Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A New Method of Determining Black Hole Spin and Accretion Disk Properties for Supermassive and Stellar-mass Black Holes

Ruth Daly (Penn State).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?

Netta Engelhardt (MIT).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Probing Cosmic Dawn with the first galaxies

Nicolas Laporte.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

How planets grow by pebble accretion

Marc Brouwers.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Big Steps Toward Small Worlds: Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization in the 2020s and Beyond

Laura Kreidberg, MPIA.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

DAMTP Astro Mondays

In search for red giants' internal magnetic field

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Lisa Bugnet - Flatiron Institute.

Online.

Monday 22 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Reconstruction of the neutrino mass as a function of redshift

Christiane Lorenz (ETH Zürich).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The tail effect as a window on the self-force problem and the propagation of scalar and electromagnetic waves in curved spacetime.

Klaountia Pasmatsiou (Case Western Reserve University).

Zoom.

Friday 19 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Dance of the Milky Way and the LMC

Denis Erkal (Surrey).

via zoom .

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: A Detailed Census of the Physics of Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe

Alice Shapley (UCLA).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

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

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Paul Murdin prize award ceremony

Multiple.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 13:30-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Mineral cloud and hydrocarbon haze particles for the JWST target WASP-43b

Christiane Helling (St Andrews).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Hydrodynamical simulations of protoplanetary disks including irradiation of stellar photons. I. Resolution study for vertical shear instability

Lizxandra Flores-Rivera - MPIA, Heidelberg.

Online.

Monday 15 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

The Cosmological Analysis of the SDSS/BOSS data from the EFTofLSS

Guido D'Amico (University of Parma).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Late-time wave dynamics and conservation laws on black holes

Dejan Gajic (DPMMS).

Zoom.

Friday 12 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Extragalactic Fast X-ray Transients

Franz Bauer (PUC, Chile).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Spinning S-matrix bootstrap in 4d

Denis Karateev (Ecole Normale Supérieure).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Demographics of grain growth in the Lupus protoplanetary discs from ALMA 
multi-wavelength surveys.

Marco Tazzari, IoA..

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Building Models of Black Hole Variability.

Michael Parker, IoA..

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

First results from the Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite (CHEOPS)

Monika Lendl (Genève).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Strong Winds of Magnetic Massive Stars

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Asif ud-Doula - Penn State Scranton.

Online.

Monday 08 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Swampland bounds on trajectories and potentials

Irene Valenzuela (Harvard University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 08 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Frameworks for model independent data analysis — towards a cosmology founded on observations

Asta Heinesen, UCB Lyon, CRAL-ENS Lyon.

Zoom.

Friday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Feeding and feedback from little monsters: black holes in dwarf galaxies

Mar Mezcua (ISS Barcelona).

via zoom .

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST

John Mather (NASA/GSFC).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

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

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The effect of the streaming instability on protoplanetary disc emission at mm wavelengths

Chiara Scardoni.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 13:30-14:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Scattering in the static patch of de Sitter space.

Yasha Neiman (OIST).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Exoplanet Meetings

The ALMA View of Planet Formation

Jane Huang (University of Michigan, Sagan Fellow).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Halo gas thermodynamics from the CMB: results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope DR5

Stefania Amodeo (Cornell University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 01 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Modeling the UV Spectra of Magnetic Massive Stars

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Christiana Erba Debbrecht - University of Delaware.

Online.

Monday 01 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Case Against Smooth Null Infinity

Leonhard Kehrberger (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 29 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The classical interior of black holes in holography

Sean Hartnoll (Stanford University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tango for three: Sagittarius, LMC, and the Milky Way

Eugene Vasiliev.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Missing methane: Tracing anthropogenic methane emissions from space

Clay Roberts.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 13:30-14:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

First laboratory results from FOURIER, the initial science combiner at the MROI

Dan Mortimer (Cavendish Astrophysics).

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 11:00-11:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Cometary Delivery of Hydrogen Cyanide to the Early Earth

Zoe Todd, University of Washington, Sagan Fellow.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

DAMTP Astro Mondays

An analytic model of a star cluster evolution in a galactic tidal field

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Pavel Ivanov - Lebedev Physical Institute.

Online.

Monday 25 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Compressing bispectra and exploring trispectra: probing the non-Gaussian component of the density field

Davide Gualdi (ICC, University of Barcelona).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 25 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Searching for light dark matter in strong gravity environments

Katy Clough (Oxford).

Zoom.

Friday 22 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The origin of the first supermassive black holes

Ricarda Beckman (IoA).

via zoom .

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

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life

Ignas Snellen (Leiden).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Wormholes and quantum noise

Douglas Stanford (Stanford University).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A Dusty Origin for the Correlation Between Protoplanetary Disc Accretion Rates and Dust Masses

Andrew Sellek.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Theory, observability, and implications of planet disruptions during formation of stars and planets

Sergei Nayakshin, University of Leicester.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmological perturbation theory and application to the LSS

Zvonomir Vlah (KICC, University of Cambridge).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 18 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Small-scale structure of the pre-reionization IGM in quasar proximity zones

Frederick Davies (MPIA Heidelberg).

via zoom .

Friday 11 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Frontiers of quantum gravity

Astrid Eichhorn, CP3-Origins, University of Southern Denmark .

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The evolution of young planetary systems in Lupus: Early planetesimal belt formation, rapid disc dispersal, and fast gas outflows

Josh Lovell.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 13:30-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

From pixels to robust cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey

Alexandra Amon, Stanford.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 07 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBA

Asta Heinesen (Lyon).

Zoom.

Saturday 05 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Rapidly Forming Haloes as a Route to Massive Black Holes

John Regan (Maynooth).

via zoom .

Friday 04 December 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A NICER view of neutron stars

Anna Watts (Amsterdam).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

[CANCELLED] Screening of fifth forces in scalar tensor theories

Clare Burrage, University of Nottingham.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Formation and evolution of galaxies across the cosmic epochs

Professor Roberto Maiolino.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Compact, Low-Cost, High-Resolution Spectrographs for Exoplanet Science

Clark Baker (Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Making planets from small grains and big data

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Min-Kai Lin - ASIAA, Taipei.

Online.

Monday 30 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Efficient Method for Galaxy Analysis

Hayden Lee, Harvard.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 30 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The Impact of AGN Feedback on Simulated Dwarf Galaxies

Sophie Koudmani (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 27 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A Modern View of Quasars in the LSST Era

Gordon Richards (Drexel, Philadelphia).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Non-linear oscillations of hydrodynamic tori: One ring to rule them all...

