Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2014/15
All talks take place at 1.00pm in the Seminar Room, unless
stated otherwise. For more information, contact Mat Smith
soton.ac.uk
Autumn term
29th September 2014 - 15th December 2014
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Sep | David Mulcahy | "LOFAR HBA observations of M51" |
| 06 Oct | Iiya Mandel (University of Birmingham) | Gravity Seminar |
| 13 Oct | Ian McHardy | "The origin of short timescale UV-optical variability in AGN" |
| 20 Oct | Adam Hill/ Marco Gatti |
What I did this summer or ... Can we predict grocery shopping habits from social media behaviour?/ The role of disk instabilities and galaxy interactions in triggering AGN activity |
| 27 Oct | Hayden Rampadarath | "Direction-dependent imaging for the SKA" |
| 03 Nov | Chris Boon/ Alex Clarke |
"The first Soft X-ray view of SAX J1818.6-1703 around periastron"/"LOFAR observations of the Galaxy cluster Abell 1682" |
| 10 Nov | Rob Fear | "Transpolar arcs: Earth's high latitude auroras" |
| 17 Nov | Sam Connolly | "The Long-Term X-ray Variability of Seyfert AGN" |
| 24 Nov | Chris Skipper | "2D sparse Fourier transforms for the SKA transient pipeline" |
| 8 Dec | Francesco Shankar | "" |
| 15 Dec | Phil Charles | "Update on SALT: major progress on RSS, the Tracker, and SAMS" |
Spring term
12th January 2015 - 21th March 2015
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan | Tim Staley | "TraP - an image-cataloging and transient-discovery engine" |
| 26 Jan | Judith Ineson | "Inside the DRAGN's den: the large-scale environments of radio-loud AGN" |
| 2 Feb | --- | (skipped due to group commitments) |
| 9 Feb | Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University) |
"Testing Astrophysical black hole candidates" |
| 16 Feb | Chris Boon | "The first in-depth soft X-ray view of the SFXT, SAX J1818.6-1703 around periastron" |
| 23 Feb | --- | (Cancelled due to staff commitments) |
| 2 Mar | Georgios Dimitriadis | "Late time light-curves of SNe Ia" |
| 9 Mar | Chris Frohmaier | "The Volumetric Supernova Rate in the Local Universe" | 16 Mar | Hanna Dahlgren | "The aurora under the microscope: Characteristics and potential causes of the finest auroral filaments" |
Summer term
20th April 2015 - 13th June 2015
| Date | Speaker | Talk title |
|---|---|---|
| 13 April | Assaf Horesh (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
"The Era of Time Domain Radio Astronomy" |
| 20 April | Juan V. Hernandez | "Searching for 'dead' CVs in synoptic surveys" |
| 27 April | Joe Reed | "Mass-loading of the Jovian Magnetosphere by Io" |
| 4 May | - | (Bank holiday) |
| 11 May | James Allen (University of Sydney) |
Kinematically offset AGN: binary supermassive black holes? |
| 18 May | Szymon Prajs & Andy Smith | "Rate of Superluminous Supernovae" & "Observing reconnection related events in the Kronian magnetotail" |
| 25 May | - | (Bank holiday) |
| 1 Jun | John Coxon | "Using Cluster to identify the magnetotail lobes and examine energy release during substorms" |
| 8 Jun | Jeff Silverman (University of Texas at Austin) |
"High-Velocity Features in the Spectra of Type Ia Supernovae" |
| 29 Jun | Gayathri Raman (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore) |
"X-ray reprocessing in LMXBs : EXO 0748-676 and 4U 1626-67" |