All seminars take place at 4pm.
For more information, contact
astrosem
soton.ac.uk
This year's (2009/2010) programme is still being prepared. If you are interested in giving a seminar in Southampton, please contact the organisers.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Talk | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct | Adam Hill (LAOG) | " The Fermi HE sky: An overview of Year 1 " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 28 Oct | Inaugural lecture - Malcolm Coe | " Tides in the Universe " | 5 pm Physics Lecture Theatre A | |
| 4 Nov | Piergiorgio Casella (Southampton) | " Multiwavelength variability from jets, a new powerful tool " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 11 Nov | Klaas Wiersema (Leicester) | " Using gamma-ray burst afterglows as probes of high redshift galaxies " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 18 Nov | Myrto Symeonidis (MSSL) | " The central energy source in dusty 70um-selected galaxies: Starburst or AGN? " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 19 Nov | Francesca Panessa (Rome) | " The radio cores of the faintest radio quiet AGN " | slides | visitor talk, 4pm, Seminar Room |
| 27 Nov (Friday!) | Pedro Ferreira (Oxford) | " Testing the Dark Energy Hypothesis " | Joined SHEP/ASTRO Seminar, 4.15 pm, Nuffield Theatre, Room 1077 (LTA) | |
| 2 Dec | David Southwood (ESA) | " Europe in Space " | slides | 2pm, Physics C |
| 9 Dec | Tom Marsh (Warwick) | " White Dwarfs, Type Ia Supernovae & Gravitational Waves " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Talk | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jan | Alejo Martínez Sansigre (Oxford) | " Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes from demographics of active galactic nuclei " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 20 Jan | Rudy Wijnands (Amsterdam) | " - " | postponed | |
| 27 Jan | Martin Hardcastle (Herfordshire) | " High-energy particle acceleration in active galaxies " | slides | 4pm, Seminar Room |
| 3 Feb | Andrew Norton (Open University) | " Accretion flows in magnetic cataclyslic variables " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 10 Feb | Gabriele Ponti (Southampton) | " The inglorious past of Sgr A*, since the end of the Roman Empire " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 17 Feb | Matt Griffin (Cardiff) | " First scientific results from Herschel " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 24 Feb | Stefano Bianchi (Rome) | " The nature of the soft X-ray emission in obscured AGN " | 4pm, Physics B | |
| 3 Mar | Luisa Ostorero (Turin, Italy) | " - " | Canceled | |
| 10 Mar | Douglas Heggie (Edinburgh) | " Simulating Star Clusters " | slides | 4pm, Shackleton LT B |
| 18 Mar | Casey Law | " Science with the Allen Telescope Array " | 4pm, Physic LT B (Thursday!) |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Talk | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Apr | Johannes Knapp (Leeds) | " Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and Recent Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory " | slides | 4pm, Physics B - Joined SHEP/ASTRO Seminar |
| 5 May | Jess Broderick (Southampton) | " MRC B1221-423: a compact steep-spectrum radio source in a merging galaxy " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 12 May | Betty Lanchester (Southampton) | " Auroral structure and kinetics: how do high resolution measurements constrain theories? " | slides | 4pm, Physics B |
| 25 May | Michael Garcia (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) | " M31* - The SMBH in our Nearest Neighbor Galaxy " | TUE 25.5. 11.30am!, Seminar Room | |
| 2 Jun | " " | 4pm, Seminar Room | ||
| 9 Jun | Anne Green (Nottingham) | " The search for dark matter " | slides | 4pm, Seminar Room |
| 16 Jun | Iosif Papadakis (Crete) | " Spectra variability of AGN " | 4pm, Physics B |