Hunting down those responsible for the observed spatial distribution of gas in galaxies at z = 0 - 0.5

Benedetta Vulcani (Padova).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

The Sphinx simulations : the first billion years and cosmic reionisation

Joakim Rosdahl (Lyon).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

The most striking challenges in the theory of massive star winds

Brankica Surlan Kubatova .

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Gravitational-wave Astrophysics: BH-BH/NS-NS mergers with LIGO/Virgo

Chris Belczynski (Copernicus Center, Warsaw, Poland).

Physics West 117.

Monday 16 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Shedding light on the assembly of binary black hole mergers

Ariadna Murguia Berthier (UC Santa Cruz).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 14:30-15:30

White dwarf-neutron star and white dwarf-black hole binaries

Ross Church (Lund).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:30-15:30

The evolution history of our Milky Way

Payel Das (Oxford) .

Physics West SR1 (103).

Wednesday 06 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

The kilonova counterpart to GW170817

Matt Nicholl (Harvard CfA).

Nuffield G17.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Weather on Brown Dwarfs: New Insights from Synoptic Spectrophotometry and Fluid Instability Models

Adam Burgasser (UC San Diego).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:30-15:30

Zeeman-Doppler studies and the rotation evolution of low-mass stars

Victor See (Exeter).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 14:30-15:30

Binary Population Synthesis with Markov-Chain Monte Carlo

Jeff Andrews (Crete).

Physics West Library.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Open questions in the formation of binary stellar systems containing black holes.

Tassos Fragos (NBI Copenhagen).

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

MIGA and GW detection with atom interferometry at low frequency

Andrea Bertoldi (LP2N).

Physics West 106.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Uncovering the First Stars

Emma Chapman (Imperial College London).

Physics West 117.

Friday 26 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

A top-heavy stellar initial mass function in 30 Dor and consequences for massive star feedback

Fabian Schneider (Oxford).

Physics West 117.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 11:30-12:00

Homogeneous evolution and binarity: the progenitor behind various cosmic explosions

Dorottya Szécsi (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences).

Physics West 117.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 11:00-11:30

(Ex-?)Binary stars in the Galactic thick disc

Robert Izzard (Cambridge).

Physics West 117.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

The 850um properties of galaxies in the SCUBA2 Cosmology Legacy Survey

Dan Smith (Hertfordshire).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Shedding Light on the Dark Cosmos through Gravitational Lensing

Sherry Suyu (MPA).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 14:30-15:30

White Dwarfs, Gaia, and The Age of the Galaxy

Ted von Hippel (Embry-Riddle).

Watson Lecture Theatre C (G24).

Wednesday 05 April 2017, 14:30-15:30

The quenching of star formation in massive galaxies

Will Hartley (UCL).

Physics West 117.

Monday 20 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

The Effect of Binary Pathways on Extragalactic Stellar Populations and their Transient Events

Elizabeth Stanway (Warwick).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:30-15:30

The moments planets form: the SPHERE view of protoplanetary disks

Antonio Garufi (ETH Zurich).

Barber G11.

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 14:30-15:30

Bayesian inference: by MCMC or machine learning methods?

Iain Murray (Edinburgh).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

Internal Gravity Waves in Massive Stars

Tamara Rogers (Newcastle).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 14:30-15:30

Challenging the Gamma-ray burst paradigm, from prompt to afterglow

Hendrik Van Eerten (Bath).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 14:30-15:30

Detection and follow-up of fast radio bursts

Emily Petroff (ASTRON).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 14:30-15:30

The Large Robotic Telescope: a facility for the new era of time domain astronomy

Chris Copperwheat (LMJU).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

More than a theory - connecting highly evolved stars with their younger selves through space-based asteroseismology

Steve Kawaler (Iowa State).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:30-15:30

Laser measurement science in gravitational physics

Felipe Guzman (Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) & German Aerospace Center).

Physics West 117.

Monday 24 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

The mitigation of intrinsic alignments in future high precision weak lensing surveys

Lee Whittaker (University of Manchester).

Physics Library (West 125).

Friday 14 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

The ADMX search for QCD axions in the Galactic halo

Ed Daw (Sheffield).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 14:30-15:30

Long-period transiting exoplanets and their population

Dan Foreman-Mackey (Washington).