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Callum Fairbairn - DAMTP, Cambridge.

Online.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Searching for Dark Matter in the Sky

Tracy Slatyer, MIT.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Discovery of high-z lensed quasars revealed by Gaia

Chris Desira.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Spectroscopic-asteroseismic analysis of K2 stars in Gaia-ESO

Clare Worley.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 13:30-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Dawn of a new Era: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Dr Ulrich Sperhake.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Making planets from small grains and big data

Min-Kai Lin.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Let’s go to the Sun!

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Tim Horbury - Imperial College London.

Online.

Monday 23 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: 4th data release and cosmological results

Erminia Calabrese, Cardiff University .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Maximally constraining dark energy

Johannes Noller (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The Hubble Constant from Time Delays: Breaking Degeneracies with External Datasets

Matthew Auger (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 20 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

Understanding Giant Planets

Ravit Helled - University of Zurich.

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email..

Thursday 19 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperature

Prof Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Deriving the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Rajesh Gopakumar, ICTS-TIFR.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Inference of the optical depth to reionization from low multipole temperature and polarisation Planck data

Roger de Belsunce.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Assessing the fractal behaviour of solar-like stars with 2D box-counting

Francisco Paz-Chinchon.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The Evolution of Stellar Radial Velocity Jitter: Toward an Astrophysically-Motivated Predictor of Stellar RV Jitter

Jacob Luhn (Penn State).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey and its first results

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Marat Gilfanov - MPA, Garching and IKI, Moscow.

Online.

Monday 16 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Quantum gravity with purely virtual particles: from quantum field theory to primordial cosmology

Damiano Anselmi, Pisa.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Computing the second order curvature perturbations of Kerr black holes

Justin Ripley (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

A Tale of Circumgalactic Gas: Large and Small scales

Rongmon Bordoloi.

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

’Seeing early cancer in a new light’

Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory.

https://tinyurl.com/y4og7frr.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Causality Constraints and the Curious Case of de Sitter

Rachel Rosen, Columbia University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Dense gas in galaxy clusters under the influence of an AGN jet

Ricarda Beckmann.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cosmic Mysteries and the Hydrogen 21cm Line

Anastasia Fialkov.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 13:30-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The effect of impacts by small bodies on the ancient atmosphere of Earth

Catriona Sinclair.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Spinning up planetary bodies by pebble accretion

Rico Visser (Amsterdam).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Companion-disk interaction in exoplanetary systems, a (mostly) observational perspective

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Grant Kennedy - University of Warwick.

Online.

Monday 09 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Observations

Gabriele Franciolini, University of Geneva.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A $d$ dimensional stress tensor for $d+2$ dimensional gravity

Prahar Mitra (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Connecting large and small scale perturbations of the Galactic disc

Chervin Laporte (Kavli IPMU Tokyo) .

via zoom .

Friday 06 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Highlights from the dawn of million-star spectroscopy

Karin Lind (Stockholm).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Testing the gravitational sector with black hole perturbations

Riccardo Penco, Carnegie Mellon University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Joanna Piotrowska.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Thermal instability: evolution of cold gas in the hot ICM

Prakriti PalChoudhury.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Cambridge Exoplanet Day

Multiple speakers.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 11:00-15:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

A systematic exploration of magnetized winds solutions in protoplanetary discs

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Geoffroy Lesur - University of Grenoble.

Online.

Monday 02 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Moduli Stars

Francesco Muia, DAMTP.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Graviton scattering and geometric bootstrap bounds

James Bonifacio (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Population III stars: effects of UV radiation, baryon-dark matter streaming velocity, and redshift

Mihir Kulkarni (Columbia).

via zoom .

Friday 30 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Welcome to the era of fast radio burst “cosmology”!

Matt McQuinn (Washington).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos

Dr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Quantum black holes on the lattice

Toby Wiseman, Imperial College London.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

TBC

TBC.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 13:30-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Why do galaxies die?

James Trussler.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Direct Imaging and Characterisation
 of Exoplanets with VLT/SPHERE
: Past, Present and Future

Arthur Vigan (LAM - Marseille).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Learning Cosmology from the First Stars and Reionization

Julian Munoz, Harvard.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 26 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Sleeping beasts: magnetic fields shape observational manifestations of neutron stars

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Andrei Igoshev - University of Leeds.

Online.

Monday 26 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Strong Lensing of Gravitational Waves

Macarena Lagos (Columbia University).

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Understanding galactic morphology using cosmological simulations with controlled initial conditions

Andrew Pontzen (UCL).

via zoom .

Friday 23 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Unveiling the high redshift Universe with deep spectroscopy

Laura Pentericci (INAF - Rome).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied

Join the talk here:- https://tinyurl.com/y2kfo6ra

Dr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

An emission line study of a unique, strongly lensed galaxy at z ~ 5: connecting Lyman-α and MgII λ 2796 Å emission at high redshift

Joris Witstok.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 13:30-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Influence of observations of total solar eclipses on cultures in old times

Dr Alexander Prokofiev.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

The TOI-561 system: a low density ultra-short period super-Earth and three mini-Neptunes

Gaia Lacedelli (Padova).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

TBC

Shirley Ho, Flatiron Institute .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 19 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Towards realistic modelling of multiple-star systems

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Adrian Hamers - MPA, Garching.

Online.

Monday 19 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The chemical enrichment of near-pristine systems: possible quenching following Reionization.

Louise Welsh (Durham).

via zoom .

Friday 16 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

Evolutionary population synthesis models.

Claudia Maraston - University of Portsmouth .

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email..

Thursday 15 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'

Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

CSD3 - What It Is & Getting Access

Stuart Rankin (HPCS).

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A “Klever” probe of the ISM in high redshift galaxies

Mirko Curti.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 13:30-14:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Phosphine and Photochemistry on Venus

Dr Paul Rimmer.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Irradiated brown dwarfs: Providing insights into exoplanet atmospheres

Sarah Casewell (Leicester).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Galaxy power spectrum in general relativity

Nastassia Grimm, University of Zurich.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

New Methods for Identifying Lyman Continuum Leakers and Reionization-Epoch Analogues

Harley Katz (Oxford).

via zoom .

