![[The University of Leicester]](unilogo.gif)
2010/11 Seminars
| Date |
Title |
Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Summer 2011 |
||
| May 4 |
Galaxy evolution at redshifts 6 < z < 9 | Ross McLure (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh) |
| June 1 |
Dynamics of planets and planetesimals in turbulent discs | Richard Nelson (Queen Mary, University of London) |
| June 8 |
Minimally Parametric Power Spectrum Constraints From Lyman-Alpha | Simeon Bird (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) |
| June 15 |
The Magellanic Stream: A Case Study of Galactic Accretion | Andrew Fox (ESO, Chile & IoA, Cambridge) |
| Spring 2011 |
||
| Jan 12 |
Galaxies under the cosmic microscope | Mark Swinbank (University of Durham) |
| Jan 26 |
The life cycle of star clusters in a tidal field | Mark Gieles (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) |
| Feb 2 |
Migration of rocks, cores and hurricanes during planet formation | Sijme-Jan Paardekooper (DAMTP, Cambridge) |
| Feb 9 |
||
| Feb 16 |
Portraits of exoplanets on a red background | Suzanne Aigrain (University of Oxford) |
| Feb 23 |
Exploring the local Universe with massive stars | Ben Davies (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) |
| Mar 2 |
The large and small Sagittarius streams | Vasily Belokurov (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) |
| Mar 9 |
David vs. Goliath: exploiting the black hole mass scale to constrain jet physics | Sera Markoff (University of Amsterdam) |
| Mar 16 |
Answering cosmological questions with galaxy surveys | Will Percival (ICG, Portsmouth) |
| Mar 23 |
||
| Mar 30 |
Accretion disc evolution: connecting theory to observations | Phil Armitage (University of Colorado) |
| Autumn 2010 |
||
| Sep 6 (Monday) |
The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on HST: in-orbit performance and early results on the IGM baryon census | John Stocke (University of Colorado) |
| Sep 15 |
The skeleton: connecting galaxy formation to large scale structures |
Christophe Pichon (IAP Paris / Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Oxford) |
| Sep 20 (Monday) |
Searching the WISE Sky | Andrew Blain (University of Leicester) |
| Sep 29 |
A universal stellar initial mass function? A critical look at variations |
Nate Bastian (University of Exeter) |
| Oct 6 |
The Origin of High Magnetic Fields in White Dwarfs |
Chris Tout (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) |
| Oct 14 (Thursday) |
Accretion Disks around Very Low Mass Stars & Brown Dwarfs: Theory, Observations & Implications for Planet Formation | Subhanjoy Mohanty (Imperial College) |
| Oct 20 |
||
| Oct 27 |
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Fermi Era |
Jonathan Granot (University of Hertfordshire) |
| Nov 3 |
On the upper stellar mass limit |
Paul Crowther (University of Sheffield) |
| Nov 10 |
Seeing the skies with PANDAS eyes: Galactic archaeology in
our own backyard |
Geraint Lewis (University of Sydney) |
| Nov 17 |
Collisional and dynamical evolution in the debris discs of nearby
stars |
Mark Wyatt (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) |
| Nov 24 |
A tour of the Galaxy Zoo |
Steven Bamford (University of Nottingham) |
| Dec 1 |
SEMINAR POSTPONED Galaxy evolution at redshifts 6 < z < 9 |
Ross McLure (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh) |
| Dec 8 |
The optical polarization of Gamma Ray Bursts |
Iain Steele (Liverpool John Moores University) |
| Dec 15 |
Charting the Dark Universe with CFHTLenS |
Catherine Heymans (Royal Observatory, Edinburgh) |
