Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

July – December 2008 - this page
January – June 2009 - click here.

On Thursay afternoons, the Astrophysics Group meets in the Library for seminars (internal and external).

Speakers normally give presentations of up to an hour (including time for questions) and these begin at 2.30pm unless stated otherwise.

In charge for the period 01st July 2008 to 31st December 2009 are Roberto Soria and Myrto Symeonidis.

Calendar 2008 July to December 2008
Date	Title	Speaker
3rd July
10th July	Topology of magnetars external field	Dr Lucia Pavan University of Padova
17th July
24th July	Testing the Evolutionary Link Between Submillimetre Galaxies and Quasars	Dr Kristen Coppin Durham University
31st July	Compton Polarised Radiation from Accretion and Outflow of Compact Objects	Aimee McNamara University of Sydney
7th Aug	Chemo-dynamical evolution of Milky Way-type galaxies	Andreea Font Durham University
14th Aug
21st Aug	Dark Energy, dark matter and all that	Dr Christian Boehmer UCL
28th Aug
4th Sept	Exploring Star Formation in the Milky Way Galaxy	Thomas Garnier MSSL, UCL
11th Sept
18th Sept
25th Sept
2nd Oct
9th Oct	Formation of Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Bulges	Yu-Qing Luo TsingHua University
16th Oct
23rd Oct	Star Formation in the Cosmological Context	Prof Robert Kennicutt University of Cambridge (IoA)
27th Oct	RATS - a search for faint variable objects	Tom Barclay Armagh Observatory/ MSSL
30th Oct	High Redshift Clusters in the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey	Dr Caroline van Breukelen UCL
6th Nov	LOFAR: the first next-generation radio telescope	Prof Robert Fender University of Southampton
13th Nov	TBD	Dr Chris Done University of Durham
20th Nov	Life and death of Irradiated Gaseous Protoplanetary Disks	Dr Barbara Ercolano University of Cambridge (IoA)
27th Nov	(Ultra) Luminous Infrared Galaxies: Their Nature and Evolution	Dr Myrto Symeonidis MSSL, UCL
4th Dec	Modelling the 'bifurcated' tails of Sagittarius	Dr Mike Fellhauer University of Cambridge/Universidad de Concepción, Chile
11th Dec
18th Dec	Galaxy Kinematics in the Near Infrared	Dr Ryan Houghton University of Oxford

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

Last updated October 2008 — Myrto Symeonidis

Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars

July – December 2008 - this page January – June 2009 - click here.

July – December 2008 - this page
January – June 2009 - click here.