Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2013
Title Speaker Date
Thick and thin disk kinematics with RAVE and the solar motion Stefano Pasetto (UCL) 22 May, 2013
The Two Cosmological Lithium Problems Karin Lind (MPA -> IoA) 22 May, 2013
Merging Galactic, Stellar, and Planetary Dynamics Dimitri Veras (IoA) 15 May, 2013
The environment around high redshift quasars Tiago Costa (IoA) 15 May, 2013
Fast follow-up using accelerated likelihood evaluation Jonathan Gair (IoA) 8 May, 2013
The Planck Likelihood Steven Gratton (IoA/KICC) 8 May, 2013
The cause of star-formation quenching in group and cluster galaxies Yannick Bahe (IoA) 1 May, 2013
Investigation of main-sequence turn-off ages in the Gaia-ESO survey Anna Hourihane (IoA) 1 May, 2013
Data processing and science products at CASU CASU Folks 24 April, 2013
High Field Magnetic White Dwarfs Simulated in the Laboratory Paul Murdin (IoA) 17 April, 2013
Lorentz boosting of Planck's CMB maps: Eppur si muove Anthony Challinor (IoA) 17 April, 2013
The Origin of Exozodiacal Dust Amy Bonsor (IPAG, Grenoble) 10 April, 2013
Structure of the inner Milky Way through its red population Carlos Gonzalez (Alicante -> IoA) 10 April, 2013
Planetary nebulae after common-envelope phases initiated by low-mass red giants Phil Hall (IoA) 6 March, 2013
Angular momentum evolution in low-mass stars: a fresh look Subu Mohanty (Imperial) 6 March, 2013
The emission of compact jets powered by internal shocks Julien Malzac (IRAP, Toulouse) 27 February, 2013
AGN Feedback-driven Star Formation in Galaxies Wako Ishibashi (IoA) 27 February, 2013
Weighing the evidence for a gravitational-wave background Steve Taylor (IoA) 20 February, 2013
Classifying and Parametrising Gaia Transients Nadia Blagorodnova (IoA) 20 February, 2013
Planet-disc interactions and the diversity of orbital period ratios in Kepler's multi-planetary systems Clément Baruteau (DAMTP) 13 February, 2013
The motion of spinning test particles Robert Cole (IoA) 13 February, 2013
Galactic morphology and evolution through X-ray spectroscopy of the (diffuse) interstellar medium Ciro Pinto (SRON -> IoA) 6 February, 2013
Debris disks and planets, and vice versa Grant Kennedy (IoA) 6 February, 2013
The AOLI project - Adaptive Optics and Lucky Imaging on the William Herschel Telescope David King (IoA) 30 January, 2013
High sensitivity wavefront sensing for the AOLI Project Jonathan Crass (IoA) 30 January, 2013
Lapses of light and thought Melanie Challenger (Artist Associate Programme) 23 January, 2013
The N158-N159-N160 LMC star forming complex observed with Spitzer, Herschel and LABOCA Maud Galametz (IoA) 23 January, 2013
Constraints on protoplanetary disk turbulence from radiative transfer models Gijs D. Mulders (University of Amsterdam) 16 January, 2013
A 10,000 star spectroscopic survey of the Thick Disk-Halo Interface Apoorva Jayaraman (IoA) 16 January, 2013
2012
Title Speaker Date
Spatially resolved dust properties in CALIFA galaxies Natalia Vale Asari (IoA) 12 December, 2012