Astronomy Group Seminar Programme 2011/2012

All seminars take place at 4pm, unless otherwise stated.

For more information, contact astrosematsoton.ac.uk

This year's (2011/2012) programme is still being prepared. If you are interested in giving a seminar in Southampton, please contact the organisers.

Autumn term

29 September 2011 - 17 December 2011

Date Speaker Title Talk Time/Venue
5 Oct Katherine Blundell (Oxford) " Modes of mass-loss from microquasars " slides 4 pm, Physics C
12 Oct Guillaume Dubus (Grenoble) " High and very high energy gamma-ray emission from binaries " slides 4 pm, Physics C
19 Oct Andy Young (Bristol) " X-ray Echo Mapping of Black Holes " slides 4 pm, Physics C
24 Oct (Monday) Chris Conselice (Nottingham) " The GOODS NICMOS Survey: Watching Galaxy Formation " slides 4:15 pm, Physics C
2 Nov Rasmus Voss (Nijmegen) " Populations of LMXBs in nearby galaxies " slides 4 pm, Physics C
9 Nov Matthew Middleton (Durham) " Ultraluminous X-ray sources as windows into the most extreme accretion environments " slides 4 pm, Physics C
16 Nov Physics Open Day
23 Nov Graham Wynn (Leicester) Cancelled " Fast & Furious: The Lives and Deaths of Massive Binary Star Systems " slides 4 pm, Physics C
30 Nov Rubina Kotak (Belfast) " Core-collapse supernovae: progenitors and dust production " slides 4 pm, Physics C
7 Dec Physics Open Day
14 Dec Celine Combet (Grenoble) " Gamma-rays from dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies and galaxy clusters " slides 4 pm, Physics C

Spring term

9th January 2012 - 17th March 2012

Date Speaker Title Talk Time/Venue
11 Jan Nial Tanvir (Leicester) " What GRBs tell us about early star and galaxy formation " slides 4 pm, Physics C
18 Jan Julien Malzac (Toulouse) " Radiation processes in the X-ray corona of accreting black holes " slides 4 pm, Seminar room
25 Jan Daniel Thomas (Portsmouth) " Cancelled " slides 4 pm, Seminar room
1 Feb Tim Staley (Southampton) " Lucky imaging: Life in the visible after HST " slides 4 pm, Physics C
8 Feb Rene Breton (Southampton) " Binary Pulsars as Tools to Study Gravity " slides 4 pm, Physics C
15 Feb Physics Open Day
22 Feb Tomaso Belloni (Brera) " Variability from black hole X-ray binaries " slides 4 pm, Physics C
29 Feb Graham Wynn (Leicester) " Fast & Furious: The Lives and Deaths of Massive Binary Star Systems " slides 4 pm, Physics B
7 Mar Phil Marshall (Oxford) " Measuring Distance in the Universe with Gravitationally-Lensed AGN " slides 4 pm, Physics C
14 Mar Elena Rossi (Leiden) " Hyper-Velocity Stars " slides 4 pm, Physics C

Summer term

16th Apr 2012 - 16th June 2012

Date Speaker Title Talk Time/Venue
11 Apr Maria Caballero-Garcia (Brera) " Black holes in Binary Systems, Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources and Active Galactic Nuclei: the spectral-timing approach " slides 4 pm, Physics C
18 Apr Holger Stiele (Brera) " A faint X-ray transient and correlations between spectral index and QPO frequency " slides 4 pm, Physics C
25 Apr Tom Hassall (Southampton) " Observing Pulsars with LOFAR " slides 4 pm, Physics C
2 May Astrostatistics seminar
9 May Ian McCrea (RAL) " EISCAT_3D: A three-dimensional imaging radar for atmospheric and geospace research " slides 4 pm, Physics C
16 May Ignacio Negueruela (Alicante) " Red Supergiants in the Milky Way: Where are the supernova progenitors? " slides 4 pm, Physics C
23 May Turlough Downes (Dublin) " Pre-shock magnetic field amplification by cosmic ray pressure " slides 4 pm, Seminar room
30 May Michael Daniel (Durham) " AGN through gamma-ray eyes " slides 4 pm, Seminar room
6 Jun Karina Caputi (Groningen) " Massive Galaxies over the First Two Billion Years " slides 4 pm, Seminar room
13 Jun " - " slides 4 pm, Physics C