| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars and super-Eddington accretion | Felix Fürst, ESAC | 10 July 2019 |
| On the evolution of the disk and corona in accreting black hole binaries | Javier Garcia, Caltech | 10 July 2019 |
| Lessons from Apollo 50 Years Later | John Lattanzio (Monash University) | 19 June 2019 |
| Prospects for CMB polarisation B-mode delensing with the Simons Observatory | Anton Baleato | 12 June 2019 |
| Extending the fundamental metallicity relation to non star-forming galaxies | Nimisha Kumari | 12 June 2019 |
| Real-Time Classification of Explosive Transients Using Deep Learning | Daniel Muthukrishna | 5 June 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Using the Magellanic Clouds to understand the interaction of galaxies | Maria-Rosa Cioni (AIP) | 6 June 2019 |
| Cosmology with Gravitational Lens Time Delays | Sherry Suyu (MPA) | 30 May 2019 |
| Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts | Pawan Kumar (UT Austin) | 23 May 2019 |
| The landscape of galaxy cluster cosmology | Steve Allen (Stanford) | 16 May 2019 |
| What's wrong with accretion discs? | Chris Nixon (Leicester) | 9 May 2019 |
Previous Kavli Lectures
| Title | Speaker | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Characterizing Exoplanets' Atmospheres to Unveil Planetary Origins, Climate and Habitability | Jean-Michel Desert (Amsterdam) | 13 June 2019 |
| Galactic Winds and the Circumgalactic Medium | Sylvain Veilleux (Maryland) | 14 February 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 |
|---|---|---|
| When the spectral lines in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548 went on holiday | Gary Ferland (U Kentucky) | 28 June 2019 |
| An Update on the Zwicky Transient Facility | Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) | 7 June 2019 |
| How to Quench a Dwarf Galaxy: The Impact of Reionization on Cosmic Structure | Harley Katz (Oxford) | 31 May 2019 |
| Star-forming clumps at high redshift and their importance for galaxy evolution | Anita Zanella (ESO) | 24 May 2019 |
| Towards an understanding of black hole binary formation through gravitational wave observations | Hongyu Shen (Urbana-Champaign) | 17 May 2019 |
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