Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 16:00 in Foster Building Lecture Theatre 2 or via MS Teams, followed by Wine & Cheese in Le109 at 17:00 (unless otherwise noted). The seminars are coordinated by Daniel Holdsworth. Additional astrophysical seminars within 2 hours of UCLan are held at Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Keele, and Sheffield.
Detailed Seminar abstracts:
- 2024 Seminar Abstracts
- 2023 Seminar Abstracts
- 2022 Seminar Abstracts
- 2021 Seminar Abstracts
- 2020 Seminar Abstracts
- 2019 Seminar Abstracts
- 2018 Seminar Abstracts
- 2017 Seminar Abstracts
- 2014-2016 Seminar Abstracts
- 2010-2013 Seminar Abstracts
- Pre-2010 Seminar Abstacts
Winter and Spring Semester 2023/2024
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 17th July | 16:00 | Le109 | Gerry Williger | University of Louisville | The GALEX Extragalactic Spectral Database | R. Clowes |
| Thursday 27th June | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Yuri Fujii | Kyoto University | Formation of satellite systems around Jupiter and Saturn | D. Stamatellos |
| Thursday 6th June | 16:00 | Le109 | Jerzy Kubacki | University of Silesia | Improving the mechanism of resistive switching in SrTiO3 based on the study on electronic structure of iron-doped thin films | M. Gamza |
| 5th June | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Sean Giblin | University of Cardiff | Towards measurement of coherence in a correlated system using Qubits | P. Freeman |
| 29th May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Richard McCracken | Heriot-Watt University | Hunting for exoplanets with a fine-toothed comb | D. Holdsworth |
| 22nd May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Ricardo Schiavon | LJMU | On the origin of all Galactic globular clusters—the living and the dead | A. Sansom |
| 15th May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Stephen Lynch | Cardiff University | Rydberg Excitons: Artificial Atoms in Crystals | T. Mercer |
| 8th May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Andrew Blain | University of Leicester | The most extreme objects and the interstellar medium | D. Ward-Thompson |
| 1st May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Dimitri Gadotti | Durham University | Formation and evolution of bulges and bars in disc galaxies | V. Debattista |
| 24th April | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Joseph Barker | University of Leeds | Metadynamics calculations of the effect of thermal spin fluctuations on skyrmion stability | S. Lepadatu |
| 17th April | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Clare Dobbs | University of Exeter | The formation of clusters and associations in spiral galaxies | V. Debattista |
| POSTPONED | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Richard McCracken | Heriot-Watt University | Hunting for exoplanets with a fine-toothed comb | D. Holdsworth |
| 27th March | 16:00 | FBLT3 | James Mullaney | University of Sheffield | The Climate of Black Hole Growth | M. Norris |
| 20th March | 16:00 | FBLT4 | Joe Lyman | Warwick University | Transient astrophysics with the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) | J. Pledger |
| 13th March | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Zoë Henderson | NSG Group | Glass Surfaces on the Nanoscale: Surface Analysis at NSG Pilkington | K. Syres |
| 6th March | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Steven Longmore | LJMU | Early results from the ALMA Large Program, ACES (“ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey”) | D. Ward-Thompson |
| 28th February | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Ziri Younsi | UCL | Studying Black Holes on Event Horizon-Scales | D. Ward-Thompson |
| 21st February | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Sean Giblin | University of Cardiff | POSTPONED | P. Freeman |
| 7th February | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Alex Hall | Royal Observatory Edinburgh | Testing the concordance cosmological model with Euclid | V. Debattista |
| 24th January | 16:00 | FBLT4 | Pavel Kroupa | University of Bonn | The first star clusters and the formation of super-massive black holes therein | B. Patterson |
Autumn Semester 2023
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th December | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Subrayal Reddy | UCLan | Molecularly Imprinted Polymers: A Journey Towards Artificial Antibodies for Biological and Diagnostic (Biosensor) Applications |
| 29th November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Michelle Collins | University of Surrey | POSTPONED |
| 22nd November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Iain Hannah | University of Glasgow | Focusing on faint solar X-rays |
| 8th November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | John Stott | Lancaster University | Anisotropic quenching of satellite galaxies and novel galaxy cluster detection |
| 1st November | 16:00 | TBD | UCLan | Opening of the Isabella Holden Telescope at Alston | |
| 11th October | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Licia Ray | Lancaster University | Neither here nor there: The coupling between giant planets and their surroundings |
| 7th September | 16:00 | LE110 | Soumavo Ghosh | Max Planck Institute | Can (stellar) bars form in presence of hot thick discs? |
Summer Semester 2023
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd August | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLan | CARD talks: Charlotte Proverbs, Matthew Teasdale, Amar Rambukwella-Gill |
| 26th July | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLan | CARD talks: Ruth Hyndman, Ethan Carter, Joshua Stanway |
| 19th July | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLan | CARD talks: Jamie Banister, Graham Fleming, Christopher Inman |
| 12th July | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLan | CARD talks: Alexia Lopez, Jake Brooks, Janik Karoly |
Winter and Spring Semester 2022/2023
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28th June | 16:00 | Robert Walsh | UCLan | ||
| 14th June | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Tim O’Brien | University of Manchester | |
| 8th June | 16:00 | FBLT2 | David Sears and the cast of ‘Horrox’ | Cambridge | The life of Jeremiah Horrocks |
| 7th June | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Shih Ping Lai | National Technical University, Taiwan | Exploring the Early Stages of Star Formation |
| 24th May | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Ian Sherrington | UCLan | Tribology for beginners |
| 29 March | 16:00 | TBC | Anthony Whitworth | Cardiff University | Massive cloud/cloud collisions and their aftermath |
| 22 March | 16:00 | TBC | Licia Ray | University of Lancaster | Postponed |
| 15 March | 16:00 | TBC | Zoe Henderson | NSG Group | Industry Seminar |
| 8 March | 16:00 | LE110 | Robert Wicks | University of Northumbria | The radial scaling of the magnetic field spectrum in the near Sun solar wind; Parker Solar Probe and aims for a map of the structure of the inner heliosphere with MeerKAT. |
| 1 March | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Beth Biller | University of Edinburgh | Partly Cloudy with Molten Iron Rain: Characterising Exoplanet Atmospheres via Direct Imaging |
| 22 February | 16:00 | FBLT4 | Kate Pattle | UCL | Interstellar Magnetic Fields: From Star Formation to Galaxy Evolution |
| 8 February | 16:00 | TBC | Andrew Whitehead | Versarien | Industry seminar – POSTPONED |
| 25 January | 16:00 | TBC | Pete Riley | Predictive Science (US) | POSTPONED |
Autumn Semester 2022
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7th December | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Daniel Verscharen | UCL | Exploring cosmic plasma physics with Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter |
| 30th November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Licia Ray | Lancaster University | Planetary magnetospheres and aurora – POSTPONED |
| 23rd November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Beth Biller | University of Edinburgh | POSTPONED |
| 16th November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Thomas Rees-Crockford | Queen’s University Belfast | Pre-emergence Signatures of Horizontal Divergent Flows in Solar Active Regions |
| 2nd November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | David Williams | University of Manchester | Radio transients in the run up to the SKA and ngVLA |
| 19th October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Soko Matsumura | University of Dundee | The origins of the diversity of extrasolar planetary systems |
| 12th October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Helen Walker | STFC ISIS | Exploring atomic structure and dynamics in barocalorics for solid-state cooling |
| 5th October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Rob Crain | LJMU | The coupled roles of halo assembly history, black hole growth and circumgalactic gas expulsion in governing galaxy evolution |
| 28th September | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Mingee Chung | University of Birmingham | Quantum Magnetism in One Dimension |
| 21st September | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Ray Brederode | Jodrell Bank | Overview of the Square Kilometre Array Project |
Summer Semester 2022
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th September | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Björn Ólafsson |
| 31st August | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Graham Fleming, Christopher Inman, Amelia Sharp |
| 24th August | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Janik Karoly, Charlotte Proverbs, Jamie Banister |
| 17th August | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Steven Gough-Kelly, Alexia Lopez, Jake Brooks |
| 10th August | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Callum Mackinnon, Adam Fenton, Jordan Cole |
| 3rd August | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Matthew Teasdale, Adam Hutchinson |
| 27th July | 16:00 | LE109 | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Richard Pomeroy, Ethan Carter, Simon Ebo |
Winter & Spring Semester 2022
Autumn Semester 2021
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 December | 16:00 | MS Teams/FBLT2 | Björn Olafsson | UCLAN/JHI | CARD |
| 8 December | 16:00 | MS Teams/FBLT2 | Claudia Mendes de Oliveira | University of São Paulo | S-PLUS Galactic survey |
| 1 December | 16:00 | MS Teams/FBLT2 | Martin Wheatman POSTPONED | POSTPONED | |
| 24 November | 16:00 | MS Teams/FBLT2 | Manolis Xilouris | NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS | How many old and young stars do local galaxies host? |
| 17 November | 16:00 | MS Teams/FBLT3 | Edward Laird | Lancaster University | Searching for dark matter using quantum technology |
| 10 November | 16:00 | MS Teams/FBLT2 | Larry Widrow | Queen’s University, Canada | In the Balance: Statis is Disequilibrium in the Milky Way |
| 20 October | 15:00 | MS Teams/FBLT2 | Ruizhi Yang | University of Science and Technology of China | LHAASO and the Galactic Cosmic rays |
| 6 October | 16:00 | MS Teams/FBLT2 | Stephen Eales | Cardiff University | Dust in the Universe from z=0 to z=5 |
Summer Semester 2021
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 September | 16:00 | Blended | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: |
| 15 September | 16:00 | Blended | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: |
| 8 September | 16:00 | Blended | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: |
| 1 September | 16:00 | Blended | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: |
