On Tuesday afternoons in the Library, the Astrophysics Group meets for seminars (internal and external) and to discuss topics from general astronomy to group matters. These get-togethers are specifically meant to be very informal. They are intended to promote the free exchange of ideas between members of the group and others.
External speakers normally give presentations of up to an hour (including time for questions) and these will begin at 3pm unless stated otherwise.
Internal talks or discussions begin at 4pm.
Coffee and biscuits are provided at all meetings.
In charge for the period 1st January to 30th June 2000 are Graziella Branduardi-Raymont and Roberto Soria.
Calendar 2000 January to June | ||
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Date | Title | Speaker |
Thurs 13th Jan |
State transitions in black-hole candidates: the optical - X-ray connection | Roberto Soria MSSL |
18th Jan | TBD; Proposed RGS Medium Deep Surveys | Mat and Grazi MSSL |
1st Feb | Spectroscopy of PQ Gem | Cynthia James MSSL |
8th Feb | Report from the Cambridge VISTA meeting | Mat Page MSSL |
15th Feb 3pm start |
Simulating the RGS spectra of active galaxies | Alexander Blustin UCL |
22nd Feb | X-ray emission from radio galaxies | Martin Hardcastle Bristol |
29th Feb | X-ray emission from obscured AGN | Kazushi Iwasawa Cambridge |
7th Mar | Demonstration of SAS | Gavin Ramsay MSSL |
14th Mar | Proposal for a polarimeter on Subaru | Mark Cropper MSSL |
21st Mar | Proposal for a polarimeter on Subaru (part 2) | Mark Cropper MSSL |
11th April | ||
18th April | Report from the RAS Meeting, Edinburgh | Mark Cropper MSSL |
2nd May | ||
9th May | Formation and Evolution of close double white dwarfs | Gijs Nelemans University of Amsterdam |
16th May | MACHO Project Monitoring of LMC X-ray Binaries | Phil Charles Southampton |
23rd May | The X-ray outbursts of dwarf novae | Peter Wheatley Leicester University |
30th May | ||
6th June | group meeting | |
13th June | Can lensed quasars really tell us Ho? | Prasenjit Saha Queen Mary & Westfield College, Univ. of London |
20th June | group meeting | |
27th June | XMM observations of the accretion disk in the BH binary LMC X-3 | Roberto Soria MSSL |
If you have any comments or if you'd like to come and give us a seminar, please drop Graziella Branduardi-Raymont, Roberto Soria or myself a line.
last updated - 3rd July 2000 - Rhaana Starling
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