Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Zero Active Mass in FRW Cosmologies

Fulvio Melia, University of Arizona.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 11 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Positive feedback in galaxies

Roberto Maiolino, Battcock Centre, Cavendish Astrophysics.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 04 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring the Extreme Climates of Giant Planets

Leigh Fletcher, Oxford University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 28 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Using our Galactic center supermassive black hole Sgr A* as a testbed for theories of accretion

Sera Markoff, University of Amsterdam.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Euclid space mission: a cosmological challenge for the next 15 years

Roberto Scaramella, INAF-Osservatorio di Roma.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 14 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Jet-ISM Interactions in Radio Quiet AGN

Mark Whittle, University of Virginia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 07 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galactic Archeology - past, present, and future

Sofia Feltzing, Lund Observatory.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 30 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galactic Winds: Implications for Models of Galaxy Evolution

Tim Heckman (Johns Hopkins University, CAS).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring Gravitational forces via thought experiments

Donald Lynden-Bell, IoA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 19 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

The Eddington Lectures

Ghostly Galaxies: exploring the universe with the Dragonfly Telescope

Eddingtion Lecture 2015

Pieter Van Dokkum (Yale).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Quantifying Dark Energy using Cosmic Lensing

Sarah Bridle, University of Manchester.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The physics of AGN feedback in galaxy clusters

Christopher Reynolds, University of Maryland.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 26 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

What Can Tidal Disruption Events Teach Us About Black Hole Accretion?

Mitch Begelman, JILA Colorado.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 19 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

eROSITA: a global view of the hot Universe

Andrea Merloni, MPE Garching.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supernova flash spectroscopy: a new observational window into stellar death

Avishay Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

CANCELLED - Using our Galactic center supermassive black hole Sgr A* as a testbed for theories of accretion

Sera Markoff, University of Amsterdam.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 29 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Connecting the cosmic web to Galaxy morphology

Christophe Pichon, IAP.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 22 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Overview of Planck 2014 Cosmological Results **Note Change of Date**

George Efstathiou, IoA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Friday 16 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Surveying the M31 system

Mike Irwin (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Examining Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Milky Way and its Massive Satellites

David Nidever (Michigan).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 20 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Astronomy in the era of the LSST: understanding our universe a bit at a time

Andrew Connolly (Univ of Washington).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 13 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Star Formation Across Space

Daniela Calzetti (Univ of Massachusetts).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 06 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Active Galaxies in Cosmic X-ray Surveys: The Ecology of Distant AGNs

David Alexander (Durham).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 30 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

White Dwarfs in Binary Stars

Tom Marsh (Warwick).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 23 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Finding the first galaxies with a magnifying GLASS

Tommaso Treu (UCLA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 16 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Lyman Continuum Leakage in the Local Universe

Claus Leitherer (STSCi).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 09 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exoplanets from WASP to PLATO

Don Pollacco (University of Warwick).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Horizons to the Pluto System: Exploring the Frontier of our Solar System

Alan Stern (Southwest Research Institute).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Monday 09 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Gaia

Gerry Gilmore & Floor van Leeuwen (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dark Matter

Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 29 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The balance of power: accretion and outflow in black holes and neutron stars

Rob Fender (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 22 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Science Highlights from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR): Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus

Fiona Harrison (IoA/Caltech).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Astrophysics of Stellar Clusters

Melvyn Davies (Lund Observatory).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Athena

Paul Nandra (MPE).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Where's the Matter? (Tails from the Milky Way's destructive past)

Kathryn Johnston (Columbia).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Growth spurting baby galaxies

Sadegh Khochfar (Edinburgh).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 13 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Constraining Globular Clusters Formation through studies of young massive star clusters

Nate Bastian (Liverpool John Moores).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 06 March 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Finding extraterrestrial life using ground-based high-dispersion spectroscopy

Ignas Snellen (Leiden).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 27 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Delivering transformational science with the SKA

Paul Alexander (Battcock).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 20 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

