Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2012
Title Speaker Date
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
The most massive black holes in Brightest Cluster Galaxies Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (IoA) 4 July, 2012
CMB Lensing Measurements with ACT and ACTPol Blake Sherwin (Princeton) 27 June, 2012
AU-scale structure of a protoplanetary disc, and challenges in detecting it Olja Panic (IoA) 13 June, 2012
Herschel images of 61 Vir: the prevalence of debris in low-mass planet systems Mark Wyatt (IoA) 13 June, 2012
Growth of Planetesimal Belts Andrew Shannon (IoA) 6 June, 2012
Milestones in Spacetime: Double Neutron-Star Binaries as Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens Steve Taylor (IoA) 6 June, 2012
When worlds collide: debris from terrestrial planet formation Alan Jackson (IoA) 30 May, 2012
Revisiting dynamos in massive stars Adrian Potter (IoA) 30 May, 2012
The hot Jupiter WTS-2 b: Too close for comfort? Jayne Birkby (Leiden) 23 May, 2012
The curiously cold dark matter halos of Andromeda dwarf spheroidals Michelle Collins (MPIA) 23 May, 2012
Constraining Intermediate Mass Black Holes with Cosmological Microlensing Katie Mack (IoA) 16 May, 2012
Uncovering CMB B-modes with Planck Christopher Crowe (IoA) 16 May, 2012
Constraining the dark energy equation of state with double source plane strong lenses Tom Collett (IoA) 9 May, 2012
Spider, AMI, Planck: The latest in CMB B-modes and SZ Carrie MacTavish 9 May, 2012
WTS: A near-infrared transit survey Gabor Kovacs (IoA) 2 May, 2012
Extreme-mass-ratio binaries: Modelling and test of Chern-Simons Modified Gravity Priscilla Canizares (IoA) 2 May, 2012
Neutrinos and Other Dark Lights: Cosmological Constraints Lloyd Knox (UC Davis) 25 April, 2012
Angular Momentum and Galaxy Formation Revisited Aaron Romanowsky (UC Santa Cruz) 25 April, 2012
Resolving the Dust: Results From the DEBRIS Survey Mark Booth 14 March, 2012
Balloon Born submm-wave telescopes Barth Netterfield (Toronto) 14 March, 2012
Lyman Alpha Emission, Galactic Outflows and Large Scale Structure at High Redshift Dawn Erb (Wisconsin) 7 March, 2012
The evolution of planetesimal swarms in a self-gravitating disc Joe Walmswell (IoA) 7 March, 2012
Angular diameter versus redshift in very bright AGN jets at 5 & 8 GHz Barney Rickett (UCSD) 29 February, 2012
Molecular gas in z~1 cluster galaxies and prospects for ALMA Jeff Wagg (ESO) 29 February, 2012
Measurements of Black Hole Spin via X-ray Continuum Fitting Jack Steiner 22 February, 2012
How jets work Donald Lynden-Bell 22 February, 2012
Quasi-stars, giants and the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit Warrick Ball (IoA) 15 February, 2012
Gaia, and the Gaia-ESO Survey Gerry Gilmore (IoA) 15 February, 2012