Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2012
Title Speaker Date
Resolved star forming region populations in nearby galaxies Maciej Hermanowicz (IoA) 5 December, 2012
The origins of stellar clustering Diederik Kruijssen (MPA Garching) 28 November, 2012
Fingerprints of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Star Clusters: mass segregation and energy equipartition Michele Trenti (IoA) 28 November, 2012
Sculptor, Fornax, and Their Dark Matter Cores Adriano Agnello (IoA) 21 November, 2012
The Orbital Inclinations of Binary Millisecond Pulsars Sarah Smedley (IoA) 21 November, 2012
The Formation and Evolution of Cluster Centrals in LCDM from z=2 to z=0 Chervin Laporte (MPA, Garching) 14 November, 2012
The Periodic Spectroscopic Variability of FU Orionis Stacie Powell (IoA) 14 November, 2012
Herschel-ATLAS: Characteristics of dusty passive galaxies Ali Dariush, IoA Cambridge 7 November, 2012
Revealing the innermost regions of AGN with X-ray reverberation lags Erin Kara, IoA Cambridge 7 November, 2012
Near-pristine gas at intermediate redshifts: a window on early nucleosynthesis Max Pettini (IoA) 31 October, 2012
The outreach programme at IoA Carolin Crawford (IoA) 31 October, 2012
Testing General Relativity with 21 cm Intensity Mapping Alex Hall (IoA) 24 October, 2012
Star formation at local galactic scales Monica Relano-Pastor, Universidad de Granada 24 October, 2012
Exploring the outskirts of galaxy clusters with Suzaku Stephen Walker (IoA) 17 October, 2012
Searching for the 'true' chemical abundances in star-forming galaxies Bethan James (STScI -> IoA) 17 October, 2012
Archaeology of Exo-Terrestrial Planetary Systems and the Identification of H20 in Exo-Asteroids Jay Farihi, Universtiy of Leicester 10 October, 2012
Substructure in the M31 halo and satellite system Mike Irwin (IoA) 3 October, 2012
Red Supergiants: how cool are the coolest massive stars? Ben Davies (IoA -> LJMU) 3 October, 2012
Dust Reddened Broad Line Quasars at z=2: Starbursts Transitioning to UV-Luminous AGN? Manda Banerji (IoA -> UCL) 26 September, 2012
A cloud of gas falling towards the central black hole in the Milky Way Jordi Miralda-Escude 26 September, 2012
Type Ia supernovae: Explosions and Progenitors Wolfgang Kerzendorf (U. Toronto) 19 September, 2012
First science with SAMI: a serendipitous discovery of a galactic wind James Allen (Sydney) 19 September, 2012
Self-consistent models of quasi-relaxed rotating stellar systems Anna-Lisa Varri (Milan) 29 August, 2012
Using gravitational lensing flexions to constrain dark matter halo shapes and profiles Shude Mao (Manchester & NAOC) 8 August, 2012
Made-to-measure galaxy models - Modelling with Milky Way observations Richard Long (Manchester & NAOC) 1 August, 2012
A Lack of Dark Matter in the Solar Neighbourhood? Martin Smith (KIAA) 1 August, 2012
LOFAR: Recent progress and first results John McKean 25 July, 2012
Testing LCDM with Substructure Lensing Simona Vegetti 25 July, 2012
Velocity measurements of the X-ray coolest gas in galaxy clusters Jeremy Sanders (IoA) 18 July, 2012
The Regulation of Black Hole Winds and Jets Across the Mass Scale Ashley King (Michigan) 4 July, 2012