Institute of Astronomy Seminars take place each Wednesday in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by a bread and cheese lunch in the Hoyle Foyer at 12:30. Colloquia take place each Thursday during Full Term in the Sackler Lecture Theatre and are preceeded by tea at 16:00 and followed by a wine reception in the Hoyle Foyer.

Talks Archive

The Institute keeps an archive of previous talks given at weekly seminars and colloquia.

Upcoming Institute of Astronomy Talks

Thursday 23 February 2012

Roberto Cid Fernandes, UFSC, Brazil

Results from the CALIFA survey

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:30-17:30
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm)  [details]

Friday 24 February 2012

Susie Alaghband-Zadeh (IoA)

IFU Observations of high redshift Ultraluminous Infra-red Galaxies

Series: Institute of Astronomy, Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli LMR, IoA  [details]

Wednesday 29 February 2012

Jeff Wagg (ESO)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Barney Rickett (UCSD)

Angular diameter versus redshift in very bright AGN jets at 5 & 8 GHz

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Thursday 01 March 2012

Peter Jonker, SRON, Netherlands

Constraints on the neutron star EoS and black hole formation from the Galactic Bulge Survey

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:30-17:30
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm)  [details]

Friday 02 March 2012

Yannick Bahe ( IoA)

Strangulation in GIMIC Cluster Galaxies

Series: Institute of Astronomy, Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli LMR, IoA  [details]

Wednesday 07 March 2012

Joe Walmswell (IoA)

The evolution of planetesimal swarms in a self-gravitating disc

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:15-13:45
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Dawn Erb (Wisconsin)

Title to be confirmed

Series: Institute of Astronomy Seminars
Time: 13:45-14:15
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA  [details]

Thursday 08 March 2012

Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington

Eddington Lecture: Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars

Series: Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
Time: 16:30-17:30
Venue: Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm)  [details]

Friday 09 March 2012

Phil Marshall (Oxford)

Weighing Galaxies: Inference from New Lenses and Cosmological Simulations

Series: Institute of Astronomy, Galaxies Discussion Group
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Kavli LMR, IoA  [details]

Upcoming External Talks

Friday 24 February 2012

Ashok Thillaisundaram (DAMTP)

Signatures of Brane Inflation

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]

Monday 27 February 2012

Shaun Hotchkiss (University of Helsinki)

Is the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect from super-structures still a problem for LambdaCDM?

Series: Cosmology lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav.B, CTC Common Room (B1.19)  [details]

Paul Bushby (Newcastle University)

Modelling localised convective motions in sunspot umbrae

Series: DAMTP Astrophysics Seminar
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Tuesday 28 February 2012

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish Astrophysics)

AGN and Star Formation Feedback in Galaxies throughout the Cosmic Times

Series: Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars
Time: 16:30-17:30
Venue: Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory (**Note non-standard location**)  [details]

Friday 02 March 2012

Camille Bonvin (Cambridge)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]

Monday 05 March 2012

Kazuya Koyama, ICG, University of Portsmouth

Title to be confirmed

Series: Cosmology lunch
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: CMS, Pav.B, CTC Common Room (B1.19)  [details]

Meng Xiang-Gruess (DAMTP)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Astrophysics Seminar
Time: 16:00-17:00
Venue: MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge  [details]

Tuesday 06 March 2012

Nicolas Couronneau (Cavendish Astrophysics)

Mobile Phone Positioning: Improving GPS Performance

Series: Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars
Time: 16:30-17:30
Venue: Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory  [details]

Wednesday 07 March 2012

Simon White (Max Planck)

The fine-scale structure of dark matter halos

Series: Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium
Time: 14:15-15:15
Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences  [details]

Friday 09 March 2012

Stefan Hollands (Cardiff)

Title to be confirmed

Series: DAMTP Friday GR Seminar
Time: 13:00-14:00
Venue: Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19)  [details]