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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 ## January – July 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 January - July 2010
Date | Title | Speaker
7th January | (cancelled due to snow) | Dr Nick Seymour UCL/MSSL
14th January | (postponed to 8th April) | Dr Christopher Conselice University of Nottingham
21st January | The evolution of AGN over cosmic time: Current status and future prospects | Dr Matt Jarvis University of Hertfordshire
28th January | Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope | Dr Mark Swinbank University of Durham
4th February | MSSL show and tell | MSSLers UCL/MSSL
11th February | AGNs and Galaxy Formation: Clues from FIR Photometry and Optical Spectroscopy | Dr James Mullaney University of Durham
18th February | Gamma-ray bursts as probes of the distant Universe | Dr Andrew Levan University of Warwick
25th February | Modelling galaxy evolution | Dr Claudia Maraston University of Portsmouth
4th March | Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes from demographics of active galactic nuclei | Dr Alejo Martinez-Sansigre University of Oxford
11th March | The Progenitors of Galaxy Clusters | Dr Nina Hatch University of Nottingham
18th March | High redshift galaxies: what can we learn from hydrodynamical simulations? | Dr Julien Devriendt University of Oxford
23rd March | Fermi-LAT GRBs and Insight from Swift | Dr Judith Racusin Goddard Space Flight Center
25th March | GRBs, their (X-ray) afterglows, and Swift | Dr Phil Evans University of Leicester
1st April | A Grand Unified Theory of GR and QM | Prof. A. Einstein Bern Federal Office for Intellectual Property
8th April | The GOODS NICMOS Survey: Measuring Massive Galaxy Formation at z > 2 | Professor Christopher Conselice University of Nottingham
15th April | # ----------no seminar: UK National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Glasgow ----------------
20th April | Co-evolution of active and star-forming galaxies from z=2 to z=0 | Professor Hagai Netzer Tel Aviv University
22nd April | AGN/Star-Formation Co-Evolution: Searching for Composite Objects | Dr Markos Trichas Imperial College
29th April | The photoevaporation of discs around young stars: a new role for X-rays | Professor Cathie Clarke University of Cambridge
6th May | The Outer Regions of Spiral Galaxies | Dr Mustapha Mouhcine Liverpool John Moores University
13th May | Galaxy Formation in the First 2 Gyr | Dr Dan Stark University of Cambridge
20th May | Extragalactic star formation activity | Dr Estelle Bayet University College London
27th May | The dramatic X-ray spectral variability of the `mini' AGN in NGC4395 | Dr Tom Dwelly University of Southampton
3rd June | Understanding Milky Way dynamics in the large survey era | Dr Paul McMillan University of Oxford
10th June | Quasars, galaxies and gravitational lenses in the Herschel ATLAS | Dr Stephen Serjeant Open University
17th June | Galaxies and Structure in the z>=5 Universe | Dr Elizabeth Stanway University of Bristol
22nd June | Massive galaxies at high-z: too small to be ignored | Dr Ignacio Trujillo Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
24th June | Black hole unification and AGN X-ray Variability | Prof. Ian McHardy University of Southampton
1st July | Ultra-luminous far-infrared galaxies at redshift ~ 2 in the Herschel era | Prof. Alain Omont Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
6th July | The protocluster around 4c+23.56: The Subaru Observations | Dr Ichi Tanaka NAOJ
8th July | AGN feedback: when, how, and how much? | Prof. Clive Tadhunter University of Sheffield
15th July | # -----------------no seminar: IRX2010 Meeting at MSSL-----------------
22nd July | # -----------------------------Summer break-----------------------------
For future seminars: September – December 2010 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 April 2010 — Nick Seymour
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