| 25 August | 16:00 | Blended | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: |
| 18 August | 16:00 | Blended | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: |
| 11 August | 16:00 | Blended | Student | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: |
Winter & Spring Semester 2021
Autumn Semester 2020
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 December | 16:00 | MS Teams | George Ellison | UCLan | COVID-19 and the epistemology of epidemiological models at the dawn of AI |
| 2 December | 16:00 | MS Teams | Nicolas Labrosse | University of Glasgow | Solar Promience Diagnostics with IRIS |
| 18 November | 16:00 | MS Teams | Stijn Wuyts | University of Bath | A multi-tracer view on galaxies since cosmic noon: census, scaling relations and evolution |
| 4 November | 16:00 | MS Teams | John Ilee | University of Leeds | Massive discs around young stars |
| 21 October | 16:00 | MS Teams | Phil Sutton | University of Lincon | The Importance of Planetary Rings as Astrophysical Laboratories |
| 7 October | 16:00 | MS Teams | Joe Smerdon | UCLan | Fibonacci, Penrose, Harry Potter? An introduction to the strange world of quasicrystals |
Summer Semester 2020
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September | 16:00 | MS Teams | Saul Phiri | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Properties of giant molecular clouds in the nearby galaxy M33 |
| 16:15 | MS Teams | Udit Tiwari | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Moisture stable soot coated methylammonium lead iodide perovskite photoelectrodes for hydrogen production in water | |
| 16 September | 16:00 | MS Teams | Raeesa Parker | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: A zoo of protoplanetary discs observed with ALMA |
| 16:15 | MS Teams | Kasim Ali | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: CaMn2Bi2 – a correlated hybridization gap semiconductor? | |
| 16:30 | MS Teams | Daniel Johnson | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Sunspot Rotation and Solar Activity | |
| 16:45 | MS Teams | Adam Fenton | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Fragmentation of Protoplanetary Discs as a Mechanism for Planet Formation | |
| 9 September | 16:00 | MS Teams | Steven Gough-Kelly | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Separation of Milky Way Bulge Kinematics |
| 16:15 | MS Teams | Jordan Cole | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: CO2 Absorption in Superbasic Ionic Liquid Thin Films | |
| 16:30 | MS Teams | Tigran Khachaturyants | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: | |
| 16:45 | MS Teams | Alexia Lopez | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: | |
| 2 September | 16:00 | MS Teams | Simon Ebo | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Planets Orbiting Pulsating Stars |
| 16:15 | MS Teams | Daniel Gass | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: A Long Term Survey of Coronal Loops in EUV and its Benefits for Coronal Physics Research | |
| 16:45 | MS Teams | Callum Mackinnon | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: The role of an additional interfacial spin-transfer torque for current-driven skyrmion dynamics in chiral magnetic layers | |
| 16:45 | MS Teams | Adam Hutchinson | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Energetic proton back-precipitation onto the solar atmosphere | |
| 26 August | 16:00 | MS Teams | Tom Davison | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Measuring Ex-Situ Fractions of Galaxies with EAGLE and MUSE |
| 16:15 | MS Teams | Vanessa Fairhurst | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: SCUBA-2 Observations of the Hub-Filament Structure in Star Forming Region Barnard 59 | |
| 16:30 | MS Teams | Ron Savage | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Optical Spectroscopy of Dusty Early-Type Galaxies using the Southern African Large Telescope | |
| 19 August | 16:00 | MS Teams | Daniel Burrack | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: High Energy Solar Energetic Particles as viewed by STEREO |
| 16:15 | MS Teams | David Glass | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Exploring the Molecular Gas Kinematics of ALMA-Observed Early-Type Galaxies | |
| 12 August | 16:00 | MS Teams | Fraser Gillan | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Automatic Detection of Solar System Objects in NASA’s STEREO Data |
| 16:15 | MS Teams | Jamie Banister | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Spectroscopic Signatures of Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters |
Winter & Spring Semester 2020
Autumn Semester 2019
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 December | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Rudi Ganss | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Metallicity Estimation of Core-Collapse Supernova Environments within 30 Mpc |
| 4 December | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Paul Keatley | University of Exeter | Time-resolved Scanning Kerr Microscopy of Magnetization Dynamics at the Nanoscale |
| 20 November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Matt Owens | University of Reading | Sun to Mud: The Challenges of Forecasting Within the Coupled Space-Weather System |
| 13 November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | James Owen | Imperial College London | The Origin of Close-in Exoplanets |
| 6 November | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Alex Walton | University of Manchester | Understanding Electrocatalysts – One Man’s Journey |
| 30 October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | David Aguado | University of Cambridge | Looking for the Most Metal-Poor Stars in the Milky Way |
| 23 October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Mid Semester Break | ||
| 16 October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Daisuke Kawata | MSSL/UCL | Galactic Disk Dynamics with Gaia and JASMINE |
| 9 October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Naomi Frimpong | University of Manchester | Probing the Evolution of High Mass Protostars: An ALMA Astrochemical Survey |
| 2 October | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Paul Freeman | UCLan | When a Simple Quantum Magnet Heats Up |
Summer Semester 2019
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August | 16:00 | MB051 | Jack Hanson | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: The Magnetism of Charge-Stripe Ordered Nickelates |
| 16:30 | MB051 | Simon Ebo | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: MOSES: MHT Optical Star and Exoplanet Survey | |
| 21 August | 16:00 | MB051 | Jordan Thirwell | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Decoding the spectral energy distribution of M33 |
| 16:30 | MB051 | David Glass | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Building Clean and Complete Galaxy Samples from the GAMA Equatorial Regions | |
| 14 August | 16:00 | MB051 | Steven Gough-Kelly | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Proper Motions of Bulge Stars |
| 16:30 | MB051 | Graham Fleming | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Revealing the Two Horns of Taurus with Gaia DR2 | |
| 7 August | 16:00 | MB051 | Tigran Khachaturyants | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Uncovering the Star Formation History of the Milky Way Warp with Gaia |
| 16:30 | MB051 | Daniel Johnson | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Coronal Mass Ejection Kinetic Neergy Approximation | |
| 31 July | 16:00 | MB051 | Alexia Lopez | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Mg II Absorbers in Cosmology |
| 16:30 | MB051 | Kris Clarke | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Integral field Spectroscopy of Compact Elliptical Galaxies | |
| 24 July | 16:00 | MB051 | Raeesa Parker | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: A Zoo of Protoplanetary Discs Observed with ALMA |
| 16:30 | MB051 | Conor Moorfield | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: An Investigation into Non-Linear Transverse Susceptibility as a Basis for Improving the Measurement of Anisotropy in Magnetic Powdered Samples | |
| 17 July | 16:00 | MB051 | Saul Phiri | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Properties of Giant Molecular Clouds in the Nearby Galaxies |
| 16:30 | MB051 | Tracey Friday | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Investigations of the Cosmic Web at High Redshifts | |
| 10 July | 16:00 | Le002 | Daniel Gass | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Will a Long Term Survey of Coronal Loops Reveal Properties of the Coronal Magnetic Field? |
| 16:30 | Le002 | Amar Rambukwella-Gill | JHI/UCLAN | CARD: Moses: MHT Optical Star and Exoplanet Survey |
Winter & Spring Semester 2019
Autumn Semester 2018
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Dec | 16:00 | FBLT2 | |||
| 5 Dec | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Isabella Lamberti | UCL | Dust properties of nearby galaxies from the JINGLE survey derived using a hierarchical Bayesian approach |
| 28 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Sean Giblin | Cardiff | Studies of Monopole Motion in Frustrated Magnets |
| 21 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Beatriz Sanchez-Cano | Leicester | Space weather and comet interactions with Mars |
| 14 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | René Laureijs | ESA | Euclid: ESA’s dark energy mission – present status and outlook |
| 7 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | David Pontin | Dundee | Understanding the structuring of the solar wind based on coronal magnetic field topology |
| 31 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Ben Davies | LJMU | The deaths of massive stars |
| 24 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Rudi Ganss | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Constraining Progenitor Stars of Type Ib/c Supernovae by Probing the Local HII Environments |
| 17 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Tony Arber | Warwick | The Solar Chromosphere |
| 10 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | No seminar | ||
| 3 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Sebastien Viaene | Hertfordshire | Origin and fate of dust lanes in ETGs |
Summer Semester 2018
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12th September | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Jack Ireland | NASA | Coronal Fourier Power Spectra: Implications for Coronal Seismology and Coronal Heating |
| 10th July | 16:00 | MB049 | Tigran Kh. | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The Evolution of the Milky Way in the era of Gaia. |
| 16:30 | MB049 | Tom Davison | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Uncovering the Formation of S0 Galaxies using their Stellar Populations. | |
| 29th August | 16:00 | MB049 | Adam Knowles | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Generating a Theoretical Stellar Library for Stellar Population Analysis. |
| 16:30 | MB049 | Simon Smalley | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Molecular Electronics! | |
| 22nd August | 16:00 | MB049 | David Glass | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Studies of the cool dust and molecular gas content and distribution in early-type galaxies. |
| 16:30 | MB049 | Chris Kaye | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Streamlines : The Evolving Story of a Parallelepiped. | |
| 8th August | 16:00 | MB049 | Zoë Henderson | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Reversible CO2 Reaction with a Superbasic Ionic Liquid. |
| 16:30 | MB049 | Raeesa Parker | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Categorising protoplanetary disc asymmetries observed with ALMA. | |
