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: January – June 2013 click here.

Past seminars:

Calendar July - December 2012
Date Title Speaker
5th July

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

12th July

Quasars in the Epoch of Reionization CANCELED.
Richard Mc Mahon
Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge
19th July

What are exoplanets made of?
Giovanna Tinetti
University College London
26th July

Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution
Professor Andrew King
University of Leicester
2th August

Determining the Accretion Power Output in AGN: Multi-wavelength AGN studies with the Swift/BAT catalogue
Ranjan Vasudevan (MSSL Visitor)
University of Maryland
9th August



16th August

SUMMER BREAK

23th August

AGN: major mergers, minor mergers or secular processes?
Carolin Villforth (MSSL Visitor)
University of Florida
30th August



5th September

The evolution of AGN and their host galaxies to z~1 in wide-field multi-wavelength Surveys
Andy Goulding
CfA
6th September

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

13th September

AGN and Binary X-ray Variability
Ian Mc Hardy
University of Southampton
20th September


POSTPONED
Jeremy Yates
University College London
27th September

Dynamics of the dark side: Unified Dark Matter models with fast transition
Marco Bruni
Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation
4th October

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

11th October

Decoding black hole variability
Phil Uttley
University of Amsterdam
18th October

New Insights into the Stellar-ISM interaction- What are the JCMT, Herschel and DiRAC are telling us?
Jeremy Yates
University College London
25th October

Cosmological perturbation theory: from entropy perturbations to magnetic fields
Karim Malik
Queen Mary University
26th October

Direct Observation of DM Subhalo Mass Function in Coma cluster by weak lensing
Special seminar (14:00 Nu Meeting Room)
Toshifumi Futamase (MSSL Visitor)
Tokyo University
30th October

Dynamical evolution of star clusters in transient spiral arms
Special seminar (11:00 Common Room)
Michiko Fujii (MSSL Visitor)
Leiden University
1st November

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

8th November

Dead, Undead and Zombie Zones in Protostellar Disks: Can the MRI Survive?
Subhanjoy Mohanty
Imperial College London
15th November

Effects of non-solar abundance ratios in spectra of stars and stellar populations
Anne Sansom
University of Central Lancashire
19th November

The Heart of the Quasar: Resolving the Central Engine with Gravitational Microlensing Special seminar
David Floyd (MSSL Visitor)
School of Physics,Monash University,
Australia
22nd November

The Past and Present of Spiral Galaxies Special seminar
Asmus Boehm (MSSL Visitor)
University of Innsbruck
29th November

The small-scale structure of the Universe
Carlos Frenk
Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University
6th December

ASTRO GROUP MEETING

13th December

The Repair and Recommissioning of SALT
Phil Charles
University of Southampton
20th December

POSTPONED
Kathy Romer
University of Sussex
27th December

CHRISTMAS BREAK

Last updated September 2012 — Roberto Mignani


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