News & Events – External Talks
External research talks given by JHI staff and students
2015
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Feb | Anne Sansom | Chester Astronomical Society | Surveys in Astronomy |
| 9 Feb | Ben Thompson | York CMT group | Cosmological Simulations of Galaxies using Adaptive Mesh Refinement |
2014
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov | Ben Thompson | Pendle Cafe Scientifique | Cosmological Voids |
| 25 Mar | Mike Marsh | The MET Office, Exeter | Sun and Showers: Forecasting Solar Energetic Particle Storms |
| 5 Mar | Cristina Popescu | Invited colloquim, Imperial College London | Radiative transfer modelling of galaxies |
| Mar | Brad Gibson | BBC Stargazing Live | The Galactic Habitable Zone |
| 18 Feb | Mike Marsh | Alliance Workshop, Manchester | Perpendicular Transport of SEPs Due to Drifts |
| Feb | Brad Gibson | Invited, RAS Specialist Meeting | Bridging Disciplines for Galactic Chemical Evolution |
| Feb | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Edinburgh | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 6 Feb | Cristina Popescu | Invited colloquim, University of Bristol | Radiative transfer modelling of galaxies |
| Feb | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Nottingham | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
2013
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Dec | Mike Marsh | RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting | Sun and Showers: Forecasting Solar Energetic Particle Storms |
| 2-4 Dec | Don Kurtz | Invited speaker and invited lecturer at PDRA school (two talks), Brussels, Belgium | What asteroseismology has to offer to astrophysics |
| Dec | Silvia Dalla | University of Turku, Finland | Simulating the propagation of Solar Energetic Particles |
| Dec | Joe Smerdon | European Integrated Center for the Development of New Metallic Alloys and Compounds, Ljubljana, Slovenia | Templated quasicrystalline molecular films |
| 25th Nov. | Joanne Bibby | “STFC Public Engagement Symposium” – Birmingham, UK. | |
| 19 Nov | Mike Marsh | 10th European Space Weather Week | The Role of Drifts in the Propagation of Solar Energetic Particles |
| 18th Nov. | Don Kurtz | Villanova University colloquium | Asteroseismology colloquium |
| 8th Nov. | Joanne Bibby | RAS Discussion meeting on “Learning, Teaching and Outreach in Astronomy”, Royal Astronomical Society, London, UK | Invited talk on “Distance Learning & Outreach at UCLan” |
| 6 Nov | Cristina Popescu | University of Nottingham | Radiative transfer modelling of galaxies |
| 1 Nov | Cristina Popescu | “The Violet Universe” IOP conference, London | Radiation fields in galaxies and in the Milky Way |
| Nov | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Basel, Switzerland | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Nov | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Liverpool JMU | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 21st Oct | Don Kurtz | Tohoku University colloquium Japan | Asteroseismology colloquium |
| 9 – 11 Oct | Cristina Popescu | “Dust radiative transfer 2013 – codes and benchmarks”, Grenoble | Radiation fields in galaxies and in the Milky Way |
| Sep | Brad Gibson | A-Level Physics Talk, Cardinal Newman College | Building a Universe with a Supercomputer |
| 20-23 Aug | Don Kurtz | Invited speaker, Wroclaw, Poland | IAU Symposium 301: Precision Asteroseismology, a Celebration of the Scientific Opus of Wojtek Dziembowski |
| Aug | Brad Gibson | Gaia Challenge Workshop, Guildford | Metal Distributions and the Tracking of Cluster Debris |
| Aug | Brad Gibson | Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies, Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas | High-Redshift Metallicity Gradients |
| 3rd July | Don Kurtz | University of Tokyo colloquium Japan | Asteroseismology colloquium |
| July | Joe Smerdon | Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA | Pinwheels to quasicrystals: STM investigations of pentacene and C60 |
| 23-28 June | Don Kurtz | Invited speaker, SOC, Sydney, Australia | KASC6: A New Era of Stellar Astrophysics with Kepler |
| 27-31 May | Don Kurtz | Invited speaker, SOC, Roscoff, France | New advances in stellar physics: from microscopic to macroscopic processes |
| May | Mike Marsh | AGU Meeting of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico | Asymmetric Perpendicular Transport of Solar Energetic Particles |
| May | Dimitris Stamatellos | Heidelberg , Germany | Magnetic Fields from Cloud Cores to Protostellar Disks |
| May | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Exeter | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| May | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Queen’s University, Belfast | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| May | Silvia Dalla | AGU Meeting of the Americas, Cancun, | Test particle simulations of GLE proton transport in interplanetary space, |
| Apr | Silvia Dalla | University of Cambridge, UK | Test particle simulations of Solar Energetic Particle propagation through interplanetary space |
| Apr | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Strasbourg Observatory, France | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Apr | Brad Gibson | Seminar, UCLan | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Apr | Silvia Dalla | Heraeus Workshop on ‘Plasma and Radiation Environment in Astrospheres and Implications for the Habitability of Extrasolar Planets’, Bad Honnef | Cross-field transport of Solar Energetic Particles, |
