Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

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

The time allocated to speakers for their presentations is 45 minutes (plus 15 minutes for questions). Seminars begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise.
The seminar is preceded by lunch at a local pub and is followed by coffee and biscuits

Roberto Mignani and Ziri Younsi are the seminar organisers. If you have any comments or if you would like to visit MSSL and give us a seminar, please drop Roberto or Ziri a line.

Seminars Next Semester: July – December 2011 click here.

Past seminars:

September – December 2010

Calendar January - June 2011
Date	Title	Speaker
6th January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
13th January	Portraits of exoplanets on a red background	Dr Suzanne Aigrain University of Oxford
20th January	Environment and Self-Regulation in Galaxy Formation	Dr Daniel Thomas University of Portsmouth
21st January	A Chemical Probe into the Star Formation History of Our Galaxy Using the SAGA Database	Dr Takuma Suda University of Hokkaido
27th January	Supernovae: Explosions and dark energy	Dr Mark Sullivan University of Oxford
3rd February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
10th February	Do Bars Kill Galaxies? (The Importance of Red Spirals)	Dr Karen Masters University of Portsmouth
17th February		Prof Peter Coles University of Cardiff
24th February	Modelling the Spectral Energy Distribution of Galaxies	Dr Cristina Popescu University of Central Lancashire
3rd March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
10th March	The SEDs of 250um selected galaxies in the Herschel-ATLAS	Dr Dan Smith University of Nottingham
17th March
24th March	The triggering mechanisms of powerful AGN: evidence for galaxy interactions	Dr Cristina Ramos Almeida University of Sheffield
25th March	Internal Colours of Early-type Galaxies - Does the Environment Play a Role in the Evolution of Massive Galaxies?	Francesco La Barbera Naples
31st March	Is there really a dichotomy in AGN jet power?	Dr Jess Broderick University of Southampton
7th April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
14th April	Results from Herschel and future prospects with SPICA	Dr Chris Pearson RAL
19th April	Science with APEX - the path to ALMA	Dr Carlos De Breuck
28th April	(postponed to July 28th)	Prof. Chris Done University of Durham
5th May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
12th May	X-ray variability of black holes on all mass scales	Dr Simon Vaughan University of Leicester
19th May		Dr Mark Thompson University of Hertfordshire
26th May	MSSL (and other) results from Herschel	Dr Myrto Symeonidis UCL/MSSL
2nd June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
9th June	The glorious past of Sgr A* revealed by Molecular Clouds	Dr Gabriele Ponti University of Southampton
16th June	Peering into the Dark:Probing the Initial Conditions for the Formation of Stellar Clusters	Dr Gary Fuller University of Manchester
23rd June
30th June

Last updated June 2011 — Roberto Mignani