| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Central galaxy quenching: a consistent look across simulations and observations | Joanna Piotrowska | 17 March 2021 |
| Constraining the size of White Dwarf pollutants | Andy Buchan | 17 March 2021 |
| Blandford-Znajek jets in galaxy formation simulations | Rosie Talbot | 10 March 2021 |
| Modelling Thorne-Zytkow Objects | Alex Hackett | 10 March 2021 |
| Dwarf galaxies beyond supernova feedback: galaxy formation with radiation, magnetic fields, and cosmic rays | Sergio Martin-Alvarez | 3 March 2021 |
| Reduced Atmospheres of Post-Impact Worlds | Jonathan Itcovitz | 3 March 2021 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The story of our Galaxy, as told by Gaia | Payel Das (Surrey) | 18 March 2021 |
| Uncovering the Epoch of Reionization | Emma Chapman (Imperial) | 11 March 2021 |
| Diving into the stars with space-based asteroseismology | Margarida Cunha (Porto) | 4 March 2021 |
| A New Method of Determining Black Hole Spin and Accretion Disk Properties for Supermassive and Stellar-mass Black Holes | Ruth Daly (Penn State) | 25 February 2021 |
| The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: A Detailed Census of the Physics of Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe | Alice Shapley (UCLA) | 18 February 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 S5 survey and the discovery of the fastest known hypervelocity star | Sergey Koposov (IfA Edinburgh) | 16 April 2021 |
| Probing reionization with the Lyman-alpha forest and the CMB | Xiaohan Wu (Harvard) | 26 March 2021 |
| The Evolution and Limitations of AGN Feedback in Massive Galaxies | Michael McDonald (MIT) | 12 March 2021 |
| Studying massive black holes with tidal disruption events | Hugo Pfister (NBI Copenhagen) | 26 February 2021 |
| Dance of the Milky Way and the LMC | Denis Erkal (Surrey) | 19 February 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 |
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