Friday 09 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies

Andy Fabian (Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 08 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The wealth of hidden binaries in Gaia

Zephyr Penoyre.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 07 October 2020, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Phosphine in the Clouds of Venus

Jane Greaves (Cardiff).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

TBC

Dong-Gang Wang, DAMTP.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 05 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A consistent and robust measurement of the thermal state of the IGM at 2<z<4 with a large sample of Lyman-alpha forest spectra

Prakash Gaikwad (IoA) .

via zoom .

Friday 02 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Pieces of the Planetary Nebula Puzzle with Gaia

Nick Chornay.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 30 September 2020, 13:30-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Supernova clustering and galactic outflows

Matthew Smith (CfA Harvard).

via zoom .

Friday 25 September 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 23 September 2020, 13:30-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 16 September 2020, 13:30-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 09 September 2020, 13:30-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cosmology on the plane of density perturbations

Oliver Friedrich (Kavli Institute).

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 02 September 2020, 13:30-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

A relativistic disc model of tidal disruption events

Andrew Mummery.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 26 August 2020, 13:30-14:00

KICC Summer Series

A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii

Peter Plavchan (George Mason University).

via zoom .

Tuesday 25 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The weak imprint of environment on the stellar populations of galaxies

James Trussler.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 19 August 2020, 13:30-14:00

KICC Summer Series

Towards next generation galaxy formation simulations

Debora Sijacki (IoA).

via zoom .

Tuesday 18 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

KICC Summer Series

Pushing the boundaries of the black hole binary parameter space: recent results from LIGO

Jonathan Gair (AEI Potsdam).

via zoom, recording available with Raven at https://upload.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3270095 .

Tuesday 11 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

KICC Summer Series

Rescheduled: Cosmic Concordance or Tension: Cosmology from combined lensing and clustering observations with KiDS and BOSS

Catherine Heymans (Edinburgh).

via zoom, recording available with Raven at https://upload.sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/3267205 .

Wednesday 05 August 2020, 15:00-16:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The (chemical) history of the Milky Way told by its mergers

Oscar Agertz and Florent Renaud (Lund Observatory).

via zoom .

Friday 24 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A lockdown perspective on cosmic tensions

George Efstathiou (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 17 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Nested sampling cross-checks using order statistics

Andew Fowlie (Nanjing Normal University).

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 15 July 2020, 11:00-11:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Fifth Force Constraints from Galaxy-Scale Tests

Aneesh Naik (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 10 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

The GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample: the brightest radio-sources in the southern sky

Sarah White (Rhodes University).

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 08 July 2020, 11:00-11:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Understanding the epoch of reionization with Lyman-alpha emitters

Lewis Weinberger (IoA) .

via zoom .

Friday 03 July 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cosmology Lunch

Positivity from Negativity: M theory on hyperbolic geometry and Lambda>0

Eva Silverstein, Stanford.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 29 June 2020, 17:00-18:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Tidal disruption of stars

Thomas Wevers (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 26 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cosmology Lunch

A 1.6 % CMB independent constraint on H0

Matias Zaldarriaga.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Unveiling the Nature of Dark Matter with Cosmological Observables

Cora Dvorkin, Harvard University.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Tuesday 23 June 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cosmology Lunch

Soft de Sitter Effective Theory

Dan Green, UCSD.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 22 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Star formation inside galactic outflows

Roberto Maiolino (Cavendish).

via zoom .

Friday 19 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

BayeSN-SED: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for SNe Ia SEDs in the Optical and NIR

Stephen Thorp.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Predicting microlensing events with Gaia

Peter McGill.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 13:30-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Naked Singularities for the Einstein Vacuum Equations: The Exterior Solution

Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Friday 12 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Disks and Dynamics of Protoplanetary Systems

Ian Czekala (Berkeley).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

A Cosmic Microscope for the Preheating Era

Please note this is an internal colloquium for members of the University of Cambridge and others with strong connections to the HEP and GR groups

Jiji Fan, Brown University .

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Quantifying host galaxy properties of X-ray selected AGN

Adam Marshall.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 14:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

BayeSN-SED: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for SNe Ia SEDs in the Optical and NIR

Stephen Thorp.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Polluted White Dwarfs: Insights into Ancient Exo-Planetary Systems

John Harrison (University of Cambridge).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

[CANCELLED]

Remy Larue (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

[CANCELLED]

Dr. Grant Kennedy (Warwick).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Understanding the dark Universe with observational cosmology

Marika Asgari, University of Edinburgh.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 08 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Unitarity bounds for inflation

Scott Melville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Friday 05 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The demise of the Sagittarius galaxy

Eugene Vasiliev (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 05 June 2020, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

Mergers, magnetars and multi-messengers

Professor Stephen Smartt.

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email..

Thursday 04 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

A Swampland Tour, From Global Symmetries to Axion Physics

Please note this is an internal colloquium for members of the University of Cambridge and others with strong connections to the HEP and GR groups

Matt Reece, Harvard.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Earth or Exoplanet? Assessing telluric correction methods for transmission spectroscopy

Adam Langeveld.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 13:30-14:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Snowlines and Planet Compositions

Karin Öberg (Harvard).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

[CANCELLED]

Prof. Tim Horbury (Imperial).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 01 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmological applications of the kSZ effect

Mat Madhavacheril, Perimeter.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 01 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Teukolsky equations in Kerr-Newman spacetime

Elena Giorgi (Princeton University).

Zoom.

Friday 29 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Probing Cosmic Dawn with the most distant galaxies

Nicolas Laporte (Cavendish).

via zoom .

Friday 29 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Absorption and accretion properties of local Active Galactic Nuclei

Claudio Ricci (UDP, Chile).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Ifan Williams.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Tension in the Hubble Constant

Wendy Freedman, University of Chicago.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 27 May 2020, 15:30-16:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Origins of Super-Earths in Inner Solar Systems

Rebekah Dawson (Penn State).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

[CANCELLED]

Prof. Marat Gilfanov (MPA Garching).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 25 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Probing the scale of grand unification with gravitational waves

Valerie Domcke (CERN,EPFL).

Zoom.

Friday 22 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The Biggest Splash

Vasily Belokurov (IoA).

via zoom .

Friday 22 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Mapping the hot Universe: the first six months of operations of eROSITA on SRG

Andrea Merloni (MPE).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Matthew Whittle -- BBC.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Multipoint Correlators in Multifield Cosmology: formal structure and applications

Eva Silverstein, Stanford.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 17:15-18:15

Exoplanet Meetings

Characterising the Atmospheres and Circumplanetary Environment of Exoplanets

Ernst DeMooij (QUB).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmological Perturbation Theory

Jai-Chan Hwang, Kyungpook/DAMTP.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 18 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Distinguishing high-mass binary neutron stars from binary black holes with gravitational waves

An Chen (University College London).

