Astronomy Group Seminar Programme 2014/2015
By default, seminars take place at 16:00 on Wednesdays, in Lecture Theatre C (LTC) of Building 46 (Physics).
For more information, contact
astrosem
soton.ac.uk
Autumn term
25 September 2014 - 13 December 2014
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct | Astronomy Group (Soton) | "Astronomy Group Jamboree" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 8 Oct | Jean-François Robitaille (Soton) | "Multiscale analysis of Galactic dust emission" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 15 Oct | Mark Gieles (Surrey) | "How much can we learn about star formation in the early Universe from young massive star clusters?" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 22 Oct | Hayden Rampadarath (Soton) | "Applications of High-Frequency Resolution, Wide-Field VLBI: Observations of Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies & Habitable Exoplanetary Candidates" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 29 Oct | Nick Wright (Hertfordshire) | "The Dynamics of Star Formation and Star Clusters" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 5 Nov | Raphael Hirschi (Keele) | "Massive Stars: Modelling, Evolution and Impact" | 16:00, seminar room |
| 11 Nov | Peter Curran (Curtin) | "The evolving polarised jets of stellar mass black holes" | 11:00, Physics LTB |
| 12 Nov | David Green (Cambridge) | "Statistical properties of galactic SNRs and G1.9+0.3, the youngest known remnant" | 16:00, Music (B2) LTC (rm 1085) |
| 19 Nov | Ignacio Negueruela (Alicante) | "Massive clusters towards the inner Milky Way: starburst regions at the end of the Long Bar?" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 26 Nov | Andrew Fletcher (Newcastle) | "How filamentary is that filament? Quantitative morphology of interstellar gas (and other astronomical structures)" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 3 Dec | Scott Ransom (NRAO) | "But wait! There's more!: A Wealth of Science from Millisecond Pulsars" | 16:00, Music (B2) LTC (rm 1085) |
| 10 Dec | Erin Kara (Cambridge) | "Mapping the accretion flow in supermassive black holes" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 11 Dec | Paulina Lira (Chile) | "The accretion discs of high redshift quasars" | 16:00, seminar room |
| 17 Dec | Sarka Wykes (Nijmegen) | "Mass entrainment and cosmic-ray energisation in Centaurus A" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
Spring term
5 January 2015 - 21 March 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jan | Matthew Pitkin (Glasgow) | "Searches for gravitational waves from neutron stars" | 16:00, Building 44:LT A (1041) |
| 28 Jan | Danny Steeghs (Warwick) | CANCELLED DUE TO SPEAKERS COMMITMENTS | -- |
| 4 Feb | -- | -- | -- |
| 11 Feb | Colin Forsyth (Mullard) | "Revealing the structure of substorm currents" | 16:00, Physics LT C |
| 18 Feb | Alan Watson (Leeds) | "Some results of astrophysical importance from the Pierre Auger Observatory" | 16:00, Building 44:LT A (1041) |
| 25 Feb | Michaela Hirschmann (Paris) | TBD | 16:00, venue TBD |
| 4 Mar | Haley Gomez (Cardiff) | "Dust in supernovae and supernova remnants" | 16:00, venue TBD |
| 11 Mar | Viola Allevato (Helsinki) | TBD | 16:00, venue TBD |
| 18 Mar | --- | CANCELLED DUE TO GROUP COMMITMENTS | --- |
Summer term
20 April 2015 - 13 June 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Apr | Phil Uttley (Amsterdam) | "Why X-rays from black holes vary: the role of the accretion disc" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 29 Apr | Torbjorn Sundberg (Queen Mary) | "Ion Acceleration at Collisionless Bow Shocks: Linking Observations, Theory and Modelling" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 6 May | Tim Staley (Oxford) | "Tuneable algorithms for transient followup" | 16:00, Physics LTC |
| 12 May | Marc Huertas-Company (Paris) | The morphologies of massive galaxies from z~3 - Witnessing the 2 channels of bulge growth | 11:30, Seminar Room (5081), Level 5 |
| 13 May | Christopher Reynolds (University of Maryland) |
The physics of AGN feedback in galaxy clusters | 16:00, Physics LTA |
| 20 May | Jonathan Nichols (Leicester) | "Alien auroras: the magnetic fields and auroral radio emissions of exoplanets" | 16:00, Physics LTA |
| 3 Jun | Daniela Dorner (University of Würzburg) | "FACT - AGN monitoring at TeV energies" | 16:00, Physics LTA |
| 10 Jun | Noelia Noël (Surrey) | "Disentangling the Magellanic System" | 16:00, Physics LTA |
| 11 Jun | Gareth Perry (University of Calgary) | "CASSIOPE and e-POP: Canada’s latest endeavour in studying the near Earth geospace environment" | 11:00, Physics LTB |
| 17 July | Xiaoyan Zhou (UCLA) | "Shock aurora and daytime imaging of the aurora”" | 14:00, Seminar Room |