Seminars

The seminars are informal talks, from colleagues, collaborators or invited researchers from around the UK and the rest of the world. Each talk typically lasts 1 hour. If the talk sounds interesting please come along.

Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4.15pm, in Lecture Theatre A in the Department of Physics and Astronomy (unless otherwise stated).

Seminars organised by Stefan Ohm and Richard Alexander.

Date	Title	Speaker
	Summer Term (2013)

May 1	Large Hadron Collider: Latest news from the energy frontier	Jonathan Butterworth (UCL)
May 8	X-raying Galaxy Ecosystem	Daniel Wang (UMass Amherst, Cambridge)
May 15	The formation of low- and intermediate-mass stars	Anthony Whitworth (Cardiff)
May 22	Following the Energy - an investigation of galaxy evolution using the Herschel surveys, the Herschel ATLAS and HERMES	Steve Eales (Cardiff)
June 5	TBA	Andrew Liddle (Sussex)
June 12	TBA	Dave Alexander (Durham)
June 19	TBA	James Reeves (Keele)

Seminars from previous semesters can be found below:

Date	Title	Speaker
	Autumn Term (2011)

Oct 12	Feedback From Massive Stars	Julian Pittard (University of Leeds)
Oct 26	The stellar and dark matter haloes of elliptical galaxies	Ortwin Gerhard (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Ex. Physik)
Nov 2	The GOODS NICMOS survey: Watching Galaxy Formation	Christopher Conselice (University of Nottingham)
Nov 9	The progenitor stars of core-collapse supernovae - where are the massive ones?	Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast)
Nov 16	The early evolution of protostellar disks: fragmentation, episodic accretion and planet formation	Eduard Vorobyov (Institute of Astronomy, University of Vienna)
Nov 23	Changing our view of early-type galaxies	Michele Cappellari (University of Oxford)
Nov 30	The physics of changing dwarf galaxy cusps to cores with supernova feedback	Andrew Pontzen (University of Oxford)
Dec 14	AGN Feedback in the Cores of Clusters of Galaxies	Alastair Edge (University of Durham)

Date	Title	Speaker
	Spring Term (2012)

Jan 18	Measuring Dark Energy with Gamma Rays	Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College London)
Jan 25	Using stellar mass black holes to understand AGN	Chris Done (Durham)
Feb 1	Transient Astronomy with the Gaia satellite	Simon Hodgkin (IoA, Cambridge)
Feb 8	Modeling the lightcurves of tidal disruption events	Giuseppe Lodato (Milan)
Feb 15
Feb 22	The Great Escape: Merging Planetary, Stellar and Galactic Dynamics to Produce Free-Floaters	Dimitri Veras (IoA, Cambridge)
Feb 29
Mar 7	Variability from black hole X-ray binaries	Tomaso Belloni (INAF)
Mar 14	Magnetic Fields in Galaxies and Prospects With Next Generation Radio Telescopes	Rainer Beck (MPIfR Bonn)

Date	Title	Speaker
	Summer Term (2012)

May 2	The Peripheries of Nearby Galaxies: Dim but not Dull	Annette Ferguson (Edinburgh)
May 9
May 16	Searching for redshift ~7 quasars in UKIDSS	Daniel Mortlock (Imperial College, London)
May 23	The diversity and multitude of Soft Gamma Repeater bursts observed with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor	Alexander van der Horst (Amsterdam)
May 30
Jun 6	NGC2419 - a crucible for theories of gravity and globular cluster formation	Rodrigo Ibata (Strasbourg)
Jun 13	Thermal and Dynamical Evolution Studies of the Interstellar Medium	Miguel Avillez (Evora, Portugal)

Date	Title	Speaker
	Autumn Term (2012)

Oct 3	The Jeans Mass in Fragmenting Self-Gravitating Protostellar Discs	Duncan Forgan (IfA, Edinburgh)
Oct 10	3D model atmospheres of white dwarfs	Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (LSW, Heidelberg)
Oct 17	The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Survey	Bob Nichol (ICG, Portsmouth)
Oct 24	Soaring Through the Galaxy at 1/2000 Times the Speed of Light	Robin Shelton (University of Georgia)
Oct 31	Probing the physics of galaxy formation with the Square Kilometre Array and its Pathfinders	Chris Power (University of Western Australia)
Nov 7	Quantifying Dark Energy using Cosmic Lensing	Sarah Bridle (UCL)
Nov 14	Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies	Ralf Bender (LMU, Munich)
Nov 21	X-raying the winds of massive stars	Lidia Oskinova (University of Potsdam)
Nov 28	Radiation hydrodynamical modelling of massive star formation	Tim Harries (Exeter)
Dec 5	Über-massive black holes	Remco van den Bosch (MPIA, Heidelberg)
Dec 12	Cosmic-ray acceleration by Supernova Remnants	Jacco Vink (University of Amsterdam)

Date	Title	Speaker
	Spring Term (2013)

Jan 9	The VISTA public surveys	Will Sutherland (Queen Mary, London)
Jan 16	Reionisation via the Lyman-alpha line	Jamie Bolton (Nottingham)
Jan 23	The Relativistic Transient Sky in Gravitational Waves	Patrick Sutton (Cardiff)
Jan 30	The SOAPS project: Exoplanets’ evolution histories in systems with different architectures	Francesca Faedi (Warwick)
Feb 6	Detecting gravitational waves using a pulsar timing array	Gemma Janssen (Manchester)
Feb 13	White dwarfs as tracers of single, binary and planetary evolution	Boris Gänsicke (Warwick)
Feb 20	TBA	Alan Heavens (Imperial)
Feb 27	Supernova remnants colliding with molecular clouds: From high- to low-energy interactions	Thierry Montmerle (Paris)
Mar 6	The first generations of stars and galaxies: Science at the Crossroad of Theory and Observations	Michele Trenti (Cambridge)
Mar 13	Quasar and star formation feedback throughout the cosmic epochs	Roberto Maiolino (Cambridge)
Mar 20	A Planetesimal Pas de Deux or Clash of the Titans: A Model for Collisions in Planet Formation	Zoe Leinhardt (Bristol)
Mar 22	High Energy Activity of Young Stars during the Mass Accretion Outburst	Kenji Hamaguchi (NASA/GSFC)

Lists of seminars given in previous years are also available on the following pages:

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