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.

Ellis Owen 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 Ellis or Myrto a line.

January - December 2016
Date	Title	Speaker	Expertise
Thursday 7 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 January, 14:30	Unraveling the origin of the GeV and TeV emission from gamma-ray binaries	Victor Zabalza University of Leicester	gamma ray binaries
Friday 15 January, 14:00	Non-linear violent disc instability with high Toomre's Q in high-redshift clumpy disc galaxies	Shigeki Inoue Hebrew University, Israel	disc instabilities in high redshift galaxies
Thursday 21 January, 14:30	Radio-Loud AGN: a multi-scale perspective	Beatriz Mingo Fernadez University of Leicester	radio galaxies
Thursday 28 January, 14:30	The pillars and the twins of the stars in the Gaia-ESO Survey	Paula Jofre Pfiel University of Cambridge	old stars, stellar spectroscopy, GAIA
Thursday 4 February, 14:30	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Friday 5 February, 11:00	Accretion Disk formation following tidal disruption of stars on bound orbits around spinning supermassive black holes	Kimitake Hayasaki Chungbuk National University, Korea	high energy phenomena; accretion disks, black holes, binaries
Thursday 11 February, 14:30	Multi-Wavelength Techniques To Test the Fundaments of Cosmology	Stefano Camera University of Manchester	weak lensing, galaxy clustering surveys
Thursday 18 February, 14:30	The EAGLE project: Numerical modelling of the 'Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments'	Rob Crain Liverpool John Moores	galaxy formation and evolution, hydrodynamical simulations
Thursday 25 February, 14:30	Survey Science with SKA Precursors: MWA & ASKAP	Melanie Johnston-Hollitt Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand	SKA
Thursday 3 March, 14:30	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 March, 14:30	Galaxy masses in a cosmological context	Jorge Penarrubia Royal Observatory of Edinburgh	dark matter, dwarf galaxies
Thursday 17 March, 14:30	Structure and Dynamics of the Milky Way	Ralph Schoenrich University of Oxford	galactic dynamics
Tuesday 22 March, 11:15	GRB-SNe: From Central Engines to Cosmological Probes	Zach Cano University of Iceland	GRBs
Thursday 31 March, 14:30	INTERNAL SEMINAR - A talk of two halves, Image reconstruction on the sphere and scanning for COrE++	Chris Wallis MSSL-UCL	Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis
Thursday 7 April, 14:30	ATRO GROUP MEETING
Monday 11 April, 14:30	Investigating the age structure of the Milky Way disc	Luca Casagrande The Australian National University	Galactic archaeology
Thursday 14 April, 14:30	Early cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey	Joe Zuntz University of Manchester	DES, lensing
Thursday 21 April, 14:30	Exoplanets: recent results and future experiments	Don Pollacco University of Warwick	exoplanets
Thursday 28 April, 14:30	A dark night through a textured window: current and future probes of cosmological physics	David Bacon University of Portsmouth	cosmology, lensing
Thursday 5 May, 14:30	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Friday 13 May, 14:00	INTERNAL SEMINAR - Wavelet-based segmentation on the sphere and the application of MCMC methods in radio interferometry	Xiaohao Cai MSSL-UCL	Image and signal processing, numerical analysis
Thursday 19 May, 14:30	Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies in the Reionisation Era	Richard Ellis ESO/UCL	star-formation, galaxy evolution
Thursday 26 May, 14:00	INTERNAL SEMINAR - Made-to-Measure dynamical modelling of the Milky Way with PRIMAL and Gaia	Jason Hunt MSSL-UCL	galaxy dynamics
Thursday 2 June, 14:30	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Friday 10 June, 14:00	INTERNAL SEMINAR - High resolution X-ray spectroscopy of AGN	Megan Whewell MSSL-UCL	AGN spectroscopy
Thursday 16 June, 14:30	A fundamental constraint on the imaging of dust and molecular gas in the Early Universe set by the CMB	Padelis Papadopoulos ESO/Cardiff	star-formation, molecular gas
Thursday 23 June, 14:00	INTERNAL SEMINAR - Putting AGN centre stage	Myrto Symeonidis MSSL-UCL	galaxy surveys, galaxy evolution
Thursday 30 June	NAM	NAM
Thursday 7 July, 14:30	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 July, 14:30	Modelling the Emission from Supermassive Black Holes with General Relativistic Radiative Transfer and MHD	Ziri Younsi University of Frankfurt	general relativity, black holes
Wednesday 20 July, 14:30	NASA's WFIRST Mission	Jason Rhodes NASA JPL	weak lensing, structure of the Universe
Thursday 21 July, 14:30	LOFAR and the evolution of radio AGN	Wendy Williams University of Hertfordshire	AGN, radio surveys
Thursday 28 July, 14:30	Simulating Realistic Clusters for Cosmology	David Barnes University of Manchester	simulations of galaxy clusters
Tuesday 2 August, 14:30	Charge-Exchange X-Ray Emission from M82	Li Ji Purple Mountain Observatory	high energy astrophysics
Thursday 1 September, 14:30	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 8 September, 14:00	[CII] is all the rage at high-z - but how to make sense of it?	Thomas Greve UCL	submm astronomy, galaxy formation and evolution
Thursday 15 September, 14:00	INTERNAL SEMINAR - Impacts of a Flaring Disk and Radial Mixing on the Galactic Thick and Thin Disks	Daisuke Kawata MSSL	galaxy dynamics
Thursday 22 September, 14:30	Moving beyond the power spectrum of 21-cm maps	Catherine Watkinson UCL	Reionisation, 21cm observations, first galaxies
Thursday 29 September, 14:30	Unravelling the formation history of the Milky Way with chemodynamics	Payel Das University of Oxford	stellar evolution
Thursday 6 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 13 October	Some complexities of the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal	Suman Majumdar Imperial College	Epoch of reionisation, SKA
Thursday 20 October	INTERNAL SEMINAR - Gaia DR1 Science	Daisuke Kawata, Paul Kuin, Ignacio Ferreras MSSL-UCL	Gaia Science
Thursday 3 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 November	Predictions for the detection of Tidal Streams with Gaia using Great Circle Methods	Cecilia Mateu Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomía, Venezuela	stellar astrophysics
Thursday 17 November	MSSL AWARDS
Thursday 24 November	INTERNAL SEMINAR - Euclid Pipeline Systematics; An End to End Approach	Paniez Paykari MSSL-UCL	Euclid
Thursday 1 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Friday 2 December	Globular clusters in the era of precision astrometry: getting ready for Gaia	Anna Lisa Varri IfA Edinburgh	Globular clusters, Gaia
Wednesday 7 December	Black Hole shadow features with accretion and GRMHD jet	Hung-Yi Pu ASIAA	Black holes, GRMHD
Thursday 8 December	Weak lensing magnification and other signals	Robert Crittenden University of Portsmouth	cosmology