| 1st August | 16:00 | MB049 | Thomas Kirk | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Definable Topological Dynamics of Metastable Theories. |
| 16:30 | MB049 | Jordan Thirlwall | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Decoding the Spectral Energy Distribution of M33. | |
| 25th July | 16:00 | MB049 | Tracey Friday | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Cosmic Microwave Background X Large Scale Structure Correlations. |
| 16:30 | MB049 | Anthony Mercer | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Efficient radiative transfer techniques in hydrodynamic simulations. | |
| 18 Jul | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Jerry Sellwood | The origin of spirals in galaxies | |
| 20 Jun | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Farzana Meru | Cambridge | Spirals, rings, gaps and asymmetries: using disc structure to infer planet formation processes |
| 13 Jun | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Paul Bushby | Newcastle | Magnetic buoyancy instabilities in the solar tachocline |
Winter/Spring Semester 2018
Autumn Semester 2017
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec | AM – TBC | TBC | Patrick Sutton | Cardiff | Gravitational waves |
| 13 Dec | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Mykola Gordovskyy | Manchester | Fluid and kinetic modelling of solar flares: from simulations to observations |
| 6 Dec | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Adam Avison | Manchester | Uncovering the evolution of high-mass protostars with ALMA |
| 29 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Russell Smith | Durham | Weighing the Initial Mass Function with gravitational lenses in the backyard |
| 22 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | David Burgess | QMUL | Linking astrophysical and space plasmas with the Earth’s bow shock |
| 15 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Aidan Hindmarch | Durham | Spintronics: understanding pure spin currents for future applications in computing |
| 8 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Elizabeth Stanway | Warwick | Exploring the properties of distant star formation with observations and models |
| 1 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Barry Smalley | Keele | The Am stars: peculiarities, pulsations and planets |
| 25 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | David Eden | LJMU | Star formation scales and efficiency in Galactic spiral arms |
| 18 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Darren Graham | Manchester | Developing terahertz radiation sources for particle acceleration: A route to future table-top accelerators |
| 11 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Claire Esau | Sheffield | Measuring mass segregation in young star clusters and the effects of 2D projection |
| 4 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Sargam Mulay | Cambridge | Active region jets in the Solar atmosphere |
| 3 Oct | 12:00 | HB159 | Richard Booth | Cambridge | The link between planet formation and disc evolution |
| 27 Sep | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Derek Ward-Thompson, Don Kurtz & Robert Walsh | UCLan | The Great Eclipse of 2017 |
Summer Semester 2017
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 Sep | 16:00 | Le002 | Chris Kaye | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Simulating Recollimation Shocks in Astrophysical Jets |
| 16:30 | Ben MacFarlane | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Investigating the properties of young embedded protostellar discs | ||
| 30 Aug | 16:00 | Le002 | Martin Hall | JHI/UCLan | CARD: A Semi-Automated Approach to the Abundance Analysis of Ap Stars |
| 16:30 | Jordan Thirlwall | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Decoding the spectral energy distribution of M33 | ||
| 23 Aug | 16:00 | Le002 | Zoe Henderson | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Reversible CO2 Reaction with a Superbasic Ionic Liquid |
| 16:30 | Tom Kirk | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Using Group Decomposition to simplify Dynamical Systems | ||
| 16 Aug | 16:00 | Le002 | Simon Smalley | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Molecular ordering and self-assembly on the Ag(100) surface |
| 16:30 | Raeesa Parker | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The search for pebbles around young stars | ||
| 09 Aug | 16:00 | Le002 | Tracey Friday | JHI/UCLan | CARD: CMB cross-correlation rabbit hole |
| 16:30 | Adam Knowles | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Building a Semi-Empirical Stellar Library | ||
| 02 Aug | 16:00 | Le002 | Bill Swalwell | JHI/UCLan | CARD: False Alarms in the Forecasting of Solar Energetic Particle Events |
| 16:30 | Danny Lee | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Potential Magnetic Fields: Null-Like Points and Squashing Factors | ||
| 26 Jul | 16:00 | Le002 | Sam Earp | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Even More Galaxy Tilting in Cosmological Simulations |
| 16:30 | Anthony Mercer | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Can planets form through gravitational fragmentation in protostellar discs? | ||
| 29 Jun | 14:00 | Le109 | Gerry Williger | Louisville | The protoplanetary disk around GM Aur |
| 22 Jun | 14:30 | Le109 | Jingnan Guo | Kiel | Space weather at Mars using MSL/RAD measurements combined with particle transport models |
Winter/Spring Semester 2017
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | David Armstrong | Warwick | Variability in Exoplanet Atmospheres |
| 24 May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Giovanni Natale | UCLan | The Development of DART-Ray |
| 17 May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Johannes Courtial | Glasgow | Pixellated optics: from invisibility cloaks to medical eyeglasses |
| 10 May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Lyndsay Fletcher | Glasgow | Solar Flares – How the Sun relaxes |
| 03 May | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Phil Armitage | Colorado | Protoplanetary disks and the first stages of planet formation |
| 26 Apr | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Richard Alexander | Leicester | Building Planetary Systems |
| 26 Apr | 11:00 | Le111 | Rob Kennicutt | Cambridge | Unveiling the Birth of Stars and Galaxies |
| 12 Apr | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Viktor Tóth | ELTE, Budapest | Star formation and the interstellar medium from sub-pc to kpc scales |
| 05 Apr | No seminar – to avoid clash with BigSkyEarth Training School | ||||
| 29 Mar | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Nick Wrigley | Manchester | Using e-MERLIN to measure the star-formation rate history of the Universe |
| 22 Mar | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Danielle Fenech | UCL | The e-MERLIN Legacy Cyg OB2 Radio Survey: Constraining mass-loss and other stories |
| 15 Mar | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Sven Friedemann | Bristol | Correlated Electrons at the Border of Charge and Magnetic Order in d-Metals |
| 08 Mar | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Gary Fuller | Manchester | From Dark to Light: Molecular Clouds to Massive Protostars & Clusters |
| 07 Mar | 11:00 | Le303 | Juntai Shen | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS | Gas inflow patterns and nuclear rings in barred galaxies |
| 01 Mar | 16:00 | FBLT3 | JHI Postgrads | JHI/UCLan | 1st Year Postgrad Talks |
| 22 Feb | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Tim Davis | Cardiff | The dark hearts of galaxies: molecules as dynamical probes of galaxy evolution |
| 15 Feb | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Del Atkinson | Durham | Physics at the Interface: Current research in thin-film ferromagnetic/non-magnetic systems for spintronics |
| 08 Feb | 16:00 | FBLT3 | John Stott | Lancaster | KROSS: The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey |
| 01 Feb | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Sarah Badman | Lancaster | Space Weather at Saturn |
| 25 Jan | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Jane Greaves | Cardiff | Seeing Planets Form |
| 18 Jan | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Yvonne Grunder | Liverpool | In situ studies of the atomic structure/charge distribution at the electrochemical interface |
| 11 Jan | 16:00 | FBLT3 | James Threlfall | St Andrews | What can test particles tell us about magnetic reconnection in the solar corona? |
Autumn Semester 2016
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Maciej Koprowski | Hertfordshire | IR Luminosity Function to z=4.5 from JCMT and ALMA |
| 01 Dec | 16:00 | LE002 | Shu-ichiro Inutsuka | Nagoya | Filaments, Shells, and Bubbles: Toward a Galactic View of Star Formation |
| 30 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Tim Horbury | Imperial | The solar wind near the Sun |
| 23 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Rob Crain | LJMU | Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population |
| 16 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Giovanni Costantini | Warwick | Molecular self-assembly as a means to understand charge transfer at metal-organic interfaces |
| 09 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT3 | George Bendo | Manchester | Measuring Star Formation Rates Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) |
| 02 Nov | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Ralph Schoenrich | Oxford | Disk galaxy evolution in the era of Gaia |
| 26 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Emily Drabek-Maunder | Cardiff | HCO+ Detection of Dust-Depleted Gas in the Inner Hole of the LkCa 15 Pre-Transitional Disk |
| 19 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Hem Raj Sharma | Liverpool | Templated Quasicrystals of Single Elements and Molecules |
| 12 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Mihalis Mathioudakis | Queens Belfast | Spectropolarimetry of small-scale solar structures in the era of large aperture solar telescopes |
| 05 Oct | 14:00 | Le110 | Chris Kaye | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Simulating Recollimation Shocks in Astrophysical Jets |
| 05 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT3 | Mikko Tuomi | Hertfordshire | Planets orbiting M dwarfs in the Solar neighbourhood |
Summer Semester 2016
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep | 16:00 | FBMKC | John Kormendy | Texas | Structure and formation of S0 and spheroidal galaxies |
| 14 Sep | 16:00 | FBMKC | Sandy Lodge | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Sub-millimetre properties of pre-stellar cores |
| 07 Sep | 16:00 | FBMKC | Will Clarkson | Michigan-Dearborn | Maximizing Galactic science from LSST |
| 31 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Tom Kirk | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The relationship between model theoretic and topological invariants of groups definable in NIP theories |
| 24 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Zoe Henderson | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Water-Cation Interaction in Ionic Liquid Multilayers: a Near-Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Simon Smalley | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Defected graphene through molecular self assembly | |
| 17 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Ben Thompson | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Turbulent Driven Outflow of Gas in a Galactic Disk |