The Eddington Lectures

Galaxy Evolution in 3-D

Eddingtion Lecture 2014

Professor Lisa Kewley (ANU).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 13 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

MHD turbulence and state changes in compact X-ray sources

Steve Balbus (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 06 February 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Nucleosynthesis yields and chemodynamical simulations of galaxies

Chiaki Kobayashi (Herts).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 30 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

X-Ray Telescopes - Optics design and technology

Dick Willingale (Leicester) .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 23 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Planck Legacy

Jean-Loup Puget (Paris).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 16 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galactic Winds over Cosmic Time

Crystal Martin (UCSB).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 December 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Profiling Massive Black Holes through Stellar Tidal Disruption

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 28 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools

Rosalba Perna (Colorado).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 21 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The New Era of Exoplanetary Characterization

Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 07 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Results from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph: Missing Baryons, AGN, and Reionization

Michael Shull (Colorado).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 24 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

How feedback shapes the galaxy stellar mass function

Tom Theuns (Durham).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 17 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Origin of Spirals in Galaxies

Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 10 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Small Stars in Large Surveys - Large Surveys for Small Stars

Boris Gänsicke (Warwick).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Formation Modes of z > 1 Galaxies and their Cosmological Implications

Christopher Conselice (Nottingham).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 06 June 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Astrophysics and Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: the Role of Simulations

Stefano Borgani (INAF Trieste).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 30 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Ideas on Mechanisms of Angular Momentum Transport and Variability in Boundary Layers of Accretion Disks

Roman Rafikov (Princeton).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring Accreting Black Holes with X-ray Reflection and Reverberation.

Andrew Fabian (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 16 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

X-raying Galaxy Ecosystems

Daniel Wang (UMass).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 09 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Detecting Gravitational Waves (and doing other cool physics) with Millisecond Pulsars

Scott Ransom (NRAO).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Regular Colloquium not scheduled

[Reserved by IoA].

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Extreme Massive Stars

Raphael Hirschi.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 14 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

The Eddington Lectures

The Turbulent Environment of Planet Formation

Eddingtion Lecture 2013

Phil Armitage (Colorado).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 07 March 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Nearly 100 Years After General Relativity: Was Einstein Right? - An Answer by a Radio Astronomer

Michael Kramer (Manchester).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 28 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Using Numerical Simulations to Reveal the Origins of the Statistical Properties of Stars

Matthew Bate (Exeter).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 21 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Shattering Asteroids and Paradigms: Planetary Scars on Dead Rock Stars

Jay Farihi (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 14 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics of Compact Binaries

Ilya Mandel (Birmingham).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 07 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Cosmological Formation and Assembly of Massive Galaxies

Thorsten Naab (MPA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 31 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Perspectives on Galaxy Evolution

Simon Lilly (ETH).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 24 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

HST Transiting Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Survey: The Dawn of Comparative Exoplanet Atmospheres

David Sing (Exeter).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 17 January 2013, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring early galaxy evolution with gamma-ray bursts

Nial Tanvir (Leicester).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 29 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

How Supermassive Black Holes Affect Their Host Galaxies

Andrew King (Leicester).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 22 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Assume Dark Matter exists. How big is the smallest halo?

Vasily Belokurov (IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 15 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Populating our Universe after inflation

Mustafa Amin (MIT -> IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 01 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A deep look into AGN: accretion and outflow of gas in Mrk 509

Jelle Kaastra (SRON).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy formation on a moving mesh

Debora Sijacki (CfA -> IoA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 18 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy Formation at its Most Active Phase: streams from the cosmic web, violent disk instability, blue and red nuggets, and black-hole growth

Avishai Dekel (Racah Institute of Physics).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 11 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dwarf galaxies, and star clusters old and not so old - exploring the links

Gary Da Costa (Australian National University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 04 October 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Portraits of other worlds on a red background: Characterising transiting exoplanets in the presence of stellar activity and correlated noise

Suzanne Aigrain (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 14 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae

Philipp Podsiadlowski (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supernova Cosmology

