Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2011/12
All talks take place at 1.00pm in the Seminar Room, unless
stated otherwise. For more information, contact J.Broderick
soton.ac.uk
Autumn term
29th September 2011 - 17th December 2011
|
Date
|
Speaker
|
Talk title
|
| 26 Sep |
Ravi Manchanda (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Colaba, Mumbai) |
"ASTROSAT" |
| 3 Oct |
No talk |
|
| 10 Oct |
Tony Bird |
"Untangling Pulsations and Orbital Periods in Be/X-ray binary optical light curves" |
| 17 Oct |
Tana Joseph |
"What I did on my summer vacation: the X-ray point source population of NGC 4472" |
| |
Duncan Cameron |
"Variability monitoring of AGN with Swift" |
| 24 Oct |
No talk |
|
| 31 Oct |
Rob Hynes (Louisiana State Univ.) |
"Optical variability in the Chandra Galactic Bulge Survey field" |
| 07 Nov |
Rachael Ainsworth (DIAS) |
"AMI-LA radio continuum observations of low mass young stars" |
| 14 Nov |
Talk cancelled |
|
| 21 Nov |
Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos |
"Negative X-ray reverberation time delays from MCG-6-30-15 and Mrk 766
together plus some other stuff" |
| 28 Nov |
Seb Drave |
"Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: Unveiling evolutionary links in HMXBs?" |
| 05 Dec |
Talk cancelled |
|
| 12 Dec |
Chris Skipper |
"X-ray Spectral Properties of Low Luminosity AGN" |
| |
Barbara De Marco (Bologna) |
"On the black hole mass and soft/negative lags relation in radio quiet AGN" |
Spring term
9th January 2012 - 17th March 2012
| Date |
Speaker |
Talk title |
| 16 Jan |
Phil Charles |
"The Recommissioning of SALT" |
| 23 Jan |
Judith Ineson |
"Radio galaxies - is there a relationship between radio luminosity and
environment?" |
| 30 Jan |
No talk |
|
| 6 Feb |
Mickael Coriat |
"Revisiting a fundamental test of the disc instability model for X-ray binaries" |
| 13 Feb |
John Jones |
"Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) modelling of high-mass X-ray binary systems and the circumstellar disc therein" |
20 Feb |
Gabriele Ponti |
"Ubiquitous equatorial accretion disc winds in black hole soft states" |
| 27 Feb |
No talk |
|
| 5 Mar |
Susanne Heidenreich |
"Low-frequency radio maps for the REXCESS cluster sample" |
| 12 Mar |
Talk cancelled |
|
Summer term
16 Apr 2012 - 16th June 2012
| Date |
Speaker |
Talk title |
| 23 Apr |
No talk |
|
| 30 Apr |
Dan Plant |
"Can We Really Measure Black Hole Spin? And Does It Really Power Relativistic Jets?" |
| |
Liz Bartlett |
"The Small Magellanic Cloud Be/X-ray binaries as a possible probe for neutron star formation channels" |
| 14 May |
|
Talk cancelled |
| 21 May |
Dave Zurek |
"Far Ultraviolet Variability Survey of the Globular Cluster NGC 1851" |
| 28 May |
Maxi Goossens |
"Searching for New Periodicities in Supergiant Fast X-ray
Transients" |
| |
Adam Stewart |
"Searching for Radio Transients at the North Celestial Pole
with LOFAR (+ extras)" |
| 11 Jun |
Helen Klus |
"Swift J045106.8-694803: a possible accreting magnetar in the Large Magellanic Cloud" |
| |
Pieter van Oers |
"Median stacking of serendipitous radio observations of Sloan Digital Sky Survey active galactic nuclei" |
| 18 Jun |
Nick Higginbottom |
"Modelling the spectra of (BAL)QSOs" |
| |
Gosia Pietka |
"MSSS, Bell #1 and Synchrotron Bubbles" |