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 09 February 2012

Chris Evans (ATC, Edinburgh)

Massive Stars - From the VLT to the E-ELT

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

Friday 10 February 2012

Jonathan Diaz (IoA)

Modelling the Tidal Interaction of the Magellanic Clouds

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

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Gerry Gilmore (IoA)

Title to be confirmed

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

Warrick Ball (IoA)

Quasi-stars, giants and the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit

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

Thursday 16 February 2012

Patrick Petitjean, IAP

The ISM of high redshift galaxies

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

Friday 17 February 2012

Alis Deason (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Breaking the Mass-Anisotropy Degeneracy in the Milky Way Halo

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

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

Ryan Cooke (IoA)

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]

Upcoming External Talks

Friday 10 February 2012

Andres Anabalon Dupuy (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile)

Asymptotically (anti) de Sitter Black Holes and Wormholes with a Self Interacting Scalar Field in Four Dimensions

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

Monday 13 February 2012

Daniele Steer, APC, University Paris 7

Title to be confirmed

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

David Cébron (ETH Zürich)

Elliptical instability in planetary and stellar fluid interiors

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

Friday 17 February 2012

Camille Bonvin, DAMTP and IOA

Title to be confirmed

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

Monday 20 February 2012

Federico Piazza, PCCP, University Paris 7

Spontaneous Symmetry Probing

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

Richard Nelson (Queen Mary University of London)

Planetesimal Dynamics in Protoplanetary Discs with Dead Zones

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

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Barney Rickett (University of California, San Diego)

Filaments in the Interstellar Plasma Probed by Pulsar Scintillation

Series: Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars
Time: 16:30-17:00
Venue: Ryle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory  [details]

Wednesday 22 February 2012

Anthony Challinor (IOA, Cambridge)

Probing the dark universe with CMB lensing

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

Friday 24 February 2012

Ashok Thillaisundaram (DAMTP)

Title to be confirmed

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)

Title to be confirmed

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