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: January – June 2013 click here.

Past seminars:

January – June 2012

July – December 2011

January – June 2011

September – December 2010

Calendar July - December 2012
Date	Title	Speaker
5th July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
12th July	Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization CANCELED.	Richard Mc Mahon Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
19th July	What are exoplanets made of?	Giovanna Tinetti University College London
26th July	Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution	Professor Andrew King University of Leicester
2th August	Determining the Accretion Power Output in AGN: Multi-wavelength AGN studies with the Swift/BAT catalogue	Ranjan Vasudevan (MSSL Visitor) University of Maryland
9th August
16th August	SUMMER BREAK
23th August	AGN: major mergers, minor mergers or secular processes?	Carolin Villforth (MSSL Visitor) University of Florida
30th August
5th September	The evolution of AGN and their host galaxies to z~1 in wide-field multi-wavelength Surveys	Andy Goulding CfA
6th September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
13th September	AGN and Binary X-ray Variability	Ian Mc Hardy University of Southampton
20th September	POSTPONED	Jeremy Yates University College London
27th September	Dynamics of the dark side: Unified Dark Matter models with fast transition	Marco Bruni Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
4th October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
11th October	Decoding black hole variability	Phil Uttley University of Amsterdam
18th October	New Insights into the Stellar-ISM interaction- What are the JCMT, Herschel and DiRAC are telling us?	Jeremy Yates University College London
25th October	Cosmological perturbation theory: from entropy perturbations to magnetic fields	Karim Malik Queen Mary University
26th October	Direct Observation of DM Subhalo Mass Function in Coma cluster by weak lensing Special seminar (14:00 Nu Meeting Room)	Toshifumi Futamase (MSSL Visitor) Tokyo University
30th October	Dynamical evolution of star clusters in transient spiral arms Special seminar (11:00 Common Room)	Michiko Fujii (MSSL Visitor) Leiden University
1st November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
8th November	Dead, Undead and Zombie Zones in Protostellar Disks: Can the MRI Survive?	Subhanjoy Mohanty Imperial College London
15th November	Effects of non-solar abundance ratios in spectra of stars and stellar populations	Anne Sansom University of Central Lancashire
19th November	The Heart of the Quasar: Resolving the Central Engine with Gravitational Microlensing Special seminar	David Floyd (MSSL Visitor) School of Physics,Monash University, Australia
22nd November	The Past and Present of Spiral Galaxies Special seminar	Asmus Boehm (MSSL Visitor) University of Innsbruck
29th November	The small-scale structure of the Universe	Carlos Frenk Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University
6th December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
13th December	The Repair and Recommissioning of SALT	Phil Charles University of Southampton
20th December	POSTPONED	Kathy Romer University of Sussex
27th December	CHRISTMAS BREAK

Last updated September 2012 — Roberto Mignani