Zoom.

Friday 15 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Powering galactic superwinds with small-scale AGN winds

Tiago Costa (MPA Garching).

via zoom .

Friday 15 May 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Obscured Universe: from Peak Star-Formation to Reionization

Caitlin Casey (Univerity of Texas).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Tom Gillam -- GAM Systematic (Cantab Capital).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Dark matter through the looking glass: the MADMAX experiement

Javier Redondo, University of Zaragoza.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 14:15-15:15

Exoplanet Meetings

Forbidden line diagnostics of photoevaporative disc winds

Giulia Ballabio (Leicester).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

[CANCELLED]

Dr. Henrik Latter (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

[CANCELLED]

Prof. Rainer Hollerbach (Leeds).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

TBC

Austin Joyce, University of Amsterdam .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 11 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Well-posed formulation of scalar-tensor effective field theory

Aron Kovacs (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Friday 08 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Next Frontier of Low-Mass Galaxy Formation

Dan Weisz (Berkeley).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Stefano Vergani.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

The Search for Exomoons in Survey and Targeted Observations

Alex Teachey (Columbia University, NY).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

[CANCELLED]

Dr. Adrian Hamers (MPA Garching).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

The challenge of neutrino mass detection from cosmology

Maria Archidiacono.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 04 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Multi-messenger cosmology: A new frontier

Suvodip Mukherjee (University of Amsterdam).

Zoom.

Friday 01 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Uncovering the nature of dark matter with stellar streams in the Milky Way

Ana Bonaca (Harvard).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Peter McGill.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

String theory and the 3d Ising model

John McGreevy, UCSD.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 17:15-18:15

Exoplanet Meetings

Atmospheric collapse on tidally locked rocky planets

Pierre Auclair-Desrotour (CSH, Bern).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

[CANCELLED]

Prof. Geoffroy Lesur (IPAG, Grenoble).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

[CANCELLED]

Dr. Min-Kai Lin (ASIAA, Taipei).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 27 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Dark energy in the lab

Benjamin Elder, University of Nottingham .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 27 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Bulk reconstruction of metrics with a compact space asymptotically

Sergio Hernandez Cuenca (UC Santa Barbara).

Zoom.

Friday 24 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model with X-ray Studies of Galaxy Clusters

Prof. Christopher Reynolds (IoA).

ONLINE - Details will be sent by email.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Fruzsina Agocs.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 23 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

Exoplanet Meetings

Testing radius valley emergence models around late-type stars with TESS.

Ryan Cloutier (Harvard).

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

IGM-galaxy cross-correlations during reionization

Romain Meyer (UCL).

via zoom (hopefully).

Friday 17 April 2020, 11:30-12:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Jiji Fan, Brown University.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Friday 10 April 2020, 14:15-15:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Chaos and permanence in Elasto-Inertial Turbulence

Yves Dubief, University of Vermont .

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

Friday 13 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Stability of high-dimensional product spacetimes

Zoe Wyatt (University of Edinburgh).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 13 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data Science without labels

Karthik Tadinada -- FeatureSpace.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

CANCELLED

Astrid Eichhorn, CP3-Origins.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Heating of the solar corona by nanoflares: Speculative past, quantitative present and uncertain future

NOTE UNUSUAL DAY (WEDNESDAY) AND PLACE (MR15)

Prof. Peter Cargill (St. Andrew's).

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond

Or Graur.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Rage against the dying of the light: Type Ia supernovae at 1000 days and beyond

Or Graur.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Sounds of Space

Nigel Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Formation of compact systems of super-Earths via dynamical instabilities and giant impacts

Sanson Poon (QMUL).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

New Results on Galaxy Mergers: Galaxy Formation, Cosmology, and Gravitational Waves

Christopher Conselice (University of Nottingham).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

Massive Planets (and Other Bodies) in Steady-State Accretion Disks

Prof. Yoram Lithwick (Northwestern).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Adiabatic approximation in studies of mean motion resonances in celestial mechanics

Prof. Vladislav Sidorenko (Keldysh Institute, Moscow).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 09 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmology form current and future spectroscopic galaxy surveys

Marko Simonovic .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Free Surface Nanoflows

James Sprittles, University of Warwick .

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

Friday 06 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Inferring neutron star properties with gravitational waves from binary mergers

Michalis Agathos (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Seeing the Milky Way Disk Evolve

Neige Frankel (MPIA Heidelberg).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 06 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Down the Dusty Road -- Gems from Large (sub-)millimetre Surveys

Thomas Greve, University College London (UCL).

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

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

New Insights into the Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

Meg Urry (Yale).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Deep Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks for Somatic Variant Calling

Omar Darwish - DAMTP and Geoffroy Dubourg-Felonneau - CCG.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Testing the Kerr hypothesis: the examples of synchronisation and scalarisation

Carlos Herdeiro, Aveiro University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Investigating the evolution of Earth's atmosphere during accretion of the late veneer

Cat Sinclair.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory - the history of star formation in the Universe

Stephen Eales.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Unveiling the secrets of Jupiter with the Juno mission

Yamila Miguel (Leiden).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Adventures with Dusty Discs

Dr. Sijme-Jan Paardekooper (Queen Mary, London).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Gianmassio Tassinato.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The 3D Navier-Stokes Bermuda Triangle

John Gibbon, Imperial College .

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

Friday 28 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Soft limits in the presence of spatial curvature

Jakub Supeł (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Exploring the First Light And Reionisation Epoch

Stephen Wilkins, Sussex.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Hiranya Peiris, UCL.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes

Sarah Bosman.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Dust track - The next generation: What are debris discs made of?

Nicole Pawellek (IoA).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

Global simulations of self-gravitating magnetized protoplanetary disks

Dr. Hongping Deng (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

The tides of moving objects

Prof. Jorge Peñarrubia (University of Edinburgh).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 24 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Hayley Macpherson.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Correlations in suspensions of microswimmers

Alexander Morozov, University of Edinburgh .

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

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

An Amber Spyglass: X-ray observations as a probe of axion-like particles

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

James Matthews (IoA).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-18:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Probing the early evolution of stellar and planetary systems

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Ed Gillen (Cavendish Lab).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 21 February 2020, 16:00-18:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Impact of multiple modes on the black-hole superradiant instability

Giuseppe Ficarra (King's College London).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 21 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Lyman-alpha emitters in QSO proximity zones

Sarah Bosman (UCL).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 21 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

New substructure in the phase-space of the Milky Way with Gaia

Teresa Antoja, University of Barcelona.

