Southampton Astronomy
Compact Objects and Time Domain Astronomy
By default, seminars take place at 13:00-14:30 (including lunch and coffee) on Tuesdays, in the Seminar Room (46/5081). Yellow flags in the list below indicate seminars which are happening outside of this usual routine, and red flags show Tuesdays on which seminars will not occur. For more information, contact astrosem@soton.ac.uk.
Wed 17 Sep 2025 - Maulik Bhatt (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Constraining the birth and growth of early black holes with JWST observations
Note change of time/venue: This seminar is on Wednesday in the seminar room (B46/5081) and Teams
Full seminar list below:
Autumn Term 2024Tue 10 Sep 2024 - James Miller-Jones (Curtin University)
Orbital phase-resolved imaging of the jets in the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1
Note: Lecture Theatre C and Teams
Tue 17 Sep 2024 - Mariusz Tarnopolski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Statistical methods for variability studies
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 01 Oct 2024 - Samantha Oates (Lancaster University)
The UV follow-up of Gravitational Wave alerts with Swift/UVOT and the discovery of J221851-484240
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 08 Oct 2024 - Astronomy Group Jamboree (Southampton)
Jamboree
Tue 15 Oct 2024 - Tom Wilson (University of Exeter)
Solving the Catalogue Cross-Match Problem in the Era of LSST
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 22 Oct 2024 - Daisuke Kawata (MSSL)
The Milky Way bar formation and the JASMINE mission
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 29 Oct 2024 - Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University)
Testing General Relativity with black hole X-ray data
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 05 Nov 2024 - Roberto Gilli (INAF)
The Obscured Growth of Early Supermassive Black Holes: Insights from X-rays and Beyond
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 12 Nov 2024 - No seminar
Tue 19 Nov 2024 - Gaël Cessateur (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy)
TBC
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 26 Nov 2024 - Miika Pursiainen (University of Warwick)
Optical Polarimetry of Peculiar Extragalactic Transients
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 03 Dec 2024 - Tom Stallard (Northumbria University)Spring Term 2024
Inductive atmospheres: How giant planets provide a guide to how all neutral atmospheres can power aurora and magnetospheric currents
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 07 Jan 2025 - No seminar
Tue 14 Jan 2025 - No seminar
Tue 21 Jan 2025 - Jan Scholtz (University of Cambridge)
Search for high-z AGN in the era of JWST
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 28 Jan 2025 - Oliver Allanson (University of Birmingham)
Wave particle-interactions and the Earth’s Radiation Belts
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 04 Feb 2025 - No seminar
Tue 11 Feb 2025 - Danny Steeghs (University of Warwick)
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 18 Feb 2025 - No seminar
Tue 25 Feb 2025 - Tiago Costa (Newcastle University)
Quasar Feedback in the First Gyr
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 04 Mar 2025 - No seminar
Tue 11 Mar 2025 - Julia Stawarz (Northumbria University)
TBC
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 18 Mar 2025 - Aayush Saxena (University of Oxfordd)
A JWST view on early galaxy formation and cosmic reionization — new insights and new challenges
Note: Seminar Room and Teams
Tue 25 Mar 2025 - Hannah Wakeford (Exoplanet Clouds and Chemistry: A WASP-17b case study)
Tue 08 Apr 2025 - No seminar
Tue 15 Apr 2025 - No seminar
Tue 22 Apr 2025 - No seminar
Tue 29 Apr 2025 - No seminar
Tue 06 May 2025 - Alberto Vecchio (University of Birmingham)
Discovering massive black holes throughout the universe with gravitational-wave observations
Note: STAG talk starts from 13:30 in Room 1089/B02
Wed 07 May 2025 - Arianna Saba & Parul Janagal (BSSL)
Mauve: A three-year UV-Vis survey dedicated to monitoring stellar activity and variability
Note: Coffee & pastry available from 10:00; talk starts from 10:30 am on Wednesday (May 7) in the seminar room (B46/5081)
Tue 13 May 2025 - Katie Herlingshaw (UNIS)
TBC
Note: TBC
Tue 20 May 2025 - No seminar
Tue 27 May 2025 - No seminar
Tue 03 Jun 2025 - Andrey Samsonov (University College London)
Tue 10 Jun 2025 - No seminar
Tue 17 Jun 2025 - Jennifer Carter (University of Leicester)
Tue 01 Jul 2025 - Poshak Gandhi & Imogen Gingell (University of Southampton)
Secrets to Success in Science
Note: Seminar room (B46/5081) and Teams
Tue 02 Sep 2025 - Simone Scaringi (Durham University)
Gravitational waves from accreting white dwarfs
Note: Seminar room (B46/5081) and Teams
Wed 17 Sep 2025 - Maulik Bhatt (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Constraining the birth and growth of early black holes with JWST observations
Note: This seminar is on Wednesday in the seminar room (B46/5081) and Teams
Tue 23 Sep 2025 - David Buckley (Southern African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO))
Highlight of the SALT transient followup programme and the future
Note: Seminar room (B46/5081) and Teams
The old astrosem website is online here with details of seminars from previous academic years.