Physics West 106.

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 14:30-15:30

Understanding the clock: physics with pulsars

Aris Karastergiou (Oxford).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 28 September 2016, 14:30-15:30

The General Relativistic two body problem: recent results

Riccardo Sturani (University Estadual Paulista).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 21 September 2016, 14:30-15:30

Planetary System Evolution: Giant Planet Eccentricity & Nonconservative N-body Dynamics

David Tsang (University of Maryland).

Physics West 103.

Wednesday 22 June 2016, 14:30-15:30

Hubble Frontiers Fields : Some insights after 2 and half years of observation

Mathilde Jauzac (University of Durham).

Watson Lecture Theatre 101.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 14:30-15:30

Gravitational wave astronomy: learning from detections and non-detections

Pablo Rosado (Swinburne, Australia).

Physics West 117.

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Supermassive Black Hole Feedback and Feeding

Andrew King (Leicester).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

Rotation, Magnetic Activity, and Mass Loss of Sun-Like Stars

Sean Matt (University of Exeter).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 14:30-15:30

Tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes: dynamics, light, and relics

James Guillochon (Harvard CfA).

Physics West 117.

Monday 09 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

The space weather of other Suns

Moira Jardine (University of St. Andrews)..

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 14:30-15:30

Structure and Metallicity Distributions of Chemically Decomposed Thick and Thin Disk Populations of the Milky Way Disk

Daisuke Kawata (UCL).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 23 March 2016, 14:30-15:30

Solar activity, stellar rotation, and anomalous weakened magnetic braking

Guy Davies (Birmingham).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:30-15:30

A new paradigm to black-hole spin precession

Davide Gerosa (University of Cambridge).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:30-15:30

The pillars and the twins of the stars in the Gaia-ESO Survey

Paula Jofre Pfeil (University of Cambridge).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 14:30-15:30

Pushing the Limits of K2: Gaussian Process Systematics Correction and a Kepler/K2 Saturated Star Survey

Ben Pope (Oxford).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 09 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

The EAGLE project: Numerical modelling of the 'Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments'.

Rob Crain (Liverpool John Moores University).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

A Binary View of Massive Stars

Saida Caballero-Nieves (University of Sheffield).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey (KROSS): The resolved Dynamics, Star-Formation and Chemical Properties of 1000 z~1 star forming galaxies

John Stott (University of Oxford).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:30-15:30

New insights in the evolution of red-giant stars

Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard (Aarhus University).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 14:30-15:30

Black Holes in Globular Clusters

Craig Heinke (Alberta).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Cosmology with Strong Gravitational Lenses

Phil Marshal (KIPAC, Stanford University).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

Variability as a tool to study accreting black holes and neutron stars

Simon Vaughan (Leicester).

Physics West 117.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:00-16:00

The Unified Statistical Analysis of Populations of Sources: Advantages of “Shrinkage Estimates” in Astronomy

David van Dyk (Imperial).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 14:30-15:30

New Constraints on Dark Matter Cross-Sections using Weak Lensing

Thomas Kitching (UCL).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 14:30-15:30

ALMA surveys of high-redshift, star-forming galaxies

Mark Swinbank (Durham).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

The dynamics of supermassive binary black hole immersed in an accretion disc on a retrograde orbit

Pavel Ivanov (Lebedev Physical Institute).

Watson Lecture Theater C.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 14:30-15:30

Chemical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets

Nikku (Madhu) Madhusudhan (Cambridge).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Earth 2 and the search for habitable zone planets

Don Pollaco (Warwick).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 14 January 2015, 14:30-15:30

Live Fast Die Young: The Evolution of Massive Stars towards their Death: Rotation, Binarity and Mergers

Selma de Mink (Amsterdam).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 17 December 2014, 14:30-15:30

Galaxy-scale feedback in massive galaxies without AGN

Jim Geach (Hertfordshire).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 10 December 2014, 14:30-15:30

Merging neutron stars, gravitational waves and the origin of the heavy chemical elements

Nial Tanvir (Leicester).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Cosmological measurements from galaxy clustering

Will Percival (Portsmouth).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 14:30-15:30

Asteroseismology, the new Keplerian Revolution

Don Kurtz (Central Lancashire).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Resonant Recoil from black hole binaries

Maarten van de Meent (Southampton).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 15 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Formation and evolution of the young stars in the Galactic Centre

Alessia Gualandris (Surrey).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 01 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

The Glasgow Speed Meter proof-of-principle experiment

Christian Graef (Glasgow).

