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 2020
Date	Title	Speaker	Expertise
Thursday 2 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 January, 14:30	Cosmology with CMB ploarisation, CMB lensing and Galaxy survey cross-correlations	Giulio Fabbian University of Sussex	Cosmology
Thursday 16 January, 14:30	Colliding black holes and neutron stars - detecting gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo	Laura Nuttall University of Portsmouth	GW
Thursday 23 January, 14:30	Collisionless losscone refilling: the end of the final parsec problem	Alessia Gualandris University of Surrey	Dynamics of dense stellar systems
Thursday 30 January, 14:30	The origin of close-in exoplanets	James Owen Imperial	Exoplanets
Thursday 6 February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 13 February, 14:30	The Gravitational Wave Spectrum	Mike Cruise University of Birmingham	GW
Thursday 20 February, 14:00	RAADSat: A cubesat mission for studying Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes	Ahlam Alqasim & Aisha Almannaei MSSL/UCL	Cubesat Mission
Thursday 27 February, 14:30	Redefining the Torus: A fresh look at the dusty environment of AGN	Sebastian Hoenig University of Southampton	AGN, Dust, IR
Thursday 5 March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 12 March, 14:30	Hierarchical Modelling of Stellar Populations with Astroseismology	Guy Davies University of Birmingham	Asteroseismology
Thursday 19 March, 14:00	Postponed to 21st May	Affelia Wibisono MSSL/UCL	Jupiter, X-rays
Thursday 26 March, 14:30	Postponed (Pulsating, hot winds from low-mass black-hole binaries)	Phil Charles University of Southampton	Low mass black hole binaries
Thursday 2 April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 April	EASTER BREAK
Thursday 16 April, 14:00	Postponed to 25th June	Vladimir Yershov MSSL/UCL	topic
Thursday 23 April, 14:30	Postponed to 24th September	Andy Taylor University of Edinburgh	Cosmology
Thursday 30 April, 14:30	Postponed to 28th May	Anna Lisa Varri University of Edinburgh	Stellar dynamics, star clusters, Gaia
Thursday 7 May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 May, 14:30	Postponed	Sarah Casewell University of Leicester	Brown and White Drarfs
Thursday 21 May, 14:00	Conjugate Observations of Jupiter's X-ray Aurorae with XMM-Newton and Juno	Affelia Wibisono MSSL/UCL	Jupiter, X-rays
Thursday 28 May, 14:30	The new phase space complexity of old stellar systems	Anna Lisa Varri University of Edinbrugh	Stellar dynamics, star clusters, Gaia
Thursday 4 June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 June, 14:30	Estimating Non-Gaussianity in the CMB	Gabriel Jung University of Padova	Early Universe, Cosmology
Thursday 18 June, 14:30	Postponed	Christian Knigge Uni of Southampton	AGN, dust, IR
Thursday 25 June, 14:30	Cold intergalactic dust VS the Hubble constant tension	Vladimir Yershov MSSL/UCL	Dust, Hubble Tension
Thursday 2 July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 July, 14:30	Probing gravitational lensing, primordial GWs and reionisation by analysing mode coupling in CMB anisotropies	Toshiya Namikawa Cambridge	Cosmology
Thursday 16 July, 14:30	Galaxies growing up in the Epoch of Reionisation	Renske Smit John Moore University	Galaxies, Early Universe
Thursday 23 July, 14:30	Cloudy with a chance of water: Observation and analysis of Exoplanet atmospheres	Hannah Wakeford University of Bristol	Exoplanets
Thursday 30 July, 14:30	Title TBC	Speaker University	Topic
August	SUMMER BREAK
Thursday 3 September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 September, 14:30	The Gemini-LIGHTS Survey: scattered light imaging of protoplanetary disc structures	Tim Harries University of Exeter	Star Formation
Thursday 17 September, 14:30	On the Total Star Formation Rate of galaxies at redshift 0.6 - 1.2	Monu Sharma MSSL	UV Luminosity Fuctions
Thursday 24 September, 14:30	Testing Theories of Dark Energy and Modified Gravity	Andy Taylor University of Edinbrugh	Cosmology
Thursday 1 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 8 October, 14:30	An insight into the galactic hosts and environments of merging compact binary objects with EM counterparts	Soheb Mandhai University of Leicester	GRB, GW
Thursday 15 October, 14:30	Unifying Jupiter's Quasi-Periodic X-ray, UV and Radio Flares and the Identification of their Driver	William Dunn MSSL	X-rays, Jupiter, ORBYTS
Thursday 22 October, 14:30	Devil's triangle of holy trinity? Exploring galaxy clustering with three-point statistics	Alexander Eggemeier University of Durham	Galaxy Clustering
Thursday 29 October, 14:30	Sleeping beasts: magnetic fields shape observational manifestations of neutron stars	Andrei Igoshev University of Leeds	Neutron Stars
Thursday 5 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 12 November, 14:30	Testing Gravity with Gravitational Waves	Tessa Baker Queen Mary University	Cosmology, GW
Thursday 19 November, 15:30	Gravitational wave astroseismology with f-mode Dynamic Tides in Compact Binary Inspirals	Patricia Schmidt University of Birmingham	GW, BBHs, NSs
Thursday 26 November, 14:30	Cosmology and fundemental physics with one-point statistics	Cora Uhlemann University of Newcastle	Cosmology
Thursday 3 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 December	ASTRO JAMBOREE