Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive

Find below an archive of the most recent talks at the IoA. Click on the title for full details including abstract and attached presentation where available. For a full list of previous talks, please click the link under each section.

Previous Seminars

Title	Speaker	Date
An emission line study of a unique, strongly lensed galaxy at z ~ 5: connecting Lyman-α and MgII λ 2796 Å emission at high redshift	Joris Witstok	21 October 2020
CSD3 - What It Is & Getting Access	Stuart Rankin (HPCS)	14 October 2020
A “Klever” probe of the ISM in high redshift galaxies	Mirko Curti	14 October 2020
The wealth of hidden binaries in Gaia	Zephyr Penoyre	7 October 2020
Pieces of the Planetary Nebula Puzzle with Gaia	Nick Chornay	30 September 2020
TBC	Speaker to be confirmed	23 September 2020

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Unveiling the high redshift Universe with deep spectroscopy	Laura Pentericci (INAF - Rome)	22 October 2020
The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies	Andy Fabian (Cambridge)	8 October 2020
Disks and Dynamics of Protoplanetary Systems	Ian Czekala (Berkeley)	11 June 2020
Absorption and accretion properties of local Active Galactic Nuclei	Claudio Ricci (UDP, Chile)	28 May 2020
Mapping the hot Universe: the first six months of operations of eROSITA on SRG	Andrea Merloni (MPE)	21 May 2020

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
Evolutionary population synthesis models.	Claudia Maraston - University of Portsmouth	15 October 2020
Mergers, magnetars and multi-messengers	Professor Stephen Smartt	4 June 2020
Radiation-Dominated Black Hole Accretion Flows	James Stone (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)	30 January 2020
Clash of the Titans: galaxy collisions in the nearby universe	Professor Sara Ellison: University of Victoria	31 October 2019
The IllustrisTNG Project	Professor Lars Hernquist: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	24 October 2019

Previous Sackler Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
Gravitational wave science - observations and a forward look	Sheila Rowan (Glasgow).	15 November 2018
Cosmology and Astrophysics from CMB Measurements	John Carlstrom (Chicago)	15 February 2018
Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound	Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)	27 October 2016
The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes From Seeds to Maturity	Jenny Greene (Princeton University)	5 November 2015
The Search for Earth 2.0	Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	4 December 2014

Previous Eddington Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
The Chemistry of Planet Formation and the Making of Habitable Planets	Karin I. Öberg (Harvard University)	8 March 2018
Physical Manifestations of Evolution, Regularity and Chaos In and Around Our Galaxy	Kathryn Johnston (Columbia University)	9 March 2017
Kepler, the Architectures of Exoplanet Systems & Implications for Planet Formation	Eric Ford (Penn State University)	10 March 2016
Ghostly Galaxies: exploring the universe with the Dragonfly Telescope	Pieter Van Dokkum (Yale)	12 March 2015
Galaxy Evolution in 3-D	Professor Lisa Kewley (ANU)	13 February 2014

Previous Galaxies Discussion

Title	Speaker	Date
Understanding galactic morphology using cosmological simulations with controlled initial conditions	Andrew Pontzen (UCL)	23 October 2020
The chemical enrichment of near-pristine systems: possible quenching following Reionization.	Louise Welsh (Durham)	16 October 2020
New Methods for Identifying Lyman Continuum Leakers and Reionization-Epoch Analogues	Harley Katz (Oxford)	9 October 2020
A consistent and robust measurement of the thermal state of the IGM at 2<z<4 with a large sample of Lyman-alpha forest spectra	Prakash Gaikwad (IoA)	2 October 2020
Supernova clustering and galactic outflows	Matthew Smith (CfA Harvard)	25 September 2020