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
A Dusty Origin for the Correlation Between Protoplanetary Disc Accretion Rates and Dust Masses	Andrew Sellek	20 January 2021
The evolution of young planetary systems in Lupus: Early planetesimal belt formation, rapid disc dispersal, and fast gas outflows	Josh Lovell	9 December 2020
Discovery of high-z lensed quasars revealed by Gaia	Chris Desira	25 November 2020
Spectroscopic-asteroseismic analysis of K2 stars in Gaia-ESO	Clare Worley	25 November 2020
Inference of the optical depth to reionization from low multipole temperature and polarisation Planck data	Roger de Belsunce	18 November 2020
Assessing the fractal behaviour of solar-like stars with 2D box-counting	Francisco Paz-Chinchon	18 November 2020

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life	Ignas Snellen (Leiden)	21 January 2021
A NICER view of neutron stars	Anna Watts (Amsterdam)	3 December 2020
A Modern View of Quasars in the LSST Era	Gordon Richards (Drexel, Philadelphia)	26 November 2020
A Tale of Circumgalactic Gas: Large and Small scales	Rongmon Bordoloi	12 November 2020
Highlights from the dawn of million-star spectroscopy	Karin Lind (Stockholm)	5 November 2020

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
Understanding Giant Planets	Ravit Helled - University of Zurich	19 November 2020
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

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
The origin of the first supermassive black holes	Ricarda Beckman (IoA)	22 January 2021
Small-scale structure of the pre-reionization IGM in quasar proximity zones	Frederick Davies (MPIA Heidelberg)	11 December 2020
Rapidly Forming Haloes as a Route to Massive Black Holes	John Regan (Maynooth)	4 December 2020
The Impact of AGN Feedback on Simulated Dwarf Galaxies	Sophie Koudmani (IoA)	27 November 2020
The Hubble Constant from Time Delays: Breaking Degeneracies with External Datasets	Matthew Auger (IoA)	20 November 2020