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
Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond	Or Graur	11 March 2020
Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond	Or Graur	11 March 2020
Investigating the evolution of Earth's atmosphere during accretion of the late veneer	Cat Sinclair	4 March 2020
Exploring exoplanet variety with HARPS-N	Annelies Mortier	19 February 2020
The gas content of cool core galaxy clusters	Haonan Liu	19 February 2020
What is the origin of exozodiacal dust?	Jess Rigley	12 February 2020

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Down the Dusty Road -- Gems from Large (sub-)millimetre Surveys	Thomas Greve, University College London (UCL)	5 March 2020
Exploring the First Light And Reionisation Epoch	Stephen Wilkins, Sussex	27 February 2020
New substructure in the phase-space of the Milky Way with Gaia	Teresa Antoja, University of Barcelona	20 February 2020
Moving beyond stellar activity limitations to detect other Earths	Nadege Meunier, Grenoble	13 February 2020
The intriguing lives of post-starburst galaxies	Vivienne Wild, St Andrews	6 February 2020

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
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
Characterizing Exoplanets' Atmospheres to Unveil Planetary Origins, Climate and Habitability	Jean-Michel Desert (Amsterdam)	13 June 2019
Galactic Winds and the Circumgalactic Medium	Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland)	14 February 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
Seeing the Milky Way Disk Evolve	Neige Frankel (MPIA Heidelberg)	6 March 2020
Lyman-alpha emitters in QSO proximity zones	Sarah Bosman (UCL)	21 February 2020
The detection of ionised carbon in a Lyman break galaxy with surprisingly warm dust at z = 8.31	Tom Bakx (Nagoya University)	14 February 2020
How is star formation in galaxies quenched?	Asa Bluck (Cavendish)	29 November 2019
QSOs with Gaia	Yiping Shu (IoA)	15 November 2019