Galaxies Discussion Group

Chemo-dynamical evolution of disks over cosmic time

Emily Wisnioski (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 12 April 2024, 11:30-12:30

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

pop-cosmos: Comprehensive Forward Modelling of Photometric Galaxy Survey Data

Stephen Thorp - Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Primordial black holes in the dark matter halo of our Galaxy

Prof. Marek Abramowicz.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies

Dr. Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flow and transport in the human placenta: a story with a twist

Igor Chernyavsky, University of Manchester.

MR2.

Friday 15 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Effects of primordial black holes on early star formation

Boyuan Liu (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 15 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

How Did Cassiopeia A Explode?

Martin Laming (US Naval Research Laboratory).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Prerak Desai - GSK.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Constraining physics and astrophysics with multifrequency CMB data

Fiona McCarthy (DAMTP).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A new convection scheme for exoplanet atmospheres

Edouard Barrier (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 13:15-13:40

The Kavli Lectures

Star Formation, Feedback, and Cosmic Evolution: A Modern Primer

Eve Ostriker (Princeton University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail).

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Relative contribution from comets and carbonaceous asteroids to the Earth's volatile budget

Sarah Joiret (U Bordeaux).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Transport, aggregation and wetting of assemblies of soft fibres

Camille Duprat, LadHyX, École Polytechnique.

MR2.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

International Women's Day at the IoA

.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA .

Friday 08 March 2024, 13:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Obscured AGN across cosmic time

Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 08 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Eddington lecture 2024: The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Dr Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

The Eddington Lectures

The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 07 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Know Your System: Harness the Power of The Dawn Supercomputer

Maxwell Cai - Intel.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Nature of Dark Matter with Lyman-Alpha Forest

Vid Iršič.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Reassessing the Evidence for Time Variability in the Atmosphere of the Exoplanet HAT-P-7b

Maura Lally (Cornell).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

New Space & the CubeSat Revolution

Dr. Dolev Bashi.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing of drops

Detlef Lohse, University of Twente.

MR2.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The chemical abundance pattern of a nitrogen-loud AGN in the early Universe

Xihan Ji (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 01 March 2024, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

‘Putting Theory into Practice – Myths and Misconceptions from the World of Systematic Investing’

Chris Longworth - Gam.com.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Astro Data Science Discussion Group

Simulation Based Inference - an inevitable future?

David Yallup (University of Cambridge).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 10:00-11:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Protoplanetary disc: what can we learn by combining theory and observations?

Claudia Toci (ESO).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Real-time pipelines for SKA — Progress and challenges

Dr. Ying-He Celeste Lü (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Slippery flows in nature and industry

Katarzyna Kowal, University of Glasgow.

MR2.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Decoding the Gravitational-Wave Biographies of Binary Black Holes

Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP).

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building and via Zoom.

Friday 23 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Contrastive Learning and High-Redshift Quasars

Xander Byrne .

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stellar Mass Assembly of Galaxy Populations up to z = 4 with pop-cosmos

Sinan Deger.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gaussian Processes for Systematic Mitigation for Global 21-cm Cosmology Experiments

Christian Kirkham (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Uncovering Long-Period Transiting Exoplanets with TESS and CHEOPS

Amy Tuson (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

Postdoc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 16 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Light from the Cosmic Dawn: origin and observational signatures of the first black holes

Alessandro Trinca (Rome).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 16 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exoplanet adventures the 2020s and beyond

Jayne Birkby (University of Oxford).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Unlocking the Power of Transfer Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Mobile App Predictions in Data-Scarce Environments

Bending Spoons.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Correcting for Malmquist Bias in Type Ia Supernova Cosmology

Ben Boyd.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Disc evolution in young intermediate-mass stars

Daniela Iglesias Vallejo (Leeds).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Lahars and Huaycos: modelling erosive flash floods

Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 09 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The quest for the earliest black holes: a theoretical perspective

Rosa Valiante (Rome).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 09 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Stellar populations and dust build-up in the early Universe

Raffaella Schneider (University of Rome).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Problems with (our) galaxy formation simulations and some new angles

Taysun Kimm (Yonsei).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

All molecules are interesting

Jonathan Goodman - Chemistry.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

EDI Seminar: Dignity at Work Policy and Code of Behaviour

Miriam Lynn, Emma Mason.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

Photoevaporation from Exoplanet Atmospheres: Understanding the Role of Stellar Winds and Considering Water-rich Atmospheres

Room changed

Laura Harbach (Imperial).

Hoyle Committee Room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent-laminar patterns

Laurette Tuckerman, ESPCI Paris.

MR2.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

IoA/KICC Open Day

Matthew Bothwell & Hannah Strathern.

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 02 February 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Cosmic Baryon Cycle

Dr. Celine Peroux (ESO).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

DiSE project presentations

Speaker to be confirmed.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 14:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Supermassive black hole binaries and their spin evolution in gas-rich circumbinary discs

Martin Bourne (IoA).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Photometric redshifts for high-z quasars in the era of LSST

Katherine Kauma.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Planetary debris at white dwarfs

Andrew Swan (Warwick).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Celestial fluid mechanics: the nonlinear gas dynamics of discs around stars and black holes

Gordon Ogilvie, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

From Little Things Big Things Grow: Tracing the Milky Way’s Assembly History

Daniel Zucker (Macquarie).

Ryle Room + online.

Friday 26 January 2024, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Highlights from the SALT survey of hydrogen-deficient hot subdwarfs.

Dr. Simon Jeffery (Armagh Observatory).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Sustainable academic performance

Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The black hole mass-metallicity relation and insights into galaxy quenching

William Baker.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 13:15-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gravitational Instability in Irradiated Protoplanetary Discs

Cat Leedham.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

From dust to planets: The ALMA and VLA view of planet formation

Francesco Zagaria (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Probing the M Dwarf Cosmic Shoreline with JWST

Dr. James Kirk, Imperial College London.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The elephant in the room: fluid dynamics in the age of machine learning

Matthew Juniper, CUED.

MR2.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supernova frontier, beyond standard stellar demises

Dr. Cosimo Inserra.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Hills Coffee Talks

The History of MRAO

Malcolm Longair (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 11:15-12:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Galactic Archaeology with Globular Clusters

Stephanie Monty (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 12 January 2024, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Warps, bending waves and corrugations in the Milky Way

Joss Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 08 December 2023, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The Milky Way and its high-redshift progenitors in theory and observations (KICC Science Focus meeting)

Various.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 09:30-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The Milky Way and its high-redshift progenitors in theory and observations (KICC Science Focus meeting)

Various.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Monday 04 December 2023, 13:30-17:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Solution discovery in fluid dynamics using neural networks

Ching-Yau Lai, Stanford University.

MR2.

