Lunchtime Talks
Tuesday, 1-2 pm, room 222, Physics & Astronomy, North Haugh
2018
| 11 Dec 2018 | Rebeca García López (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) The inner astronomical units of protoplanetary disks: outflows and angular momentum transport |
| 4 Dec 2018 | Yan-Chuan Cai (University of Edinburgh) Cosmology with the cosmic web |
| 27 Nov 2018 | Rebecca Bowler (University of Oxford) Bright star-forming galaxies at z > 6 |
| 20 Nov 2018 | Uffe Gråe Jørgensen (Niels Bohr Institute) Is our solar system unique? – Is that why we are here? |
| 13 Nov 2018 | Duncan Forgan (University of St Andrews) A Game-Theoretic Approach to Planetesimal Growth |
| 6 Nov 2018 | Christiane Helling (University of St Andrews) Sparkling nights and fuming days on the giant gas planet WASP-18b |
| 30 Oct 2018 | Richard White (University of St Andrews) Thermodynamic Modelling of Planetary Interiors |
| 23 Oct 2018 | Alessio Caratti o Garatti (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) Disk-mediated accretion bursts in high-mass young stellar objects (HMYSOs) |
| 16 Oct 2018 | Paula Teixeira (University of St Andrews) Dissecting the anatomy of the protostellar outflow NGC2264G |
| 9 Oct 2018 | Adam Carnall (Royal Observatory Edinburgh) Inferring the star-formation histories of massive quiescent galaxies with BAGPIPES |
| 2 Oct 2018 | No talk |
| 25 Sep 2018 | Lisa Lehmann (University of St Andrews) Do we get the runaround from star spots? Exploring the magnetic field of solar-like stars |
| 18 Sep 2018 | Floor Broekgaarden (Anton Pannekoek Instituut) Simulating rare events from astrophysical populations with application to BH-NS mergers as gravitational-wave sources |
| 11 Sep 2018 | David Starkey (University of St Andrews) Quasar variability with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| 4 Sep 2018 | Irena Vorgul (University of St Andrews) – Murray Whyte (Cormack summer student) Modelling a radio transit: Frequency modulation of cyclotron emission from the host star |
| 10 Jul 2018 | Thea Kozakis (Cornell University) Atmospheres and UV Environments of Earth-like Planets in the Habitable Zones of evolved stars: White Dwarfs |
| 3 Jul 2018 | Indranil Banik (University of St Andrews) Testing gravity with wide binary stars in the GAIA era |
| 26 Jun 2018 | Mark Marley (NASA Ames Research Center) The Promise of Exoplanet Direct Imaging with Next Generation Space Telescopes |
| 19 Jun 2018 | Nina Sartorio (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais) Turbulence in the ISM: seeing the effect of photoionization |
| 12 Jun 2018 | Christophe Pichon (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) Connecting Large Scale Structures to Galaxy morphology |
| 5 Jun 2018 | Gwen Williams (University of St Andrews) The evolution of the SDC13 infrared dark cloud |
| 29 May 2018 | Meng Yang – Nicole Schanche (University of St Andrews) Schwarzschild Modelling with cold gas constraints – Planet Candidate Detection and Ranking using Machine Learning |
| 22 May 2018 | Kristin Lund – Chris Duckworth (University of St Andrews) The formation of close high-mass binary stars – Halo assembly and the impact on galaxies |
| 15 May 2018 | No talk |
| 14 May 2018 | (EXTRA TALK) Belinda Wilkes (Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Addressing the Missing AGN Problem |
| 8 May 2018 | Peter Woitke (University of St Andrews) Modelling equilibrium chemistry |
| 1 May 2018 | No talk |
| 24 Apr 2018 | David Waltham (Royal Holloway) Star Masses and Star-Planet Distances for Earth-like Habitability |
| 23 Apr 2018 | (EXTRA TALK) Ashley Ross (Ohio State University) The Status of Observational Constraints on Dark Energy |
| 17 Apr 2018 | Andrew Cameron (University of St Andrews) Why young, doomed hot Jupiters are easier to catch than old ones |
| 10 Apr 2018 | Kate Rowlands (John Hopkins University) Caught in the act: charting galaxy transformation over cosmic time |
| 3 Apr 2018 | David Dritschel (University of St Andrews) Mass dynamics on closed surfaces |
| 27 Mar 2018 | Romas Smilgys (University of St Andrews) From galactic spiral arm to protoplanetary discs |
| 20 Mar 2018 | Milena Pawlik (University of St Andrews) The origins of post-starburst galaxies at low redshifts |
| 13 Mar 2018 | No talk |
| 6 Mar 2018 | No talk |
| 27 Feb 2018 | Rita Tojeiro (University of St Andrews) Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the classroom |
| 20 Feb 2018 | Bert Vandenbroucke (University of St Andrews) Meshes/no meshes, radiation and tasks: Numerical algorithms for the future of astrophysical simulations |
| 13 Feb 2018 | Graeme Candlish (Universidad de Valparaíso) The consequences of the MOND external field effect for disk galaxies falling into clusters |
| 6 Feb 2018 | No talk |
| 30 Jan 2018 | Will Rocha (University of St Andrews) The role of external UV irradiation in the survival of astrophysical ices in Elias 29 protostar |
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