| 18 Mar | Cristina Popescu | University College London | Radiative transfer modelling of galaxies |
| Mar | Joe Smerdon | ISSC-19, Nottingham | Reversible rectification in sub-monolayer organic heterojunctions |
| Mar | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Concepcion, Chile | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Feb | Brad Gibson | European Astrofest, London | Mining the Fossil Record of the Milky Way |
| Feb | Brad Gibson | Seminar, MSSL/UCL | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
2012
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Nov | Tim Cawthorne | Max Planck Kernphysik Institute, Heidelberg | What makes astrophysical jets brighten? |
| 26-30 Nov | Don Kurtz | Invited speaker, SOC, Hakone, Japan | Progress in physics of the Sun and stars: a new era in helio- and asteroseismology, |
| 15 Nov | Anne Sansom | Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Surrey, UK. | Effects of non-solar abundance ratios in spectra of stars and stellar populations. |
| Nov | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Paris Observatory, France | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Nov | Mike Marsh | Space Weather: The Space Radiation Environment, Palm Springs, USA | Modelling Solar Energetic Particle Propagation for Space Weather Impact |
| Nov | Mike Marsh | 9th European Space Weather Week | Test Particle Simulations of Solar Energetic Particle Propagation for Space Weather |
| Nov | Dimitris Stamatellos | MPE, Munich, Germany | Hot Planets and Cool Stars |
| Nov | Brad Gibson | Public Lecture, Preston, UK | Building a Universe Byte-by-Byte |
| Oct | Dimitris Stamatellos | Ringberg, Germany | 50 years of brown dwarfs: From theoretical predictions to observations |
| Sep | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Leiden Observatory, Netherlands | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 28 Aug | Anne Sansom | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos Brazil. | Stellar Populations and Dust in Early-Type Galaxies |
| 20 – 31 Aug | Cristina Popescu | “Calibration of star-formation rate measurements across the electromagnetic spectrum”, IAU XXVIII General Assembly, Beijing, China | Invited talk, “Star-formation parameters based on modelling SEDs of spiral galaxies” |
| 20 – 31 Aug | Cristina Popescu | “Calibration of star-formation rate measurements across the electromagnetic spectrum”, IAU XXVIII General Assembly, Beijing, China | Summary and concluding remarks |
| 15 Aug | Anne Sansom | Sao Paulo University, SP, Brazil. | Effects of non-solar abundance ratios in spectra of stars and stellar populations. |
| Aug | Brad Gibson | Nuclei in the Cosmos XII, Cairns, Australia | The Galactic Terrestrial Zone |
| Aug | Brad Gibson | Public Lecture, Melbourne, Australia | Building a Universe Byte-by-Byte |
| Aug | Victor Debattista | IAU Special Session, Beijing, China | Galaxy Evolution through Secular Processes |
| Jul | Brad Gibson | Galactic Aracheology Surveys, Sydney, Australia | Are Cosmological Simulations of Disk Galaxies Useful? |
| Jul | Brad Gibson | Keynote Speaker, Spanish Astronomical Society, Valencia, Spain | Spiral Galaxies: Have We Finally Got It Right? |
| 18-22 June | Don Kurtz | invited speaker, SOC, Balaton, Hungary | KASC5 |
| June | Dimitris Stamatellos | Crete, Greece | The labyrinth of star formation |
| Jun | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Jun | Brad Gibson | Invited, Gaia GREAT ESF Workshop on the Milky Way, Heidelberg, Germany | The Milky Way in 3D: Modelling Challenges |
| 17th May | Don Kurtz | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics colloquium USA | Asteroseismology colloquium |
| May | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 27 Apr | Cristina Popescu | Queens University Belfast | Radiative transfer modelling of galaxies |
| Apr | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 21 March | Don Kurtz | Liverpool John Moores University – colloquium UK | Asteroseismology colloquium |
| 12-16th March | Don Kurtz | STFC graduate school, invited lecturer, Oxford, UK | Exoplanets and their Host Stars |
| 12-16th March | Joanne Bibby | “Death of Massive Stars: Supernovae & Gamma-ray Bursts” – International Astronomical Union Symposium 279, Nikko, Japan | Contributed talk on “Searching for Wolf-Rayet progenitors of Type Ibc SNe in M101” Conference proceedings, 2012, AUS, 279, 118 |
| Mar | Silvia Dalla | Space Weather: The Space Radiation Environment, Palm Springs | Invisible Active Region emergences: a statistical study from magnetogram data, |
| Mar | Silvia Dalla | National Astronomy Meeting, Manchester | Invisible Active Region emergences in line-of-sight magnetogram data |
| Mar | Silvia Dalla | Lancaster University, UK | Modelling Solar Energetic Particle propagation through interplanetary space |
| Mar | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Feb | Brad Gibson | 6th ANITA Workshop, Melbourne, Australia | Spiral Galaxies: Have We Finally Got It Right? |
2011
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-9 Dec | Don Kurtz | First Kepler Science Conference, NASA-Ames Research Center, USA | Asteroseismology |
| 2 Dec | Don Kurtz | Seminar, Stanford, USA | Asteroseismology |
