Lunchtime Talks 2010 and prior
2010
| 7 Dec 2010 | Maite Beltran A quest for disks in young O-type stars |
| 2 Dec 2010 | Pasquale Galianni Dark Matter in galaxies (Dark Matter Awarness Week) |
| 1 Dec 2010 | Xufen Wu NMAGIC |
| 23 Nov 2010 | Kenny Wood TBD |
| 16 Nov 2010 | Dalia Chakrabarty TBD |
| 2 Nov 2010 | Duncan Forgan Angular Momentum Transport in Self-Gravitating Protostellar Discs |
| 25 Oct 2010 | Luca Fossati HST observations of the transiting exoplanet WASP-12b: deepening into a complex system |
| 19 Oct 2010 | Grant Miller/ Colin Johnstone 2nd year talks |
| 14 Oct 2010 | Mike Falarski The Las Cumbres Global Telescope Network |
| 12 Oct 2010 | Lee Kelvin/ Paul Browne 2nd year talks |
| 5 Oct 2010 | Aaron Robotham + All Introduction to the Astronomy Group |
| 13 Jul 2010 | Mark Clampin Exoplanet Science with JWST |
| 15 Jun 2010 | Aline Vidotto Radio emission from close-in giant planets around young stars ; |
| 8 Jun 2010 | Chris Conselice A Near Infrared view of Massive Galaxy Formation at z > 1 |
| 1 Jun 2010 | Phillippe Delorme Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking timescale |
| 26 May 2010 | Dave Clements Latest results from Herschel |
| 18 May 2010 | Muhammad Yusaf MOND and TeVeS Modified Gravity: Testing the Theories |
| 11 May 2010 | Ian Bonnell Star formation in spiral arms and feedback from supernovae |
| 27 Apr 2010 | Arnaud Cassan Probing the atmosphere of Bulge stars through gravitational microlensing |
| 20 Apr 2010 | Simon Driver The GAMA Survey and the Cosmic Spectral Energy Distribution |
| 7 Apr 2010 | Ettore Pedretti The longest eclipse imaged is 2000 light-years away |
| 6 Apr 2010 | Morag Scrimgeour Simulating the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation |
| 30 Mar 2010 | Carsten Weidner Top-heavy IMFs in starbursts |
| 16 Mar 2010 | Jane Greaves Is theory sexier than observation? – the case of HL Tau |
| 2 Mar 2010 | Lee Kelvin The GAMA Structural Decomposition Pipeline |
| 16 Feb 2010 | Marina Vika The near-IR supermassive black hole mass-spheroid luminosity correlation |
| 9 Feb 2010 | Dan Bramich DanDIA : Difference imaging with a numerical kernel – Results and future developments |
| 19 Jan 2010 | Steve Wilkins Studies of the High-z Universe with WFC3 / Extragalactic Constraints on the IMF |
2009
| 1 Dec 2009 | Tom Lloyd Evans Post-AGB Stars: The binary/disc/pulsation connection |
| 26 Nov 2009 | Colin Johnstone The morphology of flares in the ONC |
| 19 Nov 2009 | Jim Dale Ionization Feedback: Blowing Bubbles and Triggering Star Formation |
| 16 Nov 2009 | Rowan Smith The simultaneous formation of massive stars and stellar clusters |
| 3 Nov 2009 | Grant Miller The Doppler Shadow of WASP-3b |
| 29 Oct 2009 | Stephanie Bush Exploring Outer Disk Star Formation with SPH Simulations |
| 20 Oct 2009 | Martin Feix The straight arc of A2390 in TeVeS-like theories of gravity |
| 13 Oct 2009 | Subhanjoy Mohanty Disk Accretion in Young Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Multipole Magnetic Fields |
| 6 Oct 2009 | David Hill GAMA |
| 22 Sep 2009 | Becky Enoch SuperWASP: Latest Results |
| 8 Sep 2009 | Misty Bentz New Reverberation Mapping Results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project |
| 18 Aug 2009 | Remco de Kok Clouds and Haze in the stratosphere of Titan |
| 14 Jul 2009 | John Young / Laura Churcher Prospects for model-independent mas-scale imaging with the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer / Modelling Resolved Images of Debris Disks |
| 30 Jun 2009 | Soeren Witte TBD |
| 18 Jun 2009 | Rosie Wyse Baryons and Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies |
| 2 Jun 2009 | Alison Craigon (Strathclyde) Consequences of a precessing YSO in bright-rimmed cloud B35A |
| 26 May 2009 | Quentin Parker Perspectives on Macquarie University astronomical research and prospects for collaboration and student co-supervision |
