Seminars Autumn 2007

Monday July 16th at 4pm,
Jonas Zmuidzinas
Caltech and JPL
Submillimeter astronomy: past, present, and future

Wednesday 19th September
Mark Swinbank
Durham University
Exploring Superwinds through Lyman-alpha emission from High Redshift Galaxies

Thursday 27th September at 3:30pm in the Common Room, with biscuits from 3:15pm
Todd Henry
Georgia State University
SCRounging for Gems in the Dark

Wednesday 3rd October
Christian Kaiser
University of Southampton
A history of cosmic heating

Wednesday 10th October
at 3:30pm in the Lecture Theatre, with biscuits from 3:00pm
Sarah Bridle
UCL
Constraining dark energy with gravitational lensing

Wednesday 17th October
Guinevere Kauffmann
MPA
New insights into the Starburst-AGN connection

Thursday 18th October, at 4pm, with biscuits from 3:30pm
Vivienne Wild
MPA
Linking black hole growth and recent star formation history in the local Universe

Wednesday 24th October
No seminar: ROE - JSPS Workshop 2007

Wednesday 31st October
Joop Schaye
Leiden Observatory
The Chemical Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium

Wednesday 7th November
Giuseppe Lodato
University of Leicester
The propagation of warps in thin accretion discs

Wednesday 14th November
Lance Miller
University of Oxford
Active galaxy evolution and the growth of supermassive black hole

Wednesday 21th November
Mike Lockwood
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Quantifying the solar contribution to recent global climate change

Wednesday 28th November
Simon Goodwin
University of Sheffield
Binaries and brown dwarf formation

Wednesday 5th December
Richard Bower
Durham University
From black holes to galaxy clusters: a panoramic view of (semi-analytic) galaxy formation

Wednesday 12th December
Ian Bonnell
University of St-Andrews
Star formation in a galactic context