Seminars Spring 2010
Talk abstracts, if provided, are reached by clicking on the speaker's name.
Wednesday 7th April
Alastair Sanderson
University of Birmingham
X-ray mapping of the structure and scaling of galaxy clusters
Wednesday 14th April: no seminar (NAM in Glasgow)
Wednesday 21st April
Sarah Brough
AAO
The Evolution of Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Extra seminar: Friday 23rd April Cancelled due to Volcanic ash
Jillian Bellovary
University of Washington
Predicting the Distribution of Massive Black Holes in the Milky Way Halo
Wednesday 28th April
Alejo Martinez-Sansigre
University of Oxford
Some observational constraints on the spin of supermassive black holes
from demographics of active galactic nuclei
Friday 30th April at 10am (broadcasted from St-Andrews: by request only!)
George Efstathiou
IoA, Cambridge
What Planck will tell us
Wednesday 5th May
Loic de Ravel
IfA, University of Edinburgh
The role of mergers in galaxies evolution since z~2.5
Extra Seminar: Monday 10th
Joaquin Vieira
Caltech
A new population of millimeter galaxies discovered by the South Pole Telescope
Wednesday 12th May
Seb Oliver
University of Sussex
First results from the Herschel Multi-tiered Extra-galactic Survey, HerMES
Friday 14th May at 3pm in JCMB Lecture Theatre C
ASTRONOMY, STATISTICS & GEOMETRY
A continuing series of talks to foster interaction between the astronomy, physics and mathematics departments.
Wednesday 19th May
Julien Devriendt
University of Oxford
High redshift galaxies: what can we learn from hydrodynamical simulations?
Wednesday 26th May
Joss Bland-Hawthorn
University of Sydney
The HERMES project -- reconstructing the ancient Galaxy
Thursday 27th May
Hiranya Peiris
UCL
Fingerprints of the early universe
Wednesday 2nd June
Chris Blake
Swinburne University
Cosmology with the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey
IA@IfA: Wednesday 16th June
Marek Kukula
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Public Astronomy, Public Engagement