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
BayeSN-SED: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for SNe Ia SEDs in the Optical and NIR	Stephen Thorp	17 June 2020
Predicting microlensing events with Gaia	Peter McGill	17 June 2020
Quantifying host galaxy properties of X-ray selected AGN	Adam Marshall	10 June 2020
BayeSN-SED: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for SNe Ia SEDs in the Optical and NIR	Stephen Thorp	10 June 2020
Earth or Exoplanet? Assessing telluric correction methods for transmission spectroscopy	Adam Langeveld	3 June 2020
Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond	Or Graur	11 March 2020

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Disks and Dynamics of Protoplanetary Systems	Ian Czekala (Berkeley)	11 June 2020
Absorption and accretion properties of local Active Galactic Nuclei	Claudio Ricci (UDP, Chile)	28 May 2020
Mapping the hot Universe: the first six months of operations of eROSITA on SRG	Andrea Merloni (MPE)	21 May 2020
The Obscured Universe: from Peak Star-Formation to Reionization	Caitlin Casey (Univerity of Texas)	14 May 2020
The Next Frontier of Low-Mass Galaxy Formation	Dan Weisz (Berkeley)	7 May 2020

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
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
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

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 (chemical) history of the Milky Way told by its mergers	Oscar Agertz and Florent Renaud (Lund Observatory)	24 July 2020
A lockdown perspective on cosmic tensions	George Efstathiou (IoA)	17 July 2020
Fifth Force Constraints from Galaxy-Scale Tests	Aneesh Naik (IoA)	10 July 2020
Understanding the epoch of reionization with Lyman-alpha emitters	Lewis Weinberger (IoA)	3 July 2020
Tidal disruption of stars	Thomas Wevers (IoA)	26 June 2020