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

Thursday 20 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Post Placement Talk: Spherical Defense

Josh Briegal.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

(Nobel Laureate Lecture - CUAS & CUPS Joint Talk): The Exoplanet Revolution

Prof. Didier Queloz.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 20:00-21:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Determining the origin of LIGO's merging black holes

Christian Byrnes, University of Sussex.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploring exoplanet variety with HARPS-N

Annelies Mortier.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The gas content of cool core galaxy clusters

Haonan Liu.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Why Policy Matters for Space Science - Scientific Collaboration in a Time of Geopolitical Shift

SW Chiu (Space Engineering Research Center).

Martin Ryle Meeting Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Supermassive black hole feeding / Capture of interstellar asteroids and comets

Prof. Walter Dehnen (University of Leicester).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 17 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Galaxy Formation in Separate Universes

Alex Barreira.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 17 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Optical control of hydrodynamic flows in cells and embryos

Moritz Kreysing, MPI-CBG Dresden .

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

Friday 14 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Resolving the Hubble tension with emergent dark radiation in unitary gravity

Will Barker (University of Cambridge/KICC).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The detection of ionised carbon in a Lyman break galaxy with surprisingly warm dust at z = 8.31

Tom Bakx (Nagoya University).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 14 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Moving beyond stellar activity limitations to detect other Earths

Nadege Meunier, Grenoble.

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

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Dreams-AI, a comprehensive machine learning company

Bryan Yau -- Dreams AI.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Quantum simulators for fundamental physics

Silke Weinfurtner.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

What is the origin of exozodiacal dust?

Jess Rigley.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Galactic winds: a statistical perspective.

Alice Concas.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past

Gareth Collins.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Investigating the Star-Planet Connection with Precision Spectroscopy

Megan Bedell (Flatiron institute).

Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

A topsy-turvy world: dynamo generation by top-down solidification of planetesimals

Dr. Jerome Neufeld (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Fluctuation dynamo in collisionless and weakly collisional, magnetized plasmas

Dr. Denis St-Onge (Oxford).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 10 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Talks by Postdocs

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:15-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Causality Relations At Infinity

Peter Cameron (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The intriguing lives of post-starburst galaxies

Vivienne Wild, St Andrews.

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

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Coping with Data Reality

Arlen Anderson -- Ab Initio Software .

Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Probing Nuclear Superfluidity With Neutron Stars

Nicolas Chamel, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Bayesian deep learning to scale Galaxy Zoo

Mike Walmsley (University of Oxford).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Einstein's Universe: Cosmological structure formation in numerical relativity

Hayley Macpherson.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO

Nicholas Walton.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Particle acceleration in relativistic magnetospheres

Prof. Benoit Cerutti (Université Grenoble).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 03 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Probing the Early Universe with Axion Physics

Luca Visinelli .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The control of moist atmospheric processes on weather forecast errors

Suzanne Gray, University of Reading.

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

Friday 31 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

The Kavli Lectures

Radiation-Dominated Black Hole Accretion Flows

James Stone (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Stochastic Filament Dynamics in Tokamaks

Theo Steele.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Asymptotic safety in the spotlight

Daniel Litim, University of Sussex.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

oscode: fast solutions of oscillatory ODEs in cosmology

Fruzsina Agocs.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Deciphering Thermal Emission Spectra of Exoplanets

Anjali Piette.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Machine learning the formation of dark matter halos

Luisa Lucie-Smith (UCL).

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 11:00-11:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Machine learning the formation of dark matter halos

Luisa Lucie-Smith (UCL).

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 11:00-11:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space

Dave Wealthy.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

Perspectives on warped astrophysical discs

Prof. Gordon Ogilvie (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Misalignments, precession and shadows in protoplanetary discs

Dr. Rebecca Nealon (University of Leicester).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 27 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

21cm Cosmology, in Principle and Practice

Simon Foreman.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 27 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some implications of self-similarity in canonical wall turbulence

Beverley McKeon, Caltech.

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

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Unveiling molecular gas and dust from the optical spectra of galaxies

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Alice Concas (Cavendish).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-18:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Intergalactic medium in the era of precision cosmology

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Vid Iršič (Cavendish).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-18:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Strong Cosmic Censorship for AdS Black Holes and Its Connection to Diophantine Approximation

Christoph Kehle (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 24 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The core of the matter – spatially resolving the nuclei of Active Galaxies with VLTI/GRAVITY

Eckhard Sturm, MPE.

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

Thursday 23 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Systematic trading using sentiment analysis data

Matyas Molner.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

A proposal for the CFT dual for superstrings on ADS3 at the string radius.

Massimo Porrati, NYU.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Galactic archaeology in the Milky Way and beyond

Sarah Martell (University of New South Wales).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

ELT/HIRES - an high-resolution spectrograph for the ELT

Martin Haehnelt.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

The M*-SFR relation of galaxies at high redshifts - Future constraints from JWST.

Emma Curtis Lake.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 11:00-11:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars

Sanjeev Gupta.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Investigating the composition of comets using ground-based optical observations

Cyrielle Opitom (Edinburgh).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

How to get the Euclid data out of Euclid?

Elena Sellentin.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 20 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Freezing impacts

Christophe Josserand, Ecole Polytechnique.

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

Friday 17 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Mode stability for the Teukolsky equation on extremal Kerr black hole spacetimes

Rita Teixeira da Costa (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The dispersal of planet forming discs and its role on the formation and evolution of planets

Barbara Ercolano, LMU Munich.

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

Thursday 16 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Representation learning and its applications

Akbir Khan -- Spherical Defense.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Starfruit: growing a musical universe

Tim Watts.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 13:15-14:15

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Resolving the Hubble tension with emergent dark radiation in unitary gravity

Will Barker.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 15 January 2020, 11:00-11:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data-driven Discovery in the Time Domain

Gautham Narayan (UIUC).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 19 December 2019, 13:00-14:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Maximum-Likelihood Biases in PSF and Model-Fitting Photometry

Stephen Portillo (University of Washington).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Monday 16 December 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Postdoc Jamboree

Cambridge Astro Postdocs.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 13:15-14:15

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fluid dynamics in superhydrophobic channels structured with micro scale grooves

Demetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College.

