Astronomy Group Seminar Programme 2015/2016
By default, seminars take place at 13:00-15:00 (including lunch and coffee) on Tuesdays, in the Physics Seminar Room.
For more information, contact
astrosem
soton.ac.uk
Summer term
19 April 2016 - 11 June 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Apr | Stuart Sim (QUB) | "Explosion Modelling for Type Ia Supernova" | 1 pm, Seminar Room |
| 26 Apr | Jo Dunkley (Oxford) | "The polarized microwave background: from neutrinos to gravitational waves" | 1 pm, Seminar Room |
| 3 May | Sean Matt (Exeter) | "Rotation, Magnetic Activity and Mass Loss of Sun-like stars" | 1:30 pm, Seminar Room |
| 10 May | Karen Masters (ICG; Portsmouth) | "Why Galaxy Morphology is Still Interesting" | 1:30 pm, Seminar Room |
| 17 May | Kathy Romer (Sussex) | "Studying Cosmology with Clusters: a Miracle Cure or a Mug's Game?" | 1:30 pm, Seminar Room |
| 24 May | Adrian Grocott (Lancaster) | "Exploring near-Earth space with ionospheric radars" | 1:30 pm, Seminar Room |
| 31 May | Sandra Chapman (Warwick) | "Multiscale physics and heliospheric climatology" | 1:30 pm, Seminar Room |
| 7 Jun | Peter Jonker (SRON) | "Constraints on the formation of stellar- & intermediate mass black holes" | 1:30 pm, Seminar Room |
| 13 Jun | Daniel Asmus (ESO) | "The predominance of infrared emission from the polar region of accreting supermassive black holes | 2:00 pm, Seminar Room |
| 29 Jun | Daniel Proga (UNLV) | 3:30 pm, Seminar Room |
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Autumn term 2015 (Completed)
24 September 2015 - 12 December 2015
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Sep | Deanne Coppejeans (Radboud University, Nijmegen) |
"Do all accreting white dwarfs launch jets?" | 4 pm, Physics C |
| 14 Oct | Ana Laura Serra (University of Milan) |
"Structures along the line of sight in strong gravitational lensing" | 4 pm, Room 5027: Maths |
| 21 Oct | Adam Ingram (UVA) |
"Precession of orbits around the stellar-mass black hole in H 1743-322" | 4 pm, Room 5027: Maths |
| 28 Oct | Mike Childress (Southampton) |
"The Modern Supernova Zoo" | 4 pm, Room 1023: Building 58 |
| 4 Nov: STAG Lecture | Brian Schmidt (ANU) |
"The expanding Universe" | 2.30 pm, Turner Sims |
| 11 Nov | Rudy Wijnands (Amsterdam) |
"Sub-Eddington accretion in neutron stars" | 4 pm, Room 1067: Building 58 |
| 18 Nov | Stephen Smartt (QUB) |
"Superluminous supernovae - cosmic origins and evolution" | 4 pm, Physics: LT C |
| 25 Nov | David Sing (Exeter) |
"Results from a Large Survey of Hot Jupiter Exoplanetary Atmospheres" | 4 pm, Room 1067: Building 58 |
| 2 Dec | Licia Ray (UCL) |
"Auroral Acceleration at Jupiter" | 4 pm, Physics: LT C |
| 9 Dec | Mike Childress (Southampton) |
"The Modern Supernova Zoo" | 4 pm, Room 1067: Building 58 |
Spring term (Completed)
4 January 2016 - 19 March 2016
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jan | Farzana Meru (Cambridge) |
"Giant planet formation and evolution in self-gravitating discs" | 4 pm, Building 44: LT A |
| 20 Jan | Nina Hatch (Nottingham) | "Galaxy evolution in proto-clusters" | 4 pm, Building 44: LT A |
| 27 Jan | Ranieri Baldi | "The multi-band properties of low-luminosity radio galaxies in the local Universe" | 4 pm, Physics A |
| 3 Feb | Mikako Matsuura (Cardiff) |
"Herschel and ALMA findings of supernovae – dust, molecules and nuclear synthesis" | 4 pm, Building 58: Room 1023 |
| 10 Feb | Alan Heavens (ICIC) | "Bayesian Weak Lensing" | 4 pm, Physics A |
| 16 Feb | Yvette Perrott (Cavendish) | "The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager telescope and its new digital correlator" | 1 pm, Seminar Room |
| 23 Feb | Chris Done (Durham) | "Reverberation mapping of the outer accretion disc in NGC5548" | 1 pm, Seminar Room |
| 1 Mar | Jonathan Rae (MSSL, UCL) | "Explosive energy release in space plasma: Earth's magnetospheric substorm" | 1 pm, Seminar Room |
| 8 Mar | David Alexander (Durham) | "Active Galaxies in Cosmic X-ray Surveys: The Ecology of Distant AGNs" | 1 pm, Seminar Room |
| 15 Mar | Caroline Villforth (Bath) | "Fueling and triggering Active Galactic Nuclei" | 1 pm, Seminar Room |