Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2011
Title Speaker Date
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
Merging Exoplanet Dynamics with Stellar and Galactic Dynamics Dimitri Veras (IoA) 19 January, 2011
2010
Title Speaker Date
Probing the epoch of reionization with the 21cm line Jonathan Pritchard (CfA) 15 December, 2010
High Resolution Numerical Analysis of Quasar Microlensing Hugh Garsden (University of Sydney) 8 December, 2010
Measurements of the UV background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect Alex Calverley (IoA) 8 December, 2010
Looking for intermediate-mass black holes with the Einstein Telescope Eliu Huerta (IoA) 1 December, 2010
A possible solution to the alpha/Fe-sigma problem in early type galaxies within a hierarchical galaxy formation model Francesco Calura (University of Central Lancashire) 1 December, 2010
Constraining the tilted Universe Yin-Zhe Ma (IoA) 24 November, 2010
A search for rocky planets around cool stars Jayne Birkby (IoA) 24 November, 2010
Title to be confirmed Warrick Ball (IoA) 17 November, 2010
Mismatch and Misalignment: Dark Haloes and Satellites of Disc Galaxies Alis Deason (IoA) 10 November, 2010
AGN feedback in clusters of galaxies Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (IoA) 10 November, 2010
CO Spectral Line Energy Distributions of ULIRGs and AGN: a view of the things to come in the age of ALMA Padelis Papadopoulos (Bonn) 4 November, 2010
Molecular Gas, CO, and Star Formation in Galaxies: Emergent Empirical Relations, Feedback, and the Evolution of Very Gas-Rich Systems Padelis Papadopoulos (Bonn) 3 November, 2010
Towards a unified model of stellar rotation Adrian Potter (IoA) 3 November, 2010
The search for the lowest metallicity stars in dwarf galaxies Else Starkenburg (Groningen) 27 October, 2010
Constraining cosmology with redshift space distortions Juliana Kwan (Sydney) 27 October, 2010
Probing Population III Nucleosynthesis Ryan Cooke (IoA) 20 October, 2010
Intermediate temperature gas in brightest cluster galaxies Becky Canning (IoA) 20 October, 2010
Crustal cooling in neutron stars Ed Cackett (IoA) 13 October, 2010
Gamma-ray Burst Host Galaxies with GROND: an alternative insight into galaxy evolution Aybüke Küpcü Yoldaş (IoA) 6 October, 2010
Mergers and Ejections of Black Holes in Globular Clusters Sverre Aarseth (IoA) 30 September, 2010
A Novel Lya Forest Statistic and Constraints on the IGM Khee-Gan Lee (Princeton) 29 September, 2010
The FLAMES Tarantula Survey of Massive Stars Vincent Henault-Brunet (Edinburgh) 22 September, 2010
The SDSS-3: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) - Early Results from Year One Observations Nic Ross (LBL) 22 September, 2010
Balancing the Budget: Albedo and Heat Redistribution on Hot Jupiters Nick Cowan (U Washington) 15 September, 2010
Brilliant Simulations of Dwarf Galaxies Fabio Governato (Washington) 8 September, 2010
Ultra-luminous X-ray sources - The missing link? Matt Middleton (Durham) 1 September, 2010
Eccentricity and Inclination Excitation in Exoplanets Matthew Payne (Florida) 1 September, 2010