UCL DEPT. OF SPACE & CLIMATE PHYSICS
MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY

Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars


September – December 2010

Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets in the Library for seminars.`

Speakers normally give presentations of up to an hour (including time for questions) and these begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise.
The seminar is preceded by lunch at a local pub and is followed by coffee and biscuits

Nick Seymour and Massimiliano de Pasquale are the seminar organisers.

Calendar September - December 2010
Date Title Speaker
26th August

Stellar Distributions in Galactic Centres: Searching for the Signatures of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Mr Neil Johnson
MSSL/University of Saskatchewan
10th September

Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies
Dominic Walton
IoA
16th September

The Stellar and Substellar Mass Function in Open Clusters
Dr Steve Boudreault
UCL/MSSL
23rd September

Testing accretion physics in the Magellanic Clouds
Professor Malcolm Coe
University of Southampton
30th September

no talk
TBD
7th October

postponed to 13th January 2011
Dr Suzanne Aigrain
University of Oxford
7th October

ASTRO GROUP METTING

18th October

A cross-match of 2MASS and SDSS : Peculiar L dwarfs and unresolved binaries
Dr Kerstin Geissler
Stony Brook University
21st October

Clustering and Source Counts in the Herschel Atlas
Dr Steve Maddox
University of Nottingham
28th October

The dark and the light: Black holes, dark halos, and their influence on galaxy evolution
Dr Ryan Hickox
University of Durham
4th November

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

11th November

The surprisingly simple dynamics of early-type galaxies
Dr Michele Cappellari
University of Oxford
19th November

Shock-Induced Star Cluster Formation in Colliding Galaxies(pdf)
Dr Takayuki Saitoh
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
22nd November

The GRB-SNe connection(pdf)
Mr Zach Cano
Liverpool John Moores University
25th November

TBD
Prof Steve Rawlings
University of Oxford
2nd December

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

3rd December

(postponed to 2011)
Dr Martin Smith
KIAA, PKU, China
9th Decemberr

The European Extremely Large Telescope
Dr Aprajita Verma
University of Oxford
16th December

(postponed to May 19th)
Dr Mark Thompson
University of Hertfordshire
20th December

Coevolution of Luminous InfraRed Galaxies and Dusty Obscured AGNs up to z=2
Prof. Hitoshi Hanami
University of Iwate
For future seminars:
January – June 2011 click here.
For past seminars:
January – June 2009 click here.

If you have any comments or if you'd like to come and give us a seminar, please drop Nick or Max a line.


Last updated September 2010 — Nick Seymour


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