Astronomy Group Seminar Programme 2013/2014
All seminars take place in Lecture Theatre C at 4pm, unless otherwise stated.
For more information, contact
astrosem
soton.ac.uk
Autumn term
25 September 2013 - 11 December 2013
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Talk |
Time/Venue |
| 9 Oct |
Astronomy Group |
" Astronomy Group Jamboree " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 16 Oct |
-- |
"
--" |
| 23 Oct |
Pierre Maxted (Keele) |
"
Stripped red giant stars in eclipsing
binary systems " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 30 Oct |
Francesco Shankar (Southampton) |
" Empirically constraining the Evolution of Super-massive Black Holes " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 6 Nov |
David Mulcahy (MPIfR - Bonn) |
"
Observing nearby galaxies at low
frequencies with LOFAR " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 13 Nov |
Anne-Marie Weijmans (St. Andrews) |
" The lives of early-type galaxies: clues from integral-field spectroscopy " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 20 Nov |
Simone Scaringi (KU Leuven) |
"
Eavesdropping on accretion disks: What are
cataclysmic variables trying to tell us? " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 27 Nov |
Chris D'Andrea (Portsmouth) |
" Supernovae in the Dark Energy Survey " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 4 Dec |
Aleks Scholz (St. Andrews) |
" Young brown dwarfs: testing star and planet formation " |
|
4 pm, LTA Shackelton |
| 11 Dec |
Phil James (LJMU) |
" Star formation and supernova progenitors in nearby galaxies " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
Spring term
8 January 2014 - 26 March 2014
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|
Time/Venue |
| 8 Jan |
Matthew Pieri (Portsmouth) |
" In the Deep, Dark Lyman-alpha Forest: Exploring Dark Energy and Galaxy Formation using the Intergalactic Medium " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 15 Jan |
Stephen Wilkins (Sussex) |
" Exploring the physical properties of the first galaxies " |
|
4 pm, LTB Shackleton |
| 22 Jan |
-- |
"
-- " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 29 Jan |
Justin Bray (Southampton) |
" The use of the Moon as particle detector " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 5 Feb |
-- |
" -- " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 12 Feb |
Matt Middleton (Amsterdam) |
" Blasts from the past - Using accretion on our doorstep to understand growth and feedback in the distant Universe " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 19 Feb |
Ryuho Kataoka (NIPR) |
" Optical high-speed measurements of the aurora " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 26 Feb |
Elme Breedt (Warwick) |
" One thousand cataclysmic variables from the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 5 Mar |
Vincent Henault-Brunet (Surrey) |
" The early dynamical evolution of massive star clusters " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 12 Mar |
Nima Razavi (Cambridge) |
" Technology roadmap for the SKA low-frequency aperture array " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 19 Mar |
Claudia Cyganowski (St. Andrews) |
" The Early Stages of Massive Star Formation: Insights from GLIMPSE Extended Green Objects " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 26 Mar |
Nicky Brassington (Hertfordshire) |
" Galaxy Interaction in the Nearby Universe: The High Energy View " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
Summer term
30 April 2014 - 11 June 2014
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|
Time/Venue |
| 30 Apr |
Keith Grainge (Manchester) |
" Data Transport and Timing in the SKA " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 7 May |
Jess Broderick (Oxford) |
" The LOFAR Transients Key Science Project: results from the first year of science operations " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 14 May |
Kathy Romer (Sussex) |
-Rescheduled- |
|
4 pm, Physics C |
| 21 May |
Chris Arridge (Mullard Space Science Lab) |
" Giant planet magnetospheres in four dimensions " |
|
4 pm, Seminar room |
| 28 May |
Richard White (Leicester) |
"CTA and the Future of Extreme Astronomy " |
|
4 pm, Seminar room |
| 4 Jun |
Boris Gaensicke (Warwick) |
" The final fate of planetary systems " |
|
4 pm, Seminar room |
| 11 Jun |
Mike Goad (Leicester) |
" -- " |
|
4 pm, Physics C |