Southampton Astronomy
Compact Objects, Time Domain Astronomy, Space Physics and Exoplanets
By default, the seminar take place at 12:30–14:30 on Tuesdays, in the Seminar Room (46/5081). This includes lunch between 12:30–13:00, a talk between 13:00–14:00, and informal discussion between 14:00–14:30. Yellow flags in the list below indicate seminars that are happening outside of this usual routine, and red flags indicate dates that are blocked.
For more information, contact Yue.Zhao@soton.ac.uk, P.S.J.Clark@soton.ac.uk, or N.Kaweeyanun@soton.ac.uk.
Tue 11 Sep 2018 - Simon Hodgkin (Cambridge)
Mapping the transient sky with Gaia
Tue 18 Sep 2018 - Chris Fragile (Charleston)Autumn Term 2018
Computational techniques and their applications in astrophysics
Tue 02 Oct 2018 - Astronomy Group (Southampton)
Jamboree
Tue 09 Oct 2018 - Samantha Penny (Portsmouth)
Revealing the complex evolution of dwarf galaxies through spatially resolved spectroscopy
Tue 16 Oct 2018 - Leah Morabito (Oxford)
A low-frequency radio perspective on AGN
Tue 23 Oct 2018 - Chris Fowler (UC Berkeley)
MAVEN at Mars: new insights into the Martian ionosphere after nearly four years in orbit
Tue 30 Oct 2018 - Arianna Sorba (UCL)
Configuration and dynamics of Saturn's disc-like magnetosphere
Tue 06 Nov 2018 - Debora Sijacki (IoA)
Galaxy formation simulations: "sub-grid" vs. physics
Tue 13 Nov 2018 - Gareth Chisham (British Antarctic Survey)
Measuring ionospheric vorticity and field-aligned currents using HF radars
Tue 20 Nov 2018 - Robert Lyon (Manchester)
Data processing with the SKA - Machine learning at scale
Tue 27 Nov 2018 - Nathan Case (Lancaster)
IMF By-driven asymmetries in Earth's magnetotail
Tue 04 Dec 2018 - Patricia Schady (Bath)
Inferring the progenitor mass of explosive transients through their environment
Tue 11 Dec 2018 - Carolin Villforth (Bath)Spring Term 2019
Fuelling and triggering Active Galactic Nuclei
Tue 08 Jan 2019 - No seminar
Note: Seminar cancelled due to illness
Tue 15 Jan 2019 - Paul Roche (Cardiff)
Astronomy in the classroom – robotic telescopes linking education and research
Tue 22 Jan 2019 - Rob Shore (British Antarctic Survey)
Mapping ionospheric dynamics through their response to solar wind driving
Tue 29 Jan 2019 - No seminar
Tue 05 Feb 2019 - David Rosario (Durham)
AGN in a cold Universe: understanding nuclear activity using dust and molecular gas
Tue 12 Feb 2019 - Alexander Mushtukov (Amsterdam)
ULXs: the strongest and the brightest magnets in the Universe
Tue 19 Feb 2019 - No seminar
Note: Seminar Room unavailable due to exam board
Tue 26 Feb 2019 - No seminar
Tue 05 Mar 2019 - Antonia Bevan (UCL)
TBC
Tue 12 Mar 2019 - Ignacio Neguerela (Universidad de Alicante)
Young clusters in the Gaia era: laboratories for massive star evolution
Tue 19 Mar 2019 - Kate Zawdie (Naval Research Laboratory)
Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances
Tue 26 Mar 2019 - Ilse De Looze (UCL)
Dust formation in supernova remnants
Tue 02 Apr 2019 - Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR)Summer Term 2019
Do some millisecond pulsars emit gravitational waves?
Tue 30 Apr 2019 - Maria-Theresia Walach (Lancaster)
Time variability in high-latitude ionospheric convection at Earth
Tue 07 May 2019 - Andrew Pontzen (UCL)
TBC
Tue 14 May 2019 - Juan Hernández Santisteban (St Andrews)
A multi-wavelength perspective of transitional millisecond pulsars
Tue 21 May 2019 - Daniel Bayliss (Warwick)
TBC
Tue 28 May 2019 - No seminar
Tue 04 Jun 2019 - Daniel Perley (Liverpool John Moore's)
TBC
Tue 11 Jun 2019 - Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
The SMILE mission: A novel way to study solar-terrestrial interactions
Tue 18 Jun 2019 - No seminar
Note: Seminar Room unavailable due to exam board
Tue 25 Jun 2019 - No seminar
Note: Seminar Room unavailable due to exam board
The old astrosem website is online here with details of seminars from previous academic years.