All seminars take place at (the new time
of) 4pm. Note that because of scheduling
clashes, we will have to use several different
venues this year.
For more information, contact
seminars
astro.soton.ac.uk
This year's (2007/2008) programme is still being prepared. If you are interested in giving a seminar in Southampton, please contact the organisers.
| Date | Speaker | Talk title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sep | Iossif Papadakis (University of Crete) | " The 2-10keV variability properties of AGN in the Lockman Hole " | 4pm, Seminar Room |
| 17 Sep | Jorge Cuadra (JILA, University of Colorado) | " Accretion and Star Formation Around the Galactic Super-Massive Black Hole " | 4pm, Seminar Room |
| 10 Oct | Astronomy Group | "Jamboree" | 4pm, Physics B |
| 17 Oct | Dean McLaughlin (Keele) | " Internal structures and systemic mass functions of globular star clusters " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 24 Oct | Nicole Nesvadba (Observatoire de Paris - Meudon) | " AGN-Feedback in High-z Radio Galaxies: Bubbles, Outflows & the Role of the Radio Jet " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 31 Oct | Alex Blustin (MSSL/UCL) | " Ionised winds in active galactic nuclei: black hole - galaxy feedback in action? " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 7 Nov | Gavin Ramsay (Armargh Observatory) | " Ultra-compact binary stars " | 2pm, Physics B, Note earlier time to avoid board meeting!! |
| 14 Nov | Richard de Grijs (Sheffield) | " Star Cluster Evolution -- From young massive star clusters to old globulars " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 21 Nov | Tomaso Belloni (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera) | " The evolution of black hole binaries " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 28 Nov | Omar Almaini (Nottingham) | " Mapping the Epoch of Galaxy Formation" | 4pm, Shackleton C |
| 5 Dec | Wyn Evans (IoA, Cambridge) | " Ghostly Streams and Phantom Satellites" | 4pm, Physics B |
| 12 Dec | Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca (Nottingham) | " The formation of S0 galaxies" | 4pm, Physics B |
| Date | Speaker | Talk title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jan | Peter Curran (Amsterdam) | " The hidden X-ray breaks in Gamma-ray Burst afterglows " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 22 Jan | Dave Green (MRAO, Cambridge) | " Historical Supernova Explosions in Our Galaxy and Their Remnants " | 2pm, Shackleton B |
| 23 Jan | Bob Nichol (Portsmouth) | " Dark Energy " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 30 Jan | No seminar? | " - " | Leave clear for Board Meeting!! |
| 6 Feb | Chris Done (Durham) | " Accreting Black Holes " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 13 Feb | Pete Wheatley (Warwick) | " Transiting Extra Solar Planets " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 20 Feb | Nicholas Walton (Cambridge) | " AstroGrid and the Virtual Observatory " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 27 Feb | Judith Croston (Herts) | " The environments, particle content and impact of radio-loud AGN " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 5 Mar | Roberto Soria (MSSL/UCL) | " BH masses in ultraluminous X-ray sources " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 12 Mar | Dave Alexander (Durham) | " Toward a Complete Census of AGN activity and Black-Hole Growth " | 4pm, Physics B |
| Date | Speaker | Talk title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Apr | Roy Maartens (Portsmouth) | " Dark Energy or Modified Gravity? " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 23 Apr | Sylvain Chaty (Paris) | " How to reveal the most obscured high energy sources of our Galaxy " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 30 Apr | Chris Reynolds (Maryland) | " The temporal variability of black hole accretion " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 7 May | No Seminar | " - " | Leave clear for Board Meeting!!! |
| 14 May | No seminar? | " - " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 15 May | Ari Laor (Technion) | " - " | 4pm, Shackleton C |
| 21 May | Trevor Ponman (Birmingham) | " Groups, feedback & galaxy evolution " | 4pm, Physics B |
| 28 May | Rob Kennicutt (IoA, Cambridge) | " Nearby Galaxies in the Infrared as Revealed by Spitzer and Herschel " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 4 Jun | No seminar | " - " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 11 Jun | Haley Gomez (Cardiff) | " Supernova and the Interstellar Dust Budget " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 18 Jun | Jerome Rodriguez (CEA, Saclay) | " High energy spectro-temporal approach and multiwavelength studies " | 4pm, Shackleton B |
| 25 Jun | Ignacio Negueruela (Alicante) | " Wind-powered X-ray binaries " | 4pm, Physics B |