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 High-z Cosmic Web in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies	Tibor Dome	18 May 2022
Orbital alignment and mass segregation in galactic nuclei via Vector Resonant Relaxation	Nathan Magnan (University of Cambridge)	11 May 2022
The Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies	Lester Sandles	4 May 2022
Detection of massive molecular and dust reservoirs around z~2 extremely red quasars: CGM enrichment by quasar-driven outflows	Speaker to be confirmed	27 April 2022
A disturbing FABLE of mergers, feedback, turbulence, and mass biases in simulated galaxy clusters	Speaker to be confirmed	27 April 2022
High-resolution Spectroscopy of Thermal Emission from Exoplanets	Måns Holmberg	9 March 2022

Previous Colloquia

Title	Speaker	Date
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
Unveiling cosmic dawn	Anastasia Fialkov, IoA	17 March 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
Modeling H-alpha emission in galaxies: insights into star formation and time variability	Sandro Tacchella (Cavendish)	27 May 2022
On the quenching of star formation in observed and simulated central galaxies: Evidence for the role of integrated AGN feedback	Joanna Piotrowska (Cavendish)	13 May 2022
The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes	Melanie Habouzit (MPIA Heidelberg)	25 March 2022
A Color-Independent Approach to Galaxy and Quasar Evolution through Absorption Spectroscopy	Jens-Kristian Krogager, University of Lyon (CRAL)	18 March 2022
Do We Have a Standard Model of Cosmology?	George Efstathiou	25 February 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