All seminars take place at 4pm in Physics Lecture Theatre C, unless stated otherwise. For more information, email seminars at astro.soton.ac.uk

Previous year's seminar programmes are available here: 2001/2, 2002/3.

The astronomy group also runs a programme of less formal seminars on Monday lunchtimes. Details will be posted soon.

The General Relativity group seminar programme can be found here.

 
  Autumn Term

15th October	Jamboree	Astronomy Group	more
22nd October	Professor Clive Tadhunter (Sheffield)	The lifecycles of powerful radio galaxies: triggering and feedback
30th October 5.30pm LTA	Professor Ian McHardy	Inaugural Lecture
5th November	Dr Anne Green (Sussex)	WIMP hunting: directly detecting dark matter	more
12th November	Dr Marek Kukula (Edinburgh)	The evolution of quasars and their hosts	more
17th November	Dr Stuart Ryder (AAO)	The Anglo-Australian Observatory: Today, and into the Future	more
19th November 4.30pm LTA	Departmental SCAPA Lecture	Focusing Subwavelength Images: Metamaterials Open New Doors in Electromagnetism Professor John Pendry, FRS (Imperial College)	more
26th November	Professor James Binney (Oxford)	The Dynamics of Cluster Cooling Flows	more
3rd December	Dr Paul Alexander (Cambridge)	The Environmental Impact of Radio Sources	more
10th December	James Fisher (Sussex)	Binary Stars and Interstellar Recycling	more

 
  Spring Term
Professor Alan Watson (Leeds)
Ultra high energy cosmic rays: the highest energy particles in Nature

7th January	Dr Remon Cornelisse (Southampton)	How to use low mass X-ray binaries to probe the interior of neutron stars	more
14th January	Professor Ian McHardy (Southampton)	Long Timescale X-ray Variability of AGN with RXTE
21st January Sh/LTA	Dr Georgi Pavlovski (Southampton)	Numerical simulations of molecular turbulence	more
28th January Sh/LTA	Dr Gijs Nelemans (Cambridge)	Ultra-compact binaries as optical, UV, X-ray and gravitational wave sources	more
30th January 1.50pm Sem. Room!	Dr Chris Done (Durham)	Black holes and strong gravity	more
4th February	Dr Tim Cawthorne (UCLan)	A precessing nozzle in the jet of BL Lac?	more
11th February	Presentations of lectureship candidates
18th February	Dr Jonathan Loveday (Sussex)	Evolution of the Galaxy Luminosity Function at z < 0.3	more
23rd February 12:50pm Sem.Room!	Dr Alex Schwarzenberg-Czerny (Warsaw)	Extended simultaneous multiwavelength observations of V603 aql	more
25th February	Seminar cancelled
3rd March	Dr Kirpal Nandra (Imperial College)	X-ray probes of high redshift galaxies	more
10th March 2pm!	Dr Seb Oliver (Sussex)	PPARC long-term strategy for Astronomy	more
17th March	Dr Mark Cropper (MSSL)	GAIA - Science and Technology	more

 
  Summer Term
5th MayDr Robert Massey (Royal Observatory)Astronomy outreach on a heritage site more

21st April	Dr Carole Mundell (Liverpool John Moores)	Probing the Gaseous Environment of Seyfert Galaxies - from kiloparsecs to light years	more
28th April	Dr Simon Goodwin (Cardiff)	Star formation in cores	more
5th May	Seminar Cancelled
12th May	Professor Andrew King (Leicester)	Ultraluminous X-ray sources	more
Mon 24th May 12.45pm Sem. Room	Professor Thierry Courvoisier (Geneva)	tbc	more
Thu 27th May Sh/LTC	Dr Kieran O'Brien (ESO Chile)	Echo-mapping	more
2nd June Sh/LTA	Dr Andrea Dieball (Southampton)	Binary star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds	more
9th June