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

Friday 06 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Amplification of superkicks in black-hole binaries through orbital eccentricity

Ulrich Sperhake (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 06 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Tracing the building blocks of habitable worlds from disks to planets

Oliver Shorttle (IoA and Earth Sciences, Cambs).

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

CP violation and rare Kaon decays in the Standard Model and beyond

Martin Gorbahn, Liverpool.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Combining CMB and weak lensing: Cosmology with ACT and KiDS

Naomi Robertson.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Challenges in interpreting transmission spectra of exoplanets

Luis Welbanks.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets

Laura Rogers.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

How planets grow by pebble accretion

Marc Brouwers.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Signatures of planet formation and orbital evolution in the cold dust emission of protoplanetary discs

Dr. Clément Baruteau (IRAP, Toulouse).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmological parameter inference using neural networks

Tom Charnock, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Is dispersion a stabilizing or destabilizing mechanism? Some examples in fluid mechanics

Edriss Titi, DAMTP.

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

Friday 29 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Einstein's Universe: Cosmological structure formation in numerical relativity

Hayley Macpherson (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 29 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

How is star formation in galaxies quenched?

Asa Bluck (Cavendish).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 29 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The Galactic Halo Renaissance

Alis Deason (Durham).

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

Thursday 28 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Unsupervised Multi-Task Feature Learning on Point Clouds

Hooman Shayani -- Autodesk.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Neutron-star mergers and numerical relativity

Masaru Shibata, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The impact of photoionization on the statistics of turbulence

Nina Sartorio.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Recent developments in neutrino cosmology

Sunny Vagnozzi.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Global Analysis of the TRAPPIST Survey (Cavendish)

Florian Lienhard.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Discovering Cosmic Reionisation

James Kent.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

DAMTP Astro Lunch

Simple mathematical models of jet stream variability

Laura Cope (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Plasma physics in the light of Galilean invariance

Dr. Toby Heinemann (NBI, Copenhagen).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 25 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmology with photometric redshift surveys: challenges and opportunities

David Alonso.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 25 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Kinematic Characterization of the First Galaxies

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Gareth Jones (Cavendish Lab).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 22 November 2019, 16:00-18:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Gravitational waves, from zero to hero: an update on LIGO-Virgo science

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Michalis Agathos (DAMTP).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 22 November 2019, 16:00-18:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Quasi-isotropic cycles and bounces in a Mixmaster cosmology

Chandrima Ganguly (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Accretion Disks, Winds And Jets in Tidal Disruption Events

Jane Lixin Dai (University of Hong Kong).

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

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

A Bayesian Approach to Machine Learning

Fergus Simpson -- PROWLER.io.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Challenging the Inflationary Paradigm

Eugene Lim (KCL).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Recovering sky brightness with interferometry: A Fourier domain, Gaussian process approach

Jeff Jennings.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Unraveling the nature of dark matter with intergalactic medium

Vid Irsic.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

BREAKFASTwithALMA: a pilot study for automated archival analysis techniques

Sandra Burkutean.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Exozodiacal clouds - the local environment of habitable planets

Professor Mark Wyatt.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

How planets make swirls: vorticity generation by oblique spiral shocks

Nicolas Cimerman (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Kinetic effects in collisionless and turbulent space plasmas: 'in situ' data and Vlasov simulations

Dr. Denise Perrone (ASI, Rome).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 18 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Amplitudes’ Positivity in Gravitational Theories, and the Weak Gravity Conjecture

Brando Bellazzini(IPhT, Saclay) .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 18 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Three-dimensional instability dynamics in jets

Lutz Lesshafft, Laboratoire d’Hydrodynamique, École polytechnique.

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

Friday 15 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Coherent Gravitational Waveforms from Cosmic String Loops

Josu C. Aurrekoetxea (King's College London).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 15 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

QSOs with Gaia

Yiping Shu (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 15 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

The role of halo formation history and circumgalactic gas expulsion in the evolution of galaxies

Rob Crain (LJMU).

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

Thursday 14 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Nested Sampling: an efficient and robust Bayesian inference tool for Machine Learning and Data Science

Will Handley - Kavli.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Stochastic and non-unitary Quantum Chemistry

Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Modelling exo-planet atmospheres using a chemical kinetics code

Richard Hobbs.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploring the metal-poor inner Galaxy with the Pristine survey

Anke Arentsen (AIP).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Apollo at 50 - and the next giant leap for human kind

Dr Christopher Riley.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Recent advances in algorithms for long term integrations of planetary systems

Prof. Hanno Rein (Toronto).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 11 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Bayesian analyses of galaxy surveys

Florent Leclercq(Imperial College).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 11 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Stop-and-go swimmers, splitters, hovercrafts and helicopters: hydrodynamic phenomena in active emulsions

Corinna Maaß, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

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

Friday 08 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational-Wave Asteroseismology with f-Mode Dynamic Tides in Compact Binary Inspirals

Patricia Schmidt (University of Birmingham).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

The dynamical scaling laws of disk galaxies

Federico Lelli (ESO).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 08 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Asteroseismology: Results from Kepler and TESS

William Chaplin (Birmingham).

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

Thursday 07 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to make your scientific codes publicly available

Hanno Rein - University of Toronto.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Holographic Thermodynamics of Accelerating Black Holes

Ruth Gregory, Durham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The 1919 eclipse which verified General Relativity and its later detractors: what happened, which story is “correct”?

Gerry Gilmore & Gudrun Tausch-Pebody.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Exploring the Link between Quasar Outflows and Hot Dust Emission

Matthew Temple.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Active Galactic Nuclei: the powerful cores of the most luminous galaxies

Amy Rankine.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 20:00-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Planetary systems as ordered sequences

Emily Sandford (Columbia).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Stellar interactions and transients

Dr. Silvia Toonen (Birmingham).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Gravitational Collider Physics

John Stout(University of Amsterdam).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 04 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Consider the Icicle

Stephen Morris, University of Toronto .

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

Friday 01 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Asymptotic charges in gravity

Mahdi Godazgar (Queen Mary).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 01 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Kavli Lectures

Clash of the Titans: galaxy collisions in the nearby universe

Kavli Lecture Series

Professor Sara Ellison: University of Victoria.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Data science from a practitioners perspective

Srinivasa Raghavan - Infosys.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Quantum Amplitudes and Classical Gravity

Donal O'Connell, Edinburgh.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Tracing the origin of magnetic fields in galaxies

Sergio Martin.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Dust Spreading in Debris Discs - Do Small Grains Cling on to Their Birth Environment?