Friday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The extreme masses of the dark matter haloes hosting z > 6 quasars: two new pieces of evidence

Tiago Costa (Newcastle).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 01 December 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Hycean Paradigm in the Search for Life Elsewhere

Prof. Nikku Madhusudhan (University of Cambridge).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Rage against the Turing Machine?

Rahul Tyagi (CEO) & Arlind Visha (Quantum Algorithms Engineer) + Angus Lockhart - SECQAI.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Probing galactic growth through the study of Low Surface Brightness tidal features

Elisabeth Sola.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Heavily Obscured AGN, a radio vs X-ray challenge

Giovanni Mazzolari.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Exoplanets in the Galactic Context

Dolev Bashi (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Attractor reconstruction of active stellar light curves

Dr Emily Sandford (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Visualising fluid mechanics phenomena via quasi-bases

Catherine Drysdale, University of Birmingham.

MR2.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Effective Use of Machine Learning in Astrophysics

Miles Cranmer (Institute of Astronomy).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online (details to be sent by e-mail).

Friday 24 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Extreme, exotic, and normal galaxies in the era of JWST

Prof. Daniel Schaerer (University of Geneva, Switzerland).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Challenging our understanding of high-redshift galaxy formation with JWST observations

Harley Katz (Oxford).

SPO room + online.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to Fight Financial Crime with AI

David Sutton - Featurespace.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Are there too many high-z protoclusters?

Seunghwan Lim.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Baryonic Feedback: the Impact of Galaxy Formation Physics on Cosmology

Leah Bigwood.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

The future of ground-based Astronomy? (from a transit hunting perspective)

Peter Pedersen (ETH Zurich).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

What are the Clouds of Venus made of?

Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

APS-DFD - no seminar

None.

MR2.

Friday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

AGN in Clumpy DisCs (ACDC): How does ISM structure shape multiphase outflows?

Samuel Ward (Newcastle/ESO).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

MOSAIC, a unique instrument for the ELT

Prof. Roser Pello (Laboratory of Astrophysics of Marseille, France).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Generative AI for actionable insights

Loubna Bouarfa & Alessio Caciagli - Okra.ai.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

EDI Matters at the IoA

Laura Rogers.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

Co-evolution of (Proto)Planets and Substructures in Disks

Haochang Jiang (ESO).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

Revisiting the Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources with LOFAR

Vijay Mahatma.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Culinary fluid mechanics

Maciej Lisicki, University of Warsaw.

MR2.

Friday 10 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Blown away: relative velocities and the first galaxies

Luke Conaboy (Nottingham).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 10 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supernovae with TiDES and Euclid

Prof. Isobel Hook (Lancaster University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Calda AI: sustainability for heavy industry

Niall Jeffrey - Calda.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

GausSN: Bayesian Time Delay Estimation for Strongly Lensed Supernovae

Erin Hayes.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

New Detector Technology for Astronomy

Craig Mackay (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Direct detection of cold exoplanets with JWST

Elisabeth Matthews (MPIA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Hills Coffee Talks

High Resolution Stabilised Spectrographs and HARVY

Clark Baker, Cavendish Astrophysics.

Coffee area, Battcock Centre.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 11:15-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Chaos in confinement: how to make shear-thinning fluids flow thicken

Sujit Datta, Princeton University .

MR2.

Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The structure of the interstellar medium as probe of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution

Jindra Gensior (University of Zurich).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 03 November 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Prospects for understanding the physics of the Universe

Prof. Hiranya Peiris (University of Cambridge).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What?

Aditya.Desai & Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports).

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Features of Gaia DR3 Spectroscopic Binaries: Tidal circularization of main-sequence stars

Dolev Bashi.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Post-main sequence thermal evolution of planetesimals: Implications on white dwarf pollutants

Yuqi Li .

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 13:15-13:40

Hills Coffee Talks

Many Parameters, Many Problems

Jaime Ruiz Zapatero.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Detection of planetary signals in cases of extreme stellar activity

Oscar Barragán, University of Oxford.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Understanding wildfire propagation: an experimental study of parameters affecting Firebrand Transport

Jeffrey R. Koseff, Stanford University.

MR2.

Friday 27 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Temperate planets unlike those of the Solar system

Amaury Triaud (University of Birmingham).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Polymathic AI: Foundation Models for Science

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP/IoA.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Was Venus ever habitable?

Tereza Constantinou.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Population level study of the influence of planetesimal fragmentation on planet formation

Nicolas Kaufmann, University of Bern.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stuck in the mud? Channelling, clogging and burrowing in plastic fluids

Duncan R Hewitt, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Towards homogeneous studies of high-z protoclusters

Seunghwan Lim (Cavendish).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 20 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Portrait of a Black Hole

Prof. Charles Gammie (University of Illinois, USA).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Decoding Exoplanet Personalities Big and Small while Inspiring the Next Generation

Note unusual day

Nataliea Lowson (U. Southern Queensland).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Learning generalizable models on large-scale multi-modal data

Yutian Chen - DeepMind.

Maxwell Centre.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Evolution of the Stellar Initial Mass Function over the Past 10 Gyr

Vadim Rusakov.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Complexity of Extinction at High-Galactic Latitudes

Matthew O'Callaghan.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 13:15-13:40

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

It’s sink or skim: when solid bodies meet liquid layers

Ryan Palmer, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Metal-poor stellar streams and satellites.

Prof Kim Venn (University of Victoria, Canada).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Community and Belonging in your Postgraduate studies

Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services.

West Hub, East 2.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Interior dynamics of tidally locked super-Earths

Dr. Tobias Meier, University of Oxford.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Spreading of yield-stress fluids

Jean-François Joanny, Curie Institute.

MR2.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Observations of kinetic feedback in radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) hosts

Sthabile Kolwa (Johannesburg).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 06 October 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Formation of the first stars, galaxies, and black holes

Prof. Naoki Yoshida (University of Tokyo).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Inside-out growth in the early Universe: a core in a vigorously star-forming disc

William Baker.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

3D simulations of oxygenated rocky exoplanet atmospheres and observational predictions

Gregory Cooke (IoA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

LINCC Frameworks - developing software for large-scale analysis of data

Neven Caplar (University of Washington).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Tuesday 03 October 2023, 11:30-12:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Constraints on DM and the cusp/core problem with MUSE

Nicolas Bouché (CNRS & CRAL).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 22 September 2023, 11:30-12:30

Hills Coffee Talks

In Search of Relativistic Extensions of Modified Newtonian Dynamics

Amel Durakovic, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 20 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Pathway to study molecular oxygen in exoplanet atmosphere with FIOS

Special out-of-term talk

Surangkhana Rukdee (MPE Garching).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 19 September 2023, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Reionizing the Universe: A Brief History of Baryons and the Cosmic Web

Piero Madau (UCSC).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Tuesday 19 September 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Peculiar velocity surveys for cosmology: recent results and future plans

Matthew Colless (ANU).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Monday 18 September 2023, 13:05-13:45

Galaxies Discussion Group

Super-massive black holes across cosmic time

Johannes Buchner (MPE).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 15 September 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Test Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 12 September 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Test 2b

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 05 September 2023, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Investigating the impact of quasar feedback on the central kiloparsec of galaxies

Cristina Ramos Almeida (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 01 September 2023, 11:30-13:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Spirals, gaps, arcs and rings: substructures in protoplanetary discs shedding light on planet formation

Roman Rafikov.