| 19 May 2009 | Paul Clarke & Robi Banerjee (Heidelberg) IMF and Metallicity // Formation of Molecular Clouds |
| 18 May 2009 | Rosie Wyse (CANCELLED) Baryons and Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies |
| 12 May 2009 | Alicia Aarnio (Vanderbilt) A Search for Star-Disk Interaction Among the Strongest X-ray Flaring Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster |
| 7 May 2009 | Deb Shepherd (NRAO) ALMA, eVLA and SKA – the next generation of world-class radio telescopes |
| 28 Apr 2009 | Katy Lancaster (Bristol) First results from two new SZ experiments: OCRA and AMiBA |
| 21 Apr 2009 | Alison Craigon (Strathclyde) CANCELLED |
| 14 Apr 2009 | Aleks Scholz Observations of planemos: Exploring the bottom of the IMF |
| 7 Apr 2009 | SPRING BREAK No seminar |
| 31 Mar 2009 | SPRING BREAK No seminar |
| 24 Mar 2009 | Beate Stelzer X-ray emission from FUOr-objects and pre-main sequence jets: the case of ZCMa |
| 17 Mar 2009 | Alan Penny It was right in front of me |
| 12 Mar 2009 | Vivianne Wild (Paris) Galaxy Populations at low and high redshift |
| 3 Mar 2009 | Chris Sheehan Debris Discs Around Thick Disc Stars |
| 24 Feb 2009 | Jim Dale Feedback from massive stars and triggered star formation |
| 17 Feb 2009 | Andrew Collier-Cameron When worlds collide (with their host stars) |
| 10 Feb 2009 | Aaron Robotham Galaxy Groups and Clusters: The Shape of Things |
| 3 Feb 2009 | Chris Sheehan CANCELED |
| 29 Jan 2009 | Philippe Delorme Looking for cool brown dwarfs in wide field surveys |
| 27 Jan 2009 | SUPA students Contemporary Astrophysics Talks |
| 13 Jan 2009 | Rowan Smith A Multitude of Clumps: Tracing the Earliest Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds to Stars |
2008
| 9 Dec 2008 | Markus Hundertmark (Georg-August-Universitat) Detecting debris disks via gravitational microlensing |
| 11 Dec 2008 | Ettore Pedretti Detection of non–radial pulsation and/or faint companion in the symbiotic star CH Cyg |
| 2 Dec 2008 | Nick Cross (Edinburgh) Opening up the time domain: how to find variable objects in the WFCAM and VISTA Science Archives |
| 25 Nov 2008 | Marina Vika The MGC: The supermassive black hole mass function via M_bh – L_bulge relation |
| 18 Nov 2008 | Becky Enoch Comparison of Exoplanet Transit Search Algorithms |
| 17 Nov 2008 | Christine Chen (STSCI) A possible icy kuiper belt around HD 181327 |
| 11 Nov 2008 | David Hill The MGC-UKIDSS Near-IR luminosity functions |
| 4 Nov 2008 | Neil Parley The SUPERWASP asteroid light curve and phase curve |
| 28 Oct 2008 | Ewan Cameron Exploring the Origin of the Colour-Structure Bimodality via Bulge-Disc Decomposition |
| 21 Oct 2008 | Simon Driver Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) |
| 14 Oct 2008 | Neal J. Evans II (Austin) Star Formation: From Cores to Disks |
| 7 Oct 2008 | Antje Kohnle Ten interesting ways to enhance your astronomy teaching |
| 30 Sep 2008 | NO TALK |
| 23 Sep 2008 | NO TALK |
| 16 Sep 2008 | Nick (Boulder) Massive protostellar disks: cluster interactions and binary formation |
| 5 Aug 2008 | Duy Cuong Nguyen (Toronto) |
| 17 Jul 2008 | Francoise Combes Some phenomena of galaxy dynamics:problems of the standard model and comparison with MOND |
| 8 Jul 2008 | Soeren Witte, (Hamburg) The DRIFT-PHOENIX Model Grid |
| 29 May 2008 | Carsten van de Bruck (Sheffield) Dark energy and new interactions in cosmology (CANCELED) |
| 27 May 2008 | Carsten Weidner The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Galaxies and the Formation of Star-Clusters |
| 20 May 2008 | Xufen Wu Is the LMC on a bound orbit around the Milky Way? |
| 13 May 2008 | Dougal Mackey (Edinburgh) Black holes and core expansion in massive star clusters |
| 8 May 2008 | Mark Reid Measuring the Milky Way |
