Astronomy Group Monday Lunchtime Talks 2015/16
All talks take place at 12.00pm in the Seminar Room, unless
stated otherwise. For more information, contact Mat Smith
soton.ac.uk
Autumn term (Completed)
24 September 2015 - 12 December 2015
| Date |
Speaker |
Talk title |
| 28 Sep |
Anthony Rushton |
"The unique jet structure of a Galactic black hole candidate" |
| 5 Oct |
Sam Connolly |
"Harder when Brighter: X-Ray Spectral Variability in Low-Luminosity AGN" |
| 12 Oct |
Astronomy Group |
Departmental Jamboree (Building 54) |
| 19 Oct |
David Williams |
"Jumping off Jodrell: The LeMMINGs Survey” |
| 26 Oct |
James Matthews |
"Testing Quasar Unification with Clumpy Wind Models" |
| 2 Nov |
Aarran Shaw |
"The low luminosity soft state of the LMXB Swift J1753.5-0127" |
| 9 Nov |
Magui Pereyra |
"The Deceleration of Nebular Shells in Evolved Planetary Nebula" |
| 16 Nov |
Chris Frohmaier |
"Adventures in the stratosphere" |
| 23 Nov |
Rob Firth |
CANCELLED |
| 30 Nov |
Rob Fear |
"The interaction between transpolar arcs and cusp spots" |
| 7 Dec |
Sam Mangham |
CANCELLED |
| 11 Dec |
Sibasish Laha (QUB) |
"A comprehensive study of ionised outflows in X-rays in active galactic nuclei (AGN)" |
Spring term (Completed)
4 January 2016 - 19 March 2016
| Date |
Speaker |
Talk title |
| 4 Jan |
Cancelled due to the
patently ridiculous date |
-- |
| 11 Jan |
Stewart Buchan |
"How do the most massive galaxies evolve? Setting constraints on early vs late assembly" |
| 18 Jan |
Chris Boon |
"Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: The weird cousin of the HMXB family" |
| 25 Jan |
Jamie Court |
"Fast Variability in X-Ray Binary Accretion Disks" |
| 1 Feb |
Szymon Prajs |
"Selecting Superluminous Supernovae in Large Surveys" |
| 8 Feb |
Judith Ineson |
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door ... what a radio lobe does to the ICM" |
| 15 Feb |
Sam Mangham |
"Reverberation signatures of rotating disk winds in AGN" |
| 22 Feb |
Lorenzo Trenchi |
"Observations of magnetic reconnection in space" |
| 29 Feb |
Rob Firth |
"Post-Maximum Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae" |
| 7 Mar |
Steve Browett |
"Timescales associated for penetration of IMF By into the Earth's magnetosphere" |
| 14 Mar |
Francesco Shankar |
"Selection bias in dynamically-measured super-massive black hole samples and its consequences" |
Summer term (Completed)
19 April 2016 - 11 June 2016
| Date |
Speaker |
Talk title |
| 25 Apr |
Georgios Dimitriadis |
"The late time light curve evolution of SN2011fe" |
| 2 May |
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PUBLIC HOLIDAY |
| 9 May |
Sadie Jones |
"Supernova Public Engagement in Southampton Airport" |
| 16 May |
Dave Zurek |
"Ultraviolet studies of NGC1851" |
| 23 May |
Andy Smith & Joe Reed |
"Magnetic flux ropes & MESSENGER magnetometer data" & "Reconnection, solar wind conditions and radio emissions: inferring the SKR" |
| 30 May |
-- |
PUBLIC HOLIDAY |
| 6 Jun |
Peter Boorman |
"Unveiling Heavily Obscured AGN in the Local Universe" |