Seminars 2020-2021
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 including questions. If the talk sounds interesting please come along.
Seminars have traditionally been held in person on Wednesdays at 3.00pm, in Lecture Theatre A of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (unless otherwise stated). However, in the current times, online talks started in May 2020.
Seminars are organised by Andrew Blain and Enrico Ragusa.
| Date | Title | Speaker |
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| Autumn Term (2020) | ||
| Sep 9 | The Twinkle Mission |
Richard Archer (and colleagues at BSSL; bssl.space) |
| Sep 30 |
No seminar |
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| Oct 7 |
Expecting the unexpected in the search for extraterrestrial life |
Peter Vickers (Durham) |
| Oct 14 |
Protoplanetary disk evolution and planet formation across time and space |
Carlo Manara (ESO) |
| Oct 21 | The ALMA View of Planet Formation | Jayne Huang (Michigan) |
| Oct 28 | Disc eccentricity driving type I and type II outbursts in Be/X-ray binaries. | Alessai Franchini |
| Nov 4 | The complicated lives of disk galaxies | Amelia Fraser-McKelvie (UWA) |
| Nov 11 |
Properties and formation of LIGO black hole binaries |
Aldo Batta (INAOEP) |
| Nov 18 | Brown dwarf binaries: from statistics to formation and evolution |
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| Nov 25 |
Neutron star mergers and electromagnetic signals |
Masaru Shibata (MPG) |
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Dec 2 |
New eyes on the X-ray sky: First Results from eROSITA on SRG |
Andrea Merloni (MPE, Garching) |
| Dec 9 |
Myriam Benisty (Grenoble) |
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| Spring Term (2021) | ||
| Jan 6 |
No Seminar |
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| Jan 13 |
How can we observe forming planets and their surroundings? |
Judit Szilagyi (UZH) |
| Jan 20 |
Cosmology with supernovae: past, present and future |
Isobel Hook (Lancaster) |
| Jan 27 |
The promise of gravitational-wave astrophysics. NOTE 10AM - Due to speaker's timezone being UT+11 |
Ilya Mandel (Monash) |
| Feb 3 |
Understanding the mysteries of the Low Surface Brightness Universe |
Michelle Collins (Surrey) |
| Feb 10 |
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Catherine Espaillat (Boston University) |
| Feb 17 |
White dwarf variability as seen from space |
JJ Hermes (Boston University) |
| Feb 24 |
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| Mar 3 | A chartography of spacetime around supermassive black holes with extreme-mass ratio inspirals | Pau Amaro Seoane (Barcelona) |
| Mar 10 | Hayley MacPherson (Cambridge) | |
| Mar 17 |
Probing Terrestrial Planet Formation one Particle at a Time |
John Debes (STScI) |
| Summer Term (2021) | ||
| Apr 28 |
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| May 5 | ||
| May 12 | Andreja Gomboc (UNG) | |
| May 19 | ||
| May 26 | ||
| Jun 2 | TBD | Rebeca García Lopez (Dublin) |
