Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2010/11

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

Autumn term

30th September 2010 - 17th December 2010

Date Speaker Talk title
11 Oct Tana Joseph "An intriguing source in M82"
18 Oct Phil Uttley "Signatures of disc reverberation in hard-state black hole X-ray binaries"
25 Oct Tony Bird "The IBIS/ISGRI Surveys and Follow-up Programme"
01 Nov Andrea Dieball "FUV surveys of Globular Clusters: Exotic Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters"
08 Nov No talk
15 Nov Stephen Zepf (Michigan State University) "Dark Matter and Angular Momentum in the Outer Halos of Elliptical Galaxies"
22 Nov Juan Fabregat (University of Valencia) "Pulsations of B stars seen by CoRoT and Kepler"
29 Nov Lee Townsend "Orbital fitting of SMC Be/X-ray binaries"
06 Dec Martin Bell "The transient radio sky and LOFAR""
13 Dec Anna Kapinska "Evolution of radio galaxies"

Spring term

10th January 2011 - 1st April 2011

Date Speaker Talk title
10 Jan No talk
17 Jan Seb Drave "A Temporal Study of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients"
24 Jan Judith Croston "Shock fronts in radio-galaxy environments"
31 Jan Martin Altmann (Heidelberg) "Preparing for Gaia: getting ready for the biggest revolution in Galactic astronomy"
07 Feb Malcolm Coe "Nature or nurture in HMXBs"
John Jones "Accretion delay in high-mass X-ray binaries"
14 Feb Pablo Cassatella "Time lags as a constraint on the accretion disc geometry in BHXRBs"
21 Feb Duncan Cameron "Correlated X-ray/UV/Optical variability in the very low mass AGN NGC 4395"
Dan Calvelo "ATCA - CABB observations of NSXRBs"
28 Feb Grace Thomson "The Globular Cluster NGC 6752"
07 Mar No talk
14 Mar Sara Motta (Astronomical Observatory of Brera) "On the nature of the low-frequency oscillations in Black Hole binaries: A variability study of the black hole candidate GX 339-4"
21 Mar Chris Skipper "A Survey of Low Luminosity AGN from the Chandra Archive"
28 Mar Liz Bartlett "The Search for High Mass X-ray Binaries in the Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy"


Summer term

3rd May 2011 - 17th June 2011

Date Speaker Talk title
09 May Pieter van Oers "Using mass range limited samples to test Black Hole Grand Unification"
16 May Susanne Heidenreich "The evolution of radio-loud AGN feedback in galaxy clusters"
Tom Maccarone Report on LOFT
23 May No talk
31 May (Tuesday) Judith Ineson "Progress on the Chandra Environments of Radio-loud AGN (ERA) Survey "
06 June Gabriele Ponti "Excess variances in AGN "
13 June (LT C) Nick Higginbottom " Use of radiative transfer simulations to investigate BAL QSO geometries "
Dan Plant " Black hole spin estimates using reflection features "