| 6 May 2008 | Michael Albrow (U. of Canterbury, NZ) New high-resolution spectral models for globular clusters |
| 29 Apr 2008 | Moira Jardine TBC |
| 22 Apr 2008 | Ben Metcalf Pre-Galactic HI, Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology |
| 15 Apr 2008 | Richard Massey Viewing dark matter with weak gravitational lensing from HST |
| 7 Apr 2008 | NO TALK Spring Break |
| 1 Apr 2008 | NO TALK Spring Break |
| 25 Mar 2008 | Simon Driver Luminous Matter and Luminous Energy |
| 18 Mar 2008 | Dougal Mackey (Edinburgh) Black holes and core expansion in massive star clusters |
| 14 Mar 2008 | Victor Debattista (Central Lancashire) Galaxy Formation |
| 11 Mar 2008 | Peter Woitke (Edinburgh) Bulging Disks |
| 4 Mar 2008 | Leslie Hebb Masses and Radii of low-mass stars at the bottom of the main sequence |
| 26 Feb 2008 | Alexis Smith TBC |
| 19 Feb 2008 | Felicitas Mokler (MPE Garching) Charge-triggered dust growth in protoplanetary disks |
| 12 Feb 2008 | Dieter Poelman Emission characteristics of water in the Universe |
| 5 Feb 2008 | Noe Kains OB07472: gravitational microlensing by a super-Jupiter and its host star |
| 29 Jan 2008 | Nathalie Thureau Discovery of the circumstellar environment of CI Cam with long baseline interferometry |
| 22 Jan 2008 | Martin Feix Gravitational lensing by inter-cluster filaments in MOND/TeVeS |
| 15 Jan 2008 | Rowan Smith Clumpy structure in molecular clouds: so what is a clump and why do we care? |
| 8 Jan 2008 | Colin Snodgrass (ESO) Comet photometry |
2007
| 18 Dec 2007 | Aleks Scholz Formation and Evolution of Brown Dwarfs |
| 11 Dec 2007 | HongSheng Zhao Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Puzzles and an Alternative Solution |
| 4 Dec 2007 | Kenny Wood Tiny Dust Grains and Molecules in the Interstellar Medium: Signposts of Massive Star Formation and their Influence on Determining Stellar Properties |
| 27 Nov 2007 | NO TALK |
| 20 Nov 2007 | Nick Dunstone The surface magnetic fields and differential rotation of the pre-main sequence binary system HD155555 |
| 19 Jun 2007 | Christiane Helling Heavy Weather: Cloud formation in brown dwarfs and giant planets |
| 12 Jun 2007 | Dave Clements The Herschel space telescope |
| 5 Jun 2007 | Xiaojun Bi The Nature of Dark Matter: a particle physicist’s perspective |
| 29 May 2007 | Katharine Johnston Massive Star Formation – Protostars on the Main-Sequence (?!) |
| 1 May 2007 | Xufen Wu MOND in the Milky Way and NGC1560 |
| 26 Apr 2007 | Dijana Dominis The role of binary stars in searches for extrasolar planets by microlensing and astrometry |
| 24 Apr 2007 | Jonathan Irwin (Cambridge) The Monitor project: eclipsing binaries and rotation in young clusters |
| 11 Apr 2007 | Luigi Gallo X-ray observations of Narrow Line Seyfert I galaxies |
| 10 Apr 2007 | Rony Keppens Relativistic MHD simulations of AGN jets |
| 9 Apr 2007 | Keith Horne Conformal Gravity, Higgs Dynamics, and Dark Matter |
| 3 Apr 2007 | Jane Greaves Planet formation in action around HL Tau? |
| 27 Mar 2007 | Ettore Pedretti Long-baseline stellar interferometry: working on the fringe |
| 20 Mar 2007 | Ewan Cameron Galaxy evolution in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field |
| 13 Mar 2007 | Scott Gregory Why are accreting T Tauri stars less luminous in X-rays than non-accretors? |
| 8 Mar 2007 | Alan Penny All-sky imaging from the space telescopes SMEI and STEREO. And observing the lunar eclipse at St. Andrews |
| 6 Mar 2007 | Thomas Robitaille Interpreting spectral energy distributions from young stellar objects |
| 27 Feb 2007 | HongSheng Zhao Escape from MOND |
| 20 Feb 2007 | Nancy Brickhouse High energy plasma spectroscopy of accreting systems |
| 19 Feb 2007 | Andy Szentgyorgyi Searching for new earths |
| 13 Feb 2007 | Eric Stempels Properties of T-Tauri stars |
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