Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets 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.

Stefano Pasetto and Jason Hunt are the seminar organisers. If you have any comments or if you would like to visit MSSL and give us a seminar, please drop Stefano or Jason a line.

January - December 2014
Date	Title	Speaker
9 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
16 January	Exploring the physical properties of the first galaxies	Stephen Wilkins University of Sussex
23 January	Chemodynamical Simulations of Galaxies	Chiaki Kobayashi University of Hertfordshire
30 January	Modelling dust attenuation and emission in galaxies	Giovanni Natale University of Central Lancashire
6 February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
13 February	Doppler Lensing: A New Cosmological Probe	David Bacon University of Portsmouth
20 February	CANCELLED	Lodovico Coccato ESO
27 February	No seminar due to Student Poster Competition	-------------------------------------
6 March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
13 March	Pulsars, fast radio bursts, and the Square Kilometre Array	Aris Karastergiou University of Oxford
20 March	Molecular cloud and star formation in spiral galaxies	Clare Dobbs University of Exeter
27 March	Sparse and statistical data analysis for precision cosmology	Jason McEwen MSSL/UCL
3 April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
10 April	The origin of the Milky Way globular clusters	Mark Gieles University of Surrey
17 April	No seminar - Easter vacation	-------------------------------------
24 April	Quo Vadis, Cosmology?	Andy Taylor University of Edinburgh
1 May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
8 May	The initial mass function of early type galaxies	Ignacio Ferreras UCL/MSSL
15 May	The Milky Way is shrinking	Vasily Belokurov University of Cambridge
22 May	Bayesian model comparison in astronomy and cosmology	Daniel Mortlock Imperial College London
29 May	Cosmological tests of gravity	Kazuya Koyama University of Portsmouth
5 June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
12 June	Herschel and ALMA find supernovae as dust factories	Mikako Matsuura University College London
16 June 11:30	Probing the Intracluster Medium to the Virial Radius and Beyond	John Mulchaey Carnegie Observatories
19 June	Hunting for the first light during the epoch of reionisation	Filipe Abdalla University College London
26 June	Rearranged due to NAM	-------------------------------------
3 July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
9 July	Results from The NuSTAR Black Hole Spin Program	Dominic Walton California institute of Technology
10 July	Extreme Nuclear Transients in PanSTARRS	Andy Lawrence The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
15 July	Cygnus A revisitd: Precessing jets, multiple jet activity periods and hotspot shockfronts	Katrien Steenbrugge Universidad Católica del Norte
17 July	The European Extremely Large Telescope	Isobel Hook University of Oxford
24 July	Cosmology from the polarised microwave background	Joanna Dunkley University of Oxford
4 September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
11 September	Star formation relations and CO spectral line engergy distributions across the J-ladder and redshift	Thomas Greve University College London
18 September	CANCELLED	-------------------------------------
25 September 11:30	The hunt for dwarf galaxies and massive compact galaxies with the GAMA survey	Ivan Baldry Liverpool John Moores University
2 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
9 October	Seeking the traces of cosmic expansion in galaxy properties	Martin Stringer IAC Tenerife
16 October	CANCELLED	Catherine Heymans University of Edinburgh
23 October	Gas accretion and star formation: drivers of galaxy evolution	Amelie Saintonge University College London
30 October	CANCELLED	Anna Scaife University of Southampton
6 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
13 November	Dynamics of fast spinning neutron stars around a massive black hole	Kinwah Wu UCL/MSSL
20 November	Transient astronomy with gravitational waves	Stephen Fairhurst Cardiff Universty
27 November	Multiscale analysis of the interstellar medium	Jean-François Robitaille University of Southampton
4 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
11 December	* Postponed to 19th March *	Danny Steeghs Univerity of Warwick