| 10 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Danny Lee | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The 3D Topology of the Magnetic Field in the Solar Corona |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Andrew Walker | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The Link Between X-Class Solar Flares and Torsional Sunspot Rotation | |
| 03 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Adam Knowles | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Testing Theoretical Stellar Spectra and Modelling Stellar Populations |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Steven Bourn | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Multiferroic Materials and the Magnetoelectric Effect | |
| 27 Jul | 16:00 | FBMKC | Anthony Mercer | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The effect of radiative feedback on disc fragmentation |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Aaron Brocklebank | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Detectability of Wolf-Rayet stars beyond the Local Group | |
| 26 Jul | 14:00 | Le111 | Steven Gough-Kelly | JHI/UCLan | Creating planetarium presentations in Stellarium |
| 20 Jul | 16:00 | FBMKC | Ben Macfarlane | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Numerical predictions for the kinematics of FU-Ori type objects |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | David Bresnahan | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Results from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey in Corona Australis | |
| 14 Jul | 14:00 | FBMKC | Gareth Boxall | Stellenbosch | Complex Exponentiation |
| 12 Jul | 16:00 | FBMKC | Rosemary Wyse | Johns Hopkins | The Structure and Substructure of the Disks and Halo of the Milky Way Galaxy |
| 06 Jul | 16:00 | FBMKC | Sam Earp | JHI/UCLan | CARD: More galaxy tilting in cosmological simulations |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Bill Swalwell | JHI/UCLan | CARD: False alarms in the forecasting of solar energetic particle events | |
| 22 Jun | 16:00 | FBMKC | Petri Vaisanen | SAAO | Worth its SALT: recent science from the Southern African Large Telescope |
| 15 Jun | 16:00 | FBMKC | Peter Zelina | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Time Evolution of Elemental Ratios in Solar Energetic Particle Events |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Dom Bowman | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Twinkle Twinkle Delta Scuti Star |
Winter/Spring Semester 2016
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jun | 16:00 | FBMKC | Nina Dresing | Kiel | Anisotropies of solar energetic particle events |
| 18 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Markus Battarbee | UCLan | Propagation of Solar Energetic Particles in the Inner Heliosphere |
| 11 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Ding Yuan | UCLan | Sunspot oscillations and seismology |
| 04 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Tom Marsh | Warwick | Magnetic white dwarfs and a star like no other |
| 27 Apr | 16:00 | FBMKC | Jenny Hatchell | Exeter | Taking the temperature of local star-forming clouds with the JCMT Gould Belt Survey |
| 20 Apr | 16:00 | Le111 | Jochen Koenigsmann | Oxford | On rational numbers |
| 19 Apr | 11:00 | Harrington Lecture Theatre | Carole Mundell | Bath | Black hole driven explosions and the dynamic Universe |
| 13 Apr | No Seminar – JHI Event | ||||
| 06 Apr | 16:00 | FBMKC | Gareth Few | Hull | Chemical Evolution with Supercomputers: Hydrodynamics and Globular Clusters |
| 23 Mar | 16:00 | FBMKC | Phil James | LJMU | Studies of star formation and supernova progenitors in nearby galaxies |
| 16 Mar | 16:00 | FBMKC | Philipp Niklowitz | Royal Holloway | Spin-density wave masking a ferromagnetic quantum-critical point in NbFe2 |
| 09 Mar | 16:00 | FBMKC | Vasilis Archontis | St Andrews | Our active Sun: magnetic fields, jets and eruptions |
| 02 Mar | 16:00 | FBMKC | Colm Coughlan | Dublin IAS | New discoveries at low frequencies – Observing Young Stellar Objects at 150 MHz with LOFAR |
| 24 Feb | 16:00 | FBMKC | JHI PhD Students | UCLan | 1st Year PhD Talks |
| 17 Feb | 16:00 | FBMKC | Melvin Vopson | Portsmouth | Future technologies based on multiferroic materials |
| 10 Feb | 16:00 | FBMKC | Sergei Nayakshin | Leicester | Exoplanet observations overturn classical ideas about the Solar System formation |
| 27 Jan | 16:00 | FBMKC | Judith de Patoul | Exeter | 3D electron density distributions in the solar corona during solar minima: assessment for more realistic solar wind modeling |
| 20 Jan | 16:00 | FBMKC | Serban Lepadatu | UCLan | Interaction of Electrical Currents and Magnetisation in Magnetic Nano-Structures |
| 13 Jan | 16:00 | FBMKC | Oliver Lomax | Cardiff | The Role of Discs in the Collapse and Fragmentation of Prestellar Cores |
Autumn Semester 2015
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Dec | 16:00 | FBMKC | David Ward | Cambridge | Experimental surface science with helium beams; microscopy and spectroscopy for imaging and dynamics measurement |
| 9 Dec | 16:00 | FBMKC | Wyn Evans | Cambridge | The Rough and the Smooth |
| 2 Dec | 16:00 | FBMKC | Jim Wild | University of Lancaster | Does Mars have a magnetic personality? |
| 25 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Marcella Carollo | ETH Zurich | MAD Science: The growth and death of galaxies |
| 18 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Rich Townsend | UW-Madison | MESA & GYRE: Stellar Astrophysics for the People |
| 11 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Matthew Forster | Diamond Light Source | Molecular Self-Assembly on Surfaces: Ice, Alkanes and Amino Acids |
| 4 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Tyler Bourke | SKA | The Square Kilometre Array: Science Drivers and Status Update |
| 28 Oct | 16:00 | FBMKC | Jill Evans | UCLan | Research Data Management |
| 21 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT4 | Andrew Thomas | Manchester | Surface interactions under realistic conditions, bridging the pressure gap |
| 14 Oct | 16:00 | FBMKC | Karl-Ludwig Klein | Paris | On the acceleration regions of solar energetic particle events: two case studies |
| 7 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT4 | Simon Thomas | MSSL | Observations of Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere |
| 23 Sep | 11:00 | Harrington 338a | Michele Dougherty | Imperial | Results from the Cassini mission at Saturn and plans for end of mission |
Summer Semester 2015
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep | 16:00 | FBMKC | Chris Kaye | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Opacity, Faraday Rotation and Polarization in Astrophysical Jets |
| 2 Sep | 16:00 | FBMKC | Danny Lee | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The 3D Topology of the Magnetic Field in the Solar Corona |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Simon Smalley | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Tailored graphene through molecular self assembly | |
| 26 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | David Bresnahan | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Dense cores and filamentary networks in Corona Australis |
| 20 Aug | 16:00 | Le002 | Philip Hughes | Michigan | The connection between gamma ray and radio flares in the jets of active galaxies |
| 19 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Peter Zelina | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Time Evolution of Elemental Abundances in SEP Events |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Ben Macfarlane | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Disc-Planet Interactions: Simulations and Observations | |
| 12 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Steven Bourn | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Magnetic Anisotropy Studies of Multiferroic Materials using a Biaxial Vibrating Sample Magnetometer |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Ben Thompson | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Comparing Milky Way-like Galaxies with the Gaia-ESO Survey | |
| 5 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | Adam Clarke | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Radial Migration in Disc Galaxies |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Andrew Walker | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The Impact of Sunspot Rotation on High Flare Energy Active Regions | |
| 29 Jul | 16:00 | FBMKC | Sam Earp | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Galaxy Tilting in Cosmological Simulations |
| 22 Jul | 16:00 | FBMKC | Bill Swallwell | JHI/UCLan | CARD: False Alarms in the Forecasting of Solar Energetic Particle Events |
| 15 Jul | 16:00 | FBMKC | Dom Bowman | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Amplitude modulation in Delta Scuti stars |
| 16:30 | FBMKC | Kate Pattle | JHI/UCLan | CARD: A Full Virial Analysis of the Prestellar Cores in the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud | |
| 3 Jun | 16:00 | FBMKC | Maria De Juan Ovelar | LJMU | Following the tracks of planets in transitional discs with SPHERE and ALMA |
Winter Semester 2015
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Chris Geroux | Exeter | Multi-dimensional Convection in Stars |
| 20 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Huw Morgan | Aberystwyth | The expansion of active regions into the heliosphere |
| 14 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Mike Shara | American Museum of Natural History | The Novae-Supernovae Connection |
| 13 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Anna Lisa Varri | Edinburgh | The role of angular momentum in the dynamical evolution of star clusters |
| 6 May | 16:00 | FBMKC | Thomas Neukirch | St Andrews | Theoretical Aspects of Particle Acceleration in Solar Magnetic Activity Processes |
| 22 Apr | 15:00 | FBMKC | Peter Gallagher | Trinity College Dublin | The Shocking Corona |
| 15 Apr | 16:00 | FBMKC | Louise Harra | UCL | Exploring Activity on the Sun |
| 25 Mar | 16:00 | FBMKC | Siri Chongchitnan | Hull | Predicting the Abundance of Extreme Cosmic Voids |
| 16 Mar | 12:00 | Le111 | Hiroshi Kobayashi | Nagoya | Critical Effects of Collisional Fragmentation on Planet Formation |
| 12 Mar | 13:00 | FBLT2 | Arianna Di Cintio | Copenhagen | Cosmology on Small Scales: The Cusp-Core Problem in the Local Group |
| 11 Mar | 16:00 | FBMKC | Shu-ichiro Inutsuka | Nagoya | The Origin and Fate of Rings in Protoplanetary Disks: Diversity of Planet Formation Mechanisms |
| 4 Mar | 16:00 | FBMKC | Adrianne Slyz | Oxford | From Gas to Stars in Galaxies |
| 25 Feb | 15:30 | Brook 013 | Kunio Takeyasu | JSPS London | JSPS Funding and Collaboration Opportunities |
| 18 Feb | 16:00 | FBMKC | Deepak Mahtani | Keele | Semi-Synthetic Secondary Eclipse Lightcurves of Hot Jupiter Exoplanets |
| 11 Feb | 16:00 | FBMKC | 1st Year PhD Talks | UCLan | |
| 4 Feb | 16:00 | FBMKC | Stephen Halliwell | Moses Holden 1777-1864: Astronomer, Preston Freeman, Founder of UCLan, and Much More! | |
| 28 Jan | 16:00 | FBMKC | Graeme Candlish | Concepcion | Modified Gravity Simulations and Galaxy Evolution in Clusters |
| 23 Jan | 14:00 | FBLT2 | Richard Tuffs | Max-Planck Institute | The Evolution of Spiral Galaxies in the Group Environment |
| 21 Jan | 16:00 | FBMKC | Antonino Marasco | Groningen | Supernova-driven gas accretion in the Milky Way |
| 14 Jan | 16:00 | FBMKC | David Cole | UCLan | Nuclear stellar systems – a window on galaxy formation and evolution |
Autumn Semester 2014
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Dec | 14:00 | FBMKC | John Brown | Glasgow | |
| 10 Dec | 16:00 | FBMKC | Caitriona Jackman | Southampton | Saturn’s Magnetosphere: Highlights from 10 Years of the Cassini Mission |
| 26 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Stacey Habergham | Liverpool JMU | Using Supernovae to Probe Star Formation |
