| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Milky Way bar kinematics with VVV and Gaia | Jason Sanders | 13 March 2019 |
| Heavy elements in red giant stars | Amanda Karakas (Monash) | 7 March 2019 |
| AGN-driven outflows in simulated dwarf galaxies | Sophie Koudmani | 6 March 2019 |
| Why do galaxies stop forming stars? | Asa Bluck | 6 March 2019 |
| Sausage-Mania — more Mouth-watering Recipes | Wyn Evans | 20 February 2019 |
| The Gaia Sausage - our Galaxy’s last major merger | Vasily Belokurov | 20 February 2019 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Deconstructing stellar halos in the Local Group | Alan McConnachie (U Vic) | 14 March 2019 |
| Proper-Motion Studies of Galactic Globular Clusters | Laura Watkins (ESO) | 28 February 2019 |
| Transformative advances in post-main-sequence planetary system science | Dimitri Veras (Warwick) | 21 February 2019 |
| Wide-field submm surveys of the nearby and very distant Universe | Steve Eales (Cardiff) | 7 February 2019 |
| Helium Stars, Heavy Metals, High Velocities and Explosions | Simon Jeffery (Armagh) | 31 January 2019 |
Previous Galaxies Discussion
| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| The tale of two halos: a couple of super cool results from the Gaia DR2 | Vasily Belokurov (IoA) | 22 March 2019 |
| Compact HII galaxies | Ricardo Chavez (UNAM) | 1 March 2019 |
| The discreteness-driven relaxation of collisionless gravitating systems | Beraldo e Silva (U Central Lancashire) | 22 February 2019 |
| Massive outflows of cold gas and their role in the baryon cycle of galaxies | Claudia Cicone (OABrera, Milano) | 15 February 2019 |
| Searching for the fastest stars in Gaia DR2 | Tommaso Marchetti (Leiden) | 30 November 2018 |
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 |
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