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.

Tom Kimpson and Xiaohao Cai are the seminar organisers. If you have any comments or if you would like to visit MSSL and give a seminar, please drop either Tom or Xiaohao a line.

January - December 2018
Date	Title	Speaker	Expertise
Thursday 4 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 January, 14:30	Formation, growth, and coalescence of supermassive black holes	Davide Fiacconi IoA, University of Cambridge	supermassive black holes
Thursday 18 January, 14:30	Cosmic Rays in High-Redshift Star-forming galaxies and their effects on the ISM	Ellis Owen MSSL/UCL	cosmic rays
Thursday 25 January, 14:30	Forward modelling the Euclid galaxy clustering measurement	Katarina Markovič ICG, Portsmouth	cosmology
Thursday 1 February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 8 February, 14:30	Weak Lensing Cosmology with the Square Kilometre Array	Ian Harrison University of Manchester	cosmology, weak lensing
Thursday 15 February, 14:00	Plasma-Astrophysics: The Connection Between Global Dynamics and Kinetic Plasma Physics	Daniel Verscharen MSSL/UCL	fundamental plasma processes in space and astrophysics
Tuesday 20 February, 14:00	Mapping the Milky Way in 6D with Gaia	Jo Bovy University of Toronto	dynamical structure, formation and evolution of the milky way
Thursday 22 February, 14:30	Developing a Standard Model for the Rotation and Magnetic Activity of Sun-Like Stars	Sean Matt University of Exeter	formation, structure and evolution of stars and their environments
Thursday 1 March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Friday 9 March, 14:30	Supernova Cosmology: Not Just w	Ed Macaulay ICG, Portsmouth	cosmology
Thursday 15 March, 14:00	Preparing for Stage IV Lensing Experiments	Peter Taylor MSSL/UCL	weak lensing, cosmology
Thursday 22 March, 14:30	Title	Name Institute	Topic
Thursday 29 March, 14:30	EASTER BREAK
Thursday 5 April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 12 April, 14:30	Contribution of AGN to cosmic reionization	Girish Kulkarni IoA Cambridge	cosmic reionization
Monday 23 April, 14:30	Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam	Masahiro Takada Kavli-IPMU, University of Tokyo	observational cosmology
Thursday 26 April, 14:30	Surveys with the SKA Precursor MeerKat	Natasha Maddox ASTRON	quasars, radio surveys
Monday 30 April, 14:30	Snow and the Seven Thousands White Dwarfs	Jeremy Heyl UBC	compact objects
Thursday 3 May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 May, 14:30	Active Galactic Nuclei as cosmological probes	Elisabeta Lusso Durham University	cosmology, quasars as standard candles
Thursday 17 May, 14:30	The Structure of Galactic Thick Disks	Marie Martig LJMU	Galactic Disks
Thursday 24 May, 14:30	Testing the LCDM paradigm with strong gravitational lenses	Tom Collet ICG Portsmouth	dark matter
Thursday 31 May, 14:30	Probing the nature of dark matter with galaxy clusters	Andrew Robertson Durham University	dark matter
Thursday 7 June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 June, 14:30	Solving Cosmological puzzles with neutrino physics	Pasquale Di Bari University of Southampton	Particle cosmology, neutrino physics
Thursday 21 June, 14:30	X-rays across the galaxy population: tracing star formation and AGN activity	James Aird University of Leicester	X-ray surveys
Thursday 28 June, 14:30	Gamma-ray astronomy: Current status and future plans	Anthony Brown Durham University	gamma-ray astronomy
Thursday 5 July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 12 July, 14:30	Inferring the properties of dark matter from gaps in stellar streams	Denis Erkal University of Surrey	dark matter
Thursday 19 July, 14:30	Internal Seminar	MSSL MSSL	Topic
Thursday 26 July, 14:30	The outskirts of Globular Clusters: from todal tails to the Milky Way potential	Eduardo Balbinot University of Surrey	globular clusters
August	SUMMER BREAK
Monday 27 August, 14:30	Probing Missing Baryons with X-ray Spectroscopy	Wei Cui Purdue University
Friday 31 August, 14:30	An Exciting Haul of Planetary, Binary and Triple Systems from pulsation timing	Simon Murphy University of Sydney	Planetary searches, Binary systems
Thursday 6 September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 13 September, 14:30	Dust-Obscured galaxies under the gravitational lens	Mattia Negrello University of Cardiff	galaxy formation and evolution
Thursday 20 September, 14:30	How Galaxies Form Stars	Andrey Kravstov University of Chicago	stellar formation
Thursday 27 September, 14:30	Preparing for the TESS-era of asteroseismology	Warrick Ball University of Birmingham	Stellar structure and modelling, astroseismology
Thursday 4 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 October, 14:30	Reconstruction of the initial conditions of the universe	Baojiu Li ICC, Durham University	cosmology, modified gravity theories
Thursday 18 October, 14:30	Multi-scale reionization	Ilian Iliev University of Sussex	cosmology, reionization
Thursday 25 October, 14:30	Thoughts on an all-sky imager for gravitational wave sources	Mark Cropper MSSL	gravitational waves
Thursday 1 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 8 November, 14:30	It's got a pulse! Recent developments in ULXs	Tim Roberts Durham University	X-ray sources
Thursday 15 November, 14:30	Exploring the early universe with the largest emission-line surveys	David Sobral Lancaster University	galaxies, Lyman-alpha
Thursday 22 November, 14:30	Dark matter heats up in dwarf galaxies	Justin Read Surrey University	dark matter
Thursday 29 November, 14:30	Unveiling extreme dusty star-formation in the distant universe	Julie Wardlow Lancaster University	early-universe, star-formation
Thursday 6 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 13 December, 14:30	Internal Seminar	MSSL MSSL	Topic