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.
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.