| 19 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Clare Worley | Cambridge | The Gaia-ESO Tour of the Milky Way |
| 12 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Britton Smith | Edinburgh | Where Did the First Metal-Enriched Stars Come From? |
| 5 Nov | 16:00 | FBMKC | Oscar Agertz | Surrey | On the Interplay between Star Formation and Feedback in Galaxy Formation Simulations |
| 29 Oct | 10:00 | FBLT2 | Charles Cockell | Edinburgh | The Habitability of Planets |
| 22 Oct | 16:00 | FBMKC | Mederic Boquien | Cambridge | Measuring Star Formation in Galaxies |
| 15 Oct | 16:00 | FBMKC | Thomas de Boer | Cambridge | The Star Formation History of Classical Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies |
| 8 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Elisa Portaluri | Padova | Supermassive Black Holes, Nuclear Star Clusters, and Nuclear Stellar Discs in Galactic Nuclei |
| 1 Oct | 16:00 | FBLT2 | Thomas Babbedge | Winton Capital | Turning a Telescope on Finance |
Summer Semester 2014
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep | 12:00 | Le109 | Maider Sancho Miranda | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Origin of the metallicity distribution in the thick disc |
| 17 Sep | 16:00 | FBMKC | Gabriel Marinello | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Large Quasar Groups |
| 16:30 | Adam Clarke | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Radial Migration in Disc Galaxies | ||
| 10 Sep | 16:00 | HB234 | Peter Zelina | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Solar Energetic Particles: Their Impact and Multi-Spacecraft Observations |
| 16:30 | Jack Chan | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The Fundamental Plane | ||
| 03 Sep | 16:00 | HB234 | Graham Barnes | NWRA | Why The Sun Is Not As Boring As Many Astronomers Believe It Is! |
| 27 Aug | 16:00 | Le303 | Andrew Walker | JHI/UCLan | CARD: The Link Between Rotating Sunspots and Solar Flares |
| 16:30 | Kate Pattle | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Prestellar Cores in the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud | ||
| 20 Aug | 16:00 | Le303 | David Bresnahan | JHI/UCLan | CARD: An Elegant, Lonely Structure in the Interstellar Medium: The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud |
| 13 Aug | 16:00 | Le303 | Dominic Bowman | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Pulsational Frequency and Amplitude Modulation in a Delta Scuti Star |
| 16:30 | Ben Thompson | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Cosmological Simulations of Voids and Cosmic Void Finding | ||
| 6 Aug | 16:00 | FBMKC | James Wurster | Monash | Angels and Demons: Active Galactic Nuclei Sub-grid Models |
| 5 Aug | 16:30 | FBMKC | Nader Haghighipour | University of Hawaii | New Models of Terrestrial Planet Formation and the Origin of Mars |
| 30 July | 16:00 | Le303 | Kelly Hambleton | JHI/UCLan | CARD: Heartbeat Stars and the Ringing of Tidal Pulsations |
| 17 July | 16:00 | FBMKC | Oscar Gonzalez | ESO | Is the Milky Way a Bulgeless Galaxy? |
| 4 July | 14:00 | FBMKC | Owain Snaith | Alabama | The Chemistry of Galaxy Discs: Reconstruction and Dissection |
| 30 June | 15:00 | FBMKC | Thijs Kouwenhoven | Peking University | The Formation and Dynamical Evolution of Free-Floating Planets in Star Clusters |
| 13 June | 15:00 | FBMKC | Shashikumar Chitre | Univ. of Mumbai | Seismic view of the inconstant Sun |
| 11 June | 16:00 | FBMKC | Simon Murphy | University of Sydney | Finding binaries among Kepler pulsating stars from phase modulation of their pulsations |
Spring Semester 2014
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Paul Crowther | Sheffield Univeristy | The Most Massive Stars in the Local Universe |
| 16 May. | 12:00 | Le003 | Rob Izzard | Bonn | The Origin of the Elements and the Critical Role of Binary Stars |
| 14 May. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Ludwig Klein | Obs. de Paris-Meudon | Radio Observations of the Origin and Propagation of Solar Energetic Particles |
| 7 May. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Michael Rowan-Robinson | Imperial College | Modelling the Spectral Energy Distributions of Herschel galaxies: gravitational lenses, cold dust and young starbursts |
| Thurs. 1 May. | 16:00 | Le003 | Kathryn Johnston | Columbia Univ. | Where is the matter? |
| 30 Apr. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Mark Jones | Open University | Mapping the Venus Resonance Ring using STEREO HI-2 |
| 23 Apr. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Ignacio Ferreras | MSSL/UCL | Looking at the Fossil Record to Discover How Galaxies Form |
| 16 Apr. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Nicola Brassington | University of Hertfordshire | Galaxy Interactions in the Nearby Universe |
| 2 Apr. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Thebe Medupe | SAAO | Astronomy in Africa during Medieval Times |
| 26 Mar. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Elena Dalla Bonta | Padova | Central Massive Objects in Galaxies |
| 19 Mar. | 16:00 | FBMKC | CARD: Ben Thompson and Peter Zelina | UCLan | |
| 12 Mar. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Alan Watson | Leeds | Mysteries and Challenges Posed by the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays |
| 5 Mar. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Derek Ward-Thompson | UCLan | The Herschel Space Telescope – What It Told Us About the Formation of Stars |
| 26 Feb. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Pieter Degroote | KU Leuven | Testing Stellar Evolution with Asteroseismology of Binary Stars |
| 19 Feb. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Heather Ratcliffe | CFSA, Univ. of Warwick | Hard X-ray and radio observations of non-thermal electrons in solar flares |
| 12 Feb. | 16:00 | FBMKC | |||
| 5 Feb. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Steven Longmore | Liverpool John Moores Univ. | Using the Milky Way as a template for understanding star formation in extreme environments across cosmological timescales |
| 29 Jan. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Melissa Ness | MPIA | The Changing Picture for the Formation of the Galactic Bulge of the Milky Way |
| 22 Jan. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Chris Prior | Durham University | Quantifying and observing the helicity content of magnetic flux ropes |
| 15 Jan. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Tim Cawthorne | JHI/UCLan | Recollimation shocks in Astrophysical Jets |
| 8 Jan. | 16:00 | FBMKC | Caroline Alexander | NASA/MSFC | Resolving the fine-scale solar corona: results from the High-resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C) |
Winter Semester 2013
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Dec. | 15:00 | FBMKC | Chris Lintott | Oxford University | Tales from the Zooniverse: Science with 800,000 volunteers |
| 10 Dec. | 16:00 | FB051 | Ivan Minchev | AIP | The Formation and Evolution of the Milky Way Disc: Constraints from Numerical Simulations |
| 4 Dec. | 15:00 | FB051 | Andrzej Fludra | RAL/STFC | Solar Orbiter: a new perspective on the Sun |
| 27 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Iain Hannah | University of Glasgow | Emission measure distributions of solar eruptive events |
| 20 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Christopher Few | University of Exeter | Chemodynamics of a Simulated Disk Galaxy: Structures in Abundance Space |
| 13 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | CARD: Timo Laitinen | JHI/UCLan | Cross-field transport of energetic particles early in a solar event |
| 6 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | CARD: JHI Students | <JHI/UCLan | |
| 30 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Jairo Mendez-Abreu | University of St Andrews | Assembling the Puzzle of Barred Galaxies |
| 23 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Alyssa Drake | Liverpool John Moores University | A Narrow-band View of Star Formation in the SXDS-UDS Field |
| 16 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Debora Sijacki | University of Cambridge | Simulating Galaxy Formation: Numerical and Physical Uncertainties |
| 9 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Andreea Font | Liverpool John Moores University | Milky Way Gas-Dynamical Simulations for Gaia |
| 2 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Eric Priest | University of St Andrews | The Magnetic Nature of the Sun |
| 25 Sept | 15:00 | FB051 | Jaroslav Dudik | University of Cambridge | Slipping Magnetic Reconnection: Observations and Theory |
| 19 Sept | 12:00 | Le002 | Jan Rybizki | Heidelberg | Chemodynamical Evolutionary Model of the Milky Way Disc – What Does the Solar Neighbourhood Tell Us? |
Summer Semester 2013
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep. | 15:00 | Le002 | Maider Sancho Miranda | UCLan/JHI | CARD: |
| 15:30 | Ben Macfarlane | UCLan/JHI | CARD: | ||
| 28 Aug. | 15:00 | Le002 | Michel Breger | University of Texas | Seismology of Stars in the age of space telescopes |
| 21 Aug. | 15:00 | MB051 | Adam Clarke | UCLan/JHI | CARD: Radial Migration in Disk Galaxies |
| 14 Aug. | 15:00 | Le002 | Kate Pattle | UCLan/JHI | CARD: Investigating the Earliest Stages of Star Formation |
| 7 Aug. | 15:00 | Le002 | Gabriel Marinello | UCLan/JHI | CARD: Constructing mock quasar catalogues to test the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe |
| 31 July | 15:00 | Le002 | Nicky Agius | UCLan/JHI | CARD: A Dyson s Dream: Dust in Early-Type Galaxies |
| 24 July | 15:00 | Le002 | Joanne Bibby | UCLan/JHI | CARD: Wolf-Rayet Star Surveys and their Role as Supernova Progenitors |
| 17 July | 15:00 | Le002 | Dimitris Stamatellos | UCLan/JHI | CARD: Planet formation by disc fragmentation |
| 16 July | 12:30 | Le002 | Borja Anguiano Jiminez | Macquarie, Australia | The Age-Metallicity-Velocity Dispersion Relation in the Solar Neighbourhood |
Spring Semester 2013
13 March15:00FB051Karen MastersICG PortsmouthUnwrapping Galaxy Evolution and Dynamics with MaNGA
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 June | 15:00 | FB051 | Rok Roskar | Institute of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Zurich | Radiation Feedback in Cosmological Spiral Galaxy Formation |
| Fri. 7 June | 12:00 | FB051 | Geraint Lewis | University of Sydney | The PAndAS Mysteries: The Great Plane of Andromeda |
| 5 Jun | 15:00 | FB051 | Claudia Maraston | University of Portsmouth | Modelling stellar populations: clues on galaxy evolution |
| 29 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Esko Gardner | Observatoire de Besançon | Comparing N-Body Simulations to the Boxy Bulge of the Milky Way |
| 22 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Denija Crnojevic | University of Edinburgh | Galaxy evolution through resolved stellar populations in the nearby CentaurusA group |
| 8 May | 15:00 | FB051 | JHI away day | ||
| 1 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Roger Clowes | JHI/UCLan | The Largest Structure in the Universe |
| 24 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | Brad Gibson | UCLan/JHI | Building Spiral Galaxies: 72 Years of Failure and Counting |
| 17 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | John Magorrian | Oxford University | The centre of M31 |
| 10 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | Paul Murdin | IoA Cambridge | High Field Magnetic White Dwarfs – laboratory investigations |
| 20 March | 15:00 | FB051 | Mike Kosch | Lancaster University | Artificial aurorae: How the ionosphere helps to unravel wave-plasma interactions? |