| Nov | Brad Gibson | From the First Structures to the Universe Today, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Galactic Chemodynamics: Past, Present and Future |
| Oct | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Lancaster | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| Sept. | Joanne Bibby | Astrophysical Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK | Invited seminar on “Wolf-Rayet progenitors of Type Ibc Supernovae; initial results from M101” |
| 19-23 Sep | Don Kurtz | New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy | Asteroseismology |
| 5 Sep | Anne Sansom | The Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies, Preston | Effects of Non-Solar Abundance Ratios on Star Spectra: Observations versus Models |
| Sep | Silvia Dalla | Workshop on Cosmic Rays and the Heliospheric Plasma Environment, Bochum, Germany | Solar Energetic Particle Observations |
| Sep | Silvia Dalla | ESLAB 11 / Cluster 21 Workshop, Bruges, Belgium | Models of Energetic Particle Propagation in the Inner Heliosphere |
| Jul | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Saint Mary’s University, Canada | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 11-15 July | Joanne Bibby | “Four Decades of Research on Massive Stars”, In honour of Anthony F.J. Moffat, Quebec, Canada | Contributed talk on “Search for Wolf-Rayet stars Beyond the Local Group” Conference proceedings, PASP, in Press |
| 11-15 Jul | Don Kurtz | From Unprecedented Data to Revolutionary Science, Boulder, USA | Kepler Discoveries in roAp Stars |
| 22 June | Danielle Bewsher | West Cumbria Science Festival, Whitehaven, Public Lecture | Living with a Star |
| 20-24 June | Joanne Bibby | “Supernovae and their Host Galaxies”, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia | Searching for Wolf-Rayet progenitors of Type Ibc Supernovae |
| 4 May | Anne Sansom | Seminar, Nottingham | Binary Stars and Stellar Populations |
| May | Silvia Dalla | Seminar, Imperial College, London | Test Particle Simulations of Solar Energetic Particle Acceleration and Propagation |
| Apr | Silvia Dalla | National Astronomy Meeting, Llandudno, Wales | Solar energetic particle transport across the interplanetary magnetic field: observational constraints and modelling |
| Apr | Daniel Brown | National Astronomy Meeting, Llandudno, Wales | Observing Rotating Sunspots with the Solar Dynamics Observatory |
| 25 Mar | Anne Sansom | Seminar, IAC, Tenerife | Interacting Binary Stars and Stellar Populations |
| 13-17 Mar | Don Kurtz | Progress in Solar/Stellar Physics with Helio- and Asteroseismology, 61st Fujihara Seminar | First Evidence for Multiple Pulsation Axes: A New roAp Star in the Kepler Field, KIC10195926 |
| Jan. | Joanne Bibby | Columbia University, New York | Invited seminar on “An Overview of Wolf-Rayet Stars and their Death as Core-Collapse Supernovae” |
2010
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Cardiff | Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 15-26 Nov | Don Kurtz | XXII Winter School in Astrophysics, IAC, Tenerife | Asteroseismology: An Observer’s Views and Tools |
| 18 Nov | Don Kurtz | Seminar, Brighton | Asteroseismology |
| Sep | Brad Gibson | Metal Enrichment from Hydrodynamical Simulations | Dwarf Galaxies: Stars vs Gas |
| 26-30 Jul | Don Kurtz | Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: Stars as Homes for Habitable Planetary Systems | Asteroseismology over the HR diagram – Kepler Results |
| 1-30 Jun | Brad Gibson | Lecture Series, Vatican Observatory | The Chemistry of the Universe |
| 18 May | Don Kurtz | Seminar, Armagh Observatory | Asteroseismology |
| 12th-14th April 2010 | Joanne Bibby | National Astronomy Meeting, University of Glasgow, UK. | The distribution of WR stars in NGC 779. Invited talk in “Explosions in the Distant Universe” session |
| 12 Mar | Mike Marsh | Waves and Turbulence in Solar-Terrestrial Plasmas, RAS, London | Exploiting the Coronal Slow Mode |
| 2010 | Victor Debattista | Seminar, Heidelberg | Early-Type Dwarf Galaxies: Origin, Evolution, Characteristics |
| 2010 | Victor Debattista | Seminar, Beijing | Chemistry, Dynamics and Structure of the Milky Way |
| 2010 | Victor Debattista | Seminary, Puschino | Dynamics and Evolution of Disc Galaxies |
2009
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Dec | Don Kurtz | Sheffield-Hallam University | Christmas lecture, “Songs of the Stars, the Real Music of the Spheres” |
| 9 Nov | Don Kurtz | University of Vienna | “Laudatio on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Michel Breger” |
| 4 Nov | Don Kurtz | Warwick University | Asteroseismology |
| 15 Oct | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Trieste Joint Colloquia Series, Trieste, Italy | The Formation of Disk Galaxies |
| 17th-21st August 2009 | Joanne Bibby | Stellar Death and Supernovae Conference, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States | Are Wolf-Rayet stars progenitors of Type Ib/c supernovae? |
| 6-7 Aug | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, IAU JD8: Hot Interstellar Matter in Elliptical Galaxies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Chemodynamical Models of Elliptical Galaxies |
| 30th July | Joanne Bibby | Massive Stars and Supernova: One day workshop, University of Cambridge | Searching for Wolf-Rayet stars: The progenitors of Type Ib/c supernovae? |