Ryle Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building and via Zoom.

Friday 21 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Not so Slow: Do Galactic Bars Slow Down?

Gus Beane (Harvard).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Cosmology, Astrophysics and General Relativity

What is GAMBIT?

Tomás E. Gonzalo (KIT, Karlsruhe, Dept. Phys.).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Monday 10 July 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

What we think we know about reionization

George Becker (UC Riverside).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 07 July 2023, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Modeling large-scale structure: symbiosis of simulations and theory

Special cosmology seminar

Martin White (Berkeley).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 03 July 2023, 13:00-14:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument: overview and early results

Satya Gontcho a Gontcho (Berkeley).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 30 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Kinematics of galaxy bulges, disks, and ionised gas from 3D spectroscopy

Sree Oh (ANU).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 23 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploding Wolf-Rayet Stars

Avishai Gilkis, Tel Aviv University.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 13:15-13:40

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Frictional fluid dynamics and viscously stable pattern formation

Bjornar Sandnes, Swansea University.

MR2.

Friday 16 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Probing the early Universe with the oldest stars in the Milky Way

Anke Arentsen (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 16 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cosmic dust in- and outside of the solar system

Dr Veerle Sterken, ETH Zurich.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Mapping the Circumgalactic Medium and Intergalactic Medium through Lya and MgII Emission

Yucheng Guo (Lyon).

Battcock F17 + online.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Accretion onto Black Hole Binaries: New insights from 3D-GRMHD simulations

Mark Avara.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Galactic Archaeology with Globular Clusters: does a chemical link exist between globular clusters and their host galaxies

Stephanie Monty.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:15-14:05

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Physics-aware data-driven approaches for time prediction

Luca Magri, Imperial College London.

MR2.

Friday 09 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Galaxy kinematics within the cosmic web

Stefania Barsanti (ANU).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 09 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

Looking into the first billion years with JWST

Daniel Eisenstein (Harvard) .

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail).

Thursday 08 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Explainable and generative AI for actionable insights

Alessio Caciagli - OKRA / Lars Henklemann - CDT.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 13:00-15:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Unveiling the Interstellar Medium in High-Redshift Galaxies

Kimihiko Nakajima (NAOJ).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Shedding light on the properties of QSOs and their host galaxies at the Epoch of Reionization

Roberta Tripodi.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:15-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The ionising photon production efficiency of LAEs at z~6

Charlotte Simmonds.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:15-14:05

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Tumor cell metastasis: Modeling the long and treacherous journey in the circulation and escape at the metastatic site

Roger D Kamm, MIT.

MR2 (also broadcast as JFM webinar).

Friday 02 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Internal kinematics of Gaia DR3 wide binaries

Xavier Hernandez (UNAM).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 02 June 2023, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Astrostatistics and Astro-Machine Learning (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Various speakers.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Friday 02 June 2023, 09:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Low mass galaxies as cosmological tools

Dr. Michelle Collins (University of Surrey).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Machine Learning Applied to Video Compression

Mark Thompson - AMD.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 13:00-15:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Astrostatistics and Astro-Machine Learning (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Various speakers.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 09:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cosmos and Canvas: Using Data Visualization to Explore and Communicate Your Science

Jayanne English.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:15-14:05

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The fluid dynamics of disease transmission: bubbles, droplets, and microorganisms (GK Batchelor Lecture)

Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR2.

Friday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Unveiling the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Re-ionization with Radio Observations

Eloy de Lera Acedo and Anastasia Fialkov.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online (details to be sent by e-mail).

Friday 26 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

JWST at the edge of the Universe - finding galaxies in the epoch of reionization with NIRSpec

Prof. Andy Bunker (Oxford University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Placements talks - Shell and Satavia

Jonathan Itcovitz + Clay Roberts (University of Cambridge).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 13:00-15:30

Exoplanet Seminars

Nonlinear Dynamics of Distorted Astrophysical Discs: Warps and All

Callum Fairbairn (DAMTP).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Changing reference frame: insights from unsteady fragmentation

Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR5.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks - speakers listed below

DAMTP PhD students.

MR2.

Friday 19 May 2023, 15:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The effect of cosmic rays in the evolution of a Milky Way-like galaxy and its circum-galactic medium

Francisco Rodríguez Montero (Oxford).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 19 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

What Really Makes an Accretion Disk MAD

Prof. Mitchell C. Begelman (University of Colorado, Boulder).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

AI + HPC for Astrophysics

Maxwell Cai - Intel.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The ultradense, interacting environment of a dual AGN at z ∼ 3.3 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS

Michele Perna (CAB, Madrid).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Orbital Torus Imaging: Using elemental abundances to map orbital structure and mass in the Galactic disc

Daniel Horta Darrington (CCA, New York).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Characterising Polluted White Dwarfs with Machine Learning to Probe Extrasolar Geochemistry

Mariona Badenas-Agusti (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From neurons and sunflowers to elephant trunks: the fascinating dynamics of smart active filaments

Alain Goriely, University of Oxford.

MR2.

Friday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

A multi-scale view of the Epoch of Reionisation (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Various speakers.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Friday 12 May 2023, 09:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

WEAVE: Science, design, and first light

Scott Trager, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

All molecules are interesting

Jonathan M Goodman, Professor of Chemistry (Cambridge).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Strongly lensed supernovae: New cosmological and astrophysical probes in the time-domain era

Suhail Dhawan.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Unifying accretion and ejection in black hole X-ray binaries

Greg Marcel.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:15-14:05

Hills Coffee Talks

1 arcsecond imaging strategy for LoTSS survey using the International LOFAR Telescope

Haoyang Ye, Leiden Observatory, Leiden University.

Battcock Meeting Room, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Exoplanet Seminars

The scattered light of debris disks

Julien Milli, IPAG.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Active matter in inhomogeneous environments

Gwynn Elfring, University of British Columbia.

MR2 (also broadcast as JFM webinar).

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Mapping dark and luminous matter with cosmological simulations

Dr. Sownak Bose (Durham).

Ryle seminar room + online.

Friday 05 May 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Multi-messenger astronomy with the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer

Prof. Danny Steeghs, University of Warwick.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

An introduction to careers and challenges in Quantitative Finance

Charles Martinez - G-Research.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Deciphering the Enigma of the Cosmic Ray Anisotropy

Vanessa López-Barquero ().

