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
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
"Galilean quantum gravity in 2+1 dimensions"
February 19 - start time 12.00
Antonios Papazoglou"Horava-Lifshitz Gravity"
February 22 - start time 13.00
Furqaan Yusaf"MOND and TeVeS Modified Gravity: Testing the Theories"
February 26 - start time 12.00
Laila Alabidi
"Single Field Models of Inflation after WMAP 7"
March 5 - start time 12.00
Bob Nichol
"SDSS: Supernova, wiggles and more"
March 12 - start time 12.00
Marco Bruni
"Dark Side Dynamics: UDM models with fast transition"
March 15 - start time 13.00
Leonid Grishchuk
"Relic Gravitational Waves in the Light of Latest CMB Observations"
March 19 - start time 12.00
Subir Sarkar
"The PAMELA anomaly: new physics or old astrophysics?"
March 26 - start time 12.00
HongSheng Zhao
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April 4 - start time 12.00
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April 30 - start time 12.00
Joel Weller
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May 7 - start time 12.00
Martin Hendry
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May 14 - start time 12.00
Zhao Wen
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May 21 - start time 12.00
Anupam Mazumdar
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May 28 - start time 12.00
Shaun Thomas
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June 4 - start time 12.00
Mairi Sakelariadou
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June 11 - start time 12.00
Bernard Carr
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June 18 - start time 12.00
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June 25 - start time 12.00
Roger Clowes
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July 2 - start time 12.00
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July 9 - start time 12.00
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July 16 - start time 12.00
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Seminar organisers: Jude Bowyer and Johannes Noller