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

January - December 2015
Date	Title	Speaker
8 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
14 January	Magnetic fields and massive particles	Anna Scaife University of Southampton
22 January	CANCELLED	------------------------
29 January	The EAGLE project: Galaxy Formation in a Virtual Universe	Richard Bower University of Durham
5 February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
12 February	The Transient Universe: Cosmic Explosions and Dark Energy	Mark Sullivan University of Southampton
19 February	Cosmological parameters from Planck	Antony Lewis University of Sussex
26 February	Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography: Mapping Large-Scale Structure at z>2	Khee-Gan Lee MPI Heidelberg
5 March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
12 March	Life in Deep Salts and the Exploration of Mars	Charles Cockell University of Edinburgh
19 March	Sparsely Sampling the Sky: A Bayesian Experimental Design Approach	Paniez Paykari UCL/MSSL
26 March	APOGEE: The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment	Ricardo Schiavon Liverpool John Moores University
2 April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
9 April	Mapping reionization with the SKA	Jonathan Pritchard Imperial College London
16 April	MSSL projects	Mark Cropper, Daisuke Kawata MSSL-UCL
23 April	Galaxy alingments - obstacle or opportunity for large-scale structure cosmology?	Benjamin Joachimi UCL
30 April	The sizes and morphologies of high redshift Lyman-break galaxies	Emma Curtis-Lake Institut Astrophysique de Paris
7 May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
14 May	From precision to accuracy: cosmology with large imaging surveys	Hiranya Peiris UCL
21 May	The galactic population of double white dwarf binaries	Danny Steeghs Univerity of Warwick
28 May	Massive star formation in the Milky Way	Stuart Lumsden Univeristy of Leeds
4 June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
11 June	HI intensity mapping using a novel single-dish radio telescope	Clive Dickinson University of Manchester
12 June	Dwarf galaxy challenges to the cosmological paradigm	Julio Navarro University of Victoria
18 June	Searching for protoclusters in the far-infrared with Herschel/SPIRE	Emma Rigby Leiden Observatory
25 June	The impact of turbulent star-formation on (high-redshift) galaxy properties	Julien Devriendt Oxford Univeristy
2 July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
9 July		CANCELLED
16 July	Delivery of biogenic species during terrestrial planet formation	Soko Matsumura University of Dundee
23 July	Data transport and timing in the SKA	Keith Grainge Jodrell Bank centre for Astrophysics
30 July	Star-forming outflowing QSOs at z~2: their status, future and environments	Francisco Carrera Instituto di Fisica de Cantabria, Spain
3 September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
10 September	Planck probes the standard model(s)	Andrew Jaffe Imperial College
17 September	Connecting star formation to galactic dynamics	Florent Renaud University of Surrey
24 September	Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs	Michal Michalowski Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
1 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
8 October	"Clusters of galaxies and hot baryons"	CONFERENCE AT MSSL
15 October	Sampling schemes on the sphere: with applications in diffusion MRI and acoustics	Alice Bates Australian National University
21 October	How to bend disk galaxies	Greg Stinson MPIA
22 October	Flares from late type stars in the Kepler/K2 era	Gavin Ramsay Armagh Observatory
29 October	Linear and circular polarisation studies of gamma-ray burst afterglows	Klaas Wiersema University of Leicester
5 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
12 November	The interstellar dust characteristics from dust radiative transfer modelling	Ilse de Looze Univeristy of Cambridge
19 November	Stellar Hydrodynamics, Nucleosynthesis and Evolution (SHYNE) project: 321D link	Raphael Hirschi Keele University
20 November	AGN torus and outflows: firm results from infrared interferometry	Makoto kishimoto Kyoto Sangyo University
26 November	A clean sweep for dust in Nearby Galaxies with Herschel	Matthew Smith University of Cardiff
3 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
11 December	ASTRO CHRISTMAS JAMBOREE