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
Peculiar velocity surveys for cosmology: recent results and future plans	Matthew Colless (ANU)	18 September 2023
Exploding Wolf-Rayet Stars	Avishai Gilkis, Tel Aviv University	21 June 2023
Galactic Archaeology with Globular Clusters: does a chemical link exist between globular clusters and their host galaxies	Stephanie Monty	14 June 2023
Accretion onto Black Hole Binaries: New insights from 3D-GRMHD simulations	Mark Avara	14 June 2023
The ionising photon production efficiency of LAEs at z~6	Charlotte Simmonds	7 June 2023
Shedding light on the properties of QSOs and their host galaxies at the Epoch of Reionization	Roberta Tripodi	7 June 2023

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Test Talk	Speaker to be confirmed	12 September 2023
Test 2	Speaker to be confirmed	5 September 2023
Cosmic dust in- and outside of the solar system	Dr Veerle Sterken, ETH Zurich	15 June 2023
Low mass galaxies as cosmological tools	Dr. Michelle Collins (University of Surrey)	1 June 2023
JWST at the edge of the Universe - finding galaxies in the epoch of reionization with NIRSpec	Prof. Andy Bunker (Oxford University)	25 May 2023

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
Looking into the first billion years with JWST	Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard)	8 June 2023
The Webb Telescope's First Year: A Treasure Trove of Results	Marcia Rieke, The University of Arizona	16 March 2023
Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics: Progress and Puzzles	Vicky Kalogera	26 May 2022
Electromagnetic Surges	Roger Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford)	14 October 2021
CANCELLED - The Millimetre Sky from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Jo Dunkley (Princeton University)	28 January 2021

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
Multi-phase AGN feedback on pc and kpc scales.	Cristina Ramos Almeida (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)	26 August 2022
Supernova and AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies	Sophie Koudmani (IoA)	22 July 2022
The Sherwood Relics simulations - patchy cosmic reionization and its imprints on the IGM and Lyman-alpha forest	Ewald Puchwein (AIP Potsdam)	15 July 2022
The search for primordial gravitational waves: latest results from BICEP/Keck	Clem Pryke (UM Minneapolis)	1 July 2022
Modeling H-alpha emission in galaxies: insights into star formation and time variability	Sandro Tacchella (Cavendish)	27 May 2022

Previous Other Talks

Title	Speaker	Date
Astro Postdoc and Graduate Student Jamborees	IoA, Kavli, Battcock and DAMPT Postdocs and Graduate Students	25 November 2020