All seminars take place at (the new time of) 3pm in Lecture Theatre B, Shackleton
building, unless stated otherwise.
For more information, contact
seminars
astro.soton.ac.uk
Next year's (2007/2008) programme is currently being prepared. If you are interested in giving a seminar in Southampton, please contact the organisers.
| Date/Time | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Oct | Astronomy Group | "Jamboree" |
| 18 Oct | Dr. Nick Schurch (Durham) | "X-ray absorption in self-consistent AGN disk winds" |
| 25 Oct | Dr. Chris Gerardy (Imperial) | "New Observational Constraints on the Physics and Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae" |
| 1 Nov | Dr. Luisa Morales Rueda (Nijmegen) | " The Faint Sky Variability Survey " |
| 8 Nov | Prof. Walter Gear (Cardiff) | "The QUEST for CMB Polarization" |
| 15 Nov | Dr. Boris Gaensicke (Warwick) | "Observational constraints of compact binary evolution" |
| 22 Nov | Dr. Antonis Georgakakis (Imperial) | "The environment of AGN at z~1" |
| 29 Nov | Prof. Matt Griffin (Cardiff) | "The Herschel Space Observatory" |
| 6 Dec | Dr. Evert Rol (Leicester) | " Afterglow observations in the Swift-era: expectations and surprises " |
| 13 Dec | Dr. Stephen Justham (Oxford) | "Hunting the Runaway Descendants of Type Ia Supernovae " |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jan | Dr. Tom Dwelly (Southampton) | "The demographics and evolution of the absorbed AGN population " |
| 17 Jan | Dr. Ulrich Kolb (Open University) | "Compact binaries near and far " |
| 24 Jan | Chris Copperwheat (Warwick) | "The Optical Emission from Ultraluminous X-ray Sources " |
| 30 Jan (Tuesday!) | Harald Frey (SSL, University of California) | "Localized aurora beyond the auroral oval " |
| 7 Feb | Dr. Robert Dunn (Southampton) | "Radio Source Interactions in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies " |
| 14 Feb | Dr. Natalie Webb (Toulouse) | "Globular clusters and their binaries " |
| 21 Feb | Dr. Adam Hill (Southampton) | "INTEGRAL 4 years on: The latest results from the IBIS survey. " | 28 Feb | Dr. Claudia Maraston (Oxford) | "Ages and Masses of (high-redshift) galaxies: the role of stellar population models" |
| 7 Mar | " " | |
| 14 Mar | Dr. Vanessa McBride (Southampton) | "Probing neutron star magnetic fields " |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Talk title | 25 Apr | "" |
|---|---|---|
| 2 May | Dr. Lorraine Hanlon (UCD) | "Observations of gamma-ray bursts with INTEGRAL and robotic telescopes" |
| 9 May | Dr. Julien Malzac (CESR/CNRS, Toulouse) | "Discs, coronae, and jets around black holes" |
| 16 May | Dr. Mat Page (MSSL/UCL) | " Starbursts and quasars, chickens and eggs" |
| 23 May | Dr. Pierre Maxted (Keele) | "SuperWASP: The Wide Angle Search for Planets." |
| 30 May | Dr. Jim Hinton (Leeds) | "Status and Prospects for TeV Gamma-ray Astronomy" |
| 6 Jun | Dr. Rhaana Starling (Leicester) | "Probing GRB environments out to high redshift" |
| 13 Jun | Dr. Sergei Nayakshin (Leicester) | "Star formation and accretion in parsec scales in Sgr A* and AGN " |
| 20 Jun | Dr. Suzie Ramsay Howat (ATC, Edinburgh) | "The KMOS multi-object spectrometer for the VLT" |