Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2012/13

All talks take place at 1.00pm in the Seminar Room, unless stated otherwise. For more information, contact Tim.Staleyatsoton.ac.uk

Autumn term

27th September 2012 - 15th December 2012

DateSpeakerTalk title
1 Oct Rene Breton "Measuring Neutron Star Masses Using Black Widows"
8 Oct Teo Munoz-Darias "Black holes in outburst: inclination and general relativity effects."
15 Oct Malcolm Coe "SMC X-1 : can you see the light?"
22 Oct Chris Skipper "Fast spectral variability in the HMXB system Cygnus X-1."
29 Oct Tony Bird "Searching for and characterising variable sources with INTEGRAL"
5 Nov Volker Heesen "Probing cosmic rays in nearby dwarf irregular galaxies with deep radio continuum observations."
12 Nov Seb Drave "Exploring the nature of SFXTs using INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton: IGRJ16418-4532"
19 Nov John Jones "Varying the viscosity for the viscous decretion model in the circumstellar disc of HMXRB's."
26 Nov Judith Croston "Jet particle content on scales of tens to hundreds of kpc"
3 Dec - (Clashes with LOFAR-TKP Meeting)
14 Dec (Note shift to Friday) Juan Echevarria TBC

Spring term

7th January 2013 - 16th March 2013

DateSpeakerTalk title
7 Jan Rob Fender "The closest black holes."
14 Jan - -
21 Jan Remon Cornelisse TBC
28 Jan - -
4 Feb TBC TBC
11 Feb - (Lectureship presentations this week)
18 Feb - -
25 Feb - -
4 Mar Tom Hassall
Sam Tuttle 		TBC
11 Mar Michel Schammel TBC

Summer term

15 Apr 2013 - 15th June 2013

DateSpeakerTalk title
15 Apr Helen Klus
Sara Motta (ESA) 		"The magnetic fields of neutron stars in BeXB in the SMC"
"Time to weigh black holes"
22 Apr James Matthews "Disk Winds and Radiative Transfer"
29 Apr - -
6 May - (Bank holiday)
13 May - -
20 May Chris Riseley "A Study of ACO3667 with KAT-7"
27 May - (Bank holiday)
3 June Juan Hernandez Santisteban CVs: Understanding their late-time evolution
10 June Ian McHardy
Gosia Pietka		 TBC