| 20 Jul | Jaz Pearson | Contributed Talk, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China | STEREO Observations of the Birth and Life of the 25th March 2008 CME |
| 8 Jul | Mike Marsh | Hinode/EIS UK Meeting, University College London | Using EIS to Confirm a Seismologically Inferred Coronal Temperature |
| 21-26 Jun | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, Vatican Observatory Super Summer School 2009, Rome, Italy | Stellar Populations and Galaxy Evolution |
| 9 Jun | Mike Marsh | Royal Observatory Belgium | The SDO AIA Data Archive at UCLan |
| 1-5 Jun | Don Kurtz | “Stellar Pulsation: Challenges for Theory and Observation” | Invited Speaker: Pulsation in Chemically Peculiar Stars of the upper main sequence |
| 29 May | Brad Gibson | Lecture Series, UCM, Spain | Gravitational N-Body Techniques and the Formation of Disk Galaxies |
| 20 May | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Manchester | The Formation of Disk Galaxies |
| 15 May | Don Kurtz | Queenstown and Hangklip Association (WWII RAF veterans), Kings Caughton Hotel, Alcester, Warwickshire | Seriously Big: the Latest and Greatest Hits of the Hubble Space Telescope |
| 5-8 May | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, Galactic Archaeology, Palm Cove, Australia | The Formation of Disk Galaxies |
| 30 Apr | Mike Marsh | Contributed talk, STEREO-3/SOHO-22, Bounemouth | 3D Coronal Slow Modes: Towards 3D Seismology |
| 10 Apr | Don Kurtz | Edinburgh International Science Festival | Introductions and questions for the film, “Cosmic Africa” |
| 24-27 Mar | Don Kurtz | SONG II (Stellar Oscillations Network Group), Aarhus, Denmark | Invited Review: What Else can SONG do? |
| 11 Mar | Cristina C. Popescu | Seminar, University of Hertfordshire | Dust in Galaxies |
| 27 Feb | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Lavel University, Canada | Chemodynamical Simulations of Spiral Galaxies |
| 19 Feb | Mark Rushton | Seminar, Main Observatory, Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine | V838 Mon and the new class of transients |
| 18 Feb | Mark Rushton | Seminar, Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Ukraine | V838 Mon and the new class of transients |
| 2-5 Feb | Don Kurtz | First CoRoT International Symposium | Invited Conference Review |
| Nov 2009 | Silvia Dalla | Seminar: University of Cambridge | Visibility of magnetic flux emergence on the Sun |
| Apr 2009 | Silvia Dalla | STEREO-3/SOHO-22 Workshop, Bournemouth | Automatic detection of limb prominences in SOHO/EIT and STEREO/EUVI |
| 31 Oct | Danielle Bewsher | Public Lecture: Prediciting Solar Activity | Society for Popular Astronomy, London |
| 1 Dec | Anne Sansom | Invited seminar at ULB, Brussels | Interacting Binary Stars in Stellar Population Analysis |
| 9 Oct | Anne Sansom | Invited seminar at University of Hertfordshire | Interacting Binary Stars in Stellar Population Analysis |
| 2009 | Victor Debattista | Invited Review: Rio de Janeiro 2009 | Modelling the Milky Way in the Era of Gaia |
2008
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec | Don Kurtz | Bury Boys School Annual Christmas Lecture, Bury, UK | Songs of the Stars |
| 1 Dec | Don Kurtz | Cafe Scientifique, Pendle, UK | Seriously Big: The Latest and Greatest Hits of the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes |
| 19 Nov | Don Kurtz | Queen’s University, Belfast, UK | Asteroseismology |
| 14 Nov | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, Galaxies and the Elements, London, UK | Chemodynamical Modelling of Galaxies |
| 23 Oct | Mike Marsh | Contributed Talk, SECCHI Consortium Meeting, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C., USA | Three-Dimensional Observations of a Coronal Slow-Magnetoacoustic Wave |
| 22 Oct | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK | The Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies |
| 22 Oct | Don Kurtz | Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada | Asteroseismology |
| 18 Oct | Barbara Hassall | Invited Talk, IoP Meeting on E-learning in Physics and Astronomy, Manchester, UK | E-learning for Astronomy |
| 10 Oct | Jaz Pearson | Contribued Talk, RAS Specialist Discussion, London, UK | Preliminary STEREO Analysis of a Coronal Mass Ejection |
| 9 Oct | Don Kurtz | Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | Asteroseismology |
| 4-6 Oct | Stephanie Courty | Invited Talk, Frontiers of Science Symposium, Kanagawa, Japan | Simulating the Host Galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 16-19 Sep | Don Kurtz | Contributed talk, ARENA Workshop on: Time-series observations from Dome C, Catania, Italy | Asteroseismic photometry at Dome C following the Kepler mission |
| 15-19 Sep | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, Galaxies in Real Life and Simulations, Leiden, Netherlands | Galaxies on a Mesh |
| 10 Sep | Chris Brook | Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK | Simulating the Formation of Polar Ring Galaxies |
| 2 Sep | Jaz Pearson | Contribued Talk, STFC Solar Physics Summer School, Queen’s University Belfast, UK | Preliminary STEREO Analysis of a Coronal Mass Ejection |
| 22 Jul | Katie Harris | Seminar, Universidad de Chile, Chile | The Environments of Quasars and Star Forming Galaxies |
| 17 Jul | Katie Harris | Seminar, Gemini Obs., Chile | The Environments of Quasars and Star Forming Galaxies |
| 3 Jul | Stephanie Courty | Contributed Talk, SFA, Paris, France | On the Evolution of an AMR-type Galaxy Disk |
