Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

September – December 2010

Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets in the Library for seminars.`

Speakers normally give presentations of up to an hour (including time for questions) and these begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise.
The seminar is preceded by lunch at a local pub and is followed by coffee and biscuits

Nick Seymour and Massimiliano de Pasquale are the seminar organisers.

Calendar September - December 2010
Date	Title	Speaker
26th August	Stellar Distributions in Galactic Centres: Searching for the Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries	Mr Neil Johnson MSSL/University of Saskatchewan
10th September	Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies	Dominic Walton IoA
16th September	The Stellar and Substellar Mass Function in Open Clusters	Dr Steve Boudreault UCL/MSSL
23rd September	Testing accretion physics in the Magellanic Clouds	Professor Malcolm Coe University of Southampton
30th September	no talk	TBD
7th October	postponed to 13th January 2011	Dr Suzanne Aigrain University of Oxford
7th October	ASTRO GROUP METTING
18th October	A cross-match of 2MASS and SDSS : Peculiar L dwarfs and unresolved binaries	Dr Kerstin Geissler Stony Brook University
21st October	Clustering and Source Counts in the Herschel Atlas	Dr Steve Maddox University of Nottingham
28th October	The dark and the light: Black holes, dark halos, and their influence on galaxy evolution	Dr Ryan Hickox University of Durham
4th November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
11th November	The surprisingly simple dynamics of early-type galaxies	Dr Michele Cappellari University of Oxford
19th November	Shock-Induced Star Cluster Formation in Colliding Galaxies(pdf)	Dr Takayuki Saitoh National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
22nd November	The GRB-SNe connection(pdf)	Mr Zach Cano Liverpool John Moores University
25th November	TBD	Prof Steve Rawlings University of Oxford
2nd December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
3rd December	(postponed to 2011)	Dr Martin Smith KIAA, PKU, China
9th Decemberr	The European Extremely Large Telescope	Dr Aprajita Verma University of Oxford
16th December	(postponed to May 19th)	Dr Mark Thompson University of Hertfordshire
20th December	Coevolution of Luminous InfraRed Galaxies and Dusty Obscured AGNs up to z=2	Prof. Hitoshi Hanami University of Iwate

For future seminars:
January – June 2011 click here. For past seminars:
January – June 2009 click here.

If you have any comments or if you'd like to come and give us a seminar, please drop Nick or Max a line.

Last updated September 2010 — Nick Seymour