Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2011
Title Speaker Date
X-ray Warm Absorption and Emission in the Polar Scattered Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk 704 (EXTRA SEMINAR) Sibasish Laha (IUCAA) 25 July, 2011
Who Turned on the Lights? Statistics and Kinematics of Lyman-alpha Blobs Ann Zabludoff, University of Arizona 29 June, 2011
The relationship between AGN activity and the stellar masses and colors of their host galaxies James Aird (UCSD) 22 June, 2011
Turn up the gas: how to heat cold dark matter Andrew Pontzen (IoA) 15 June, 2011
Runaway stars & supernova kicks John Eldridge (IoA) 15 June, 2011
ALMA: Science Opportunities in Cycle 0 John Richer (ALMA UK Project Scientist/Cavendish Astrophysics) 8 June, 2011
Diffraction limited imaging in the visible on large ground-based telescopes Craig Mackay (IoA) 8 June, 2011
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies as tests of CDM Jorge Penarrubia (IoA) 1 June, 2011
Massive galaxies at high redshift: Rare or impossible? Martin Stringer (Durham) 1 June, 2011
A Sensitive Test of Growth of Structure Yin-Zhe Ma (IoA) 18 May, 2011
Momentum Driving in AGN and Galactic Feedback Jeremiah Ostriker (Princeton) 18 May, 2011
How neutral is the Intergalactic Medium at z~7 Martin Haehnelt (IoA) 4 May, 2011
The discovery of a z=7.1 quasar Richard McMahon (IoA) 4 May, 2011
Slowing down atomic diffusion in subdwarf B stars: mass-loss or turbulence? Haili Hu (IoA) 27 April, 2011
Brightest cluster galaxies and the impact of dry mergers on the core-cusp problem Chervin Laporte (MPA, Garching) 20 April, 2011
The evolution of the stellar mass function of star clusters Henny Lamers (Utrecht University) 23 March, 2011
Lensing without shear: the power of cosmic magnification Pengjie Zhang (Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science) 9 March, 2011
The dynamics of spiral arms in pure stellar disks Michiko Fujii (Leiden) 2 March, 2011
Red but not dead! Molecular gas in early-type galaxies Timothy Davis (Oxford) 2 March, 2011
Implications of Radial Migration for Disk Galaxies Rok Roskar (Zurich) 23 February, 2011
McMaster Unbiased Galaxy Simulations Greg Stinson (Preston) 23 February, 2011
Feedback from Quasar Winds (But Not Jets) Patrick Hall (York University) 16 February, 2011
Evidence for a cosmic battery Ioannis Contopoulos (Academy of Athens, Greece) 16 February, 2011
Exploring the Milky Way with Massive Stars Ben Davies (IoA) 9 February, 2011
The ISM revealed by Herschel: Exploring the properties of the coldest phases of dust Maud Galametz (IoA) 9 February, 2011
Giving light an extra boost -- Doppler beaming in Kepler light curves Steven Bloemen (Leuven) 2 February, 2011
Relativistic effects in weak gravitational lensing Camille Bonvin (IoA) 2 February, 2011
Preparing Gaia for launch: dealing with radiation damage Scott Brown (IoA) 26 January, 2011
The Magellanic Stream: A Case Study of Galactic Accretion Andrew Fox (IoA) 26 January, 2011
Detecting ionized gas over cosmic distances via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich power spectrum Laurie Shaw (Yale) 19 January, 2011