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 2012 click here.

Past seminars:

July – December 2011

January – June 2011

September – December 2010

22nd March

Exploring the dawn of cosmic structure with the 21 cm line and CO mapping
Jonathan Pritchard
Imperial College London

Calendar January - June 2012
Date	Title	Speaker
5th January
12th January	Studying black holes and neutron stars with gravitational wave observations	Alberto Vecchio University of Birmingham
19th January	Binaries and star formation	Simon Goodwin Sheffield University
26th January	Supernovae: creators or destroyers? Results from the Magellanic Clouds	Jacco van Loon Keele University
1st February	Variations of the IMF and the Star Formation Efficiency: Physics or Random Sampling?	Sami Dib Imperial College London
2nd February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
9th February	Recent advances in stellar seismology with CoRoT and Kepler	Andrea Miglio University of Birmingham
16th February	Cosmology from Galaxy Surveys	Will Percival Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
23rd February	Near-infrared surveys with VISTA	Will Sutherland Queen Mary, University of London
1st March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
8th March	Some statistics of galactic SNRs, and G1.9+0.3	Dave Green University of Cambridge
14th March	Mass loss and the end of stellar evolution	Albert Zijlstra University of Manchester
22nd March	CANCELED
29h March	*** National Astronomy Meeting **
5th April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
12th April	Dark Energy: A lot of fuss about nothing	Bob Nichol Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
19th April	VISTA - overview of recent results	Jim Emerson Queen Mary, University of London
26th April	Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution (POSTPONED)	Professor Andrew King University of Leicester
3rd May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
10th May	Galaxy groups and cosmic feedback	Trevor Ponman University of Birmingham
17th May	Herschel, Planck and the High Redshift Universe	Dave Clements Imperial College London
24th May	Hunting for transiting exoplanets with WASP and NGTS	Peter Wheatley University of Warwick
31st May	Ghostly Streams and Phantom Galaxies	Wyn Evans Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
7th june	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
14th june	What can GRBs tells us about star formation in the early universe?	Nial Tanvir University of Leicester
21th june	Triggering quasars	Clive Tadhunter University of Sheffield
28th june	Supernovae of gamma-ray bursts	David Bersier Liverpool John Moores University

Last updated June 2011 — Roberto Mignani