Seminars 2018-2019
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 (2018) | ||
| Sep 26 |
Quasars: From the deepest inner accretion disk to the Outer Limits |
Nic Ross (Edinburgh) |
| Oct 3 | CANCELLED |
Rita Tojeiro (St Andrews) |
| Oct 10 |
Inferring the progenitor mass of explosive transients through their environment |
Patricia Schady (Bath) |
| Oct 17 | CANCELLED | |
| Oct 24 | Testing stellar and binary evolution models with post common-envelope binaries | Steve Parsons (Sheffield) |
| Oct 31 | No Seminar - Staff Meeting | |
| Nov 7 |
Galaxy transformation in the distant Universe |
Omar Almaini (Nottingham) |
| Nov 14 |
Exonephology: simulating the atmospheres of cloudy hot-Jupiters |
Stefan Lines (Exeter) |
| Nov 21 | Life, Death and Rebirth: cold gas as a dynamical probe of galaxy evolution | Tim Davis (Cardiff) |
| Nov 28 |
Characterising Massive Circumstellar Discs |
John Ilee (Leeds) |
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Dec 5 |
The first quasars in the early universe | Chris Done (Durham) |
| Dec 12 |
Kathy Romer (Sussex) |
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| Spring Term (2019) | ||
| Jan 9 | Heather Cegla (Geneva) | |
| Jan 16 |
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Sarah Ragan (Cardiff) |
| Jan 23 | Paul Nandra (MPE) | |
| Jan 30 | Lucio Mayer (Zurich) | |
| Feb 6 | No Seminar - Staff Meeting | |
| Feb 13 |
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Sean Matt (Exeter) |
| Feb 20 | Illuminating the Growth of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes | Brooke Simmons (Lancaster) |
| Feb 27 | Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial) | |
| Mar 6 | Carole Mundell (Bath) | |
| Mar 13 | Farzana Meru (Warwick) | |
| Mar 20 |
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Jim Hinton (Heidelberg) |
| Mar 27 | Mariangela Bonavita (Edinburgh) | |
| Summer Term (2019) | ||
| May 1 | Meghan Gray (Nottingham) | |
| May 8 | Cornelis (Kees) Dullemond (Heidelberg) | |
| May 15 | Aprajita Verma (Oxford) | |
| May 22 | Allona Vazan (Amsterdam) | |
| May 29 | Stephen Serjeant (Open University) | |
| Jun 5 | Soto Matsumura (Dundee) |
