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
The unquiet neighbour: how the LMC bugs the Milky Way	Eugene Vasiliev (IoA)	20 October 2021
Connecting X-ray nuclear winds with galaxy-scale ionised outflows in nearby and z~1.5 quasars	Giulia Tozzi	20 October 2021
Through the Amber Spyglass: searching for Axion-like signals in X-ray spectra of cluster-hosted AGN	James Matthews (IoA)	13 October 2021
The changing astrometry of Gaia's unresolved binaries	Zephyr Penoyre	6 October 2021
Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae: A view from ZTF	Suhail Dhawan	8 September 2021
Fast and Furious? - Debris Discs in the beta Pic Moving Group	Nicole Pawellek	1 September 2021

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Do dark-matter-deficient dwarf galaxies present a challenge to the LCDM paradigm?	Sugata Kaviraj, Hertfordshire	21 October 2021
Unveiling cosmic dawn	Anastasia Fialkov, IoA	7 October 2021
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

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
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
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

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
Probing ISM Physics at High-Redshift with Simulations and Local Analogues	Harley Katz (Oxford)	22 October 2021
Driving multi-phase outflows with AGN	Tiago Costa (MPA Garching)	15 October 2021
The Fundamental Plane: between galaxy evolution and cosmology	Francesco D'Eugenio (Cavendish)	8 October 2021
The causal origin of the angular momentum and of the properties of galaxies	Corentin Cadiou (UCL)	3 September 2021
The Cosmic Dawn simulation project: galaxy formation during the Epoch of Reionization	Pierre Ocvirk (Strasbourg)	28 May 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