Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2016/17
All talks take place at 12.00pm in the Seminar Room, unless stated otherwise.
For more information, contact Mat Smith
soton.ac.uk
Summer term
24 April 2017 - 17 June 2017
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Apr | CANCELLED | --- |
| 1 May | PUBLIC HOLIDAY | --- |
| 8 May | Adam Hill | "Building a graph model of corporate ownership data to uncover potential corruption; or how to do some social good with your astro data analysis skills" |
| 15 May | Andy Smith | "A Multi-Instrument Study of Dipolarizations within the Kronian Magnetotail" |
| 22 May | Isabella Lamperti (UCL) | "Near-infrared spectroscopy of nearby hard X-ray selected AGN" |
| 29 May | PUBLIC HOLIDAY | --- |
| 5 Jun | Jamie Court | CANCELLED DUE TO SPEAKER ILLNESS |
| 12 Jun | Steve Browett | "Multi-instrument inter-hemispheric observations of the Earth's magnetospheric cusps" |
| 16 Jun @ 12pm in LTC | Eric Linder (Berkeley/LBNL) | "Time Domain Cosmology" |
| 19 Jun | Peter Boorman | "Using iron fluorescence to probe the covering factor of the most obscured supermassive black holes" |
Autumn term (Completed)
29 September 2016 - 17 December 2016
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Oct | Jade Reidy | "Multi-instrument observation of high latitude aurora" |
| 24 Oct | David Williams | "Probing the inner regions of nearby LLAGN with e-MERLIN" |
| 31 Oct | Bella Boulderstone | "Active Galactic Nuclei as Cosmological Probes" |
| 7 Nov | Nick Higginbottom | "Thermally driven disk winds in X-ray Binaries - the importance of the stability curve" |
| 14 Nov | Judith Ineson | "The bubble on the fountain" |
| 21 Nov | Sam Connolly | “Swiftly the Data Reduction Pipeline" |
| 28 Nov | CANCELLED | --- |
| 5 Dec | Szymon Prajs | "Python in the new era of astronomy" |
| 12 Dec | Rory Brown | "Modelling decretion disc interactions in Be X-ray binaries" |
Spring term (Complete)
9 January 2017 - 25 March 2017
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jan | Stew Buchan | "How do the most massive galaxies evolve?" |
| 16 Jan | Chris Frohmaier | "Supernova Rates in the Local Universe" |
| 23 Jan | CANCELLED | -- |
| 30 Jan | Rob Firth | "Spectrophotometric templates for light curve simulations of stripped-envelope SNe for LSST" |
| 6 Feb | CANCELLED | -- |
| 13 Feb | Aru Beri | "Thermonuclear X-ray bursts in rapid succession in 4U 1636-536 with ASTROSAT-LAXPC" |
| 20 Feb | Joe Reed | "Low Frequency Extensions of the Saturn Kilometric Radiation as a proxy for magnetospheric dynamics" |
| 27 Feb | Sandra Raimundo (DARK) | "Replenishing the AGN fuelling reservoir with counter-rotating gas" |
| 1 Mar | David Salvetti (INAF/IASF Milano) |
"EXTraS: Exploring the X-ray Transient and Variable Sky" |
| 6 Mar | John Coxon | "Energy in the Earth’s magnetotail lobes across the substorm cycle" |
| 13 Mar | Sam Mangham | "Responsivity in reverberation mapping of AGN" |
| 20 Mar | Regis Cartier | "Type Ia-CSM/IIn SNe: seemingly a homogeneous class of interacting transients" |
| 10 April | George Lansbury (Durham/Cambridge) |
"A hard X-ray view of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) population with NuSTAR" |