Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

January – July 2010

Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets in the Library for seminars.`

Speakers normally give presentations of up to an hour (including time for questions) and these begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise.
The seminar is preceded by lunch at a local pub and is followed by coffee and biscuits

Nick Seymour and Massimiliano de Pasquale are the seminar organisers.

Calendar January - July 2010
Date	Title	Speaker
7th January	(postponed to 24th June)	Dr Nick Seymour UCL/MSSL
14th January	(postponed to 8th April)	Dr Christopher Conselice University of Nottingham
21st January	The evolution of AGN over cosmic time: Current status and future prospects	Dr Matt Jarvis University of Hertfordshire
28th January	Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope	Dr Mark Swinbank University of Durham
4th February	MSSL show and tell	MSSLers UCL/MSSL
11th February	AGNs and Galaxy Formation: Clues from FIR Photometry and Optical Spectroscopy	Dr James Mullaney University of Durham
18th February	Gamma-ray bursts as probes of the distant Universe	Dr Andrew Levan University of Warwick
25th February	Modelling galaxy evolution	Dr Claudia Maraston University of Portsmouth
4th March	Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes from demographics of active galactic nuclei	Dr Alejo Martinez-Sansigre University of Oxford
11th March	The Progenitors of Galaxy Clusters	Dr Nina Hatch University of Nottingham
18th March	TBD	Dr Julien Devriendt University of Oxford
25th March	TBD	Dr Phil Evans University of Leicester
1st April	A Grand Unified Theory of GR and QM	Prof. A. Einstein Bern Federal Office for Intellectual Property
8th April	TBD	Dr Christopher Conselice University of Nottingham
15th April	----------no seminar: UK National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Glasgow ----------------
22nd April	TBD	Dr Markos Trichas Imperial College
29th April	The photoevaporation of discs around young stars: a new role for X-rays	Dr Cathie Clarke University of Cambridge
6th May	TBD	Dr Mustapha Mouhcine Liverpool John Moores University
13th May	TBD	Dr Dan Stark University of Cambridge
20th May	TBD	Prof. Alain Omont Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
27th May	TBD	Dr Tom Dwelly University of Southampton
3rd June	TBD	Dr Paul McMillan University of Oxford
10th June	TBD	Dr Stephen Serjeant Open University
17th June	TBD	Dr Elizabeth Stanway University of Bristol
24th June	Latest Resulst from Herschel	Dr Nick Seymour UCL/MSSL
1st July	TBD	Prof. Ian M^cHardy University of Southampton
8th July	TBD	Clive Tadhunter University of Sheffield
15th July	-----------------no seminar: IRX2010 Meeting at MSSL-----------------
22nd July	-----------------------------Summer break-----------------------------

For past seminars:
September – December 2009 click here.

If you have any comments or if you'd like to come and give us a seminar, please drop Nick or Max a line.

Last updated January 2010 — Nick Seymour

Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

January – July 2010

----------no seminar: UK National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Glasgow ----------------

-----------------no seminar: IRX2010 Meeting at MSSL-----------------

-----------------------------Summer break-----------------------------