Reynald Pain, IN2P3, Paris.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Probing the Metal Content and Star-Formation Efficiency of Neutral Gas at High Redshifts

Art Wolfe, UC San Diego.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Feedback from Accreting Black Holes: The Importance of Momentum Driving

Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The disks of dawn: setting the stage for the formation of planetary systems

Leonardo Testi (ESO).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Chaos, order and triggered star formation due to AGN feedback in the Milky Way and quasars

Sergei Nayakshin, Leicester.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The origin of OB runaways and the Astronomical Multipurpose Software Environment

Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

The Eddington Lectures

Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars

Eddingtion Lecture 2012

Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Constraints on the neutron star EoS and black hole formation from the Galactic Bulge Survey

Peter Jonker, SRON, Netherlands.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy growth in 1 and 2D: 1st results from the CALIFA survey

Roberto Cid Fernandes (UFSC, Brazil & IAA, Spain).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The ISM of high redshift galaxies

Patrick Petitjean, IAP.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Massive Stars - From the VLT to the E-ELT

Chris Evans (ATC, Edinburgh).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Massive Molecular Outflows and Negative Feedback in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies

Eckhard Sturm, MPE.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A molecular deep field

Chris Carilli, NRAO.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

From the first stars to the first galaxies

Michele Trenti, KICC.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Tuning stellar cores from gravity modes detected in CoRoT and Kepler data of various types of stars

Conny Aerts, Leuven.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Decoding black hole variability

Phil Uttley (University of Southampton, University of Amsterdam).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Star clusters: links between stellar and galactic astrophysics

Søren S. Larsen, Utrecht University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

CANCELLED -- Evolution of massive galaxies and the onset of the red sequence

Marijn Franx, Leiden Observatory -- CANCELLED.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Young star clusters near the Galactic centre - their orbital motion and mysterious formation

Andrea Stolte, Bonn.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Core-collapse supernovae: progenitors and dust production

Rubina Kotak, Queen's University Belfast.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Mapping the Universe with Lensing and Spectroscopic Redshift Surveys

Jean-Paul Kneib, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way and its dwarf galaxy satellites

John Norris, The Australian National University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Finding An Unexpected Order to Galaxy Structure

Dennis Zaritsky (University of Arizona).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 16 June 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Shocking news from galaxy cluster outskirts

Marcus Brueggen, Jacobs University Bremen.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Tracing the Growth of Black Holes in the Distant Universe

Dave Alexander, Durham.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The impact of, and evidence for, stellar migration in disk galaxies

Victor Debattista, University of Central Lancashire.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Group behavior: The case of galaxies

Marcella Carollo, Zurich ETH.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

There will be no Colloquium on this date

Speaker to be confirmed.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A Tale of Two Epochs: Galaxy Formation at z=6 and Today

Ben Oppenheimer, Leiden.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The GOODS-Herschel view on Main Sequence galaxies, compact starbursts and buried AGNs

David Elbaz, CEA Saclay, Service d'Astrophysique.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Star Formation: Now and Then

Ralf Klessen, Heidelberg ITA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 17 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Astronomy: A Subject on the Cusp

Eddington Lecture 2011

Shri Kulkarni, Caltech.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Collective Origin of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies

Lars Hernquist, Harvard.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Probing the Epoch of Reionization with Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies

Mark Dijkstra, MPA, Garching.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Structure and evolution of exoplanets: from super-Earths to super-Jupiters

Isabelle Baraffe, University of Exeter.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 17 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

CLUES: Constrained Local UniversE Simulations

Alexander Knebe, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

HerMES

Seb Oliver, U.Sussex.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dissecting Galaxies with the Brightest Stars in the Universe

Rolf Kudritzki, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The evolution of starburst galaxies

Vivienne Wild (Edinburgh IfA).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Dynamics of the Asteroid Belt

Stan Dermott, University of Florida.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The skeleton: connecting galaxy formation to large scale structures

Christophe Pichon, Institut d'astrophysique de Paris/ Leverhulme visiting professor (Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Feedback, winds and galaxy evolution

