Pedagogical Seminars
The second-year students at the IfA present seminars on a useful/interesting topic that they have encountered during their first 18 months of research. The notes from these talks are collected here, in the hope that they will in due course build up into a useful reference.
- Emma Grocutt The importance of importance sampling
- Louise Ker An Introduction to Radio Interferometry and the Measurement Equation Formalism
- Ian Tilling Molecular magic: astrochemistry in star-forming regions
- Duncan Forgan An Introduction to Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer
- Jonathan Higgins Theory of line scattering and radiative transfer
- Brendan Jackson Not Bell's Theorem
- Julia Kennedy Material Characterisation - how construction material influences instrument design and function
- Alina Kiessling An introduction to parallel programming with OpenMP
- George Mamatsashvili Angular Momentum Transfer in Accretion Discs
- Hannah Parkinson Neural Networks: The multi-layer perceptron network
- Henry Pearce The Physical Interpretation of Optical Spectra of High Redshift Galaxies
- David Sobral Estimating Star Formation at High z
- Sarah Buehler Galactic encounters: the dynamics of satellite mergers and accretion
- Michael Campbell Atmospheric Turbulence and its Influence on Adaptive Optics
- Berian James Integral Transforms for You and Me
- Rachel McInnes Mapping the Dark Universe with weak gravitational lensing
- Neil Phillips Photometric Systems
- Nick Rowell White Dwarf properties and the degenerate electron gas
- Michael Briggs Molecular hydrogen excitation in gas clouds
- Eduardo Ibar Active galactic nuclei and the cosmic X-ray background
- Yasin Memari Polarization of the microwave background
- Simon Reynolds Quasars absorbers and the intergalactic medium
- Jenny Richardson Extracting the star formation history of composite stellar populations
- Rachel Smith Planetary formation: Theories and modelling techniques
- Caroline Francis Structure formation in the linear regime
- Barney Rowe Approximating non-linear structure: Spherical collapse and the Halo Model
- Rita Tojeiro Understanding the CMB temperature power spectrum
- Matt Hollister Thermal Modelling and Characterisation of Semiconductor Bolometers
- Anita Schael Numerical integration in Cosmology
- Thomas Targett Relationships between black holes and their host galaxies
- Emma Rigby Testing the cosmic evolution of radio galaxies
- Niall Deacon Deriving the stellar Initial Mass Function from turbulent fragmentation
- Thomas Kitching Bayesian cosmology
- Miller Crawford Modelling the effects of dust on galaxy spectra
- Michael Davidson Wavelets: Applications in Astrophysics
- Rachel Dowsett Basic Principles of X-ray Source Detection ( slides are also available)
- Jessica Skelton Estimating Black Hole Masses in AGN
- Emma Taylor The Mathematical Methods of Source Association
- Mairi Brookes Synthesis imaging in radio astronomy
- Karina Caputi The MHD equations and the physics of accretion disks and jets
- Emmanuel Detsis Calculating galaxy luminosity functions
- Ben Panter An introduction to Hypersurface Investigation using Markov Chains
- David Seery Quantization by Path Integrals
- Dan Burkey The Fisher information matrix and cosmological applications
- David Floyd Astronomical applications of spherical trigonometry
- Thomas Greve Magnification bias and application to the lens CL0024+1654
- Olivia Johnson Introduction to X-ray spectroscopy
- Tara Murphy Information extraction and data compression using wavelets ( slides are also available)
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