Seminars 2017-2018
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 are held on Wednesdays at 3.00pm, in Lecture Theatre A of the Department of Physics and Astronomy (unless otherwise stated).
Seminars are organised by Andrew Blain, Giovanni Dipierro and Rebecca Nealon.
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn Term (2017) | ||
| Sep 20 |
Disruption Events from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
Eric Coughlin (UC Berkeley) |
| Sep 27 | If Black Holes are Simple, why are Quasars so Complicated? |
Martin Elvis (CfA Harvard) |
| Oct 4 | Challenges in simulating the vacuum phototriode; a photodetector used in CMS at the Large Hadron Collider | Peter Hobson (Brunel) |
| Oct 11 | CANCELLED | John Illee (Cambridge) |
| Oct 18 | The implications of non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics on star formation | James Wurster (Exeter) |
| Oct 25 | Cosmological scalar fields | Clare Burrage (Nottingham) |
| Nov 1 | No Seminar - Staff Meeting | |
| Nov 8 |
Host-Galaxy Environments of the Universe's Most Extreme Explosions Across Cosmic History |
Dan Perley (LJMU) |
| Nov 15 |
Hot subdwarfs and white dwarf mergers |
Philip Hall (Armagh) |
| Nov 22 | Focused X-ray Spectroscopy at Diamond and Chemical Imaging of Active Catalytic systems. | Fred Moselmans (Diamond) |
| Nov 29 |
Exploiting the L Dwarf/T Dwarf Transition: Brown Dwarf Formation, Atmospheric Physics & the Star Formation History of the Galaxy |
Adam Burgasser (UC Berkeley, visting Exeter) |
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Dec 6 |
The Origins of Habitable Planetary Systems: Constraints from Disks and Exoplanets | Ilaria Pasucci (U Arizona, visiting Heidelberg) |
| Dec 13 | Tracking the distribution of black hole growth across the evolving galaxy population |
James Aird (Leicester) |
| Spring Term (2018) | ||
| Jan 10 | Observational predictions of the presence of giant planets in the dust’s radio emission of protoplanetary discs | Clement Baruteau (Toulouse) |
| Jan 17 |
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Martin Bourne (Cambridge) |
| Jan 24 | Unravelling the complex accretion geometry around black holes |
Sera Markoff (API and GRAPPA, Amsterdam) |
| Jan 31 | No Seminar - Staff Meeting | |
| Feb 7 | A submm view of `normal' distant star forming galaxies | Kristen Coppin (Herts) |
| Feb 14 |
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Roman Rafikov (Cambridge) |
| Feb 21 | A Panchromatic View of High-Redshift Quasar Host Galaxies | Manda Banerji (Cambridge) |
| Feb 28 | The largest X-ray survey: Deriving photometric redshifts for the XMM-Newton 3XMM catalogue | Ioannis Georgantopoulos (National Observatory of Athens) |
| Mar 7 | Galaxy-scale stellar feedback in massive galaxies without AGN |
Jim Geach (Herts) |
| Mar 14 | RESCHEDULED TO 30TH MAY | Justin Read (Surrey) |
| Mar 21 |
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Brad Gibson (Hull) |
| Mar 28 | The surprising motions of planets in wind driven protoplanetary discs | Colin McNally (QMUL) |
| Summer Term (2018) | ||
| May 2 | The Galactic population of double degenerate binaries | Elme Breedt (Cambridge) |
| May 9 |
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Inga Kamp (Groningen) |
| May 16 | Fast Radio Bursts | Ben Stappers (Manchester) |
| May 23 | Observational constraints on gas and dust evolution in planet forming discs | Leonardo Testi (ESO) |
| May 30 | Dark matter heats up in dwarf galaxies | Justin Read (Surrey) |
| Jun 6 | The fuzziness of Jupiter's core | Ravit Helled (Zurich) |
| Jun 13 |
Why My ESA Mission Costs So Much |
David Lumb (ex ESA) |