Physics West 106.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

Ian Shipsey (Purdue + Oxford).

Watson Lecture Theater C.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Solar Neutrino Detection with Borexino

Laura Cadonati (University of Massachussetts / Cardiff).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

The Future of Astronomy: Will Applied Astronomy Save the Field?

Martin Elvis (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA).

Physics West 117.

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

In the Deep, Dark Lyman-alpha Forest: Exploring Dark Energy and Galaxy Formation using the Intergalactic Medium

Matthew Pieri (Portsmouth).

Physics West 103.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 15:00-16:00

Exoplanets and compact binaries: the effects of crowded environments

Melvyn Davies (Lund, Sweden).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 02 April 2014, 14:30-15:30

Constraining Globular Clusters Formation Through Studies of Young Massive Star Clusters

Nate Bastian (Liverpool John Moores).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

X-ray echoes from active galaxies

Andrew Young (Bristol).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 12 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

Observing the Structure of Dark Matter on Scales from 100pc to 1 Mpc

Matthew Auger (Cambridge).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

The observed and predicted structure of dark matter halos

Andrew Pontzen (UCL).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 15 January 2014, 14:30-15:30

Exploring the dawn of cosmic structure with the 21 cm line

Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial).

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 11 December 2013, 14:30-15:30

Unveiling the progenitors of short duration gamma-ray bursts

Andrew Levan (Warwick).

Physics West Library.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

What can we learn from a chirp?

Stephen Fairhurst (Cardiff).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 14:30-15:30

Gravitational-Wave Detection at the Twilight of the Dawn

Jan Harms.

Physics West 117.

Wednesday 06 November 2013, 14:00-15:00

The Transient Universe: Cosmic Explosions and Dark Energy

Mark Sullivan (Southampton).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

Neutron stars as cosmic laboratories

Nils Andersson (Southampton).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 16 October 2013, 14:30-15:30

Numerical simulations of binary black holes

Harald Pfeiffer (CITA).

Physics West 106.

Thursday 03 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Massive molecular gas flows in brightest cluster galaxies

Helen Russell (Waterloo).

Poynting Small Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 September 2013, 14:00-15:00

Talk 1: A Jetted Tidal Disruption: Need for Dynamically-important Magnetic Flux Threading the Supermassive Black Hole // Talk 2: A Brief Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Talk 1: Luke Kelley (Harvard) // Talk 2: Michael Betancourt (UCL).

Physics West 106.

Thursday 15 August 2013, 14:00-15:00

The detailed dependence of galaxy morphology on environment

Steven Bamford (Nottingham).

Physics West 103.

Wednesday 19 June 2013, 14:30-15:30

Radio Searches for Millisecond Pulsars for Gravitational Wave Detection

Maura McLoughlin (University of West Virginia).

Muirhead 112.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Testing Modified Gravity at the Saddle Point with LISA Pathfinder

Christian Trenkel (Astrium).

Muirhead 112.

Wednesday 08 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Applications of the characteristic formalism in relativity

Nigel Bishop (Rhodes University, South Africa).

Muirhead 112.

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 14:00-15:00

Stellar activity in planet searches: from nuisance to signal

Suzanne Aigrain (Oxford).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Interferometry beyond the Quantum Limit: Squeezed Vacuum, Stiff Photons and Other Ways to Trick Heisenberg

Stefan Hild (Glasgow).

Nuffield G17.

Wednesday 13 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

Looking at the dark side: weak lensing by large scale structure

Henk Hoekstra (Leiden).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 14:00-15:00

The most massive stars in the local universe

Paul Crowther (Sheffield).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 23 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

AGN in the light of stellar mass black holes

Chris Done (Durham).

Muirhead 112.

Wednesday 09 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Extreme-mass-ratio bursts and supermassive black holes

Christopher Berry (Cambridge).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 12:00-13:00

Astrochemistry in extragalactic environments

Serena Viti (UCL).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 14:00-15:00

Accurate gravitational-wave measurements with inaccurate waveform models?

