Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2010
Title Speaker Date
The Stellar Halos of the Milky Way as seen by SDSS Daniela Carollo (ANU) 25 August, 2010
The Merger Times of High Redshift Dark Matter Halos Thomas McCavana (Sydney) 25 August, 2010
Spinning Galaxies and Large Scale Structure \Holly Trowland (Sydney) 12 August, 2010
Avoiding Armageddon: Diverting Asteroids with Nuclear explosives Dave Dearborn (Austin) 11 August, 2010
Toward 3D Spectra of Galaxies: Extinction from Inclination-dependent Composites Ching-Wa Yip (Johns Hopkins) 11 August, 2010
Observing Cosmic Evolution: How do we Find the Galaxies? Matt Malkan (UCLA) 28 July, 2010
Halos and the IMF: Cold and Baryonic Dark Matter in Massive Early Type Galaxies Matthew Auger (UCSB) 28 July, 2010
Fast sub-second optical variability in X-ray binaries Poshak Gandhi (JAXA) 21 July, 2010
Black-hole pairs in gas-rich mergers Marta Volonteri (Michigan) 21 July, 2010
Automated Galaxy Morphology Wayne Hayes (UC Irvine) 14 July, 2010
Astronomy from Dome A, Antarctica Michael Ashley (UNSW) 14 July, 2010
Resolved Debris Disks around Young Main Sequence Stars: Tracing Planets in the Dust Laura Churcher (IoA) 7 July, 2010
Two shock fronts in the merging galaxy cluster Abell 2146 Helen Russell (IoA) 7 July, 2010
Title to be confirmed Guido Risaliti (Harvard, SAO) 30 June, 2010
Ellipsoidal and Eccentric Red Giant Binaries Christine Nicholls (Mt Stromlo Observatory) 30 June, 2010
Evolution of statistical isotropy violation in the CMB Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA) 9 June, 2010
The Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey: intracluster supernovae and the cluster SN Ia rate at z~0.1 David Sand (Harvard) 9 June, 2010
A Search for Very Old Stars Jayant Narlikar (IUCAA) 2 June, 2010
Post-main sequence evolution of debris discs Amy Bonsor (IoA) 2 June, 2010
The UV properties of z>7 galaxies revealed by WFC3 Steve Wilkins (Oxford) 26 May, 2010
Forming early-type galaxies in LambdaCDM simulations Peter Johansson (Munich) 19 May, 2010
Galactic Archaeology with the Sagittarius Stellar Tidal Stream David Law (UCLA) 12 May, 2010
Modelling star formation in the Antennae Simon Karl (Munich Observatory) 5 May, 2010
Reconstructing Dark Energy Arman Shafieloo (Oxford) 28 April, 2010
UM 673: A Unique System to Study the Properties of Damped Lyman-alpha Systems Ryan Cooke (IoA) 28 April, 2010
Galactic Archaeology with Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Halo Takuma Suda (Keele) 31 March, 2010
Probing massive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays Alberto Sesana (Albert Einstein Institute) 24 March, 2010
First light science with the E-ELT: the HARMONI integral field spectrograph Niranjan Thatte (Oxford) 24 March, 2010
Are there Magnetars among Long-period X-ray Pulsars? Nazar Ikhsanov (NASA/Marshall) 18 March, 2010
ING's plans for the William Herschel Telescope Marc Balcells (Director, ING) 8 March, 2010