Matt Lehnert, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy formation from a computational perspective

Romain Teyssier, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Zurich.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Quasars Probing Quasars: Thinking Outside of the Grid

Joseph F. Hennawi, Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Past, Present, and Future of Supernova Cosmology

Robert Kirshner, Harvard.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cosmology with the Galaxy

Amina Helmi, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxy evolution in our own backyard: The view with the Pan-Andromeda Archeological Survey

Geraint Lewis, U. Sydney.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 07 October 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Cosmic origins Spectrograph on HST: New IGM Results including Baryon Census

John Stocke (Colorado).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 16 September 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New observational tests of the LCDM (with pesky baryons) paradigm

Extra colloquium

Tommaso Treu, University of California Santa Barbara.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 02 September 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Herschel ATLAS

Steve Eales, Cardiff.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 10 June 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

ULTRACAM observations of binary stars

Tom R. Marsh, University of Warwick.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 03 June 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life; Galactic and Infrared Astronomy

Michael Meyer, ETH Hoenggerberg, Zurich.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A Physical Treatment of AGN Feedback

Jeremiah Ostriker, Princeton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 20 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Radiation feedback in high and low mass star and planet formation

Barbara Ercolano, IoA, Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 13 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The HERMES project -- reconstructing the ancient Galaxy

Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Federation Fellow, University of Sydney; Leverhulme Visiting Professor & Merton Fellow, University of Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 06 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Self-regulated evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes

Joop Schaye, Leiden University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 29 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galactic Outflows at Redshifts z = 2 -3: Watching `Feedback' in Action.

Max Pettini, Institute of Astronomy, university of cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 22 April 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Searching for Life on Mars

Eddington Lecture 2010

Peter Smith, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 11 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Supernovae: Explosions and Dark Energy

Mark Sullivan, Oxford.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Impact of Nuclear Star Formation on Gas Inflow and AGN Fuelling

Richard Davies, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Evolution of Massive Galaxies

Chris Conselice, Nottingham.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

High-energy particle acceleration in active galaxies

Martin Hardcastle, Hertfordshire.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Star Formation at Very Low Metallicity

Anne-Katharina Jappsen, Cardiff.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Molecules in star- and planet-forming regions: from ice cold to steaming hot

Ewine van Dishoeck, Leiden.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

IGM Reionization and 21 cm line observations

Benedetta Ciardi, MPA-Garching.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope

Mark Swinbank, Durham University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The redshift z=6-9 galaxy population

Ross McLure, University of Edinburgh.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Metals, dust and galaxy formation in the early universe

Roberto Maiolino, Astronomical Observatory of Rome.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Using star clusters to probe the star formation histories of galaxies: problems and solutions

Nate Bastian, Cambridge IoA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Superstellar clusters and their impact on their host galaxies

Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle, INAOE, Mexico.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Towards an empirical understanding of how galaxies acquire their gas

Guinevere Kauffmann, MPA-Garching.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Weak lensing by large scale structure

Henk Hoekstra, Leiden.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Planet formation: facts, beliefs and predictions

Phil Armitage, University of Colorado.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The importance of kinetic effects in weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas

Jim Stone, Princeton.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The discovery of the Kerr metric

Roy Kerr, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 30 July 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cosmological simulations of the growth of supermassive black holes and feedback from active galactic nuclei

Craig Booth, Leiden observatory.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 11 June 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Clouds, cores, and disks: a potpourri of results from the submillimeter telescopes on Mauna Kea

Jonathan Williams, Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 04 June 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Does the Sun have a subsolar metallicity?

Martin Asplund, MPA Garching.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics

Eddington Lecture 2009

Andrea Ghez, UCLA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New results from the zCOSMOS galaxy redshift survey

Simon Lilly, Zurich.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Recent Star Formation Histories of Nearby Galaxies

Evan Skillman, University of Minnesota.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New Observational Insights into Cosmic Reionization

George Becker, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4:00 pm).

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:30-17:30