Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2017/18
All talks take place at 12.00pm in the Seminar Room, unless stated otherwise.
For more information, contact Charlotte Angus
soton.ac.uk
Autumn term
28 September 2017 - 15 December 2017
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
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| 2 Oct |
Judith Ineson |
"Blast from the past - can we use the properties of distant radio galaxies to build samples of high redshift galaxy groups?" |
| 9 Oct |
Ra'ad Mahmoud (Durham) |
"Modelling the energy dependence of BHB flows" |
| 16 Oct |
Pragati Pradhan (Penn State) |
"Exploring transient detections with the WFI onboard Athena" |
| 23 Oct |
David Williamson |
"Polar IR emission in AGNs: the 'torus' as a dusty wind" |
| 30 Oct |
Jiachen Jiang (IoA) |
"The 1.5Ms observing campaign on IRAS 13224-3809: X-ray spectral analysis" |
| 6 Nov |
Szymon Prajs |
"Transient classification using neutral networks" |
| 13 Nov |
Peter Boorman |
"Brave NuLANDS for hidden active galactic nuclei" |
| 20 Nov |
Bailey Tetarenko (University of Alberta) |
"Constraining the physics of the dynamic accretion flows in compact binary systems" |
| 27 Nov |
Rory Brown |
"The Be-musing Be-haviour of Be stars" |
| 4 Dec |
Philip Grylls |
"Connecting dark matter structure to the observable galaxy population" |
| 11 Dec |
Miika Pursiainen |
"Rapidly evolving optical transients in the Dark Energy Survey" |
Spring term
8 January 2018 - 16 March 2018
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|
| 8 Jan |
Victoria Lepingwell |
"Machine Learning in High Energy Astronomy Surveys" |
| 15 Jan |
Jamie Court |
"The propeller effect: a transition in a bursting pulsar?" |
| 22 Jan |
Shane Davis (University of Virginia) |
"How black holes dine above the Eddington 'limit' without overeating or excessive belching" |
| 29 Jan |
Steve Browett |
"Effect of magnetospheric convection timescales on magnetotail flux rope core field" |
| 5 Feb |
Andy Smith |
""Evaluating single spacecraft observations of planetary megnetotails with simple monte carlo simulations" |
| 12 Feb |
Julia Alfonso Garzon (INTA-CSIC) |
"Long-term optical and X-ray variability of the Be/X-ray binary H1145-619" |
| 19 Feb |
Michael Johnson |
"Michael Johnson and the big survey telescope" |
| 26 Feb |
Will Alston (IoA) |
"Understanding the inner accretion region using fast X-ray variability" |
| 5 Mar |
Sadie Jones |
"Four years of online engagement with UK schools: The 'SETI Cipher Challenge'" |
| 12 Mar |
Noel Castro Segura |
"Optical spectroscopy of Blazars" |
Summer term
16 April 2018 - 15 June 2018
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|
| 16 Apr |
Marta Venanzi |
"Dusty winds in AGN" |
| 23 Apr |
Laurence Blacketer |
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| 30 Apr |
Aru Beri |
"X-ray observations of very faint x-ray transients (VFXRTs) versus bright x-ray transients" |
| 7 May |
n/a |
PUBLIC HOLIDAY |
| 14 May |
John Paice |
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| 21 May |
Kevin Alabarta |
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| 28 May |
n/a |
PUBLIC HOLIDAY |
| 4 Jun |
Bella Boulderstone |
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| 11 Jun |
Jade Reidy |
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