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.
Wednesday, January 11
Chandra Wickramesinghe (Cardiff University)
"Interstellar grains, comets and the origin of life"
Wednesday, January 18 (departmental colloquium)
Jonathan Flint (Oxford Instruments)
"Giga magnets, nanotools and managing physicists"
Wednesday, January 25
Thomas Kitching (University of Edinburgh)
"On dark energy from weak lensing"
Wednesday, February 1
Curtis Saxton (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
"Galaxy and cluster models in dark matter haloes beyond CDM"
Wednesday, February 8
Mark Gieles (University of Cambridge)
"A surprising interplay between stellar mass-loss and dynamical relaxation in globular clusters"
Wednesday, February 15
Scott Gregory (Caltech)
"Can we predict the global magnetic topology of a new-born Sun-like star from its position in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?"
Wednesday, February 22 (departmental colloquium)
to be announced
Wednesday, February 29
Chris Brunt (University of Exeter)
to be announced
Wednesday, March 7
Suzanne Aigrain (University of Oxford)
"From exoplanet atmospheres to starspots: using Gaussian processes to model astrophysical time-series data"
Wednesday, March 14
Peter Thomas (University of Sussex)
"The Millenium gas simulations"
Wednesday, March 21 (departmental colloquium)
to be announced
Seminar organiser: Dr Daniel Mortlock (d.mortlock AT imperial.ac.uk)
Archives
Journal Club
Journal club begins at 12 pm on Mondays 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 organisers: Ashley Hyde and Nathalie Skrzpek
COSMOLOGY SEMINARS
All seminars begin at 12 noon in the Theoretical Physics seminar room, Room 503, Huxey Building, unless otherwise indicated below.
1st February - 1pm
Stephon Alexander (Princeton and Dartmouth College)
"Gauge Inflation and the Baryon Asymmetry Problem"
3rd February
Jonathan Pearson (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester)
"Generalized Perturbations in Modified Gravity and Dark Energy"
10th February
Joseph Elliston (Queen Mary)
"Evolution of Local Non-Gaussianity in the Early Universe"
17th February
Adam Hawken (UCL)
24th February
Joe Zuntz (Oxford and UCL)
title TBA
2nd March
Shaun Hotchkiss (Helsinki)
"Is the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect from Super-Structures Still a Problem for LambdaCDM?"
9th March
Donough Regan (Sussex)
"Universal Non-Gaussian Initial Conditions for N-body Simulations" - title TBC
16th March
Timothy Clifton (Oxford)
title TBA
Seminar organisers: Laura Watson (l.watson09 AT imperial.ac.uk) and Caroline Clark (caroline.clark05 AT imperial.ac.uk)