Seminars 2019-2020
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, Rebecca Nealon and Enrico Ragusa.
| Date | Title | Speaker |
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| Autumn Term (2019) | ||
| Sep 25 |
AGN in a cold Universe: understanding nuclear activity using dust and molecular gas |
David Rosario (Durham) |
| Oct 2 | Searching for the transits of circumplanetary disks |
Matthew Kenworthy (Leiden) |
| Oct 9 |
From cosmic web to molecular clouds: the multiple scales of galaxy evolution |
Amelie Saintonge (UCL) |
| Oct 16 | Investigating ecosystems from the centres of galaxies to those on the verge of collapse here on Earth | Steven Longmore (LJMU) |
| Oct 23 | Luminosity and stellar mass functions in GAMA groups | Jon Loveday (Sussex) |
| Oct 30 | Soko Matsumura (Dundee) | |
| Nov 6 |
What can LoTSS teach us about AGN? |
Beatriz Mingo (OU) |
| Nov 13 |
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Giovanni Rosotti (Leiden) |
| Nov 20 | TBD | |
| Nov 27 |
No seminar: Staff Meeting |
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Dec 4 |
TBD |
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| Dec 11 |
Lucio Mayer (Zurich) |
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| Spring Term (2020) | ||
| Jan 8 | Carole Mundell (Bath) | |
| Jan 15 |
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TBD |
| Jan 22 |
CANCELLED - RESCHEDULED Feb 12th. |
Luciano Burderi (Cagliari) |
| Jan 29 | James Owen (Imperial) | |
| Feb 5 | Multimessenger Probes of Neutron Star Physics | David Tsang (Bath) |
| Feb 12 |
The HERMES and GrailQuest Projects: Probing Space-time Quantum Foam and Hunting for Gravitational Wave Electromagnetic Counterpart |
Luciano Burderi (Cagliari) |
| Feb 19 |
Davide Gerosa (Birmingham) |
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| Feb 27 |
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Sam Gill (Warwick) |
| Mar 4 | Antonio Garufi (Arcetri) | |
| Mar 11 | eROSITA: Status and Early Results | Paul Nandra (MPE) |
| Mar 18 |
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Rebecca Garcia Lopez (Dublin) |
| Mar 25 | Cosmology with supernovae: past, present and future | Isobel Hook (Lancaster) |
| Summer Term (2020) | ||
| Apr 29 |
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| May 6 | Stephan Rosswog (Stockholm) | |
| May 13 | Michelle Collins (Surrey) | |
| May 20 | Anna Watts (Amsterdam) | |
| May 27 | Irradiated brown dwarfs: Providing insights into exoplanet atmospheres | Sarah Casewell (Leicester) |
| Jun 3 | Odette Toloza (Warwick) | |