| 6 March | 15:00 | FB051 | Boris Haeussler | Nottingham University | MegaMorph – Measuring the physical properties of galaxy components in modern multi-wavelength surveys |
| 6 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Balazs Pinter | Aberystwyth Univ. | Interaction of the Solar Interior and Atmosphere |
| Tues. 5 Feb | 15:00 | Le111 | Frederic Effenberger | Bochum Univ., Germany | Modelling Solar Energetic Particle and Cosmic Ray Transport with Stochastic Processes |
| 30 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Witold Maciejewski | Liverpool John Moores Univ. | Nuclear Bars and Spirals in Disc Galaxies: their Origin and Implications |
| 23 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Nicholas Walton | University of Cambridge | The Gaia mission: Mapping the Milky Way |
| 16 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Sarah Matthews | UCL/MSSL | Solar flares in the lower atmosphere and beyond …a question of momentum |
| 9 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Giovanni Natale | UCLan/JHI | Star Formation and Dust on Galactic Scales |
Autumn Semester 2012
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tues. 11 Dec | 16:00 | FBLT4 | Gabriele Cescutti | AIP, Potsdam | Chemical elements in the early Universe |
| Tues. 4 Dec. | 15:00 | Le002 | Lu Lu | Univ. of Leeds | Mass Composition Studies of Ultra- high Energy Cosmic Rays with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory |
| 28 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | JHI Day – no seminar | ||
| 21 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Simon Platt | UCLan/CEPS | Ex sole ad sole |
| 14 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Richard Morton | Northumbria Univ. | MHD waves in the solar chromosphere |
| 7 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Pierre Maxted | Keele Univ. | Discovering the Progenitors of Very Low Mass White Dwarfs |
| 31 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Michiko Fujii | Leiden University | Dynamical evolution of star clusters in transient spiral arms |
| 24 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Laurel Rachmeler | Univ. of St Andrews | Forward modeling of coronal polarization |
| Tues. 23 Oct. | 15:00 | LE002 | Esther Marmol-Queralto | IAC, Tenerife | Satellite galaxies around massive galaxies: the infalling pieces of the puzzle |
| 17 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Marco Pignatari | University of Basel | Evolution and Nucleosynthesis in Low-mass and Intermediate-mass Stars |
| Tues. 16 Oct. | 16:00 | FB051 | Andrej Prsa | Villanova Univ. | Kepler Mission Harvest of Close Binaries and Circumbinary Planets |
| 10 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Paul Beck | KU Leuven | Asteroseismology of Red Giants in eccentric Binary System |
| 3 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Stefano Pasetto | UCL/MSSL | Thin and Thick Disk Kinematics with RAVE and the Solar Motion |
| 26 Sept | 15:00 | FB051 | David MacTaggart | Abertay Univ. | Theoretical Flux Emergence: Context and Connections |
| 19 Sept | 15:00 | FB051 | Mykola Gordovskyy | Univ of Manchester | Particle Acceleration in Reconnecting Twisted Coronal Loops |
| 12 Sept | TBD | FB051 | Jonathan Cirtain | NASA/MSFC | Science with sounding rockets |
| 4 Sep. | 15:00 | Le303 | Andreas Kopp | Kiel University, Germany | Charge-fluctuating dusty plasmas: a gedankenexperiment for the understanding of anomalous diffusion |
Summer Semester 2012
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 August | 15:00 | MB041 | CARD: Kelly Hambleton | UCLan | |
| 1 August | 15:30 | MB041 | CARD: Bogdan Pastrav | UCLan | |
| CARD: Mike Maxwell | UCLan | ||||
| 25 July | 15:00 | MB041 | CARD: Gabriel Marinello | UCLan | |
| Thurs. 19 July | 15:00 | MB041 | James McLaughlin | Northumbria Univ. | Generation of Quasi-periodic Waves and Flows in the Solar Atmosphere by Oscillatory Reconnection |
| 18 July | 15:30 | MB041 | CARD: Nicky Agius | UCLan | Investigating Properties of Detected and Undetected Early Type Galaxies with Herschel-ATLAS |
| CARD: Simon Murphy | UCLan | ||||
| Thurs. 12 July | 15:00 | MB041 | Koji Mukai | NASA/GSFC | The mass of white dwarfs in interacting binaries |
| 11 July | 15:00 | MB041 | CARD: James Kelly | UCLan | Modelling the Propagation of Solar Energetic Particles Through Interplanetary Space |
Winter Semester 2012
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 June | 15:00 | FB051 | Frederic Effenberger | Univ. of Bochum, Germany | Anisotropic and anomalous diffusion of energetic particles in heliospheric and galactic magnetic fields |
| 6 June | 15:00 | Le002 | Tim White | Univ. of Sydney | Ensemble asteroseismology of solar-like oscillations |
| Thurs. 31 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Matthew Owens | Univ. of Reading | Solar cycle 24: Where are we and where are we going? |
| 23 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Lingyu Wang | University of Sussex | The abundance and clustering properties of infrared galaxies |
| 9 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Edouard Bernard | University of Edinburgh | Star formation in low-density regions and influence of the environment |
| 2 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Claire Foullon | Univ. of Warwick | Plasmoids and flow-driven instabilities in the eruptive corona |
| 25 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca | University of Nottingham | The formation of SO galaxies |
| 18 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | Kate Rowlands | Univ. of Nottingham | The spectral energy distributions of dusty galaxies at low and high redshift |
| 21 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Alexander Russell | Univ. of Glasgow | Propagation of Alfvén Waves from the Corona to Chromosphere |
| 14 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Vincent Eke | Durham University | Water on the Moon |
| 7 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Vasily Belokurov | University of Cambridge | The Mass, Mess and Mistery in the Milky Way Halo |
| 15 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Peng-Fei Chen | Nanjing Univ./MSSL | EIT waves: observations & modelings |
| 8 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Massimo Viola | University of Edinburgh | Unbending the light |
| Fri. 3 Feb | 15:00 | TBD | Neal Hurlburt | LMSAL, Palo Alto | |
| 1 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Sheila Kanani | MSSL/UCL | An investigation into the role of injection events on plasma transport within Saturn’s magnetosphere |
| 25 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Karen Meyer | Univ. of St Andrews | A Non-Linear Force-Free Field Model for the Solar Magnetic Carpet |
| 18 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | CARD: Stephane Regnier | UCLan | Evolution of coronal magnetic fields |
| 11 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Nye Evans | Keele | Dust in Nova Winds |
Autumn Semester 2011
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Dec | 11:30 | HB206 | Chiaki Kobayashi | Hertfordshire | Galactic Archaeology: Stellar Yields and Chemodynamical Simulations |
| 30 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Stefan Gottloeber | AIP | Near-Field Cosmology with Constrained Local Universe Simulations |
| 23 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Horst Fichtner | Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany | Cosmic Ray Transport in the Heliosphere and its Connection to Their Interstellar Propagation |
| 21 Nov | 15:00 | Le006 | Alex Brown | University of Colorado | Young stars and their protoplanetary discs |
| 16 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Sergei Zharkov | MSSL-UCL | Recent Sunquakes: New Implications for Energy Transport in Solar Flares |
| 2 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Jamie Gilmour | University of Manchester | Noble Gases in Solar System Samples |
| 19 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Hanni Lux | University of Nottingham | Constraining the Milky Way Halo with Cold Streams |
| 12 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Myrto Symeonidis | MSSL/UCL | New Views on Dust-Obscured Galaxies |
| 5 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Gert Botha | Warwick University | Numerical simulations of the kink instability in coronal loops |
| Thur. 29 Sept | 15;00 | Le002 | Tom Barclay | NASA-Ames | The Kepler Mission: Latest Results and Looking to the Future |
| 28 Sept | 15:00 | FB051 | Mercedes Molla | CIEMAT, Madrid | Galactic Chemical Models: An Introduction |
| 21 Sept | 15:00 | FB051 | Tim Beers | Michigan State | Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor (CEMP) Stars in the Galactic Halo and their Link to High-Redshift Damped Lyman Alpha Systems |
| Tues. 20 Sept | 15:00 | TBD | Arunima Banerjee | IISC, Bangalore | Vertical Structure of Disk Galaxies and their Dark Matter Halos |
| Thurs. 15 Sept | 15:00 | Le003 | Hiromoto Shibahashi | Univ. of Tokyo | Population III Stars: Evolution and Instability |
| 14 Sept | 15:00 | Le003 | Bruce Elmegreen | IBM | Formation of Star Clusters |
Summer Semester 2011
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 July | 15:00 | LE006 | CARD: Mike Maxwell | UCLan | |
| 20 July | 15:00 | LE110 | CARD: Bogdan Pastrav | UCLan | |
| 13 July | 15:00 | FB051 | CARD: James Kelly | UCLan | Modelling the Propagation of Star Energetic Particles |
| 15.30 | FB051 | CARD: Nicky Agius | UCLan | ||
| 12 July | 15:00 | Le002 | Alex Vazdekis | IAC | Expanding the parameter and spectral coverage of stellar population |
| 29 June | 15.00 | LE002 | CARD: Kelly Hambleton | UCLan | |
| 22 June | 15:00 | TBD | CARD: Simon Murphy | UCLan | |
| 15 June | 15:00 | FB051 | Glenn White | Open University | The Filaments of Star Formation |
| 25 May | 15:00 | FB051 | CARD: Kate Pilkington & Gareth Few | UCLan |
Winter Semester 2011
13 Apr.15:00FB051Nicola MenciINAF, Rome ObservatoryDownsizing in hierarchical models of galaxy formation and AGN evolution
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Philippa Browning | Univ. of Manchester | Heating and particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection in the solar corona |
| 11 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Nicolas Labrosse | Univ. of Glasgow | Solar prominence diagnostics with Hinode |
| 6 Apr. | 15:00 | FB051 | Andrea Maccio | Heidelberg | Simulated merger trees: a new numerical approach to galaxy formation and evolution |
| 30 Mar. | 15:00 | FB051 | Kresimir Pavlovski | University of Zagred | Quantitative spectroscopy of close binary stars |
| 23 Mar. | 15:00 | FB051 | Ignacio Ferreras | MSSL/UCL | On the Formation of the Most Massive Galaxies |
| 16 Mar. | 15:00 | FB051 | Andrew Fox | IoA, Cambridge | The Magellanic Stream: A Case Study of Galactic Accretion |
| Mon 28 Feb. | 15:00 | DB247 | Pratika Dayal | AIP | Cosmic Lighthouses : Unveiling the Nature of High-Redshift Galaxies |
| 23 Feb. | 15:00 | FB051 | Chris Haines | Birmingham University | Spitzer’s Mid-Infrared View of Galaxy Evolution in Rich Clusters |
| 17 Feb. | 11:30 | Le111 | Alison Laird | York University | Nuclear Astrophysics – Studying Stars in the Lab |
| 16 Feb. | 15:00 | FB051 | Durgesh Tripathi | DAMTP | Solar Active Regions Studies using Hinode/EIS |
| 9 Feb. | 15:00 | FB051 | Simone Recchi | Vienna | The Chemical Evolution of Galaxies within the IGIMF Theory |
| 2 Feb. | 15:00 | FB051 | Rekha Jain | University of Sheffield | Magnetic Field Effects on Solar Oscillations: A View from the Frontier |
| Fri. 28 Jan. | 11:30 | MB038 | Mary Williams | Astrophysikaliches Institut Potsdam | The Dawning of the Stream of Aquarius in RAVE |