Frank Ohme (Cardiff).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Isotropic Heating of Cool-Core Galaxy Cluster via Reccurrent, Rapidly Reorienting AGN Jets

Note unusual DAY, TIME, and LOCATION

Arif Babul (University of Victoria).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Science with gravitational wave detections

Note date: THURSDAY

Chris Belczynski (Warsaw).

Nuffield G13.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 14:00-15:00

Accelerated Bayesian Inference in Astrophysics and Cosmology

Farhan Feroz (Cambridge).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 24 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

The formation and evolution of giant molecular clouds

Clare Dobbs (Exeter).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Insights into Cosmic Reionization from the First Three Billion Years of IGM Evolution

George Becker (Cambridge).

Nuffield G13.

Wednesday 26 September 2012, 14:00-15:00

First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation

Hiranya Peiris (University College London).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

On the role played by cold filamentary gas flows in shaping galaxies

Julien Devriendt (University of Oxford).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Chemodynamical simulations of galaxies

Chiaki Kobayashi (University of Hertfordshire).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

First Galaxies: Science at the Crossroad of Theory and Observations

Michele Trenti (University of Cambridge).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 18 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

The emergence of the red sequence at z~2, seen through galaxy clustering in the UKIDSS UDS

Will Hartley (University of Nottingham).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Probing the formation of massive galaxies

Ignacio Ferreras (MSSL / University College London).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

The dynamics of stars near massive black holes

Ann-Marie Madigan (Leiden University).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 14:00-15:00

Dynamics of Retrograde Hot Jupiters

Will Farr (Northwestern University).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Feedback regulated star formation, from star clusters to galaxies

Sami Dib (Imperial College London).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 11 January 2012, 14:00-15:00

Black holes and neutron stars in globular clusters

Tom Maccarone (University of Southampton).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 07 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

Philipp Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

The tidal signatures of gravitational wave standard sirens

Chris Messenger (University of Cardiff).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

Combined Probes of Dark Gravity

David Bacon (ICG, University of Portsmouth).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Gravitational wave astronomy and cosmology for neutron star binaries

Samaya Nissanke (JPL/Caltech).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 20 July 2011, 14:00-15:00

Fractal Bellwethers: Self-Similarity in Galaxy Clusters

Ben Maughan (University of Bristol).

W117, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 01 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

On the mass-to-light ratios of fossil groups: Are they simply dark clusters?

Eduardo Cypriano (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil).

W117, Physics West Building.

Monday 23 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

Particle Physics Seminars

Supernovae Relic Neutrino Searches at SuperK

Joint Seminar with Astrophysics Group

Matthew Malek (Imperial College).

Small Lecture Theatre (S06, Poynting [R13]).

Wednesday 11 May 2011, 13:30-14:30

LOFAR and pulsar timing

Ben Stappers (University of Manchester) .

PW103 , Physics West Building.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

High-redshift galaxies: tracing cosmic dawn

Extragalactic seminar

Pratika Dayal (AIP, Germany).

PW106, Physics West Building.

Monday 11 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

The WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS) and the Padova-Millennium Galaxy and Group Catalogue (PM2GC): new results on the relation between galaxy evolution, environment and galaxy mass

Bianca Poggianti (INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy).

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Thursday 31 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

The new low frequency radio telescope LOFAR; probing merging clusters

Huub Rottgering (Leiden Observatory) .

W117, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 30 March 2011, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

Moira Jardine, University of St. Andrews.

PW106, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

Jayaram Chengalur, NCRA-TIFR India.

PW106, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

Karen Masters, ICG Portsmouth.

PW106, Physics West Building.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Mirrors Matter: How Understanding Dissipation Helps Hunt Gravitational Waves.

Eleanor Chalkley, University of Glasgow.

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Monday 20 July 2009, 12:00-13:00

Title to be confirmed

Estelle Bayet, UCL.

PW103 , Physics West Building.

Wednesday 08 July 2009, 14:00-15:00

The evolution of galaxies via mergers

Chanda J. Jog, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Physics Library, Physics West Building.

Tuesday 30 June 2009, 11:00-12:00