Nicole Pawellek.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Modelling Foregrounds and Chromaticity in Global 21cm Experiments

Dominic Anstey.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Clusters of Galaxies

Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Cosmo-chemical, structural, and dynamical clues on the origin of the Solar System

Doug Lin (Santa Cruz).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

Magnetoconvection in hot accretion flows around black holes

Lorenzo Perrone (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Plasma heating and particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection in solar and stellar flares

Prof. Philippa Browning (Manchester).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 28 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Preheating on curved field-space manifolds

Evangelos Sfakianakis (Nikhef).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 28 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Clonal pattern dynamics in tumour: the concept of cancer stem cell

Martine Ben Amar, ENS & Sorbonne.

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

Friday 25 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Revisiting black-hole perturbation theory: the hyperboloidal slice approach

Rodrigo Panosso Macedo (Queen Mary).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Probing the thermal state of the intergalactic medium at z > 5 with the transmission spikes in high-resolution Lyα forest spectra

Prakash Gaikwad (IoA) .

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

The Kavli Lectures

The IllustrisTNG Project

Kavli Lecture Series

Professor Lars Hernquist: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics .

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rise.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Model Interpretability (or Why have you sent me another marketing offer?)

Ben Houghton -- Head of Data Science for Barclays Payments.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Neutrinos: a portal to new physics beyond the Standard Model

Silvia Pascoli, Durham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Fingerprints of giant planets hidden among the solar twins

Richard Booth.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Particle acceleration to the highest energies in radio galaxies

James Matthews.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Direct imaging and polarisation analysis

Steve Gull.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 11:00-11:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Searching for exoplanets with PLATO

Dr Dominic Ford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Clean results and grubby details of exoplanet observation with long-baseline interferometry

Mathias Nowak .

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Magnetic field amplification in protoneutron stars

Dr. Jérôme Guilet (CEA Saclay).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 21 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Precision big bang nucleosynthesis with improved Helium-4 predictions

Cyril Pitrou(IAP).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 21 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Speed of rolling droplets

Ory Schnitzer, Imperial College.

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

Friday 18 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

CASU: Filling the Astronomical Data Lake

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Nicholas Walton (IoA).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 18 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Semiclassical path(s) to cosmic large-scale structure

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Cora Uhlemann (DAMTP).

Large Martin Ryle Seminar Room, KICC.

Friday 18 October 2019, 16:00-18:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Klein-Gordon equation on the hyperboloidal Anti-de Sitter Schwarzschild black hole

Owain Salter Fitz-Gibbon (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Structure formation with Fuzzy Dark Matter

Anastasia Fialkov (IoA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 18 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Mapping accreting black holes using X-ray variability

Adam Ingram (Oxford).

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

Thursday 17 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Cluster Geometry and Dynamics in Nuclei

Nick Manton, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Cross-correlating optical and sub-millimeter surveys to probe cosmology and planetary science

Eric Baxter.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

The Spatially Resolved Properties of Galaxy Mergers from MaNGA

Mallory Thorp.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Solving discontinuous problems with pseudospectral methods

Joanna Piotrowska.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 11:00-11:30

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

Dark Matter and Dark Energy - the hunt for the missing 95 per cent

Brian Clegg.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Exoplanet Meetings

Hide and Seek: Searching for planets around young active stars

Norbert Zicher (Oxford).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Lunch

Nature and Origin of 'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov - First Interstellar Visitors to the Solar System

Dr. Roman Rafikov (DAMTP, Cambridge).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Orbital Circularization of Binaries with Resonance Locking from Stellar Evolution

Dr. J. J. Zanazzi (CITA, Toronto).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 14 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Second order effects of isocurvature initial conditions

Pedro Miguel Gregorio Carrilho (Queen Mary University) .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On the validity of shallow-water models of fluid flow

David Dritschel, St Andrews.

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

Friday 11 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A Scattering Theory for the Teukolsky Equations on the Schwarzschild black hole

Hamed Masaood (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 11 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Collisionless losscone refilling: the end of the final parsec problem

Alessia Gualandris (Surrey).

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Subsurface imaging with deep learning

Song Hou -- CGG.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 13:00-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Rocky Exoplanets, Geology and White Dwarfs

Amy Bonsor.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

What transients can teach us about common envelope evolution?

Nadejda Blagorodnova.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Photometry and Performance of SPECULOOS-South

Catriona Murray.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 11:00-11:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

A journey into the Perseus Cluster of galaxies

Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais (ESO Chile).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Tuesday 01 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Angular momentum of early type galaxies based on extended kinematics

Ortwin Gerhard (MPE Garching).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 27 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Kinematics features of the Milky Way globular clusters

Andres Piatti (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentine).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 September 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Detection of the warm-hot baryons in the Universe

Yin-Zhe Ma ((University of KwaZulu-Natal).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 25 September 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Zooming in an galaxy at a redshift of 7 with ALMA

Renske Smit (Kavli Institute of Cosmology).

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 25 September 2019, 11:00-11:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Constraining models of warm and self-interacting dark matter with quadruple-image strong gravitational lenses

Daniel Gilman (UCLA).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 13 September 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Observing CMB foregrounds with QUIJOTE to unveil primordial B-modes in the CMB polarisation

Ricardo Genova-Santos.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 07 August 2019, 11:00-11:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

A Lensed View of Low-Mass Dark Matter Structures

Matt Auger (KICC).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 02 August 2019, 11:30-12:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Inflation : an analytical study of primordial power-spectra

Denis Werth.

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 31 July 2019, 11:00-11:30

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Galactic archaeology with stellar streams

Rodrigo Ibata (Strasbourg).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 26 July 2019, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Mass Calibration of Galaxy Clusters using CMB lensing measurements.

Srinivasan Raghunathan (UCLA).

