Lunchtime talks 2025
Tuesday, 1pm to 2 pm, room 222, Physics and Astronomy, North Haugh
| Date | Talk |
|---|---|
| 16 December 2025 | Yannick Bahe (University of Nottingham) – Galaxies in the cosmic web: the (not just) simulation view |
| 9 December 2025 | Indranil Banik (University of Portsmouth) – The age of the Universe from a large sample of the oldest Galactic stars |
| 2 December 2025 | Cancelled |
| 11 November 2025 | Iain McDonald (University of Manchester) – Putting a billion stars on the H-R diagram (and finding the dusty ones) |
| 28 October 2025 | Javiera Salinas (National Autonomous University of Mexico) – The dance of gas and gravity: Dense gas kinematics of filaments in the G012.80 protocluster using N2H+ |
| 14 October 2025 | Belinda Damian (St Andrews, in-person) – Disks and formation pathways from stars to planetary mass objects |
| 7 October 2025 | Kai Wang (Durham University) – Metallicity as an Astrophysical Diagnostic |
| 30 September 2025 | Hin Leung (University of Edinburgh) – The first giants of the universe: Massive quiescent galaxies before cosmic noon |
| 23 September 2025 | Nicolás Sandoval-Garrido (University of Concepción) – ALMA-IMF XVIII: The assembly of a star cluster: Dense N2H+ (1-0) kinematics in the massive G351.77 protocluster |
| 16 September 2025 | Kirk Long (University of Colorado Boulder) – Unraveling the Quasar Broad-Emission Line Region |
| 19 August 2025 | John Weaver (MIT, in-person) – Unveiling the Nature of Ultra-Luminous Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn |
| 29 July 2025 | Simon Driver (University of Western Australia, in-person) – Everything, everywhere, all at once |
| 22 July 2025 | Rowan Smith (University of St Andrews, in-person) – How to give a conference talk |
| 15 July 2025 | Avijit Chowdhury (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, in-person) |
| 1 July 2025 | Oleksii Sokoliuk (University of Aberdeen, in-person) – Explaining JWST star formation history at z ∼ 17 by modifying ΛCDM |
| 10 June 2025 | Rodrigo Álvarez (University of St Andrews, in-person) – N2H+ dense gas kinematic analysis of the intermediate protocluster G353.41 |
| 20 May 2025 | Marcin Glowacki (University of Edinburgh, in-person) – From FRBs to HI: Spotting fast radio transients and gas-rich galaxies with radio telescopes |
| 6 May 2025 | Gabriela Carvalho-Silva (University of Sao Paolo / University of Exeter, in-person) – A New Age-Chromospheric Activity Relation for Solar Analogs that Accounts for Metallicity |
| 29 April 2025 | Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar (University of Dundee, in-person) – “Using time to map space”: How variability unveils small scales in young stars and their disks |
| 22 April 2025 | Richard McCracken (Heriot-Watt University, in-person) – Hunting for exoplanets with a fine-toothed comb |
| 15 April 2025 | Rose Shepherd (Newcastle University, in-person) – Data sonification for scientific discovery and communication |
| 25 March 2025 | Rebecca Houghton (LJMU, in-person) – Searching for the low-mass protostar population in the Central Molecular Zone with JWST |
| 18 March 2025 | Aleksandra Ćalović (University of Leicester, in-person) – Free-floating planets ejected from massive self-gravitating discs |
| 11 March 2025 | Nathan Finlay (University of Portsmouth, in-person) – Illuminating the dark sector with DESI: Cosmology beyond the BAO scale |
| 25 February 2025 | Matus Rybak (Delft University of Technology, in-person) – Monsters with empty bellies? A comprehensive census of dense gas in high-redshift galaxies |
| 18 February 2025 | Isabel Perez (University of Granada, in-person) – CAVITY project: Unveiling the formation and evolution of galaxies in cosmological voids |
| 28 January 2025 | Sanjit Pal (University of Cologne, in-person) – Impact of metallicity, FUV radiation and cosmic ray heating on the formation of molecular clouds. Mervin Yap (University of Cologne, online) – Finite volume method for investigating shocks in the ISM |