| 28 Jun-12 Jul | Don Kurtz | Sea Princess Mediterranean Cruise | 1) Seriously Big: The Latest and Greatest Hits of the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, 2) Songs of the Stars, 3) Between Fire and Ice: The Earth’s Special Place, 4) It’s About Time! |
| 23-27 Jun | Brad Gibson | Contributed Talk, The Cosmic Odyssey of Elements, Aegina, Greece | The Chemical Evolution of Isotopes in Disk Galaxies |
| 23-27 Jun | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Contributed Talk, The Cosmic Odyssey of Elements, Aegina, Greece | The Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies |
| 19 Jun | Jaz Pearson | Contribued Talk, Sac Peak Summer School, Sunspot, New Mexico, USA | Preliminary STEREO Analysis of a Coronal Mass Ejection |
| 9-13 Jun | Brad Gibson | Contributed Talk, The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context, Copenhagen, Denmark | Hydrodynamical Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of Disk Galaxies |
| 15 May | Victor Debattista | Seminar, University College London, UK | Simulating Evolution in Disk Galaxies |
| 7 May | Victor Debattista | Seminar, Durham University, UK | Simulating Evolution in Disk Galaxies |
| 30 April | Victor Debattista | Seminar, Liverpool John Moores University, UK | Simulating Evolution in Disk Galaxies |
| 14-18 Apr | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Lecture Series, UCM, Spain | Galaxy Formation and Evolution |
| 14 Apr | Ilani Loubser | Seminar, University of Groningen, Netherlands | Radial Kinematics and Stellar Populations of a new Sample of cD Galaxies |
| 7-12 Apr | Cristina Popescu | Invited Review, Exploring the Solar System and the Universe, Bucharest, Romania | Dust in Galaxies |
| 27 Mar | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Munich Joint Astronomy Colloquia (ESO,MPA,Munich), Germany | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 21 Mar | Don Kurtz | National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Mitaka, Japan | Asteroseismology |
| 14 Mar | Don Kurtz | Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan | Asteroseismology |
| 12 Mar | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, University of Hertfordshire, UK | Kinematic and Stellar Population Gradients in Ellipticals |
| 11 Mar | Don Kurtz | Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan | Asteroseismology |
| 5 Mar | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, Durham University, UK | Kinematic and Stellar Population Gradients in Ellipticals |
| 28 Feb | Cristina Popescu | Seminar, University of Hertfordshire, UK | tba |
| 25 Feb | Markus Hartmann | Contributed Talk, Workshop on Nuclear Star Clusters across the Hubble Sequence, Heidelberg, Germany | Evolution of Nuclear Clusters |
| 25 Feb | Victor Debattista | Contributed Talk, Workshop on Nuclear Star Clusters across the Hubble Sequence, Heidelberg, Germany | Evolution of nuclear disks in N-body simulations |
| 21 Feb | Victor Debattista | Seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK | Simulating Evolution in Disk Galaxies |
| 20 Feb | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Keele University, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 20 Feb | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, University of Sheffield, UK | Kinematic and Stellar Population Gradients in Ellipticals |
| 11 Feb | Don Kurtz | Craven Naturalists and Science Society, Skipton, UK | Seriously Big: The Latest and Greatest Hits of the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes |
| 6 Feb | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Imperial College, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 6 Feb | Anne Sansom | Seminar, University of Hertfordshire, UK | Stellar Populations in Low Luminosity Early-Type Galaxies |
| 28 Jan | Brad Gibson | Contributed Talk, RAVET Team Meeting, Tenerife, Spain | Galactic Chemical and Chemodynamical Modeling at UCLan |
| 21-25 Jan | Don Kurtz | University of Cape Town 58th Annual Summer School, Cape Town, South Africa | 1) Seeing with sound: from bats to Bach, 2) Thoroughly model music: an orchestra of stars, 3) A close eye on the Sun: the Sun-Earth connection, 4) Inside the stars: white dwarfs to red giants, 5) Big telescopes and remote sites: observing strange stars and new planets |
| 18 Jan | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Queen Mary University London, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 2008 | Victor Debattista | Conference Summary: Padova 2008 | Tumbling, Twisting, and Winding Galaxies: Pattern Speeds Along the Hubble Sequence |
2007
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17-20 Dec | Victor Debattista | Invited Lecture Series, Universita di Padova, Italy | Barred Galaxies |
| 7 Dec | Andrea Marcolini | Seminar, Lancaster University, UK | The Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Spheroidals in the Local Group |
| 28 Nov | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Birmingham University, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 22 Nov | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 21 Nov | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, Liverpool John Moores’ University, UK | Kinematic and Stellar Population Gradients as Fingerprints of Past Mergers in Elliptical Galaxies |
