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
Modelling exo-planet atmospheres using a chemical kinetics code	Richard Hobbs	13 November 2019
Exploring the metal-poor inner Galaxy with the Pristine survey	Anke Arentsen (AIP)	13 November 2019
The 1919 eclipse which verified General Relativity and its later detractors: what happened, which story is “correct”?	Gerry Gilmore & Gudrun Tausch-Pebody	6 November 2019
Exploring the Link between Quasar Outflows and Hot Dust Emission	Matthew Temple	6 November 2019
Tracing the origin of magnetic fields in galaxies	Sergio Martin	30 October 2019
Dust Spreading in Debris Discs - Do Small Grains Cling on to Their Birth Environment?	Nicole Pawellek	30 October 2019

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
The role of halo formation history and circumgalactic gas expulsion in the evolution of galaxies	Rob Crain (LJMU)	14 November 2019
Asteroseismology: Results from Kepler and TESS	William Chaplin (Birmingham)	7 November 2019
Mapping accreting black holes using X-ray variability	Adam Ingram (Oxford)	17 October 2019
Collisionless losscone refilling: the end of the final parsec problem	Alessia Gualandris (Surrey)	10 October 2019
Using the Magellanic Clouds to understand the interaction of galaxies	Maria-Rosa Cioni (AIP)	6 June 2019

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
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
QSOs with Gaia	Yiping Shu (IoA)	15 November 2019
The dynamical scaling laws of disk galaxies	Federico Lelli (ESO)	8 November 2019
Probing the thermal state of the intergalactic medium at z > 5 with the transmission spikes in high-resolution Lyα forest spectra	Prakash Gaikwad (IoA)	25 October 2019
Structure formation with Fuzzy Dark Matter	Anastasia Fialkov (IoA)	18 October 2019
Angular momentum of early type galaxies based on extended kinematics	Ortwin Gerhard (MPE Garching)	27 September 2019