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Flat-sky angular power spectrum revisited

Zucheng Gao.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Understanding and modelling activity-induced distortions in the absorption lines of Sun-like stars

Baptiste Klein (Oxford).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

New perspectives on ocean interior turbulent mixing

Ali Mashayek, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Intracluster light in distant proto-clusters

Nina Hatch, University of Nottingham.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Machine learning for scalable quantum computing: eventually, you run out of PhD students.

David Wise - Quantum Motion.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 27 April 2023, 13:00-15:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite : High-resolution X-ray astronomy in the 2030s

Prof. Christopher Reynolds (IoA).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Probing reionization with radiative transfer simulations

Shikhar Asthana (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Stellar winds and their interactions with exoplanets

Aline Vidotto (Leiden Observatory).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Lyman-alpha cosmic web in IllustrisTNG

Chris Byrohl (Heidelberg).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 31 March 2023, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Primordial Star Formation

Professor Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg University .

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Next generation surveys in the Rubin-LSST era (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)

Various speakers.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Monday 27 March 2023, 09:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On the creation and evolution of quantum knots and links

Renzo Ricca, U. Milano-Bicocca.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Science with Very Large Cosmological Simulations

Simeon Bird (UC Riverside).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 17 March 2023, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

The Webb Telescope's First Year: A Treasure Trove of Results

Marcia Rieke, The University of Arizona.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy (and online - details to be sent by e-mail).

Thursday 16 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

LCLU Seminars

Our Astrochemical Origins

Paola Caselli (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Hoyle Building.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Modelling the Internal Structures of Hycean Worlds

Frances Rigby.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 13:15-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Simulating SMBHs: Jets in realistic cluster environments & SMBH binaries in gas rich circumbinary discs

Martin Bourne.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 13:15-14:05

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Utilising probability distributions in Earth observations

B.B. Cael, Nat. Oceanography Centre.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Eddington Lecture 2023: The Grand Challenge Questions of Solar Wind Physics

Dr. Nicholeen Viall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

The Eddington Lectures

The Grand Challenge Questions of Solar Wind Physics

Nicholeen Viall (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Visualization of prebiotic chemistry

Ziwei Liu (Cambridge MRC LMB).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulence-mean-flow interactions: lessons from local 2D turbulence

Anna Frishman, Technion.

Webinar.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

A new theory of the universe

Neil Turok, University of Edinburgh.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online (details to be sent by e-mail).

Friday 03 March 2023, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data science and data methodologies at the Office for National Statistics

Mary Cleaton and Salah Merad — ONS.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Carbonaceous dust grains within galaxies seen in the first billion years of cosmic time

Joris Witstok.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

3D models for the multiphase wind of M82

Yuxuan Yuan (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Revealing Multiple-planet Architectures with the ExoStriker toolbox

Trifon Trifonov (MPIA).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Hydrodynamic Black Holes

Silke Weinfurtner, U. Nottingham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Giant magnetic fields of small stars. New insights into M-dwarf magnetism

Oleg Kochukhov (Uppsala University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 23 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Constraining Stability Timescales in FGK Dwarf Planetary Systems with Kepler Observations

Christopher Lam (U of Florida).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Scientific Uses of Automatic Differentiation

Michael Brenner, Harvard U..

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

AGN revisited: from dwarf galaxies to new black hole accretion models

Sophie Koudmani (CCA).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 17 February 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Extremes of Accretion: Ultraluminous X-ray Sources and Super-Eddington Pulsars

Dr. Dom Walton, University of Hertfordshire.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

JWST reveals galaxy mergers driving Lyman-alpha emission at z >7

Callum Witten.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Radial Velocity Survey for Planets around Young stars (RVSPY): A transiting warm super-Jovian planet around HD 114082

Olga Zakhozhay (MPIA Heidelberg).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Horizontal film drainage: soap film elasticity, lubrication equation, line tension and instability

Isabelle Cantat, U. Rennes.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Using galaxies to study supernovae and supernovae to study galaxies

Or Graur (University of Portsmouth).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 10 February 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Understanding the stars in our search for another Earth

Dr. Annelies Mortier (University of Birmingham).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

One Model to Rule Them All: towards unifying magnetic braking in binary and single star systems

Arnab Sarkar.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Peering into the interiors of Earth-like planets

Tom Wilson (St Andrews).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Unsteady aerodynamics in large-disturbance flows: Gust encounters and maneuvering wings

Anya Jones, U. Maryland.

Webinar -(see abstract for link).

Friday 03 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

JWST view of star formation in local galaxies

Francesco Belfiore (INAF Arcetri).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 03 February 2023, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The physics of AGN feedback in galaxy clusters" booms, bangs and whistles

Prof. Chris Reynolds, IoA Cambridge.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Combining delensing and foreground cleaning for the Simons Observatory

Emilie Hertig.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

White Dwarf Planetary Systems: a window onto exoplanetary composition

Andrew Buchan (IoA), Laura Rogers (IoA), Chris Manser (Imperial).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Theory of bubble tips in strong viscous flows

Jens Eggers, U. Bristol.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Nature of Dark Matter from high-redshift Cosmic Web

Vid Irsic (KICC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 27 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The environmental impacts of computational science: how bad is it and what can we do about it?

Loïc Lannelongue.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 13:00-15:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Murdin Prize Ceremony -- Constraining Beyond the Standard Model Physics with X-ray telescopes: Tightest constraints on low-mass Axion Like Particles with Chandra observations of H1821+643

Julia Sisk Reynes.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:45-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Murdin Prize Ceremony -- Proposed energy-metabolisms cannot explain the atmospheric chemistry of Venus

Sean Jordan ( University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:30-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Murdin Prize Ceremony -- Inward and outward migration of massive planets: moving towards a stalling radius

Chiara Scardoni.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:15-13:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Algal Phototaxis and the Evolution of Multicellularity

Ray Goldstein, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Current constraints on escape fractions

Charlotte Simmonds (KICC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 20 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Searching for new physics with machine learning at the Large Hadron Collider

William Fawcett.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 13:00-15:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Uncovering the ancient central Milky Way with the Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS)

Anke Arentsen (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The impact of a massive Sagittarius dSph on GD-1-like stellar streams

Adam Dillamore.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Planet formation in circumbinary systems

Gavin Coleman (QMUL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Exploring early galaxy evolution in the JWST-era with novel statistical and machine learning techniques

Christopher Lovell (University of Portsmouth).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 13 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Pandora: exploring galaxy formation with radiation, magnetic fields and cosmic rays

Sergio Martin-Alvarez (Stanford).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 16 December 2022, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

An updated view on the properties of the first galaxies from the first JWST observations

Nicolas Laporte (KICC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 09 December 2022, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Living Droplets Get to Work

Eric Dufresne, ETH Zurich.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Constraining Cosmic Baryons and Dark Matter with the Lyman-alpha Forest

Brant Robertson (UCSC).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 02 December 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

TBC

Dr. Vanessa Hill (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

What’s in a video? AI, free speech, and the challenge of content moderation

Sasha Haco - Unitary.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The phase mixed debris of a massive merger as a dark matter subhalo detector

Elliot Davies.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

Debris Discs as Probes of Planetary Systems

Tim Pearce (Jena).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Motile bacteria in giant unilamellar vesicles: A cautionary tale

Wilson Poon, U. Edinburgh.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 25 November 2022, 11:45-12:45

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

A First Glimpse Of Webb's Revolution For Our Understanding Of Galaxy Formation

Roberto Maiolino.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online (details to be sent by e-mail).

