Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2009
Title Speaker Date
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
Finding SDSS Broad Absorption Line Quasars Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorisation James Allen (IoA) 11 March, 2009
Brane inflation and the overshoot problem Simeon Bird (IoA) 11 March, 2009
Observable properties of perturbed black holes Steve Drasco (AEI) 4 March, 2009
VESPA, galaxies and the Universe Rita Tojeiro (Portsmouth) 25 February, 2009
A discrepancy in stellar mass estimates? Stephen Wilkins (IoA) 25 February, 2009
Relativistic Magnetic Explosions Konstantinos Gourgouliatos (IoA) 18 February, 2009
The Science of Space Weather Jonathan Eastwood (Berkeley) 11 February, 2009
New Perspectives on the Bolometric Output of AGN Ranjan Vasudevan (IoA) 4 February, 2009
Measuring Primordial non-Gaussianity from the CMB: The Role of the Clumpy Universe Devdeep Sarkar (UC Irvine) 28 January, 2009
Early gas stripping as the origin of the darkest dwarf spheroidals Lucio Mayer (Institute for Theoretical Physics, U. Zurich) 28 January, 2009
A global view of the Milky Way satellites Yang-Shyang Li (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) 21 January, 2009
Tidal disruption of globular clusters in dwarf galaxies with triaxial dark matter halos Jorge Penarrubia 14 January, 2009
2008
Title Speaker Date
The SDSS Quasar Survey Gordon Richards (Drexel) 17 December, 2008
Galaxy formation in the first 2 billion years Dan Stark (IoA) 17 December, 2008
Luminous and dark matter in galaxies: highlights from the SLACS lensing survey Tommaso Treu (UC Santa Barbara) 10 December, 2008
Surprises from deep X-ray observations of Abell 2204 Jeremy Sanders (IoA) 10 December, 2008
Ray-tracing through the Millennium Simulation Stefan Hilbert (Bonn) 3 December, 2008
Cosmological problems with axions Katie Mack (Princeton) 3 December, 2008
Merging Sub-Clumps in an Embedded Star Cluster Michael Fellhauer (Universidad de Concepcion / IoA) 26 November, 2008
Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: A New kind of Telescope Craig Mackay (IoA) 19 November, 2008
Prospecting for Metals in the Extreme Outer Discs of Galaxies Rob Kennicutt (IoA) 19 November, 2008
Clues to the physical environments of CaII QSO absorbers: The first high resolution spectroscopic study Berkeley Zych (IoA) 12 November, 2008
A New Technique for Mapping the Distribution of Substructure in Clusters of Galaxies Adrienne Leonard (IoA Cambridge) 5 November, 2008
Physical Conditions in Damped Lyman alpha Systems Regina Jorgenson 29 October, 2008
Galaxy cluster structure and central mass limits in a self-interactive dark matter halo Curtis Saxton (MSSL) 22 October, 2008
Kinematic and Stellar Population Gradients as Fingerprints of Past Mergers in Elliptical Galaxies Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez (University of Central Lancashire) 22 October, 2008
Disks, Fields and Jets: The Role of Magnetic Field Geometry in Black Hole Accretion Flows Kris Beckwith (Institute of Astronomy) 15 October, 2008
The Bright Lyman-alpha Side of the high-redshift IGM Sebastiano Cantalupo (Institute of Astronomy) 15 October, 2008