Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Colloquia

2020
Title Date Speaker
A NICER view of neutron stars 3 December 2020 Anna Watts (Amsterdam)
A Modern View of Quasars in the LSST Era 26 November 2020 Gordon Richards (Drexel, Philadelphia)
A Tale of Circumgalactic Gas: Large and Small scales 12 November 2020 Rongmon Bordoloi
Highlights from the dawn of million-star spectroscopy 5 November 2020 Karin Lind (Stockholm)
Welcome to the era of fast radio burst “cosmology”! 29 October 2020 Matt McQuinn (Washington)
Unveiling the high redshift Universe with deep spectroscopy 22 October 2020 Laura Pentericci (INAF - Rome)
The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies 8 October 2020 Andy Fabian (Cambridge)
Disks and Dynamics of Protoplanetary Systems 11 June 2020 Ian Czekala (Berkeley)
Absorption and accretion properties of local Active Galactic Nuclei 28 May 2020 Claudio Ricci (UDP, Chile)
Mapping the hot Universe: the first six months of operations of eROSITA on SRG 21 May 2020 Andrea Merloni (MPE)
The Obscured Universe: from Peak Star-Formation to Reionization 14 May 2020 Caitlin Casey (Univerity of Texas)
The Next Frontier of Low-Mass Galaxy Formation 7 May 2020 Dan Weisz (Berkeley)
Uncovering the nature of dark matter with stellar streams in the Milky Way 30 April 2020 Ana Bonaca (Harvard)
Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model with X-ray Studies of Galaxy Clusters 23 April 2020 Prof. Christopher Reynolds (IoA)
Down the Dusty Road -- Gems from Large (sub-)millimetre Surveys 5 March 2020 Thomas Greve, University College London (UCL)
Exploring the First Light And Reionisation Epoch 27 February 2020 Stephen Wilkins, Sussex
New substructure in the phase-space of the Milky Way with Gaia 20 February 2020 Teresa Antoja, University of Barcelona
Moving beyond stellar activity limitations to detect other Earths 13 February 2020 Nadege Meunier, Grenoble
The intriguing lives of post-starburst galaxies 6 February 2020 Vivienne Wild, St Andrews
The core of the matter – spatially resolving the nuclei of Active Galaxies with VLTI/GRAVITY 23 January 2020 Eckhard Sturm, MPE
The dispersal of planet forming discs and its role on the formation and evolution of planets 16 January 2020 Barbara Ercolano, LMU Munich
2019
Title Date Speaker
Tracing the building blocks of habitable worlds from disks to planets 5 December 2019 Oliver Shorttle (IoA and Earth Sciences, Cambs)
The Galactic Halo Renaissance 28 November 2019 Alis Deason (Durham)
Accretion Disks, Winds And Jets in Tidal Disruption Events 21 November 2019 Jane Lixin Dai (University of Hong Kong)
The role of halo formation history and circumgalactic gas expulsion in the evolution of galaxies 14 November 2019 Rob Crain (LJMU)
Asteroseismology: Results from Kepler and TESS 7 November 2019 William Chaplin (Birmingham)
Mapping accreting black holes using X-ray variability 17 October 2019 Adam Ingram (Oxford)
Collisionless losscone refilling: the end of the final parsec problem 10 October 2019 Alessia Gualandris (Surrey)
Using the Magellanic Clouds to understand the interaction of galaxies 6 June 2019 Maria-Rosa Cioni (AIP)
Cosmology with Gravitational Lens Time Delays 30 May 2019 Sherry Suyu (MPA)