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

Astrophysics Group Meetings and Seminars


Every Thursday afternoon, the Astrophysics Group meets in the Library 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

Roberto Mignani and Ziri Younsi are the seminar organisers. If you have any comments or if you would like to visit MSSL and give us a seminar, please drop Roberto or Ziri a line.

Seminars Next Semester: July – December 2012 click here.

Past seminars:

22nd March

Exploring the dawn of cosmic structure with the 21 cm line and CO mapping
Jonathan Pritchard
Imperial College London
Calendar January - June 2012
Date Title Speaker
5th January



12th January

Studying black holes and neutron stars with gravitational wave observations
Alberto Vecchio
University of Birmingham
19th January

Binaries and star formation
Simon Goodwin
Sheffield University
26th January

Supernovae: creators or destroyers? Results from the Magellanic Clouds
Jacco van Loon
Keele University
1st February

Variations of the IMF and the Star Formation Efficiency: Physics or Random Sampling?
Sami Dib
Imperial College London
2nd February

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

9th February

Recent advances in stellar seismology with CoRoT and Kepler
Andrea Miglio
University of Birmingham
16th February

Cosmology from Galaxy Surveys
Will Percival
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
23rd February

Near-infrared surveys with VISTA
Will Sutherland
Queen Mary, University of London
1st March

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

8th March

Some statistics of galactic SNRs, and G1.9+0.3
Dave Green
University of Cambridge
14th March

Mass loss and the end of stellar evolution
Albert Zijlstra
University of Manchester
22nd March

CANCELED

29h March

***** National Astronomy Meeting ****

5th April

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

12th April

Dark Energy: A lot of fuss about nothing
Bob Nichol
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
19th April

VISTA - overview of recent results
Jim Emerson
Queen Mary, University of London
26th April

Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution (POSTPONED)
Professor Andrew King
University of Leicester
3rd May

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

10th May

Galaxy groups and cosmic feedback
Trevor Ponman
University of Birmingham
17th May

Herschel, Planck and the High Redshift Universe
Dave Clements
Imperial College London
24th May

Hunting for transiting exoplanets with WASP and NGTS
Peter Wheatley
University of Warwick
31st May

Ghostly Streams and Phantom Galaxies
Wyn Evans
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
7th june

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

14th june

What can GRBs tells us about star formation in the early universe?
Nial Tanvir
University of Leicester
21th june

Triggering quasars
Clive Tadhunter
University of Sheffield
28th june

Supernovae of gamma-ray bursts
David Bersier
Liverpool John Moores University

Last updated June 2011 — Roberto Mignani


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