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.

Sam Grafton-Waters 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 Sam or Xiaohao a line.

January - December 2019
Date	Title	Speaker	Expertise
Thursday 3 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 January, 14:30	Galaxy Outflows in the low-z universe	Guido Roberts-Borsani UCL	galaxy evolution
Thursday 24 January, 14:30	The Emergence of Structure during the epoch of reionization	Martin Haehnelt University of Cambridge	reionization,Lyman-alpha
Thursday 31 January, 14:30	Pulsar timing in Extreme Mass Ratio Binaries	Tom Kimpson MSSL,UCL	general relativity
Thursday 7 February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 February, 14:00	The early life of millisecond magnetars	Ian Jones University of Southampton	compact objects
Thursday 21 February, 14:00	The Dynamics and Origins of OB associations	Nick Wright Keele University	star formation
Thursday 28 February, 14:30	Title	Rebecca Bowler Oxford University	Topic
Thursday 7 March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 March, 14:00	The Transformation of Galaxies in the Distant Universe	Omar Almaini University of Nottingham	galaxy formation + evolution
Thursday 21 March, 14:00	A clean sweep for dust in nearby galaxies	Matthew Smith Cardiff University	dust
Thursday 28 March, 14:00	CMB lensing and delensing	Anthony Lewis University of Sussex	cosmology
Thursday 4 April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 April, 14:00	Compact binaries and the gravitational self-force	Adam Pound University of Southampton	gravitational waves,general relativity
Thursday 18 April	EASTER BREAK
Thursday 25 April, 14:30	Giant Broad-line Regions in Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei	Nicholas Devereux Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University	AGN
Thursday 2 May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 May, 14:00	GAmma-ray burst afterglows as probes of the high-z ISM	Patricia Shady University of Bath	ISM, GRB
Thursday 16 May, 14:00	Strong lensing with ALMA	Simon Dye University of Nottingham	lensing
Thursday 23 May, 14:00	Accurate Imaging in radio interferometry	Haoyang Ye University of Cambridge	Image reconstruction
Thursday 30 May, 14:00	General relativistic weak-field limit and Newtonian N-body simulations	Kazuya Koyama University of Portsmouth	N-body simulations
Thursday 6 June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Monday 10 June, 14:30	Cold flow accretion and chemical bimodality of MW galaxy	Masafumi Noguchi Tohoku University	accretion, Milky Way
Thursday 13 June, 14:30	Searching for signs of life on Mars	Lewis Dartnell University of Westminster	astrobiology
Thursday 20 June, 14:30	From manual segmentation to deep learning in medical imaging	Jack Spencer University of Exeter	Image reconstrution
Thursday 27 June, 14:30	The Past, Present and Future of Climate	Johnathon Holmes University College London	climate science
Thursday 4 July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 July, 14:30	Our multi-dimensional, time-evolving Galaxy	Jason Sanders University of Cambridge	Milky Way
Thursday 18 July, 14:30	Bayesian Cosmology	Alan Heavens Imperial College	cosmology
Thursday 25 July, 14:30	The Dark Hearts of Galaxies	Timothy Davis University of Cardiff	galaxy evolution
August	SUMMER BREAK
Thursday 5 September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 12 September, 14:00	How explosive is AGN feeding and feedback?	Sergei Nayakshin University of Leicester	AGN
Thursday 19 September, 14:00	An overview of the Hall in Neustron star crusts	Konstantinous Geourouliatos Durham University	compact objects
Thursday 26 September, 14:30	The Expansion of the Universe with Quasar spectra	Andreu Font-Ribera University College London	cosmology
Thursday 3 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 October, 14:30	Photoionisation Modelling of the Emission Line Regions in AGN	Sam Grafton-Waters MSSL/UCL	AGN, X-rays
Thursday 17 October, 14:30	Observing Large Scale Structures in the Gamma-Ray Sky	Pooja Surajbali Max Planck Institute	HAWC Gamma-ray observatory
Thursday 24 October, 14:30	Simulation of jet feedback in a realistic cluster environment and some other AGN related stuff	Martin Bourne University of Cambridge	SMBH Feedback
Thursday 31 October, 14:30	Release and capture of interstellar asteroids	Walter Dehnen Ludwig-Maximilians-University	(Galactic) Dynamics
Thursday 7 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 November, 14:30	Fast Radio Bursts	Evan Keane Jodrell Bank	SKA
Thursday 21 November, 14:30	The Extremes of Accretion: Ultraluminous X-ray sources and Super-Eddington Pulsars	Dom Walton University of Cambrdige	ULXs
Thursday 28 November, 14:00	The asymmetric double neutron star system PSR J1913+1102	Rob Ferdman University of East Anglia	Pulsars
Thursday 5 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 12 December, 14:30	Black Holes in Observational Focus	Roman Gold University of Frankfurt	EHT, Black holes
Thursday 19 December	Astro Jamboree