Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets for seminars.

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 is the seminar organiser. If you have any comments or if you would like to visit MSSL and give a seminar, please drop either Paul or Mark a line.

January - December 2021
Date	Title	Speaker	Expertise
Thursday 7 January	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 January, 14:30	The structure of the accretion flow in AGN as revealed by variability - reverberation campaigns and changing look events	Chris Done University of Durham	AGN, X-ray Binaries, Athena
Thursday 21 January, 14:30	Title How to measure Dark Energy - ESA's Euclid Mission	Mark Cropper MSSL	cosmology
Thursday 28 January, 14:30	Mapping young stellar populations with Gaia in Lupus and Monoceros	Paula Teixeira St. Andrews University	Gaia, star formation
Thursday 4 February	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 February, 14:30	Harnessing the power of stars to unveil planets and our place in the cosmos	Heather Cegla University of Warwick	Brown Dwarfs, Exoplanets
Thursday 18 February, 14:30	Hydrodynamic and Spectroscopic Studies of Starburst-Driven Galactic Outflows	Brian Yu MSSL	Galactic Outflows
Thursday 25 February, 14:30	The Cloud Factory: resolving star formation in its galactic context	Rowan Smith University of Manchester	Star Formation
Thursday 4 March	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 March, 14:30	The Chemistry of Planet Formation	Catherine Walsh University of Leeds	Astrochemistry, planet formation
Thursday 18 March, 14:30	What is a Quantum Computer? (and why should you care)	Tom Kitching MSSL
Thursday 25 March, 14:30	X-ray Emission from Isolated Neutron Stars: 3D magnetothermal simulations	Davide De Grandis Padova University	Topic
Thursday 1 April	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 8 April	EASTER BREAK
Thursday 15 April, 14:30	GOTO - Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer	Gavin Ramsay University of Armagh	GW
Thursday 22 April, 14:30	Compromised Cosmic Shear - Addressing biased cosmology from approximations in weak lensing theory	Anurag Deshpande MSSL	Cosmology, Weak Lensing
Thursday 29 April, 14:30	Radio magnetars and the re-activation of XTE J1810-197	Lina Preston University of Manchester	Pulsars
Thursday 6 May	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 13 May, 14:30	Irradiated brown dwarfs: Providing insights into exoplanet atmospheres	Sarah Casewell University of Leicester	Brown Dwarfs
Thursday 20 May, 14:30	JASMINE mission	Daisuke Kawata MSSL	JASMINE mission
Thursday 27 May, 14:30	Good Vibrations give Better Stars, Better Exoplanets, and a Better Milky Way	Conny Aerts Leuven University	Astroseismology, PLATO
Thursday 3 June	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 10 June, 14:30	Stellar interactions & transients	Silvia Toonen University of Birmingham	Triple systems, GW
Thursday 17 June, 14:30	Title TBC	Internal Speaker University	Topic
Thursday 24 June, 14:30	Ionized winds driven away from supermassive black holes	Junjie Mao University of Strathclyde	AGN, plasma codes, High res. X-ray spectroscopy
Thursday 1 July	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 8 July, 14:30	Studying ExoKuiper belts through ALMA observations	Sebastian Marino Cambridge University	Debris Disks
Thursday 15 July, 14:30	Machine learning - accelerated Bayesian inference in cosmology... and beyond!	Alessio Spurio Mancini MSSL	Machine Learning
Thursday 22 July, 14:30	Cosmology with neutral hydrogen (HI) intensity mapping	Alkistis Pourtsidou Queen Mary University London	Cosmology
Thursday 29 July, 14:30	Title TBC	Peter Boorman Astrnomical institute of Czech Acadamy of Sciences	AGN
August	SUMMER BREAK
Thursday 2 September	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 September, 14:30	Title TBC	Speaker TBA institution	Topic
Thursday 16 September, 14:30	Title TBC	Internal Speaker University	Topic
Thursday 23 September, 14:30	Title TBC	Maggie Lieu University of Nottingham	Cosmology
Thursday 30 September, 14:30	Title TBC	Andrea Manrique Leiden University	Cosmology
Thursday 7 October	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 14 October, 14:30	Title TBC	Matt Darnley Liverpool John Moore University	Time Domain Astrophysics
Thursday 21 October, 14:30	Title TBC	Internal Speaker University	Topic
Thursday 28 October, 14:30	Title TBC	Giovanni Rosotti Leiden University	Planet formation
Thursday 4 November	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 11 November, 14:30	Title TBC	Jamie Salcido Negrete Liverpool John Moores University	Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Thursday 18 November, 14:30	Title TBC	Internal Speaker University	Topic
Thursday 25 November, 14:30	Title TBC	Marika Asgari University of Edinbrugh	KiDS-1000, cosmology
Thursday 2 December	ASTRO GROUP MEETING
Thursday 9 December	Yamila Miguel Leiden University	Planets & Exoplanets	ASTRO JAMBOREE
Thursday 16 December, 14:30	ASTRO JAMBOREE