Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets for seminars.

The time allocated to speakers for their presentations is about 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, Chris Wallis and Ignacio Ferreras 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 Chris a line.

January - December 2017
Date	Title	Speaker	Expertise
Thursday 5 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 12 January, 14:30	The Messier Mission	David Valls-Gabaud CEA	statistics, stellar physics, cosmology
Thursday 19 January, 14:00	A look into the black hole and galaxy nursery at z>6	Sadegh Khochfar ROE	numerical simulations of galaxy formation
Friday 20 January, 14:30	Estimated covariance matrices in large scale structure analyses	Elena Sellentin Imperial College	cosmology, statistics
Thursday 26 January, 14:30	The mitigation of intrinsic alignments in future high precision weak lensing surveys	Lee Whittaker University of Manchester	cosmology, weak lensing
Thursday 2 February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 February, 14:30	Cosmic Web to Cosmology	Donnacha Kirk UCL	cosmology
Thursday 16 February, 14:00	INTERNAL SEMINAR - It's about Wavelets	Jennifer Chan MSSL-UCL	wavelets and their astronomical applications
Thursday 23 February, 14:30	Very High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy with H.E.S.S. and CTA	Alison Mitchell MPIK	gamma-ray astronomy
Thursday 2 March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 March, 14:30	The most massive stars and stellar black holes in the Universe	Jorick Vink Armagh Observatory	stellar evolution
Thursday 16 March, 14:30	Surveys of Dark Energy: more than Dark Energy	Ofer Lahav UCL	cosmology
Thursday 23 March, 14:30	Radio Cosmology	Richard Battye University of Manchester	cosmology
Friday 24 March, 14:00	Cosmology beyond power spectrum analysis	Dipak Munshi University of Sussex	cosmology
Thursday 30 March, 14:30	Dwarf-dwarf stripping in the Magellanic Bridge	Noelia Noël University of Surrey	resolved stellar populations
Thursday 6 April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 13 April, 14:30	EASTER BREAK
Thursday 20 April, 14:30	Dark Matter and the Neutrino Floor	Malcolm Fairbairn King's College London	dark matter, cosmology
Thursday 27 April, 14:30	Unveiling the properties of the first galaxies	Nicolas Laporte UCL	Reionization, galaxy formation and evolution, lensing
Thursday 4 May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 May, 14:30	Convective penetration: toward a new generation of stellar structure models	Jane Pratt University of Exeter	stellar convection
Thursday 18 May, 14:30	Astro group Jamboree
Thursday 25 May, 14:30	The effect of Galactic aberration on the VLBI and Gaia reference frames	Jia-Cheng Liu Nanjing University	galactic reference systems
Thursday 25 May, 14:30	Searching exoplanets and binary stars using photometric data	Ming Yang Nanjing University	exoplanets
Thursday 1 June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Mon-Thurs 5-8 June	Euclid Consortium Science Meeting, London
Thursday 15 June, 14:30	Anisotropy probes of dark matter annihilation	Shin’ichiro Ando GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam	particle astrophysics
Thursday 22 June, 14:30	The evolution of galaxy morphology and stellar populations	Malcolm Bremer University of Bristol	high redshift galaxies
Thursday 29 June, 14:30	Asteroseismology and the star-planet connection	Mikkel Lund University of Birmingham	asteroseismology
Thursday 6 July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 13 July, 14:30	Symmetry, time flow, and millisecond pulsars orbiting around a massive black hole	Kinwah Wu MSSL/UCL	Radiative transfer, GR
Thursday 20 July, 14:30	Multi-wavelength polarimetry of stronly magnetised neutron stars: theoretical modelling and observations	Denis González Caniulef MSSL/UCL	neutron stars
Thursday 20 July, 14:30	Investigating the magnetised environments of Galaxy Clusters in the radio	Luke Pratley MSSL/UCL	cosmology, radioastronomy
Thursday 27 July, 14:30	Probing the astrophysics and particle physics of WIMPs with direct detection experiments	Anne Green University of Nottingham	dark matter, astroparticle physics
Thursday 3 August, 14:30	Testing Horndeski gravity with 3D weak lensing	Alessio Spurio Mancini Heidelberg University	cosmology
10-31 August	SUMMER BREAK
Thursday 7 September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 September, 14:30	Dark Energy Survey: New Results	Bob Nichol ICG, Portsmouth	cosmology, SNe
Thursday 21 September, 14:30	Adventures in back-yard lensing	Russell Smith Durham University	galaxy formation and evolution, gravitational lensing
Thursday 28 September, 14:30	POSTPONED to 25th January - Forward modelling the Euclid galaxy clustering measurement	Katarina Markovič ICG, Portsmouth	cosmology
Thursday 5 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Monday 9 October, 14:30	Confirmation of Exoplanets via Transit Timing Variation	Ming Yang Nanjing University	exoplanets
Thursday 19 October, 14:30	Alternating structure-adapted proximal gradient descent for nonconvex regularised problems with multiconvex coupling terms. Applications in imaging inverse problems	Mila Nikolova CMLA, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay	mathematics of imaging
Thursday 26 October, 14:30	The growth of disks and bulges	Stijn Wuyts University of Bath	galaxy formation and evolution
Wednesday 1 November, 14:30	Deciphering the nature of emission and outflows in AGN	Missagh Mehdipour SRON, Netherlands	AGN, X-ray spectroscopy
Thursday 2 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 November, 14:30	The plurality of Worlds	Amaury Triaud University of Birmingham	exoplanets
Thursday 23 November, 14:30	Discovery of a blue kilonova after the GW detection of a binary neutron star merger	Paul Kuin MSSL-UCL
Thursday 30 November, 14:30	A theoretical perspective on emission line galaxies	Violeta González-Pérez University of Portsmouth	galaxy formation theory
Monday 4 December, 14:30	Molecular cloud dynamics and star formation	Yang Gao Tsinghua University	protostellar disks, molecular cloud collapse, SN detonation
Thursday 7 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 December, 14:30	SHARDS: Contraints on the dust attenuation law of star-forming galaxies at z~2	Mónica Tress-Barojas MSSL/UCL	galaxy formation, stellar populations