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
Results of the IoA’s Annual EDI, Wellbeing & Culture Survey 2020	Clare Worley & Mark Wyatt	16 June 2021
Characterising the Atmospheres of Low-Mass Exoplanets with JWST	Savvas Constantinou	16 June 2021
The Invention of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.	Craig Mackay	9 June 2021
The fascinating cluster merger Abell 2146	Annabelle Richard-Laferrière	2 June 2021
X-ray feedback from Population III binaries	Nina Sartorio	19 May 2021
Cosmological Results from Planck PR4 (NPIPE) with CamSpec	Erik Rosenberg	19 May 2021

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
New results on galaxy clusters from the eROSITA early data release	Jeremy Sanders (MPE)	17 June 2021
Information-theoretic problems in astrophysics.	David Hogg (Flatiron)	10 June 2021
Dwarf galaxy archaeology: Answering big questions with tiny galaxies	Anna Frebel (MIT)	3 June 2021
Bridging Galaxy Evolution Across Cosmic Time With the CLASSY Survey	Danielle Berg (UT Austin)	27 May 2021
Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars	Courtney Dressing (Berkeley)	20 May 2021

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
CANCELLED - The Millimetre Sky from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Jo Dunkley (Princeton University)	28 January 2021
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

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 Cosmic Dawn simulation project: galaxy formation during the Epoch of Reionization	Pierre Ocvirk (Strasbourg)	28 May 2021
Tracing AGN feedback signatures from small to large scales across cosmic time	Dominika Wylezalek, Universität Heidelberg	21 May 2021
Black holes in globular clusters	Mark Gieles (Barcelona)	14 May 2021
Resolving the impact of outflows and small-scale structure in the CGM with TNG50	Dylan Nelson, Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Heidelberg	7 May 2021
The S5 survey and the discovery of the fastest known hypervelocity star	Sergey Koposov (IfA Edinburgh)	16 April 2021

Previous Other Talks

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