| 26 Jan. | 15:00 | FB051 | Takuma Suda | Hokkaido University, Japan | A Chemical Probe into the Star Formation History of Our Galaxy Using the Stellar Abundances for Galactic Archaeology (SAGA) Database |
| 19 Jan. | 15:00 | FB051 | Antonia Wilmot-Smith | Univ. of Dundee | Braided Coronal Loops |
| 12 Jan. | 15:00 | FB051 | Simon Goodwin | University of Sheffield | The formation of star clusters |
Autumn Semester 2010
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs. 16 Dec. | 15:00 | Le111 | Chiara Tonini | University of Melbourne | Red galaxies in a young Universe |
| 1 Dec. | 15:00 | FB051 | Lyndsay Fletcher | University of Glasgow | White light flares |
| Mon. 29 Nov. | 15:30 | Le006 | Ineke de Moortel | Univ. of St Andrews | Coronal Seismology with Transverse Loop Oscillations |
| 24 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Geraint F. Lewis | Univ. of Sydney | Seeing the Universe with PAndAS Eyes: Clues to Galaxy Evolution in our own backyard |
| 17 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Sugata Kaviraj | Imperial College | Early-type galaxies: the last 8 billion years |
| Tue. 16 Nov. | 11:00 | HB311 | Alexander Brown | Univ. of Colorado, Boulder | KEPLER Observations of Active Late-type Stars |
| Fri. 12 Nov. | 11:30 | MB 051 | Martin Smith | Kavli Institute, Peking Univ. | Finding fossils on our doorstep: How surveys of the Milky Way are driving our understanding of galaxy evolution |
| 10 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | Stephen Smartt | QUB | First results from Pan-STARRS – giant supernovae in dwarf galaxies |
| 3 Nov. | 15:00 | FB051 | David Williams | MSSL | Flux emergence and pre-flare ion acceleration in the solar corona |
| 27 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Andrew Pontzen | Cambridge | Piecing together galaxy formation at high redshifts |
| 20 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Barry Kellett | RAL/STFC | SMART-1 – Europe’s 1st Mission to the Moon! |
| 13 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | Ivan Baldry | Liverpool John Moores Univ. | Accounting for the lowest mass galaxies with GAMA and beyond |
| 6 Oct. | 15:00 | FB051 | CARD: Greg Stinson | UCLan | Everything you ever wanted to know about Starlink |
Summer Semester 2010
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 August | 15:00 | Le002 | Alessandra Beifiori | Padova | On the validity of the MBH-σ relation |
| 14 July | 15:00 | Le006 | Caroline Alexander | UCLan | Coronal Loops with SDO |
| 7 July | 15:00 | Le006 | Bogdan Pastrav | UCLan | Statistical Analysis of the UV-FIR Spectral Energy Distributions of Gas-Rich Galaxies Observed in the Herschel ATLAS and GAMA Surveys |
| 7 July | 15:00 | Le006 | Kate Pilkington | UCLan | Cold Gas Analysis of Dwarf Galaxy Simulations |
| 29 June | 15:00 | FB051 | Christine Nicolls | ANU | Red Giants Behaving Badly: Long Secondary Periods and Eccentric Binaries |
| 16 June | 15:00 | Le006 | Markus Hartmann | UCLan | Kinematic and Structural Constraints on the Formation of Nuclear Clusters |
| 2 June | 15:30 | Le006 | Katie Harris | UCLan | Galaxy and Cluster Environment of Quasars |
| 2 June | 15:00 | Le006 | James Kelly | UCLan | Modelling the Propagation of Solar Energetic Particles |
| 26 May | 15:00 | Le006 | Mike Maxwell | UCLan | Multiband Observations of Recurrent Novae |
| 12 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Elisa House | UCLan | Disk Heating in Milky Way-type Simulations |
| 5 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Gareth Few | UCLan | Including Chemistry in Hydrodynamical Simulations |
Winter Semester 2010
10 Feb14:00Le111Martin StringerDurhamPhysical Constraints on the Central Mass and Baryon Content of Satellite
Galaxies
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | Erwin Verwichte | University of Warwick | Transverse Waves and Oscillations in the Solar Corona |
| 7 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | Gunnar Hornig | University of Dundee | Turbulent Reconnection in Braided Magnetic Fields |
| 24 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Don Kurtz | UCLan | Blast! |
| 18 Mar | 12:00 | MB39 | Simon Murphy | Manchester | Planetary Habitable Zones and SETI |
| 16 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Adrianne Slyz | Oxford | Simulating High-Redshift Galaxies |
| 10 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Iain Steele | Liverpool John Moores | Science with the Liverpool Telescope |
| 3 Mar | 15:00 | Le006 | Daniel Holdsworth, Kelly Hambleton and Claire Wilde | UCLan | SALT, Stars and South Africa |
| 24 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Kristen Coppin | Durham | Probing the Evolutionary Sequence of the Formation of Massive Galaxies: Testing the Link Between Submillimetre Galaxies and QSOs |
| 17 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Mark Rushton | UCLan | The Tenth Outburst of the Recurrent Nova U Scorpii |
| 9 Feb | 15:00 | H307 | Robert Walsh | UCLan | SDO talk. Launch on Wed |
Autumn Semester 2009
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Dec (Thurs) | 14:00 | FB051 | Mike Bode | Liverpool John Moores | European Plans for Astronomy over the next Twenty Years |
| 14-18 Dec | JHI | Undergraduate Research School |
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| 2 Dec | 15:00 | FB051 | Geraint Jones | Mullard Space Science Laboratory | The Diverse Plasma Interactions of Saturn’s Icy Moons |
| 26 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Andre Milone | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil | Stellar Populations of Early-type Galaxies |
| 18 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Martin Bureau | Oxford | tbc |
| 4 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Nicolas Peretto | Manchester | Infrared Dark Clouds and Star Formation |
| 28 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Steven Bamford | Nottingham | The Galaxy Zoo |
| 21 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Lucie Green | Mullard Space Science Laboratory | What Can Soft X-ray Sigmoids Tell us about Flux Rope Formation and Associated Eruptions? |
| 14 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Anne Sansom | UCLan | Stellar Populations and Binary Stars |
| 7 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Nate Bastion | Cambridge | Using stellar clusters to trace the star-formation history of galaxies: problems and solutions |
| 30 Sept | 15:00 | FB051 | Elias Brinks | Hertfordshire | |
| 23 Sept | 15:00 | FB051 | Roger Wesson | UCL | Chemical abundances in Ionised nebulae |
Summer Semester 2009
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 June | 14:15 | FB051 | Dr. Craig B. Agnor | Queen Mary, University of London | Giant Impacts and Planetary Evolution |
| 11 June | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Yohan Dubois | Oxford University | Cosmological Magnetic Fields: What do we Learn from Numerical Simulations? |
| 27 May | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Eva Noyola | Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching |
IMBHs in Star Clusters, Are They There? |
| 22 May | 10:30 | LE109 | Dr. Dmitrij Semionov | Uni. of Tuebingen | Galactic dust and stellar wind – a close and personal experience with radiative transfer |
| 22 May | 10:00 | LE109 | Mr. Andrew Schurer | SISSA, Trieste | Modelling the effects of dust evolution on the SEDs of galaxies of different morphological type |
| 15 May | 10:00 | LE109 | Dr. Jacopo Fritz | INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova | The AGN Unified Scheme seen from the dusty perspective |
| 1 May | 15:00 | LE002 | Dr. Georgina Wilkins | Uclan | Colloidal rod suspensions: Why are they interesting and what can we learn from them? |
Winter Semester 2009
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20-23 April | University of Hertfordshire | European Week of Astronomy and Space Science | |||
| 23 April (Thurs) | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Romain Teyssier | University of Zurich | Recent Advances in Galaxy Formation Simulations |
| 1 Apr | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Neus Agueda | University of Helsinki | Solar Sources of Heliospheric Near-Relativistic Electrons: Insights from Monte Carlo Simulations |
| 27 Mar | 16:00 | LE03 | Prof. Toshihiro Kawakatsu | Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan | Designing Decentralized Control of Modular Robots |
| 25 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Danielle Bewsher | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | The Relationship Between EUV Dimming and Coronal Mass Ejections |
| 20 Mar | 11:50 | MB39 | Dr. Francesco Calura | Trieste Observatory | Metals and Dust at Low- and High-Redshift |
| 20 Mar | 11:25 | MB39 | Dr. Greg Stinson | McMaster University | Stellar Feedback in SPH Simulations |
| 20 Mar | 11:00 | MB39 | Dr. Darren Reed | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Uncloaking the Dark Universe with Halos and Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations |
| 20 Mar | 10:20 | MB39 | Dr. Justin Read | Zurich University | A Dark Matter Disc in the Milky Way |
| 20 Mar | 09:55 | MB39 | Dr. Andreea Font | Durham University | Galactic Archaeology: Unraveling Galaxy Formation using Chemical Abundances |
| 20 Mar | 09:00 | MB39 | Dr. Chiaki Kobayashi | Australian National University | Chemodynamical Simulations of Galaxies |
| 18 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Bernhard Schulz | California Institute of Technology | Observing with Herschel |
| 11 Mar | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Jim Wild | Lancaster University | Magnetospheric Substorms: Arguable Triggers, Aurorae and Unwanted Amperes |
| 19 Feb | 16:00 | Le110 | Dr. Anil Seth | Harvard University | Nuclear Star Clusters: Formation and Relation to Black Holes |
| 17 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Laura Sales | University of Groningen | The mass and angular momentum content of simulated galaxies at z=2: can we explain recent SINS observations? |
| 5 Feb | 14:00 | FB051 | Prof. Max Pettini | University of Cambridge | The First Stars: Clues from QSO Absorption Lines |
| 4 Feb | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Duncan Mackay | University of St. Andrews | A New Global Magnetic Field Model for the Solar Corona |
| 21 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Jorge Penarrubia | University of Cambridge | Local group dwarf galaxies in the Lambda-CDM paradigm |
| 14 Jan | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Lindsay King | University of Cambridge | Measuring Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Gravitational Lensing |
| 9 Jan | 13:00 | Le006 | Rory Smith | Cardiff University | Ram Pressure and Tidal Effects on Virgo Cluster Dwarf Galaxies |
| 9 Jan | 10:00 | Le006 | Cesario Almeida | Durham University | The Dusty Universe |
| 8 Jan | 16:00 | Le006 | Mark Rushton | Keele University | Luminous Red Novae |
| 8 Jan | 13:00 | Le006 | James Cresswell | University of Portsmouth | Galaxy Clustering Bias and Luminosity Functions |
| 8 Jan | 10:00 | Le006 | Paul Westoby | Liverpool John Moores | Triggering and Fuelling of Active Galactic Nuclei |
Autumn Semester 2008
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Dec | 14:00 | FB051 | Prof. Gerry Gilmore | Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge | The big Questions, and what we are building for you to answer them |
| 19 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Fernando Buitrago Alonso | University of Nottingham | Size Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies at redshifts between 1.7 and 3 and the GOODS NICMOS Survey |
| 5 Nov | 15:00 | FB051 | Prof. Simon Driver | St Andrew’s University | Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) |