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Wednesday 24 July 2019, 14:00-15:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Outreach activities

Matt Bothwell, IoA.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 17:15-17:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Gravitational Waves

Charalampos Markakis, DAMTP.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 17:00-17:15

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Finding and characterizing small exoplanets

Annelies Mortier, IoA.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:45-17:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The complex relationship between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies made simple in a supercomputer

Martin Bourne, IoA.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:30-16:45

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Quasars and wide area surveys

Manda Banerji , IoA.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:15-16:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Probing the emergence of structure during the Epoch of Reionization with Lyman-alpha emitters

Lewis Weinberger, IoA.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 16:00-16:15

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Gravitational lenses

Matt Auger, KICC/IoA.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 15:15-15:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Galaxy Formation and evolution

Emma Curtis-Lake, KICC/Cavendish.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 15:00-15:15

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

21cm cosmology experiments

Eloy de Lera Acedo, Cavendidh/KICC.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 14:45-15:00

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The evolution of cosmic structures and features of the cosmic web

Oliver Friedrich, KICC.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 14:30-14:45

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The early Universe

Steven Gratton, KICC.

Martin Ryle Meeting Room KICC.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 14:15-14:30

Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks

Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond

Jan Millsapps.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 16:00-18:00

Exoplanet Meetings

From dust dynamics to grain properties

Elie Sezestre (Grenoble).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars and super-Eddington accretion

Felix Fürst, ESAC.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

On the evolution of the disk and corona in accreting black hole binaries

Javier Garcia, Caltech.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 10 July 2019, 13:15-13:45

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

When the spectral lines in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5548 went on holiday

Gary Ferland (U Kentucky).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 28 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Mapping our Galaxy with Gaia DR2 and beyond

Kavli Happy Hour talk

Francesca De Angeli, IoA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 21 June 2019, 16:00-16:30

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

Observing the Cosmic Web in Lyman-α Emission

Kavli Happy Hour Talk

Joris Witstok, Cavendish.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Friday 21 June 2019, 16:00-16:30

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Lessons from Apollo 50 Years Later

John Lattanzio (Monash University).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:15-13:45

Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars

The evolution of the interstellar medium in merging galaxies

Jorge Moreno (Pomona College / ITC).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Monday 17 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Radiation from Global Topological Strings using Adaptive Mesh Refinement

Amelia Drew (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 14 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Kavli Lectures

Characterizing Exoplanets' Atmospheres to Unveil Planetary Origins, Climate and Habitability

Kavli Lecture

Jean-Michel Desert (Amsterdam).

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

Thursday 13 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Pseudorandomness and random quantum circuits in different geometries

Aram Harrow, MIT.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Prospects for CMB polarisation B-mode delensing with the Simons Observatory

Anton Baleato.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Extending the fundamental metallicity relation to non star-forming galaxies

Nimisha Kumari.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-13:45

Cavendish Astrophysics Coffee talks

Accelerated Bayesian inference using deep learning

Adam Moss (Nottingham).

Battcock Tea area.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 11:00-11:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Antony Lewis, University of Sussex.

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 10 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The life and death of a granular raft

Suzie Protière, UPMC Paris.

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

Friday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Scattering Map on Oppenheimer-Snyder Spacetime

Fred Alford (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 07 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

An Update on the Zwicky Transient Facility

Shri Kulkarni (Caltech).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 07 June 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Using the Magellanic Clouds to understand the interaction of galaxies

Maria-Rosa Cioni (AIP).

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

Thursday 06 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

**Canceled**

Anna Jordan - Alchera Technologies.

**Sackler Lecture Theare, Institute of Astronomy**.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The structure of the proton and the exploration of the high-energy frontier

Maria Ubiali, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Real-Time Classification of Explosive Transients Using Deep Learning

Daniel Muthukrishna.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Powerful Sound Waves from AGN Jets

Christopher Bambic.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Meetings

Multidimensional modelling of hot exoplanets with coupled fluid dynamics, radiative transfer and chemistry

Eric Hebrard (Exeter).

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Probing the Inflationary Field Content with Primordial Gravitational Waves and more

Matteo Fasiello (ICG, Portsmouth) .

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 03 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The evolution of complexity in free-surface flows

Andrew Hazel, University of Manchester.

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

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Black Hole Stability Problem in Higher Dimensions: An Instability Theorem

Gabriele Benomio (Imperial).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

How to Quench a Dwarf Galaxy: The Impact of Reionization on Cosmic Structure

Harley Katz (Oxford).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 31 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Cosmology with Gravitational Lens Time Delays

Sherry Suyu (MPA).

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

Thursday 30 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Delivering precision medicine while providing individual data protection and transparency

Patrick Short - Sano Genetics.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Common origin(s) for the Dark Matter density and baryon asymmetry

Laura Covi, Goettingen.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Getting rid of hydrogen in evolved massive stars

Avishai Gilkis.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Final CMB lensing results from Planck

Anthony Challinor.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:15-13:45

Exoplanet Meetings

BRINGING SPACE EXPLORATION AI APPLICATIONS BACK TO EARTH

Daniel Angerhausen.

Martin Ryle Seminar Room, Kavli Institute.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Resonant relaxation of stars around a supermassive black hole

Jean-Baptiste Fouvry (IAS).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Non-Gaussian gravitational waves from inflation

Eiichiro Komatsu(MPIA).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 27 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Batchelor lecture 2: An active granular medium at the origin of the sensitivity of plants to gravity

Olivier Pouliquen, IUSTI, Aix-Marseille University .

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

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Strong Cosmic Censorship in charged black-hole spacetimes

Kyriakos Destounis (CENTRA-Instituto Superior Tecnico).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Institute of Astronomy Galaxies Discussion Group

Star-forming clumps at high redshift and their importance for galaxy evolution

Anita Zanella (ESO).

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Friday 24 May 2019, 11:30-12:30

Institute of Astronomy Colloquia

Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts

Pawan Kumar (UT Austin).

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

Thursday 23 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Multidimensional interactive optimisation for urban development

Helene Margrethe Bøhler - Spacemaker.

Kavli Large Meeting Room, Kavli Building.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The Surprising Simplicity of Scattering Amplitudes

Jacob Bourjaily, Niels Bohr Institute.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:15-15:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Gaia wide binaries challenging a Newtonian prediction

Xavier Hernández (IA, UNAM).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:45-14:15

Institute of Astronomy Seminars

Combining absorption and emission features in an investigation of quasar outflows

Amy Rankine.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-13:45

DAMTP Astro Mondays

Magnetized fingering convection

Prof. Pascale Garaud (UC Santa Cruz).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Bootstrapping Inflationary Fluctuations

Guillherm Pimentel (UvA).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Batchelor lecture 1: Forces when moving in a granular medium: stirring, drilling and segregation

Olivier Pouliquen, IUSTI, Aix-Marseille University .

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Damping sloshing by confinement, foams, or contact angle hysteresis

Benjamin Dollet, LiPhy Grenoble.

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

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00