UCL MSSL: Astrophysics Group Seminars
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Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars


Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets for seminars.

The time allocated to speakers for their presentations is 45 minutes (plus 15 minutes for questions). Seminars begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise.
The seminar is preceded by lunch at a local pub and is followed by coffee and biscuits.

Ellis Owen and Myrto Symeonidis are the seminar organisers. If you have any comments or if you would like to visit MSSL and give a seminar, please drop Ellis or Myrto a line.


January - December 2016
Date Title Speaker Expertise
Thursday 7 January

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Thursday 14 January, 14:30

Unraveling the origin of the GeV and TeV emission from gamma-ray binaries Victor Zabalza
University of Leicester
gamma ray binaries
Friday 15 January, 14:00

Non-linear violent disc instability with high Toomre's Q in high-redshift clumpy disc galaxies Shigeki Inoue
Hebrew University, Israel
disc instabilities in high redshift galaxies
Thursday 21 January, 14:30

Radio-Loud AGN: a multi-scale perspective Beatriz Mingo Fernadez
University of Leicester
radio galaxies
Thursday 28 January, 14:30

The pillars and the twins of the stars in the Gaia-ESO Survey
Paula Jofre Pfiel
University of Cambridge
old stars, stellar spectroscopy, GAIA
Thursday 4 February, 14:30

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Friday 5 February, 11:00

Accretion Disk formation following tidal disruption of stars on bound orbits around spinning supermassive black holes
Kimitake Hayasaki
Chungbuk National University, Korea
high energy phenomena; accretion disks, black holes, binaries
Thursday 11 February, 14:30

Multi-Wavelength Techniques To Test the Fundaments of Cosmology
Stefano Camera
University of Manchester
weak lensing, galaxy clustering surveys
Thursday 18 February, 14:30

The EAGLE project: Numerical modelling of the 'Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments'
Rob Crain
Liverpool John Moores
galaxy formation and evolution, hydrodynamical simulations
Thursday 25 February, 14:30

Survey Science with SKA Precursors: MWA & ASKAP
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
SKA
Thursday 3 March, 14:30

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Thursday 10 March, 14:30

Galaxy masses in a cosmological context
Jorge Penarrubia
Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
dark matter, dwarf galaxies
Thursday 17 March, 14:30

Structure and Dynamics of the Milky Way
Ralph Schoenrich
University of Oxford
galactic dynamics
Tuesday 22 March, 11:15

GRB-SNe: From Central Engines to Cosmological Probes
Zach Cano
University of Iceland
GRBs
Thursday 31 March, 14:30

INTERNAL SEMINAR - A talk of two halves, Image reconstruction on the sphere and scanning for COrE++
Chris Wallis
MSSL-UCL
Cosmic Microwave Background data analysis
Thursday 7 April, 14:30

ATRO GROUP MEETING

Monday 11 April, 14:30

Investigating the age structure of the Milky Way disc
Luca Casagrande
The Australian National University
Galactic archaeology
Thursday 14 April, 14:30

Early cosmology from the Dark Energy Survey
Joe Zuntz
University of Manchester
DES, lensing
Thursday 21 April, 14:30

Exoplanets: recent results and future experiments
Don Pollacco
University of Warwick
exoplanets
Thursday 28 April, 14:30

A dark night through a textured window: current and future probes of cosmological physics
David Bacon
University of Portsmouth
cosmology, lensing
Thursday 5 May, 14:30

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Friday 13 May, 14:00

INTERNAL SEMINAR - Wavelet-based segmentation on the sphere and the application of MCMC methods in radio interferometry
Xiaohao Cai
MSSL-UCL
Image and signal processing, numerical analysis
Thursday 19 May, 14:30

Spectroscopic Studies of Galaxies in the Reionisation Era
Richard Ellis
ESO/UCL
star-formation, galaxy evolution
Thursday 26 May, 14:00

INTERNAL SEMINAR - Made-to-Measure dynamical modelling of the Milky Way with PRIMAL and Gaia
Jason Hunt
MSSL-UCL
galaxy dynamics
Thursday 2 June, 14:30

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Friday 10 June, 14:00

INTERNAL SEMINAR - High resolution X-ray spectroscopy of AGN
Megan Whewell
MSSL-UCL
AGN spectroscopy
Thursday 16 June, 14:30

A fundamental constraint on the imaging of dust and molecular gas in the Early Universe set by the CMB
Padelis Papadopoulos
ESO/Cardiff
star-formation, molecular gas
Thursday 23 June, 14:00

INTERNAL SEMINAR - Putting AGN centre stage
Myrto Symeonidis
MSSL-UCL
galaxy surveys, galaxy evolution
Thursday 30 June

NAM
NAM
Thursday 7 July, 14:30

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Thursday 14 July, 14:30

Modelling the Emission from Supermassive Black Holes with General Relativistic Radiative Transfer and MHD
Ziri Younsi
University of Frankfurt
general relativity, black holes
Wednesday 20 July, 14:30
NASA's WFIRST Mission
Jason Rhodes
NASA JPL
weak lensing, structure of the Universe
Thursday 21 July, 14:30

LOFAR and the evolution of radio AGN
Wendy Williams
University of Hertfordshire
AGN, radio surveys
Thursday 28 July, 14:30

Simulating Realistic Clusters for Cosmology
David Barnes
University of Manchester
simulations of galaxy clusters
Tuesday 2 August, 14:30

Charge-Exchange X-Ray Emission from M82
Li Ji
Purple Mountain Observatory
high energy astrophysics
Thursday 1 September, 14:30

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Thursday 8 September, 14:00

[CII] is all the rage at high-z - but how to make sense of it?
Thomas Greve
UCL
submm astronomy, galaxy formation and evolution
Thursday 15 September, 14:00

INTERNAL SEMINAR - Impacts of a Flaring Disk and Radial Mixing on the Galactic Thick and Thin Disks
Daisuke Kawata
MSSL
galaxy dynamics
Thursday 22 September, 14:30

Moving beyond the power spectrum of 21-cm maps
Catherine Watkinson
UCL
Reionisation, 21cm observations, first galaxies
Thursday 29 September, 14:30

Unravelling the formation history of the Milky Way with chemodynamics
Payel Das
University of Oxford
stellar evolution
Thursday 6 October

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Thursday 13 October

Some complexities of the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal
Suman Majumdar
Imperial College
Epoch of reionisation, SKA
Thursday 20 October

INTERNAL SEMINAR - Gaia DR1 Science
Daisuke Kawata, Paul Kuin, Ignacio Ferreras
MSSL-UCL
Gaia Science
Thursday 3 November

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Thursday 10 November

Predictions for the detection of Tidal Streams with Gaia using Great Circle Methods
Cecilia Mateu
Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomía, Venezuela
stellar astrophysics
Thursday 17 November

MSSL AWARDS

Thursday 24 November

INTERNAL SEMINAR - Euclid Pipeline Systematics; An End to End Approach
Paniez Paykari
MSSL-UCL
Euclid
Thursday 1 December

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

Friday 2 December

Globular clusters in the era of precision astrometry: getting ready for Gaia
Anna Lisa Varri
IfA Edinburgh
Globular clusters, Gaia
Wednesday 7 December

Black Hole shadow features with accretion and GRMHD jet
Hung-Yi Pu
ASIAA
Black holes, GRMHD
Thursday 8 December

Weak lensing magnification and other signals
Robert Crittenden
University of Portsmouth
cosmology

Last updated 5 December 2016 — Ellis Owen


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