| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| O/H-N/O: the curious case of NGC 4670 | Nimisha Kumari | 23 May 2018 |
| On velocity dispersions of massive compact galaxies | Luis Peralta de Arriba | 23 May 2018 |
| Hypervelocity discoveries with Gaia DR2 | Douglas Boubert | 16 May 2018 |
| NGC 300 ULX1: The Fourth Musketeer | Dom Walton | 16 May 2018 |
| Cosmology from galaxy clusters and CMB lensing | Inigo Zubeldia Lafuente | 9 May 2018 |
| Understanding Analyses of Related Data Sets | Steven Gratton | 9 May 2018 |
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
Previous Colloquia
| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Know thy Star, Know thy Prebiotic Chemistry | Paul Rimmer (Cavendish) | 24 May 2018 |
| Addressing the Missing AGN Problem | Belinda Wilkes (SAO) | 17 May 2018 |
| Stellar rejuvenation around massive black holes in the Galactic center and metal-rich quasars, and gravitational wave sources in AGN disks: Analog of planetary systems around massive black holes | Douglas N. C. Lin (University of California, Santa Cruz) | 10 May 2018 |
| Fast Radio Bursts | Ben Stappers (Manchester) | 3 May 2018 |
| Kepler Planets - retention and loss of their atmospheres | James Owen (Imperial) | 26 April 2018 |
Previous Galaxies Discussion
| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| New constraints on Lyman-α opacity with a sample of 62 quasars at z > 5.7 | Sarah Bosman (UCL) | 18 May 2018 |
| Merging black holes in nuclear star clusters | Fabio Antonini (University of Surrey) | 11 May 2018 |
| Concerns about Modelling Foregrounds and the 21-cm Signal in the EDGES data | Ewald Puchwein (IoA) | 4 May 2018 |
| The details in the DEVILS: Exploring the co-evolution of galaxies and halos over the last 8 billion years | Luke Davies (ICRAR) | 13 April 2018 |
| The Escape Fraction of Ionising Photons from Early Galaxies | Richard Ellis (UCL) | 23 March 2018 |
Previous Sackler Lectures
| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Fatal fate - a gas cloud on its way towards Galactic Center black hole | Stefan Gillessen (MPE) | 31 October 2013 |
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 |
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