Seminars Autumn 2010
Talk abstracts, if provided, are reached by clicking on the speaker's name.
Wednesday 15th September
Paul van der Werf
Leiden University
Probing the dark hearts of luminous infrared galaxies
Extra seminar: Thursday 16th September at 3pm
Jack Singal
SLAC, Stanford
The Cosmic Radio Background: Recent Measurement and Implications
Extra seminar: Friday 17th September at 3pm
Ned Taylor
University of Sydney
The End of Galaxy Evolution: the transition from 'developing' to 'developed' in massive galaxies
Wednesday 22nd September
Licia Verde
University of Barcelona
Challenges to the LCDM model from clustering
Extra seminar: Thursday 23rd September
Raul Jimenez
University of Barcelona
Fundamental physics from astronomical observations
IA@IfA: Wednesday 29th September at 11:30am
Carole Mundell
University of Liverpool
Black-hole Driven Engines - Physics, Environment and Followup
Wednesday 6th October
Benjamin Joachimi
University of Bonn & IfA
Constraints on red galaxy intrinsic alignments from
MegaZ-LRG and other SDSS samples
Wednesday 13th October: ROE workshop (no seminar)
Wednesday 20th October
Matteo Monelli
IAC
The star formation history of Local Group Galaxies
Extra seminar: Thursday 21st October
Baojiu Li
DAMTP, University of Cambridge
N-body simulations for scalar-field theories
IA@IfAWednesday 27th October at 11:30am
Will Percival
ICG, University of Portsmouth
Answering Cosmological Questions with Galaxy Surveys
Extra Seminar: Thursday 28th October
Duncan Forgan
IfA
Self-Gravitating Protostellar Discs, SPH and Radiative Transfer
Wednesday 3rd November
Vivienne Wild
IfA
Dust
Wednesday 10th November
Sakurako Okamoto
University of Cambridge
The Stellar Populations of Ultra Faint Dwarf Galaxies
Extra Seminar: Thursday 11th November
David Sobral
IfA
The Nature and Evolution of H-alpha Emitters at High-z with HiZELS
Wednesday 17th November
Geraint Lewis
University of Sydney
Galactic Archaeology with PAndAS eyes
Extra Seminar: Thursday 18th November
Alina Kiessling
IfA
SUNGLASS: A new weak lensing simulation pipeline
Extra Seminar: Tuesday 23rd November
David Maurin
LPSC - Grenoble
Indirect dark matter detection and gamma-rays from dwarf
spheroidal galaxies
Thursday 25th November
Philip Lucas
University of Hertfordshire
The Milky Way near and far: insights from new surveys and facilities
Wednesday 1st December **CANCELLED**
José Sabater Montes
IfA
Nuclear activity in a sample of isolated galaxies
Extra Seminar: Friday 3rd December **CANCELLED**
Ramesh Narayan
CfA/Harvard
Measuring Black Hole Spin
Extra Seminar: Monday 6th December
Julio Navarro
University of Victoria
Relics of Cosmological Accretion in the Solar Neighbourhood
Wednesday 8th December
Padelis Papadopoulos
Argelander-Institut, Bonn
Extreme Cosmic-ray-dominated Regions: a new paradigm for
high star-formation density events in the Universe
Extra Seminar: Monday 13th December
George Mamatsashvili
IfA
The dynamics of perturbation modes in protoplanetary discs
Wednesday 15th December
Karl Gordon
STScI
Dust Processing in Galaxies Due to Massive Star Formation