Seminars Spring 2008

Talk abstracts, if provided, are reached by clicking on the speaker's name.


Wednesday 9th April
Richard Massey
IfA, ROE
Viewing dark matter with weak gravitational lensing from HST

Wednesday 16th April
Caroline van Breukelen
UCL
High-redshift clusters in the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey

Wednesday 23rd April
Ben Metcalf
MPA
Pre-Galactic HI, Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology

Wednesday 30th April
Sijme-Jan Paardekooper
DAMTP, University of Cambridge
Understanding planet migration

Wednesday 07th May
Jane Greaves
University of St-Andrews
SUPA Astrobiology: from Planets to Life

Wednesday 14th May at 10:30am
Andy Lawrence
IfA, ROE
AstroGrid : the Virtual Observatory in action

Wednesday 21st May
Mike Hobson
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Fast Bayesian inference in cosmology: neural networks and nested sampling

Cancelled Wednesday 28th May Cancelled
Carsten van de Bruck
University of Sheffield
Dark energy and new interactions in cosmology

Wednesday 4th June
Ben Davies
Rochester Institute of Technology
The Scutum Red-Supergiant Clusters

Wednesday 11th June
Padeli Papadopoulos
University of Bonn
Molecular gas in galaxy-sized numerical simulations: another step towards realism