Friday 25 November 2022, 11:45-12:45

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Baryon Cycle

Celine Peroux (ESO).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

The granular analysis of risk in complex insurance policies, and saving world heritage

Trevor Maynard, Liz Marston, Tobias Stone -- Sotera Heritage.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Where does the gas in exoKuiper belts come from?

Sebastián Marino.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

Origins of Hot and Warm Jupiters from the Stellar Obliquity Distribution

Malena Rice (MIT).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

APS DFD - no seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Fornax3D survey with MUSE - final results and future spin-off directions

Marc Sarzi (Armagh Observatory & Planetarium).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 18 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxies in the young Universe

James Dunlop (Royal Observatory Edinburgh).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Using Invariants and Metric Data Structures for Better Materials Research

Alya Bin Thabet - Montserrat Lab, Cambridge.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Quantifying the tumor vasculature environment using deep learning

Dr Tristan Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Nature of the Star Forming Main Sequence

William Baker.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

A deep radius valley revealed by Kepler short cadence observations

Cynthia Ho (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The precessing vortex core instability in swirled jets

Santosh Hemchandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The gas environment of galaxies across 10 billion years

Michele Fumagalli (Milano Bicocca).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Bayesian inference with likelihood reweighting: motivation, method, and application to gravitational-wave astrophysics

Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A new method for age-dating the formation of bars in disc galaxies

Camila de Sa Freitas (ESO).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Dynamics of dust and gas in protoplanetary disks with massive embedded planets

Hannah Petrovic (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

The multi-wavelength effects of stellar activity and the need for a public forecast

Lalitha Sairam (Birmingham).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics

Steve Brunton, U. Washington.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Barred galaxies in ΛCDM: Uncovering the formation history and dark matter content of Milky Way-type galaxies

Francesca Fragkoudi (Durham).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 04 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The emerging picture of radio emission in Active Galactic Nuclei

Dr. Leah Morabito, Durham University.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Calabi—Yau manifolds and Machine Learning

Challenger Mishra (University of Cambridge).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Propagating fluctuations in 2-dimensions: a new numerical model for stochastic accretion disc simulations

Samuel Turner.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:15-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Automated Quality Control of Chest X-Ray Images

Eduardo González Solares.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:15-14:05

Exoplanet Seminars

Cosmic dust as a planetary fertiliser: collisional evolution of the prebiotic Earth

Craig Walton (Cambridge, Earth Sciences).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Olympic rowing to gunwale bobbing: Wave drag and wave thrust phenomena

Graham Benham, U. Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Characterising the dense molecular gas in galaxies

Prof. Serena Viti, Leiden Observatory.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

AI applications in radiological image analysis for cancer research

Lorena Escudero.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Putting brakes on star formation in central galaxies

Joanna Piotrowska (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:40-14:05

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stellar Fireworks: A journey through the spirally dust plumes of Wolf-Rayet binaries

Yinuo Han.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:15-13:40

Exoplanet Seminars

Exoplaneteer Introduction

All of us!.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instability to elastic turbulence; freezing soft particles; confined viscous flows

Miguel Beneitez, Pallav Kant, Ashleigh Hutchinson - DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

A resolved view of z>6 quasar host galaxies

Romain Meyer (Heidelberg).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 21 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Hot & cool: tackling the Fusion grand challenge with AI and HPC

Lorenzo Zanisi - UK Atomic Energy Authority.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Seminars

Retrieval of initial planetary disk properties and the Radius Valley of Steam, Photoevaporation and Migration

Remo Burn (MPIA, Heidelberg).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instability, mixing and fragmentation in planetary collisions

Maylis Landeau, IPGP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Probing the early evolution of stellar and planetary systems

Edward Gillen (QMUL).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Galactic strudel

Eugene Vasiliev (IoA).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Heavy Lifting: Leveraging Machine Learning to Measure the Masses of Supermassive Black Holes

David Chemaly, Université de Montréal.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Modelling the Emission from Winds from Photoevaporating Protoplanetary Discs

Andrew Sellek (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The dynamics of super-absorbent hydrogels

Grae Worster, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Uncovering Extremely Metal-Poor Galaxies in the Era of JWST Studies

Yuki Isobe (University of Tokyo).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 07 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The long-term spin evolution of massive black holes: Insights from the NewHorizon simulation

Ricarda Beckman (IoA).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

White dwarfs as probes of convective overshoot and evolved exoplanetary systems

Tim Cunningham, University of Warwick.

HOYLE LECTURE THEATRE + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 13:15-14:15

Galaxies Discussion Group

Decoding the Origin of the Elements

David Weinberg (Ohio State University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre and online.

Tuesday 04 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Pushing the frontiers of gravitational encounters and collisionless dynamics

Uddipan Banik (Yale).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 30 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Preparing for JWST with HST/COS spectroscopy of Pox 186: a local analogue of z > 6 galaxies

Nimisha Kumari.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 13:15-13:45

Galaxies Discussion Group

Cold clouds in the hot intracluster medium

Ricarda Beckmann, Kavli Institute, Cambridge.

in person & via zoom .

Friday 23 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Geometric deep learning on the sphere: scalable and equivariant spherical CNNs

Jason McEwen.

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 23 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Modeling the Circumgalactic Medium

Yakov Faerman (UW Seattle).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 16 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Multi-phase AGN feedback on pc and kpc scales.

