Astrophysics Seminars 2022
The Astrophysics Group meets every Thursday afternoon. The first Thursday of each month is reserved for the Astrophysics Group Meeting and one internal seminar is held each month.
The time allocated to speakers for their presentations is about 50 minutes (plus 10 minutes for questions). Seminars begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise. Given the current climate, all seminars are currently done remotely. We hope to have in person seminars again soon!
Paul Kuin, Jennifer Friske and Angharad Weeks are the seminar organisers. If you have any coments or would like to give a seminar please contact Paul, Jenny or Angharad.
Seminar schedule January 2022 - December 2022
| Date | Title | Speaker | Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 6th January | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 13 January, 14:30 | Probing dark matter with resonant dynamics of the Galactic bar | Rimpei Chiba | Galactic dynamics |
| Thursday 20 January, 14:30 | Paul Kuin MSSL | ||
| Thursday 28 January, 14:30 | Radio afterglows of very high energy gamma-ray bursts | Lauren Rhodes | GRBs |
| Thursday 3 February | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 10 February, 14:30 | Testing general relativity, constraining the violation of the strong equivalence principle and alternative theories of gravity using pulsars | Paulo Freire Max Planck | Tests of gravity theories with pulsar timing |
| Thursday 17 February, 14:30 | Obscuration in AGN: NGC 5548, NGC 3783, and the 2019 Transient Event in NGC 3227 | Sam Grafton Waters MSSL | |
| Thursday 3 March | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 10 March, 14:30 | Exoplanet demographics, detection and stellar activity: transiting planets as probes of stellar variability and planetary architectures | Lauren Doyle Warwick | stellar astrophysics |
| Thursday 17 March, 14:30 | Probing planet formation through in-depth characterisation of transiting planets | Louise Dyregaard Nielsen University of Oxford | Exoplanets |
| Thursday 21 March, 14:30 | Multimessenger astronomy with high-energy neutrinos | Foteini Oikonomou Norwegian University of Science and Technology | High energy neutrinos |
| Thursday 31 March, 14:30 | Multi-messenger astronomy including gravitational-waves | Marica Branchesi Gran Sasso Science Institute | Multimessenges astrophysics |
| Thursday 7 April | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 14 April | EASTER BREAK | ||
| Thursday 28 April, 14:30 | Homing in on Cosmic Dawn: When Did the First Galaxies Emerge from Darkness? | Richard Ellis UCL P&A | JSWT, galaxies |
| Thursday 5 May | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 12 May, 14:30 | Unraveling the origins of planetary composition | Mihkel Kama UCL P&A | protoplanetary disks |
| Thursday 19 May, 14:30 | Fundamental physics and astrophysics using multi-messenger study of extreme-mass-ratio binaries containing a milli-second pulsar | Kinwah Wu MSSL | |
| Thursday 2 June | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 9 June, 14:30 | Gas flows and metal enrichment in and around Milky Way-mass galaxies | Freeke van de Voort Cardiff | Cosmological simulaiton of galaxy formation |
| Thursday 16 June, 14:30 | Using Neutral Hydrogen to Probe the Dark Universe | Paula soares QMUL | Cosmology |
| Thursday 23 June, 14:30 | What powers galaxies? | Myrto Symeonidis MSSL | AGN |
| Thursday 30 June, 14:30 | Pandemonium in the Planetary Graveyard | Jay Farihi UCL P&A | Exoplanets |
| Thursday 7 July | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| August | SUMMER BREAK | ||
| Thursday 8 September | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 22 September, 14:30 | Barred galaxies in ΛCDM: Uncovering the formation history and dark matter content of Milky Way-type galaxies | Francesca Fragkoudi Durham University | Galactic Dynamics |
| Thursday 29 September, 14:30 | Cynthia Ho MSSL | Exoplanets | |
| Thursday 29 September, 15:00 | Kit George MSSL | Galactic Dynamics | |
| Thursday 6 October | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 13 October, 14:30 | Planet formation in stellar clusters | Thomas Haworth QMUL | Planet Formation |
| Thursday 20 October, 14:30 | First steps of planet formation in the ALMA and JWST era | Paola Pinilla MSSL | The Genesis of Planets |
| Thursday 27 October, 14:30 | Constraining cosmology with density-split clustering | Carolina Cuesta-lazaro Durham University | Cosmology |
| Thursday 3 November | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 10 November, 14:30 | Galactic Dynamics | Jun Lau MSSL | Galactic Dynamics |
| Thursday 10 November, 14:30 | Paul Lai MSSL | High Energy Astrophysics | |
| Monday 14 November, 15:30 | Déjà Vu? The 7th Outburst of the Recurrent Nova RS Oph in soft X-rays | Jan-Uwe Ness | High Energy Astrophysics |
| Thursday 17 November, 14:30 | Asteroseismic constraints in the context of stellar ages and Galactic evolution | Emma Willett Birmingham | Galactic Archaeology/Stellar Astrophysics |
| Thursday 24 November, 14:30 | Title TBC | Dylan Jow University of Toronto | High Energy Astrophysics |
| Thursday 1 December | ASTRO GROUP MEETING | ||
| Thursday 8 December, 14:30 | Davide Piras UCL P&A | Cosmology | |
| Thursday ?? December | ASTRO JAMBOREE | ||
Previous seminars
Our previous seminar schedules can be found below.
January-December 2021Janurary-December 2020 Janurary-December 2019 January-December 2018 January-December 2017 January-December 2016 January-December 2015 January-December 2014 July – December 2013 January – June 2013 July – December 2012 January – June 2012 July – December 2011 January – June 2011 September – December 2010 January – June 2010 July – December 2009 January – June 2009 July – December 2008 January – June 2008 July – December 2007 January – June 2007 July – December 2006 January – June 2006Resources:
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Head of Group:
Prof. Silvia Zane
s.zane@ucl.ac.uk