Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2011/12

All seminars take place at 1.00pm in the Seminar Room, unless stated otherwise. For more information, contact J.Brodericksoton.ac.uk

Autumn term

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"

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
27 Feb
5 Mar	Susanne Heidenreich
12 Mar	Pablo Cassatella