Institute of Astronomy

Talks Archive - Seminars

2020
Title Speaker Date
TBC Speaker to be confirmed 9 September 2020
Cosmology on the plane of density perturbations Oliver Friedrich (Kavli Institute) 2 September 2020
A relativistic disc model of tidal disruption events Andrew Mummery 26 August 2020
The weak imprint of environment on the stellar populations of galaxies James Trussler 19 August 2020
BayeSN-SED: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for SNe Ia SEDs in the Optical and NIR Stephen Thorp 17 June 2020
Predicting microlensing events with Gaia Peter McGill 17 June 2020
Quantifying host galaxy properties of X-ray selected AGN Adam Marshall 10 June 2020
BayeSN-SED: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for SNe Ia SEDs in the Optical and NIR Stephen Thorp 10 June 2020
Earth or Exoplanet? Assessing telluric correction methods for transmission spectroscopy Adam Langeveld 3 June 2020
Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond Or Graur 11 March 2020
Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond Or Graur 11 March 2020
Investigating the evolution of Earth's atmosphere during accretion of the late veneer Cat Sinclair 4 March 2020
Exploring exoplanet variety with HARPS-N Annelies Mortier 19 February 2020
The gas content of cool core galaxy clusters Haonan Liu 19 February 2020
What is the origin of exozodiacal dust? Jess Rigley 12 February 2020
Galactic winds: a statistical perspective. Alice Concas 12 February 2020
Bayesian deep learning to scale Galaxy Zoo Mike Walmsley (University of Oxford) 5 February 2020
Einstein's Universe: Cosmological structure formation in numerical relativity Hayley Macpherson 5 February 2020
oscode: fast solutions of oscillatory ODEs in cosmology Fruzsina Agocs 29 January 2020
Deciphering Thermal Emission Spectra of Exoplanets Anjali Piette 29 January 2020
Galactic archaeology in the Milky Way and beyond Sarah Martell (University of New South Wales) 22 January 2020
ELT/HIRES - an high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT Martin Haehnelt 22 January 2020
Starfruit: growing a musical universe Tim Watts 15 January 2020
2019
Title Speaker Date
Combining CMB and weak lensing: Cosmology with ACT and KiDS Naomi Robertson 4 December 2019
Challenges in interpreting transmission spectra of exoplanets Luis Welbanks 4 December 2019
The impact of photoionization on the statistics of turbulence Nina Sartorio 27 November 2019
Recent developments in neutrino cosmology Sunny Vagnozzi 27 November 2019
Recovering sky brightness with interferometry: A Fourier domain, Gaussian process approach Jeff Jennings 20 November 2019
Unraveling the nature of dark matter with intergalactic medium Vid Irsic 20 November 2019
Modelling exo-planet atmospheres using a chemical kinetics code Richard Hobbs 13 November 2019