Cristina Ramos Almeida (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 26 August 2022, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Some Surprising Results from the Simba Simulations

Romeel Dave (IfA Edinburgh).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 12 August 2022, 11:30-12:30

Exoplanet Seminars

Using Cheops to push beyond TESS’s orbital period barrier

Hugh Osborn (MIT / Bern).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Friday 22 July 2022, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Supernova and AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies

Sophie Koudmani (IoA).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 22 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Sherwood Relics simulations - patchy cosmic reionization and its imprints on the IGM and Lyman-alpha forest

Ewald Puchwein (AIP Potsdam).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 15 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

First results from the THESAN radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of the Epoch of Reionization

Aaron Smith (MIT).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 08 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

The search for primordial gravitational waves: latest results from BICEP/Keck

Clem Pryke (UM Minneapolis).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 01 July 2022, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Excluded volume and order in a system of Brownian needles

Maria Bruna, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 17 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Stopping the Stars from Twinkling: monitoring, modelling and mitigating atmospheric turbulence for astronomy and other applications

James Osborn (Durham).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Understanding the stars in our search for another Earth

Annelies Mortier (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Translating aerodynamic features from insects and birds to bioinspired aircraft

Richard Bomphrey, The Royal Veterinary College.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Evidence of planet engulfment in post-main sequence stars

Dr. Claudia Aguilera Gomez, ESO - Universidad Diego Portales (Chile).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Friday 10 June 2022, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Strong lensing of transients by clusters of galaxies: From cosmic telescopes to cosmic microscopes

Adi Zitrin (Ben Gurion University).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Prospects for wide-field time domain surveys and multi-messenger astronomy

Stephen Smartt (QUB, Belfast).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA (Coffee at 11:00 am).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Robustness of Molecular Detections Using High-Resolution Transmission Spectroscopy

Connor Cheverall.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Awakening Beast in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy KUG 1141+371

Jiachen Jiang.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

The LIFE mission - atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets in the mid-infrared with a large space-based nulling interferometer

Sascha Quanz (ETH Zurich).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Reconstructed star-formation histories in MaNGA galaxies: Dependence on host galaxy properties and radial trends

Tobias Looser.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Gaussian Processes and Physical stellar properties

Belinda Nicholson (Oxford).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks

James Cummins, Tom Daggitt, William Oxley, Alistair Hales, Jenny Dingwall, Matt Davison, Elvinas Ribinskas, James Mason, Joseph Webber.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2022, 14:45-17:01

Galaxies Discussion Group

Modeling H-alpha emission in galaxies: insights into star formation and time variability

Sandro Tacchella (Cavendish).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 27 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics: Progress and Puzzles

Vicky Kalogera.

Hybrid attendance (in person, zoom, streaming).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

How to accurately measure spin-orbit angles in planetary systems

Matthew Hooton (Cambridge).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Sinking droplet durotaxis, engulfment and yield phenomena

Anne Juel, University of Manchester.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 20 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Direct Detection of Dark Energy

Sunny Vagnozzi & Anne-Christine Davis.

Hybrid attendance (in person, zoom, streaming).

Friday 20 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cluster Cosmology: Game On or Game Over?

Kathy Romer (Sussex).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The High-z Cosmic Web in Fuzzy Dark Matter Cosmologies

Tibor Dome.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Sublimating ices feeding forming planets

Alice Booth - Leiden.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Baryons & Cosmology

Kavli Science Focus Meeting

Speakers to be confirmed.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 09:00-13:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mixed active-passive suspensions: from particle entrainment to demixing

Marco Polin, University of Warwick.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

On the quenching of star formation in observed and simulated central galaxies: Evidence for the role of integrated AGN feedback

Joanna Piotrowska (Cavendish).

in person & via zoom .

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dusty Star Formation

Matthew Bate (Exeter).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 12 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Orbital alignment and mass segregation in galactic nuclei via Vector Resonant Relaxation

Nathan Magnan (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

What makes our solar system “tick”: A presentation of various forms of planetary activity in our solar system

Mohamed Ramy El-Maarry (Abu Dhabi).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some like it hot, but not icebergs

Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Early Universe

Kavli Science Focus Meeting

Speakers to be confirmed.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Friday 06 May 2022, 09:00-13:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring the outer solar system with space robots

Carly Howett (Oxford).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Main Sequence of star-forming galaxies

Lester Sandles.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:15-13:45

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Coupling rheology and segregation in granular flows

Nico Gray, University of Manchester.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Spatially and temporally resolving 
the wondrous lives of galaxies

Sandro Tacchella (Kavli Institute for Cosmology).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Detection of massive molecular and dust reservoirs around z~2 extremely red quasars: CGM enrichment by quasar-driven outflows

Jan Scholtz (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A disturbing FABLE of mergers, feedback, turbulence, and mass biases in simulated galaxy clusters

Jake Bennet.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

From gas turbulence to planets: the formation of rocky planets at the dead-zone inner edge.

Mario Flock - MPIA.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 26 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Observational and Theoretical 21-cm Cosmology

Kavli Science Focus Meeting

Please view details for speakers.

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Wednesday 13 April 2022, 09:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Observational and Theoretical 21-cm Cosmology

Kavli Science Focus Meeting

Please view details for speakers.

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Tuesday 12 April 2022, 09:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Observational and Theoretical 21-cm Cosmology

Kavli Science Focus Meeting

Please view details for speakers.

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 11 April 2022, 09:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Formation and Evolution of Massive Black Holes

Melanie Habouzit (MPIA Heidelberg).

via zoom .

Friday 25 March 2022, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bifurcations and control of bubbles in Hele-Shaw channels

Alice Thompson, University of Manchester.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

A Color-Independent Approach to Galaxy and Quasar Evolution through Absorption Spectroscopy

Jens-Kristian Krogager, University of Lyon (CRAL).

via zoom .

Friday 18 March 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Unveiling cosmic dawn

Anastasia Fialkov, IoA.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Titanium chemistry in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121 b

Jens Hoeijmakers (Lund).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Control, coordination, and computation in ciliated critters

Kirsty Wan, University of Exeter.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The growth of supermassive black holes in the absence of mergers and the effect on their host galaxies

Rebecca Smethurst (University of Oxford).

via zoom .

Friday 11 March 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Anomalous emission-line behaviour: evidence for disc winds?

Dr. Michael Goad (Leicester).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

High-resolution Spectroscopy of Thermal Emission from Exoplanets

Måns Holmberg.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tightest constraints on very-light Axion-Like Particles (ALPs) using the X-ray spectrum of the H1821+643 cluster-hosted quasar

Julia Sisk Reynes.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Retrieving the atmospheric properties of cloudy directly imaged planets

Paul Molliere, MPIA.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Unsteadiness of Shock Wave / Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions

Noel Clemens, University of Texas at Austin.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 04 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

AI “Shallow" and “Deep" Learning of the Dark Universe

Prof. Ofer Lahav (University College London).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The chemistry of the last major merger

David Aguado, Università degli Studi di Firenze.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Recovering the structure of edge-on debris disks non-parametrically

Yinuo Han, University of Cambridge.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Gravitational Instabilities in Protoplanetary Discs: A Vanishing Act

Sahl Rowther, Warwick.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

C. Kamal, E. Kruger, F. Paolo Conto, J. Chui - DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Do We Have a Standard Model of Cosmology?

George Efstathiou .

Hoyle lecture theatre (sign-up required) and zoom .

Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

New Frontiers in Astrophysics: A KICC Perspective

Do We Have a Standard Model of Cosmology?

