Lunchtime Talks

Usual Venue: F11

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 Gillian James (gfgj@le.ac.uk) or Will Alston (wna3@le.ac.uk)

Tea and biscuits are provided, but bring your own mug and sandwich

Date	Title	Speaker
	Spring Term 2013
14th February	Gamma-Ray Observations of the Orion Molecular Clouds with the Fermi Large Area Telescope	Akira Okumura (Nagoya)
14th March	Extreme galactic particle accelrators - the case of HESS J1640-465 Probing the X-ray emission region in AGN	Stefan Ohm Will Alston
	Summer Term (2013)
11th April	Crazy optical variability of a blazar: using Kepler data for extragalactic astrophysics TBA	Simon Vaughan TBA
25th April	TBA TBA	TBA TBA
9th May	TBC Something Completely Different: A New Orbit, Visibility & Field-Of-View Simulator	Andrew Lobban Andy Read
23rd May	Are AGN X-ray spectra made by ultra fast shocks? TBC	Sergei Nayakshin Martin Bourne
6th June	X-ray Sky Surveys and the 3XMM Catalogue TBA	Mike Watson TBA
	Autumn Term 2012
4th December	Gamma-Ray Emission from the Brightest Cluster Galaxies? A Search by Stacking.	Kate Dutson
Wed 17th October	Recent Developments in the Search for Compton Thick AGN	Ioannis Georgantopoulos
15th November	Hyper-velocity Stars Ejected by Quasar Feedback tba	Kastytis Zubovas Martin Barstow
6th December	tba 1SXPS - The Swift XRT Point Source Catalogue	Will Alston Phil Evans
	Summer Term (2012)
17th May	The Origin of the Ultraviolet Excess: Evidence for a Multistage Formation History of Local Early Type Galaxies Using WISE and GALEX The Role of AGN Feedback in Affecting Star Formation	Sara Petty Duncan Farrah
14th June	Key Technology for the Cherenkov-Telescope Array A New Measurement of the Local Dark Matter Density	Richard White Justin Read
Mon 18th June	The Evolution of Accretion Disks in Tidal Disruption Events.	Rongfeng Shen
Mon 25th June	Scale-Invarience Afterglow Dynamics and Light Curves	Hendrik van Eerten (NYU)
19th July	Deserts and Pile-Ups in the Distribution of Exoplanets. The Contribution of High Mass X-ray Binaries to Cosmological Reionization.	Richard Alexander Gillian James
	Spring Term (2012)
9th February	Observation of AGN Outflows Theory of AGN Outflows and Feeback	Ken Pounds Andrew King
16th February	Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Painting the Picture of Extreme Accretion. Simulating Swift-BAT GRBs at High Redshift.	Matt Middleton (Durham) Owen Littlejohns
Monday 4th March	Eccentricity Growth of Giant Embedded Planets. The Entropy Condition of GodonuvSPH Chaotic or Disc Accretion in AGN: Evidence from the M-sigma Relations	Alex Dunhill Seung-Hoon Cha Sergei Nayakshin
Friday 16th March	Resolving the Dust: Results from the DEBRIS Survey	Mark Booth (University of Victoria)
Tuesday 20th March	Dynamical Evolution of Black Hole Binaries in Rotating Merger Remnants.	Alessia Gualandris (MPA Garching)
Monday 26th March	tba	Niall Deacon (Heidelberg)
	Autumn Term (2011)
13 October	Disk-magnetosphere Interaction in Neutron Stars	Suzan Dogan
27 October	The Gamma-Ray Burst-Supernova Connection Studied in X-rays.	Martin Sparre
	On the Origin of Circumstellar Material in Hot White Dwarf Spectra	Nathan Dickinson
10 November	Baryonic Effects on DM Haloes	Walter Dehnen
	On the Origin of Comets and Asteroids in the Solar System	Sergei Nayakshin
24 November	Simulations of Fermi Bubbles	Kastytis Zubovas
8 December	Constraints on the Mass Distribution of Fornax from its Globular Clusters.	Dave Cole
	Probing the Physics of GRB Afterglows with Linear and Circular Polarimetry	Klaas Wiersema
Mon 12 December	The Mechanisms Driving the Evolution and Dispersal of Protoplanetary Disks.	Ilaria Pascucci
	Summer Term (2011)
12 May	Tuning in to Jupiter-like exoplanets	Jonny Nichols
26 May	Gamma-ray pulses: the building blocks of gamma-ray bursts	Dick Willingale
	Discovery of the coldest directly imaged companion to another star: brown dwarf or planet?	Matt Burleigh
9 June	TBA	Sarah Bryan
	Why most published results are wrong-and why this isn't as bad as it sounds!	Simon Vaughn
23 June	TBA	Alan Duffy
	Spring Term (2011)
19 Jan	Multi-wavelength properties of the gamma-ray loud binary systems	Masha Chernyakova
3 Feb	TBA	TBA
	The accretion histories of TTauri stars	Richard Alexander
17 Feb	AGN absorbers: planet formation near AGN?	Sergei Nayakshin
3 Mar	The galactic bulge as seen by BRAVA	Andreas Koch
	Dust extinction in gamma-ray burst host galaxies	Klaas Wiersema
17 Mar	How to make supermassive black hole binaries merge: retrograde accretion	Chris Nixon
	Calculating the gamma-ray flux from dark matter annihilation	Celine Combet
31 Mar	Black hole unification	Simon Vaughan
	TBA	TBA
	Autumn Term (2010)
14 Oct	The XMM-Newton Slew Survey...what XMM gets up to at the weekend	Andy Read
	JISCWorld	Jonathan Tedds
28 Oct	Swift follow-up of unidentified X-ray sources in the XMM-Newton Slew Survey	Rhaana Starling
	Simulating galaxy formation: sub-grid models at the intermediate scale	Alex Hobbs
11 Nov	The fate of planetary systems beyond the main sequence	Amy Bonsor
	A magnetic and metallic white dwarf: two potential signatures of destroyed planets	Jay Fahiri
25 Nov	What role could X-ray binaries play in cosmological reionisation?	Chris Power
	Solar Wind Charge Exchange emission seen in the vicinity of the Earth	Jenny Carter
9 Dec	Can super-massive black holes suppress the formation of galactic bars?	David Coles

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Usual Venue: F11

Usual Time: 1pm, every other Thursday