indicated below. Seminar organisers: Laura Watson (l.watson09 AT imperial.ac.uk) and Caroline Clark (caroline.clark05 AT imperial.ac.uk)
4th May
Anne Green (Nottingham)
"The Search for Dark Matter"
18th May
Dipak Munshi (Cardiff)
"Statistical Properties of Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Maps"
25th May
Michelle Knights (Cape Town)
"Towards the Future of Supernova Cosmology"
8th June
Robert Crittenden (Portsmouth)
"Fables of Reconstruction: Controlling Bias in the Dark Energy Equation of State"
15th June
Lloyd Knox (UC Davis, California)
Title TBA
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All seminars begin at 2.30pm in room 1004, Blackett Laboratory, unless otherwise indicated below, and are followed by refreshments and discussion. Seminar organiser: Prof. Stephen Warren |
All seminars begin at 1pm in the Theoretical Physics seminar room, Room 503, Huxey Building, unless otherwise indicated below. Seminar organisers: Jude Bowyer and Johannes Noller |
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Apr 28 May 5 May 12 May 19 May 26 June 2 June 9 June 16 June 23 (2pm start) June 30 (4pm start) 6th October 13th October 20th October 27th October 3rd November Thursday 4th November 11am Blackett 741 10th November 17th November 24th November 1st December 15th December
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January 22 - start time 12.00 February 5 - start time 12.00 February 12 - start time 12.00 February 19 - start time 12.00 February 22 - start time 13.00 February 26 - start time 12.00 March 5 - start time 12.00 March 12 - start time 12.00 March 15 - start time 13.00 March 19 - start time 12.00 March 26 - start time 12.00 Martin Hendry May 17 - start time 13.00 May 21 - start time 12.00 May 28 - start time 12.00 June 4 - start time 12.00 June 11 - start time 12.00 June 18 - start time 12.00 June 25 - start time 12.00 July 2 - start time 13.00 July 9 - start time 13.00 July 16 - start time 12.00 |
JOURNAL CLUB (2010)
Journal club begins at 12 pm and takes place in room 1004, Blackett Laboratory. Please feel free to bring along your lunch. Hot beverages and biscuits will be available (please bring your own mug). Journal club organiser: Dr Markos Trichas
| ASTROPHYSICS SEMINARS (2009) | COSMOLOGY SEMINARS 2009 |
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All seminars begin at 2.30pm in room 1004, Blackett Laboratory, unless otherwise indicated below, and are followed by refreshments and discussion. Seminar organiser: Prof Steven Warren |
All seminars begin at 1pm in the Theoretical Physics seminar room, Room 503, Huxey Building, unless otherwise indicated below. Seminar organisers: Jude Bowyer and Johannes Noller |
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October 7 - start time 2pm October 14 October 21 October 28 November 4 November 11 - SEMINAR POSTPONED November 18 November 25 December 2 December 9 December 16 |
October 2 - start time 13.00
Sébastien Renaux-Petel (Laboratoire APC Paris) October 9 - start time 13.00 October 16 - start time 13.00 October 19 - start time 15.00 October 23 - start time 13.00 October 30 - start time 13.00 November 6 - start time 13.00 November 9 - start time 15.00 November 13 - start time 13.00 November 20 - start time 13.00 November 27 - start time 13.00 December 4 - start time 13.00 December 11 - start time 13.00 December 16 - start time 13.00 |
JOURNAL CLUB (2009)
Journal club begins at 12 pm and takes place in room 1004, Blackett Laboratory. Please feel free to bring along your lunch. Hot beverages and biscuits will be available (please bring your own mug). Journal club organiser: Dr Markos Trichas.