George Efstathiou (KICC).

Hoyle Building Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Friday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Planck, Theme and Variations

François-Xavier Desert / Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Planets in a Bottle: The Role of Laboratory Experiments in the Search for Life

Sarah Hörst (Johns Hopkins University).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Verifying global stability of fluid flows despite transient growth of energy

David Goluskin, University of Victoria.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The fundamental plane of massive galaxies: confronting observations with realistic simulations

Anna de Graaff (Leiden).

via zoom .

Friday 18 February 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

AI for Astronomy in the SKA Era

Anna Scaife (Manchester).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Do Supermassive Black Holes need Iron Supplements?

Matthew Temple.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

What dust sizes tell us about planet-forming disc evolution

Francesco Zagaria (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Characterising the internal structures of exoplanets with CHEOPS

Thomas Wilson (St Andrews).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonuniform mixing: filters, swimmers, and floaters

Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

A giant molecular halo around a z ∼ 2 quasar

Claudia Cicone (Oslo).

via zoom .

Friday 11 February 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Eddington Lecture: A chemical survey of planets in our galaxy

Giovanna Tinetti (UCL).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 10 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

The Eddington Lectures

A chemical survey of planets in our galaxy

Eddington Lecture 2022

Giovanna Tinetti (UCL).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 3:30 pm).

Thursday 10 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Torsion-squared gravity... and its multiplier extensions

Will Barker, University of Cambridge.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Atmospheric Chemistry and Biochemistry of Venus and Venus-like Exoplanet

Sean Jordan, University of Cambridge.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Stellar and substellar companions from Gaia EDR3 and Hipparcos astrometry

Pierre Kervella, Observatoire de Paris.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Engineering interfacial flows and instabilities in solidifying liquids

Pierre-Thomas Brun, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 04 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Solving Reionization with Resolved Lyman-alpha

Rohan Naidu (CfA) .

via zoom .

Friday 04 February 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploding stars and catastrophic collisions

Kate Maguire (Trinity College Dublin).

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Evidence for Gaseous Halos Around AGN at Cosmic Noon from ALMA CO(3-2) Observations

Gareth Jones (Cavendish Lab).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A BayeSN Analysis of the SN Ia Trio of Siblings in NGC 3147

Sam Ward.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Holistic Characterization of Small Planets with the Magellan-TESS Survey

Johanna Teske (Carnegie).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc talks

L. Fung, M. Couchman, J. Peterson, Z. Guo - DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Thesan Project - simulating the high redshift Universe

Mark Vogelsberger (MIT).

via zoom .

Friday 28 January 2022, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Towards nearby Exo-Earths by way of young Neptunes

Suzanne Aigrain (University of Oxford).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Rethinking about Data Processing in the SKA Era

Celeste Lu.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The bispectrum of reconstructed CMB lensing convergence

Aleksandr Bowkis (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Flares Stirring Up Planet Formation

Abygail Waggoner (University of Virginia).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Indoor airborne disease transmission: fluid dynamical modelling and mitigation strategies

Rajesh Bhagat, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

CANCELLED - Exploring the outer solar system with space robots

Carly Howett (Oxford).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 20 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Pandemonium in the Planetary Graveyard

Jay Farihi (UCL).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 18 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

TBC

Mike Goad.

Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Sunday 16 January 2022, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Exploring the Cold Universe: From Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei, Interstellar to Circumgalactic Media at z ~ 5 - 7

Seiji Fujimoto (Copenhagen).

via zoom .

Friday 10 December 2021, 11:30-12:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Prediction of drag for rough wall boundary layer flows

Karen Flack, US Naval Academy.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 03 December 2021, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Isotopologue ratios in exoplanet atmospheres

Yapeng Zhang, Leiden.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Reflections on the Geodynamo

Peter Davidson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

How are red and blue quasars different?

Victoria Fawcett (Durham).

via zoom .

Friday 26 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

AION and AEDGE: Search for gravitational waves with atom interferometry

Marek Lewicki (Warsaw).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The role of AGN feedback in dwarf galaxies

Sophie Koudmani (IoA).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Investigating the composition of planets formed by Gravitational Instability

Maggie Celeste Goulden (University of Cambridge).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email.

Wednesday 24 November 2021, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Looking into stars' cradle: results and challenges from an RV follow-up of infant and young planets

Mario Damasso (Torino).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter

Alis Deason (Durham).

via zoom .

Friday 19 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover and the search for life on ancient Mars

Nick Tosca (Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Unifying accretion and ejection in black hole X-ray binaries

Greg Marcel.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Eccentric Kozai Mechanism and its Application to Boyajian’s Star

Steven Young .

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Exploring systems of low-mass planets with CHEOPS

Laetitia Delrez (Liège).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Measuring and Modeling the coordination of cilia: from collective waves in the brain to information processing?

Pietro Cicuta, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

XQR30 - a legacy sample of z>6 X-shooter QSO spectra probing reionization and the growth of supermassive black holes

Sarah Bosman (MPIA Heidelberg).

via zoom .

Friday 12 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Gaia-ESO Survey: a ten-year journey

Sofia Randich, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri.

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

First science results of the ExoGRAVITY Large Program

Mathias Nowak.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Using polluted white dwarfs to understand the bulk composition of exo-planetary material

Laura Rogers.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Constraining the composition of exo-planetary material around white dwarf stars

Amy Steele (MSI Postdoctoral Fellow, McGill Space Institute).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid structure interactions of a microcapsule in flow: when numerical modeling meet experiments

Anne-Virginie Salsac, U. Technologie de Compiègne.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Merger-induced galaxy transformations in the ARTEMIS simulations

Adam Dillamore (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 05 November 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The inner inner halo of the Milky Way according to APOGEE and Gaia

Ricardo Schiavon (Liverpool).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Chaos and the Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays

Vanessa López-Barquero.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre + Zoom .

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Studying the magnetic evolution of black hole accretion disks

Payton Rodman (University of Cambridge).

Hybrid Hoyle (sign-up needed) + Zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

The EXPRES Stellar Signals Project (ESSP): Establishing the State of the Field in Disentangling Photospheric Velocities

Lily Zhao (Flatiron Institute, NY).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid-mechanical models of ice-sheet sliding and dynamics

Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The nature of the first galaxies and reionisation: challenges in the era of SKA, Roman and JWST

Anne Hutter (Groningen).

via zoom .

Friday 29 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A very high accretion rate active galaxy case study and a new large sample

Martin Ward (Durham).

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Life after death: evidence of dry minor-merger driven growth of massive quiescent galaxies

Francesco D'Eugenio.

Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email..

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Spectroscopic studies of star-forming galaxies in the Epoch of Reionisation

Joris Witstok.

Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email..

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

(Exo)planetary Atmospheres in 3D

Nathan Mayne (University of Exeter).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Are confluent cell layers extensile or contractile?