| 29 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Dr. Claudia Maraston | University of Portsmouth | Stellar Population Models |
| 15 Oct | 15:00 | FB051 | Prof. Guy Worthey | Washington State University | Element by Element Abundances from Integrated Light |
Summer Semester 2008
2 June15:00Le111Dr Matthew GrahamCalTech, CaliforniaThe Semantics of the Wondrous
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Aug | 13:00 | Le111 | Gerry Williger | University of Louisville | Galaxies in the Clowes-Campusano Large Quasar Group |
| 12 June | 15:00 | Le111 | Larisza Krista | Trinity College Dublin | Automated Detection of Coronal Holes |
| 29 May | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Chris Davies | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | New Satellite mission: STEREO |
| 23 May | 15:00 | Le111 | Dr Marc D. Freitag | University of Cambridge, IoA | Stars and Massive Black Holes |
| 22 May | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Scott Chapman | University of Cambridge, IoA | The hotter side of high-z ultra-luminous galaxies |
| 21 May | 13:00 | Le111 | Dr. Christopher Flynn | Tuorla Observatory, Finland | Mass and light in the Milky Way |
| 8 May | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr. Andreea Font | University of Durham | The Colours of Satellite Galaxies in Groups and Clusters |
| 1 May | 16:00 | CM234 | Urmila Mitra Kraev | Sheffield University | Solar oscillations using SOT data |
Winter Semester 2008
24 Jan16:00CM234Raphael HirschiKeele UniversityMassive Stars in the Early Universe
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Apr | 14:30 | Le303 | Prof Trevor Ponman | University of Birmingham | Groups, feedback and galaxy evolution |
| 24 Apr | 15:15 | Le109 | Prof. Alan Watson | School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds | Is the search for the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays over? |
| 17 April | 15:15 | Le109 | Dr Eric Tittley | Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh | Reionisation: Would you like your IGM rare, medium, or well done? |
| 10 Apr | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Eduard Kontar | Glasgow University | Compton mirror as a probe of pitch angle distributions of solar flare electrons |
| 26 Mar | 13:00 | Le002 | Ms Liliana Hernandez | UNAM, Mexico | Photoionized Regions in NGC6822 |
| 20 Mar | 14:15 | Le303 | Ms Caroline Alexander | Mullard Space Science Laboratory | PhD talk |
| 18 Mar | 14:30 | Le006 | Mr Alex Merson | Durham University | PhD Talk |
| 13 Mar | 15:15 | Le110 | Dr Rob Proctor | Swinburne University, Australia | Keck SPectrsocopy of Globular Clusters |
| 6 Mar | 16:15 | Le110 | Dr Yu Xin | University of Sheffield | Blue Stragglers and their Contribution to Simple Stellar Populations |
| 28 Feb | 14:30 | MB38 | Mr Gareth Few | University of Nottingham | PhD Talk |
| 27 Feb | 13:00 | Le111 | Dr Alexander Knebe | Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) | Near-Field Cosmology, a theoretician’s point of view |
| 21 Feb | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Rhona Maclean | St Andrew’s University | Magnetic Structure of a Coronal Bright Point |
| 7 Feb | 16:00 | CM234 | Rob Beswick | University of Manchester | Very Weak Radio Sources in the GOODS-North Field |
| 17 Jan | 13:00 | DA247 | Rob Allan | Daresbury Labs | High Performance Computing and Grid Technologies |
| 16 Jan | 13:00 | Le111 | Torgny Karlsson | Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), Stockholm | Unearthing Stellar Dawn: The Search for the Chemical Remains of the First Stars |
| 10 Jan | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Russell J. Smith | Durham University | Spectroscopy of dwarf galaxies in Coma |
Autumn Semester 2007
13 Dec16:00Le111Dr Russell SmithDurham University (Postponed)Dwarf galaxies in the Coma clusters
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| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Dec | 12:00 | Le111 | Dr Scott Trager | University of Groningen | Is Downsizing Universal? Stellar Populations in the Coma Cluster |
| 6 Dec | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Scott Kay | University of Manchester | The Evolution of Galaxy Clusters in Cosmological Simulations |
| 22 Nov | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Michele Cappellari | University of Oxford | The Future of Supermassive Black Hole Research |
| 14 Nov | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Russell Smith | Durham University | Tracing Galaxy Evolution with Present-day Faint Red Galaxies |
| 1 Nov | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Durgesh Tripathi | University of Cambridge | Observations of Bifurcating Flux Ropes during CME Eruptions |
| 25 Oct | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Richard J. Tuffs | Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik | SPICA: Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics |
| 11 Oct | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Vivienne Wild | Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | Linking black hole growth and recent star formation history in the local Universe |
| 27 Sep | 16:00 | Le002 | Dr Antonio Pipino | University of Oxford | Elliptical Galaxies: The Abundance Pattern in Stars, Gas, and Dust |
| 13 Sep | 16:00 | Le111 | Dr Steven Diehl | Los Alamos National Laboratory | The Hot Gas in Normal Elliptical Galaxies: Evidence for AGN-Feedback |
Summer Semester 2007
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul | 15:00 | HB304 | Dr Tom Broadhurst | Tel-Aviv University, Israel | Lensing, Dark Matter and Dust |
| 25 Jul | 16:00 | HB113 | Dr J. Jesus Gonzalez | IA-UNAM, Mexico | Induced Nuclear Activity in Isolated Galaxy Pairs |
| 11 Jul | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Rob Izzard | Utrecht | Solving the Century-Old R-Star Mystery |
| 4 Jul | 15:00 | DA247 | Mr Markus Hartmann | Gottingen | Analysis of Star Cluster Population with Broadband and Halpha Observations |
| 3 Jul | 13:00 | HB113 | Dr Gerard Williger | University of Louisville | Quasars and Galaxies in a Large Quasar Group |
| 29 Jun | 15:00 | CM234 | Dr Zeljko Ivezic | University of Washington | Look What SDSS Did for Milky Way Studies and Just Imagine What LSST Will Do |
| 13 Jun | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Brian O’Shea | Los Alamos | Population III Stars and the Formation of the First Protogalaxies |
| 07 Jun | 16:00 | CM234 | Prof Albert Zijlstra | University of Manchester | Stars: The End |
Winter Semester 2007
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| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 May | 16:00 | MB38 | Dr Swetlana Hubrig | ESO | Magnetic Fields in Massive Stars |
| 24 May | 16:00 | MB41 | Dr Falk Herwig | Keele University | Late Phases of Stellar Evolution: Element Production, Stellar Hydrodynamics and the Progenitors of SN Ia |
| 17 May | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Peter Cargill | Imperial College | Why the Coronal Heating Problem is so Difficult to Solve |
| 04 May | 15:00 | MB41 | Dr Stefan Harfst | Rochester Inst. Tech. | Modeling Galaxies with a Multi-phase ISM |
| 03 May | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Tony Arber | University of Warwick | Emergence of Magnetic Flux into the Solar Corona |
| 02 May | 13:00 | MB38 | Dr Carole Mundell | Liverpool John Moores | Gamma-Ray Bursts! |
| 12 Apr | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr William Newton | University of Oxford | Complex Microscopic Structure in Neutron Stars and Supernovae |
| 22 Mar | 16:00 | CM234 | Prof George Efstathiou | University of Cambridge | |
| 08 Mar | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Chris Conselice | University of Nottingham | The Active Evolution of Massive Galaxies at z < 1.4 |
| 06 Mar | 16:00 | MB38 | Rodrigo Ibata | Strasbourg Observatory | Dissecting the Local Group of Galaxies: Cosmology in the Nearest Field |
| 22 Feb | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Lyndsay Fletcher | University of Glasgow | Solar Flares: Progress and Problems |
| 22 Feb | 10:30 | Ha158 | Dr Leo Michel-Dansac | UNAM, Mexico | Chemodynamical Models of Barred Galaxies |
| 08 Feb | 11:00 | Le7 | Prof Mike Bode | Liverpool John Moores | The 2006 Outburst of the Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi |
| 25 Jan | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Uta Fritze-von Alvensleben | University of Hertfordshire | Combining the Chemical and Spectral Evolution of Galaxies: The GALEV Models |
Autumn Semester 2006
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| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec | 16:00 | CM234 | |||
| 07 Dec | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Steve Tobias | University of Leeds | The Solar Tachocline: Angular Momentum Transport in Beta-Plane MHD |
| 27 Nov | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Elizabeth Griffin | NRC-HIA-DAO | Updating the Earth’s Ozone by Going Backwards in Astronomy |
| 23 Nov | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Dolf Michielsen | University of Nottingham | The Formation and Evolution of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies |
| 22 Nov | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Herman Hensberge | Royal Obs. Belgium | Disentangling the Component Spectra of Binaries and Triple Systems |
| 09 Nov | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Genevieve Parmentier | University of Cambridge | Cluster Initial Mass Functions and Field Star Populations: The Impact of Residual Star Forming Gas Removal |
| 02 Nov | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Philippa Browning | University of Manchester | Magnetic Reconnection and Energy Release in the Solar Corona |
| 24 Oct | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Daisuke Kawata | Carnegie Observatories | Multi-Wavelength Studies of the Galaxy Formation with GCD+ |
| 19 Oct | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Jacco van Loon | Keele University | Red (Super)giants and their Galactic Ecology |
| 05 Oct | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Dean McLaughlin | University of Leicester | The Globular Cluster Luminosity Function |
| 28 Sept | 16:00 | CM234 | Dr Ignacio Trujillo | University of Nottingham | Detection of the Effect of Cosmological Large-scale Structure on the Orientation of Galaxies |
| 11 Sept | 16:00 | DB337 | Dr Jack Ireland | NASA GSFC | Wavelet Analysis of Active Region Magnetic Structure |
| 11 Sept | 15:30 | DB337 | Dr Alex Young | NASA GSFC | Using Curvelets for Solar Image Processing |
Summer Semester 2006
| Date | Time | Room | Speaker | Home Institute | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09 Aug | 16:00 | MB39 | Dr Chris Fluke | Swinburne University, Australia | Future Directions in Astronomy Visualisation |
| 19 July | 16:00 | MB41 | Dr Dawn Erb | Harvard University, USA | Mass, Metallicity, Kinematics and Star Formation in Galaxies at z=2 |
| 18 July | 16:00 | MB38 | Dr Chris Brook | Laval University, Canada | The Formation of Disk Galaxies |
| 21 Jun | 11:00 | MB221 | Dr Rob Proctor | Swinburne University, Australia | 6dFGS, 2MASS and SuperCOSMOS: Towards a Consistent Picture of Stellar Populations in Local Galaxies |
| 25 May | 16:00 | MB39 | Dr Leticia Carigi | UNAM, Mexico | Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies |
| 24 May | 16:00 | MB38 | Dr Rob Izzard | University of Utrecht, Netherlands | Stellar Population Synthesis |
| 23 May | 16:00 | MB38 | Dr Carolina Odman | Sterrewacht Leiden, Netherlands | Universe Awareness |
| 03 May | 13:00 | MB38 | Prof Conny Aerts | University of Leuven, Belgium | Recent Highlights in Asteroseismology: A Biased Selection |