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MSSL Astrophysics Group Visitor Centre Research Projects XMM-Newton Meetings and Seminars Publications Contacts Links and useful information MSSL Homepage UCL Homepage |  | # 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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