Julia Yeomans, Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Probing ISM Physics at High-Redshift with Simulations and Local Analogues

Harley Katz (Oxford).

via zoom .

Friday 22 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Do dark-matter-deficient dwarf galaxies present a challenge to the LCDM paradigm?

Sugata Kaviraj, Hertfordshire.

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The unquiet neighbour: how the LMC bugs the Milky Way

Eugene Vasiliev (IoA).

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Connecting X-ray nuclear winds with galaxy-scale ionised outflows in nearby and z~1.5 quasars

Giulia Tozzi.

The Hoyle Lecture Theatre (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email..

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Seminars

Exoplanet group introduction

All of us exoplaneteers at Cambridge.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Urban trees: how do they affect air quality?

Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Driving multi-phase outflows with AGN

Tiago Costa (MPA Garching).

via zoom .

Friday 15 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

Electromagnetic Surges

Roger Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford).

Hybrid attendance (in person, zoom, streaming).

Thursday 14 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Through the Amber Spyglass: searching for Axion-like signals in X-ray spectra of cluster-hosted AGN

James Matthews (IoA).

Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email..

Wednesday 13 October 2021, 13:45-14:15

Exoplanet Seminars

Investigating the radial structure of exoKuiper belts

Sebastian Marino, IoA.

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Consititutive modelling of time-dependent flows in frictional suspensions

Mike Cates, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Fundamental Plane: between galaxy evolution and cosmology

Francesco D'Eugenio (Cavendish).

via zoom .

Friday 08 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Unveiling cosmic dawn

Anastasia Fialkov, IoA.

Sackler (sign-up needed) + ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 07 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The changing astrometry of Gaia's unresolved binaries

Zephyr Penoyre.

Hybrid Sackler (sign-up needed) + Zoom - Details will be sent by email..

Wednesday 06 October 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

A High Resolution View of Exoplanet Atmospheres

Jayne Birkby (Oxford).

Ryle seminar room + ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 05 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Topological Origin of Certain Fluid and Plasma Waves

Brad Marston, Brown University, USA.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 01 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The effect of inhomogeneous reionisation on the Lyman-𝛼 forest

Margherita Molaro (Nottingham) .

via zoom .

Friday 01 October 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae: A view from ZTF

Suhail Dhawan.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 08 September 2021, 13:30-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The causal origin of the angular momentum and of the properties of galaxies

Corentin Cadiou (UCL).

via zoom .

Friday 03 September 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Fast and Furious? - Debris Discs in the beta Pic Moving Group

Nicole Pawellek.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 01 September 2021, 13:30-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Concluding remarks and some open problems

Keith Moffatt, Cambridge University, UK.

GKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

Friday 18 June 2021, 16:30-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Very-large scale motions in the atmospheric surface layer

Guohua Wang, Lanzhou University, China.

GKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

Friday 18 June 2021, 16:00-16:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New results on galaxy clusters from the eROSITA early data release

Jeremy Sanders (MPE).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Results of the IoA’s Annual EDI, Wellbeing & Culture Survey 2020

Clare Worley & Mark Wyatt.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Characterising the Atmospheres of Low-Mass Exoplanets with JWST

Savvas Constantinou.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 16 June 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

An outgassing atmosphere on the Earth-size planet GJ 1132b

Raissa Estrela & Mark Swain (NASA JPL).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing a rivulet

Axel Huerre, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université de Paris.

GKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:30-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonlinear interaction of the self-sustaining process in the near-wall region of wall-bounded turbulence

Jane Bae, Harvard University, USA.

GKB100 Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series via Zoom.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-16:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Information-theoretic problems in astrophysics.

David Hogg (Flatiron).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 10 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Invention of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

Craig Mackay.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Cambridge Exoplanet and Life Day

Multiple speakers.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 10:00-16:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dwarf galaxy archaeology: Answering big questions with tiny galaxies

Anna Frebel (MIT).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The fascinating cluster merger Abell 2146

Annabelle Richard-Laferrière.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Life After (Stellar) Death: Habitability Around White Dwarfs

Thea Kozakis (National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The Cosmic Dawn simulation project: galaxy formation during the Epoch of Reionization

Pierre Ocvirk (Strasbourg) .

via zoom .

Friday 28 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Bridging Galaxy Evolution Across Cosmic Time With the CLASSY Survey

Danielle Berg (UT Austin).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 27 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Witnessing the Assembly of Planetary Systems

Richard Teague (SMA fellow, Harvard).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Tracing AGN feedback signatures from small to large scales across cosmic time

Dominika Wylezalek, Universität Heidelberg.

via zoom .

Friday 21 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars

Courtney Dressing (Berkeley).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

X-ray feedback from Population III binaries

Nina Sartorio.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cosmological Results from Planck PR4 (NPIPE) with CamSpec

Erik Rosenberg.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 19 May 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Direct windows to the formation of giant planets on wide orbits

Tomas Stolker (Leiden Observatory).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Black holes in globular clusters

Mark Gieles (Barcelona).

via zoom .

Friday 14 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

The Millimetre Sky from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope

Jo Dunkley (Princeton University).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email..

Thursday 13 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Constraining the dynamical stirring of exoKuiper belts

Sebastian Marino.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploring Supermassive Black Holes and their Host Galaxies Magnified by Cosmic Lenses

Aoife Simpson.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Observational constraints on the likelihood of 26Al in planet-forming environments

Megan Reiter (Edinburgh).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Resolving the impact of outflows and small-scale structure in the CGM with TNG50

Dylan Nelson, Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Heidelberg.

via zoom .

Friday 07 May 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

SDSS-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The kinematics and dark matter fractions of TNG50 galaxies at z=2 from an observational perspective

Hannah Ubler.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Stefan Heimersh.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 13:30-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Model-independent Reionization constraints with Fast Radio Bursts

Stefan Heimersh.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death

Andrew Vanderburg (Wisconsin-Madison).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

Lyman-𝛼 as a tracer of cosmic reionisation

Thibault Garel (Geneva).

via zoom .

Friday 30 April 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Ongoing Hunt for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Jessie Runnoe (Vanderbilt).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The inner regions of protoplanetary discs.

Marija Jankovic.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Seminars

Electric Heating and Angular Momentum Transport in Laminar Models of Protoplanetary Disks

William Bethune (University of Tuebingen).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 27 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

Galaxies Discussion Group

The S5 survey and the discovery of the fastest known hypervelocity star

Sergey Koposov (IfA Edinburgh).

via zoom .

Friday 16 April 2021, 11:30-12:30

Galaxies Discussion Group

Probing reionization with the Lyman-alpha forest and the CMB

Xiaohan Wu (Harvard).

via zoom .

Friday 26 March 2021, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The story of our Galaxy, as told by Gaia

Payel Das (Surrey).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 16:00-17:00