| 14 Nov | Jane Noglik | Contributed Talk, Hinode Data Analysis Workshop, Orsay, France | Hinode/EIS Density and Temperature Analysis of Structures in the Solar Atmosphere |
| 9 Nov | Jane Noglik | Contributed Talk, A Year of Observations with Hinode and STEREO, London, UK | STEREO/EUVI Temperature and Hinode/EIS Density Analysis of Structures in the Solar Atmosphere |
| 3 Oct | Andrea Marcolini | Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK | About the Chemical Enrichment of the Peculiar Globular Cluster Omega Centauri |
| 2 Oct | Victor Debattista | Talk, Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks, Rome, Italy | Understanding the Formation and Evolution of Disk Outskirts |
| 24 Sept | Cristina Popescu | Invited Talk, Cosmic Matter 2007 Workshop, Wuerzberg, Germany | The Evolution of Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies over Cosmic Time |
| 15 Sept | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, Carnegie Observatories, California | Kinematic and Stellar Population Gradients as Fingerprints of Past Mergers in Elliptical Galaxies |
| 29 Aug | Andrea Marcolini | Contributed Talk, The Globular Clusters – Dwarf Galaxies Connection, University of Michigan, USA | Modeling the Chemical Evolution of Omega Centauri using Three-dimensional Hydrodynamical Simulations |
| 15 Aug | Jane Noglik | Contributed Talk, First Results from Hinode Meeting, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland | The Determination of the Temperature along Structures in the Solar Atmosphere |
| 13 Aug | Brad Gibson | Public Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland | Building a Universe Byte-by-Byte |
| 11 Aug | Ilani Loubser | Contributed talk, MAGPOP Summer School, Munich, Germany | Investigating the stellar populations in cD galaxies |
| 10 Aug | Victor Debattista | Invited Talk, Dynamics of Galaxies, St Petersburg, Russia | M2M Modeling |
| 19 Jul | Ilani Loubser | Seminar, Gemini South, Aura Observatories, La Serena, Chile | Investigating the stellar populations in cD galaxies |
| 16 Jul | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, The Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, Oxford University, UK | Chemodynamical Models of Galactic Bulges |
| 4 Jul | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Talk, Galaxy Interactions and Mergers, Nottingham, UK | Kinematic and Stellar Population Gradients as Fingerprints of Past Mergers in Elliptical Galaxies |
| 15 Jun | Jane Noglik | Contributed Talk, Coronal Loops Workshop III, Santorini, Greece | The Temperature Structure of Solar Atmospheric Loops: Pros and Cons of CDS and TRACE |
| 13 Jun | Stewart Eyres | Contributed Talk, RS Ophiuchi (2006) conference, Keele, UK | The early radio peak |
| 31 May | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, The Milky Way Halo – Stars and Gas, Bonn University, Germany | Chemodynamical Modeling of the Milky Way’s Halo |
| 30 May | Stewart Eyres | Invited Talk, Institute of Physics Lancashire & Cumbria Branch | A 300 million square kilometre fusion reactor? |
| 29 May | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, Space Astronomy: The UV Window to the Universe, El Escorial, Spain | High-Velocity Clouds: Galactic Fuel or Galactic Waste? |
| 24 May | Andrea Marcolini | Seminar, Bologna Observatory, Italy | About the Chemical Enrichment of dSphs and Omega Centauri |
| 15 May | Stewart Eyres | Seminar, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London | The 6th(?) outburst of RS Ophiuchi |
| 14 May | Cristina Popescu | Invited Talk, ESF Exploratory Workshop on Tracing Dust in Spiral Galaxies | Statistical Determination of Opacity in Spiral Galaxies |
| 9 May | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 2 May | Mark Rushton | Seminar, Jodrell Bank Observatory | V838 Mon and the new class of eruptive variables |
| 16-20 Apr | National Astronomy Meeting | Centre for Astrophysics | The biggest and best yet! |
| 25 Apr | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, University of Birmingham, UK | On the Formation and Evolution of Ellipticals Galaxies |
| 23 Apr | Cristina Popescu | Invited Lectures, Les Houche Winter School on Astronomy in the Submillimeter and Far-infrared Domains with the Herschel Space Observatory | Modelling the Spectral Energy Distributions of Galaxies |
| 28 Mar | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, University of Trieste, Italy | Hints on the star formation history of early-type galaxies from their chemical composition. |
| 14-16 Mar | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Lecture Series, UCM, Spain | Galaxy Formation and Evolution |
| 7 Mar | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Hertfordshire, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 2 Mar | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Leeds, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 21 Feb | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Liverpool John Moores University, UK | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
| 14 Feb | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, University of Nottingham, UK | How and when did early-type galaxies form? New clues from the spatial distribution of their stellar populations. |
| 9 Feb | Don Kurtz | Public Lecture: Astrofest 2007, Kensington | It’s about time! (Don filled in at the last minute and spoke to an audience of 700) |
| 24 Jan | Mark Rushton | Seminar, Liverpool John Moores’ University | V838 Mon and the new class of eruptive variables |
