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
Preparing for JWST with HST/COS spectroscopy of Pox 186: a local analogue of z > 6 galaxies	Nimisha Kumari	28 September 2022
Evidence of planet engulfment in post-main sequence stars	Dr. Claudia Aguilera Gomez, ESO - Universidad Diego Portales (Chile)	10 June 2022
Robustness of Molecular Detections Using High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy	Connor Cheverall	8 June 2022
The Awakening Beast in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy KUG 1141+371	Jiachen Jiang	8 June 2022
Reconstructed star-formation histories in MaNGA galaxies: Dependence on host galaxy properties and radial trends	Tobias Looser	1 June 2022
The High-z Cosmic Web in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies	Tibor Dome	18 May 2022

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
Strong lensing of transients by clusters of galaxies: From cosmic telescopes to cosmic microscopes	Adi Zitrin (Ben Gurion University)	9 June 2022
Cluster Cosmology: Game On or Game Over?	Kathy Romer (Sussex)	19 May 2022
Dusty Star Formation	Matthew Bate (Exeter)	12 May 2022
Exploring the outer solar system with space robots	Carly Howett (Oxford)	5 May 2022
Spatially and temporally resolving  the wondrous lives of galaxies	Sandro Tacchella (Kavli Institute for Cosmology)	28 April 2022

Previous Kavli Lectures

Title	Speaker	Date
Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics: Progress and Puzzles	Vicky Kalogera	26 May 2022
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

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
Multi-phase AGN feedback on pc and kpc scales.	Cristina Ramos Almeida (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)	26 August 2022
Supernova and AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies	Sophie Koudmani (IoA)	22 July 2022
The Sherwood Relics simulations - patchy cosmic reionization and its imprints on the IGM and Lyman-alpha forest	Ewald Puchwein (AIP Potsdam)	15 July 2022
The search for primordial gravitational waves: latest results from BICEP/Keck	Clem Pryke (UM Minneapolis)	1 July 2022
Modeling H-alpha emission in galaxies: insights into star formation and time variability	Sandro Tacchella (Cavendish)	27 May 2022

Previous Other Talks

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