Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2009
Title Speaker Date
Does the Universe Accelerate Equally in all Directions? Ryan Cooke (IoA) 5 August, 2009
How Common are Extrasolar Late Heavy Bombardments? Mark Booth (IoA) 29 July, 2009
New surveys and transients - an explosion in diversity Stephen Smartt (Belfast) 29 July, 2009
X-ray Driven Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Discs James Owen (IoA) 22 July, 2009
Filament Detection Using Gravitational Lensing James Mead (IoA) 22 July, 2009
The UV Luminosity Function and Dust Properties of Typical Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2-3. Naveen Reddy (NOAO) 15 July, 2009
Young Galaxies in the Young Universe Dawn Erb (UCSB) 15 July, 2009
The evolution of galaxies in groups since z ~ 0.5: New results from GEECs Sean McGee, University of Waterloo 13 July, 2009
A new class of adiabatic Unified Dark Matter models Oliver Piattella (Portsmouth) 8 July, 2009
Exploring the dark sector with Milky Way substructure Piero Madau (UCO Lick) 8 July, 2009
Title to be confirmed Tarun Souradeep (IUCAA) 1 July, 2009
The contribution of the cosmological constant to the bending of light: how it might affect lensing Wolfgang Rindler (UT Dallas) 25 June, 2009
Measuring the Frequency and Composition of Extrasolar Minor Planets Jay Farihi (Leicester) 24 June, 2009
The kinematics of extended gaseous halos of galaxies: beyond 25 kpc Glenn Kacprzak (Swinburne) 17 June, 2009
Cold Accretion and Galaxy Growth: Hints of a Time-Varying IMF? Romeel Dave (Arizona) 17 June, 2009
Sky Wise: Astronomers and the Public Jarita Holbrook (University of Arizona) 10 June, 2009
The Cosmic Horseshoe: the rest-frame UV spectrum of a z~2 LBG Anna Quider (IoA) 10 June, 2009
Making Massive Elliptical Galaxies in Two Phases Jeremiah Ostriker (Princeton) 20 May, 2009
The origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Elena D'Onghia (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) 20 May, 2009
Treading the dwarf-cluster divide: A curiously extended cluster in the M31 halo Michelle Collins 13 May, 2009
z~2 hot-dust ULIRGs Caitlin Casey 13 May, 2009
Observing gravitational waves from the first black holes Jonathan Gair (IoA) 6 May, 2009
WorldWide Telescope at the Intersection of Science and Education Jonathan Fay (Microsoft, Redmond, USA) 24 April, 2009
Re-assembling the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Martin Niederste-Ostholt (IoA) 22 April, 2009
B-mode Detection with an Extended Planck Mission George Efstathiou (IoA) 15 April, 2009
Formation and Disruption of Star Clusters Mark Gieles (ESO) 15 April, 2009
Exploring Outer Disk Star Formation with SPH Simulations Stephanie Bush (Harvard/IoA) 25 March, 2009
Effect of three body stellar interactions on orbital parameters of binary radio pulsars in globular clusters Manjari Bagchi (TIFR) 25 March, 2009
GRB central engines as magneticaly driven collapsar model Maxim Barkov (Leeds) 18 March, 2009
Multiwavelength properties of gamma-ray loud binary systems Maria Chernyakova (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) 18 March, 2009