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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 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
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Speaker |
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| SummerTerm (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 |
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| 14th June |
tba The Contribution of High Mass X-ray Binaries to Cosmological Reionization |
Richard White Gillian James |
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| 28th June |
tba tba |
Richard Alexander Rongfeng Shen |
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| Spring Term (2012) | |||||||
| 9th February |
Observation of AGN Outflows Theory of AGN Outflows and Feeback |
Ken Pounds Andrew King |
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| 16th February |
Ultraluminous X-ray Sources Painting the Picture of Extreme Accretion. Simulating Swift-BAT GRBs at High Redshift. |
Matt Middleton (Durham) Owen Littlejohns |
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| 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 |
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| Friday 16th March |
Resolving the Dust: Results from the DEBRIS Survey | Mark Booth (University of Victoria) |
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| 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 |
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| 27 October |
The Gamma-Ray Burst-Supernova Connection Studied in X-rays. | Martin Sparre |
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| On the Origin of Circumstellar Material in Hot White Dwarf Spectra | Nathan Dickinson |
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| 10 November |
Baryonic Effects on DM Haloes | Walter Dehnen |
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| On the Origin of Comets and Asteroids in the Solar System | Sergei Nayakshin |
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| 24 November |
Simulations of Fermi Bubbles | Kastytis Zubovas |
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| 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 |
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| Mon 12 December |
The Mechanisms Driving the Evolution and Dispersal of Protoplanetary Disks. | Ilaria Pascucci |
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| Summer Term (2011) | |||||||
| 12 May |
Tuning in to Jupiter-like exoplanets |
Jonny Nichols |
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| 26 May |
Gamma-ray pulses: the building blocks of gamma-ray bursts |
Dick Willingale |
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| Discovery of the coldest directly imaged companion to another star: brown dwarf or planet? | Matt Burleigh |
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| 9 June |
TBA |
Sarah Bryan |
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| Why most published results are wrong-and why this isn't as bad as it sounds! |
Simon Vaughn |
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| 23 June |
TBA |
Alan Duffy |
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| Spring Term (2011) |
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| 19 Jan |
Multi-wavelength properties of the gamma-ray loud binary systems |
Masha Chernyakova |
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| 3 Feb |
TBA |
TBA |
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| The accretion histories of TTauri stars |
Richard Alexander |
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| 17 Feb |
AGN absorbers: planet formation near AGN? |
Sergei Nayakshin |
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| 3 Mar |
The galactic bulge as seen by BRAVA |
Andreas Koch |
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| Dust extinction in gamma-ray burst host galaxies | Klaas Wiersema |
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| 17 Mar |
How to make supermassive black hole binaries merge: retrograde accretion |
Chris Nixon |
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| Calculating the gamma-ray flux from dark matter annihilation |
Celine Combet |
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| 31 Mar |
Black hole unification | Simon Vaughan |
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| TBA |
TBA |
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Autumn Term (2010) |
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| 14 Oct |
The XMM-Newton Slew Survey...what XMM gets up to at the weekend |
Andy Read |
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| JISCWorld |
Jonathan Tedds |
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| 28 Oct |
Swift follow-up of unidentified X-ray sources in the XMM-Newton Slew Survey |
Rhaana Starling |
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| Simulating galaxy formation: sub-grid models at the intermediate scale |
Alex Hobbs |
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| 11 Nov |
The fate of planetary systems beyond the main sequence |
Amy Bonsor |
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| A magnetic and metallic white dwarf: two potential signatures of destroyed planets |
Jay Fahiri |
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| 25 Nov |
What role could X-ray binaries play in cosmological reionisation? |
Chris Power |
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| Solar Wind Charge Exchange emission seen in the vicinity of the Earth | Jenny Carter |
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| 9 Dec |
Can super-massive black holes suppress the formation of galactic bars? |
David Coles |
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| The initial Lorentz factor of gamma-ray bursts |
Phil Evans |
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| Summer Term (2010) |
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| 6 May |
Time dependent models of star formation in AGN accretion discs |
Fabrizio Pedes |
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| 20 May |
GRB 100316D/SN2010bh: discovery of a nearby long, soft gamma-ray burst with an associated super-nova |
Raahna Starling |
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| 3 June |
Discovery of the afterglow and host galaxy of the low redshift short GRB 080905A |
Antonia Rowlinson |
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| 17 June |
Astronomical & Meteorological Phenomena in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles |
Gillian Butcher |
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| Constraining Carina dSphs' mass with a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm |
Ugur Ural |
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| 1 July |
Metals in hot white dwarfs |
Nathan Dickinson |
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| Facing the media (in a nutshell) |
Patricio Ortiz |
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| 9 July |
A star formation view through X-rays and the luminosity function of HMXBs |
Stefano Mineo |
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| 22 July |
TBA | Jillian Bellovary |