| 24 Jan | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Sheffield | Chemistry of the Local Group |
| 24 Jan | Anne Sansom | Seminar, Jodrell Bank Observatory | The Southern African Large Telescope |
| 15 Jan | Ilani Loubser | Seminar, North-West University, Potschefstroom, South Africa | Stellar populations across cD galaxies |
| 10 Jan | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Durham | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud |
2006
| Dates | Speaker | Event & Place | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Talk, Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies, La Palma, Spain | Abundance Gradients in Elliptical Galaxies |
| 12 Dec | Brad Gibson | Talk, Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies, La Palma, Spain | The Chemistry of the Local Group |
| 8 Dec | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, Galactic Archaeology, London | The First Results from RAVE |
| 30 Nov | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Portsmouth | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud? |
| 10 Nov | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Conference on the impact of Einstein’s Theories in the 21st Century; Kumaon University, Naini Tal, India | Asteroseismology |
| 9 Nov | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Naini Tal, India | Advice on giving a scientific talk |
| 7 Nov | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Naini Tal, India | Asteroseismology: observations |
| 6 Nov | Brad Gibson | Talk, Dissecting the Milky Way, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands | The Spatial Distribution of the Galactic First Stars |
| 6 Nov | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Naini Tal, India | Asteroseismology: theory |
| 3 Nov | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Groningen | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud? |
| 25 Oct | Anne Sansom | Seminar, University of Utrecht, Netherlands | Interstellar medium in early-type galaxies |
| 21 Oct | Brad Gibson | Invited Talk, High-Velocity Clouds and the Origin of Neutral Gas in Nearby Galaxies, University of Groningen, Netherlands | The Search for HI Clouds in Local Group Analogs |
| 17 Oct | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Large Astronomical Infrastructures at CONCORDIA, prospects and constraints for Antarctic optical/IR Astronomy, Roscoff, France | Asteroseismology from Dome C |
| 13 Oct | Brad Gibson | Chair, The Future of Computational Astrophysics in the UK, Royal Astronomical Society, London | Introductory Remarks |
| 12 Oct | Don Kurtz | The Orrery Artwork opening, Blackpool, UK | Between Fire and Ice: the Earth’s Special Place |
| 12 Oct | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, University of Oxford | The Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies |
| 10 Oct | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Oxford | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud? |
| 6 Oct | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Sussex University | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud? |
| 27 Sept | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Nottingham University | Building a Galaxy Cloud-by-Cloud? |
| 20 Sept | Brad Gibson | Seminar, University of Manchester | High-Velocity Clouds |
| 20 Sept | Don Kurtz | Keynote talk, Vienna Workshop on the Future of Asteroseismology, Vienna, Austria | Overview of Mike Breger’s career (with Werner Weiss) |
| 19 Sept | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Seminar, Max Planck Institute, Munich | The Stellar Populations of Early-Type Galaxies |
| 15 Sept | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Invited Talk, Spanish Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Barcelona | 2006 Spanish Thesis Prize Award Talk |
| 15 Sept | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Institute of Physics | Building a Universe Byte-by-Byte? |
| 12 Sept | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez | Talk, Spanish Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Barcelona | Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies Since z=0.7: The EDisCS Sample |
| 7 Sep | Lars Freyhammer | Seminar, DAO (NRC–HIA), Victoria, Canada | The class of roAp stars – a link between stellar pulsations, magnetic fields and diffusion processes |
| 6 Sept | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Energy flow from the Sun to the Earth – PPARC Summer School, UCLan, UK | A Look Inside the Sun and Stars: Observations – Asteroseismology |
| 5 Sept | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Energy flow from the Sun to the Earth – PPARC Summer School, UCLan, UK | A Look Inside the Sun and Stars: Theory |
| 3 Sept | Don Kurtz | Invited Public Lecture, UCLan, UK | Songs of the Stars |
| 18 Aug | Stewart Eyres | Contributed Talk, IAU General Assembly XXVI Special Session 4 Hot Topics, Prague, Czech Republic | The current outburst of RS Ophiuchi |
| 17 Aug | Stewart Eyres | Contributed Talk, IAU General Assembly XXVI Special Session 2 Innovation in Teaching/Learning Astronomy Methods, Prague, Czech Republic | Worldwide On-line Distance Learning University Astronomy |
| 17 Aug | Stewart Eyres | Contributed Talk, IAU General Assembly XXVI Division V Science Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic | RS Ophiuchi and its 6th(?) Outburst |
