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