Seminars And Journal Club

Astrophysics SEMINARS

All seminars begin at 2.30pm in room 1004, Blackett Laboratory, unless otherwise indicated below, and are followed by refreshments and discussion.

January 13

Dr Gaitee Hussain (ESO)
"X-ray coronae and stellar magnetospheres"

 

January 20 - note start time 2pm

Dr Pat Scott (Stockholm)
"The search for particle dark matter"

 

January 27

Dr Alejo Martinez-Sansigre (Oxford)
"Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes from demographics of active galactic nuclei"

 

February 3

Dr Stephen Fairhurst (Cardiff)
"Searching for gravitational waves from coalescing binary systems"

 

February 10

Dr Rim Turkmani (Imperial)
"New model for interpreting hard X-ray sources in flares"

 

February 17

Dr Francisco Carrera (Santander)
"Exploring structure around submillimetre-bright QSOs"

 

February 24

Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney)
"Reconstructing the early Galaxy"

 

March 3

Dr Matt Jarvis (Hertfordshire)
"The evolution of AGN over cosmic time: Current status and future prospects"

 

March 10

Prof. Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney)
"Astrophotonics: The next wave in astronomical instrumentation"

 

March 17

Prof. Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle (INAOE, Mexico)

"Superstellar clusters and their impact on their host galaxies"

 

March 24

Prof. Mike Hudson (Waterloo)

"The star formation histories of red galaxies"

Seminar organiser: Prof. Stephen Warren

Archives 

Seminars 2009 

Journal Club

Journal club begins at 12 pm and takes place in room 1004, Blackett Laboratory. Please feel free to bring along your lunch. Hot beverages and biscuits will be available (please bring your own mug).

Journal club organiser: Dr Markos Trichas

COSMOLOGY SEMINARS

All seminars begin at 1pm in the Theoretical Physics seminar room, Room 503, Huxey Building, unless otherwise indicated below.

January 22 - start time 12.00
Marc Lilley
"Coupled currents in cosmic strings"

 

 

February 5 - start time 12.00
Andrew Liddle
"Dark Sector Unification"

 

February 12 - start time 12.00
Bernd Schroers
TBC

 

February 19 - start time 12.00
TBC

TBC

 

February 26 - start time 12.00
Laila Alabidi
TBC

 

March 5 - start time 12.00
Bob Nichol
TBC

 

March 12 - start time 12.00
Marco Bruni
TBC

 

March 19 - start time 12.00
HongSheng Zhao
TBC

 

March 26 - start time 12.00
Subir Sarkar
TBC

 

April 4 - start time 12.00
TBC
TBC

 

Seminar organisers: Jude Bowyer and Johannes Noller