| 10 Aug | Don Kurtz | Talk, SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I Beyond the Spherical Sun: a new era of helio- and asteroseismology, Sheffield, UK | Resolving the third dimension in roAp stars |
| 8 Aug | Don Kurtz | Invited Public Lecture, SOHO 18/GONG 2006/HELAS I Beyond the Spherical Sun: a new era of helio- and asteroseismology, Sheffield, UK | Songs of the Stars |
| 20 July | Hannah Worters | Colloquium, Gemini Observatory, Hawai’i | Sakurai’s object |
| 13 July | Brad Gibson | Workshop on Chemodynamics, Lyon, France | The Origin of Metals in the Intracluster Medium |
| 11 July | Anne Sansom | Talk, X-ray meeting, MSSL, UK | The evolution of the ISM in post-merger galaxies |
| 30 June | Brad Gibson | Talk, Fine-tuning Stellar Population Models, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands | Galactic Chemical Evolution |
| 29 June | Brad Gibson | Discussion Leader, Fine-tuning Stellar Population Models, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands | New Ingredients for Stellar Population Models |
| 28 June | Anne Sansom | Talk, Fine-tuning Stellar Population Models, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands | Testing binary star contributions to integrated line strengths |
| 12 June | Don Kurtz | Invited Talk, HELAS Outreach meeting, Aarhus, Denmark | A deconstruction of “Asteroseismology: The Real Music of the Spheres” |
| 7 June | Don Kurtz | Colloquium, ESO, Santiago, Chile | Asteroseismology: The Real Music of the Spheres |
| 30 May | Brad Gibson | Commonwealth Cosmology Initiative Workshop, Melbourne, Australia | Coordinating the Science Outcomes for the CCI |
| 15 May | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, SIAMOIS kick-off meeting, Paris Observatory, France | Asterometric targets for Dome C |
| 11 May | Brad Gibson | NOVA Keynote Address, Netherlands Astronomical Conference, Ameland, Netherlands | The Chemistry of the Local Group of Galaxies |
| 12 Apr | Don Kurtz | Colloquium, University of Nice, France | Asteroseismology: The Real Music of the Spheres |
| 29 Mar | Stewart Eyres | Seminar, University of Innsbruck, Austria | RS Ophiuchi and the recurrent nova phenomenon |
| 27 Mar | Don Kurtz | Invited talk, Precision Radial Velocity Spectrograph Workshop, ATC, Royal Observator, Edinburgh | Asteroseismology with PVRS |
| 24 Mar | Brad Gibson | Seminar, Strasbourg Observatory, France | High-velocity clouds |
| 22 Mar | Lars Freyhammer | Workshop on the global spectrograph network, Aarhus University, Denmark | Envelope modelling of roAp stars in 3D |
| 22 Feb | Don Kurtz | Public talk, Chester Astronomical Society, Chester | Songs of the Stars |
| 14 Feb | Brad Gibson | Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, Germany | High-velocity clouds: Building blocks of Galaxies? |
| 13 Feb | Don Kurtz | Public talk, New Horizons, Blackpool | Between Fire and Ice: Earth’s Special Place |
| 30 Jan | Don Kurtz | Institute of Physics, Manchester | Asteroseismology: The Real Music of the Spheres |
| 23 Jan | Don Kurtz | Public talk, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh | Songs of the Stars |
| 9 Jan | Don Kurtz | Public talk, Cafe Scientific, Pendle, Lancashire | Songs of the Stars |
2005
| Date | Speaker | Event or Institute | Talk title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Dec | Don Kurtz | Christmas lecture, British Astronomical Society, London | It’s about time ! |
| 7 Dec | Don Kurtz | Public talk, Wolverhampton Astronomical Society | Songs of the Stars |
| 1 Dec | Don Kurtz | Meeting on Interferometry and Asteroseismology, Porto, Portugal | Resolving pulsations in the atmospheres of roAp stars |
| 14 Nov | Lars Freyhammer | Seminar, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | What can we learn from observations of early-type binary stars with a pulsating companion? |
| 23 Nov | Jon Riley | Seminar, University of Porto, Portugal | High Resolution Spectroscopy of the roAp star HD134214 |
| 14 Nov | Don Kurtz | Public talk, MTN Science Centre, Cape Town, South Africa | Songs of the Stars |
| 13 Oct | Don Kurtz | Public talk, Crayford Astronomical Society, Kent | Songs of the Stars |
| 7 Sept | Don Kurtz | ENEAS PhD school, Pecs, Hungary | Stellar pulsations: an Overview |
| 6 Sept | Don Kurtz | ENEAS PhD school, Pecs, Hungary | Advice on giving a Scientific Talk |
| 20 July | Don Kurtz | Seminar, Catania Observatory, Italy | Resolving the depth structire of pulsation modes in roAp stars with VLT UVES |
| 18 Jul | Jane Noglik | NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Washingon DC, USA | Investigation of Colour-Colour Method to Determine Solar Atmospheric Temperatures along Plasma Loops |
| 15 Jul | Jane Noglik | NSO Workshop 23: Solar MHD, Sac Peak Obs., Sunspot, USA | Investigation of Colour-Colour Method to Determine Solar Atmospheric Temperatures along Plasma Loops |
| 7 Jul | Don Kurtz | JENAM, Liege, Belgium | How can we probe the interiors of stars? |
| 5 Jun | Don Kurtz | Element Stratification in Stars: 40 Years of Diffusion | A high resolution spectroscopic survey of the roAp stars |
| 15 Apr | Jane Noglik | UK Solar Physics Meeting, Birmingham, UK | Indirect Calculation of Magnetic Reconnection Rates from Flare Loops |
| 15 Jan | Jane Noglik | INYS-Many Faces of the Universe: From Solar System to Cosmology, Prague, Czech. | Indirect Calculation of Magnetic Reconnection Rates from Flare Loops |