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Lunchtime Talks
Usual Venue: Departmental Meeting Room
Usual Time: 1pm, every other Thursday
Each session will last 1 hour, with each speaker having 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.For questions, suggestions, or to volunteer as a speaker, please contact Celine Combet or Jay Farihi
Tea and biscuits are provided, but bring your own mug and sandwich
| Date |
Title |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn Term |
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| Smart X-Ray Optics |
Carly Feldman |
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| Oct 15th |
Opacity, Gravity and Observability - Spiral Waves in Protoplanetary Disc |
Peter Cossins |
| The RMS flux relation in Xray binaries |
Lucy Heil |
|
| Oct 29th |
Protostellar discs, winds and x-rays: where is the dead zone? |
Celine Combet |
| Astrophysical probes of dark matter |
Justin Read |
|
| Nov 12th |
Simulating intermediate polar light curves with HyDisc | Olly Butters |
| Late type stars in the Andromeda galaxy |
Andreas Koch |
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| Dec 3rd |
Making extrasolar planets in stellar clusters |
Daniel Malmberg |
| Numerical experiments in AGN feeding |
Alexander Hobbs |
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| Spring Term |
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| 14th Jan |
AGN Feedback: An update |
Ken Pounds |
| IXO: the International X-Ray Observatory | Mike Watson |
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| 28th Jan |
Gravitational instabilities in embedded discs |
Richard Alexander |
| Methane and Spitzer imaging data of T dwarfs in the Pleiades |
Sarah Casewell |
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| 11th Feb |
Hydrothermal fluids on Mars:evidence from Martian meteorites |
Hitesh Changela |
| Does the fireball model for GRBs actually work? |
Phil Evans |
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| 25th Feb |
Searching for Brown Dwarfs: The why, the where and then hopefully the how |
David Baker |
| New ideas on how planets form |
Sergei Nayakshin |
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| 11th March |
The dark matter halo profiles of dwarf spheroidal galaxies - can we measure them? |
Mark Wilkinson |
| OVI in the Local Interstellar Medium |
Martin Barstow |
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| 25th March |
Exploring the Nature of the Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidate HLX-1 in the Galaxy ESO 243-49 |
Sean Farrell |
| Astronomy & Geophysics: Reflections on the search for astronomical effects in stratigraphic data |
Simon Vaughan |
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