Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)


2009-01-21 20:00: From Babylon to the Big Bang (Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest)

2009-01-28 20:00: Red Spirals and Voorwerpen: Exploring the Galaxy Zoo (Dr. Chris Lintott, University of Oxford)

2009-02-11 20:00: Electromagnetism and Black Holes (Prof. Donald Lynden-Bell, IoA, University of Cambridge)

2009-02-25 20:00: The Next 20 Years in Astronomy (Professor Sir Martin Rees, The Astronomer Royal)

2009-11-25 18:00: Pulsars - 42 Years On (Professor Antony Hewish, MRAO)

2009-12-01 20:00: Comets, meteors and other phenomena of the night sky (Dr Jonathan Shanklin, BAS and BAA)

2010-02-03 17:50: Sir Arthur Eddington: Man, Myth & Mystic (Mark Hurn, Institute of Astronomy)

2010-02-10 17:50: Life in Extreme Environments for Astronomers (Professor Charles Cockell, Open University)

2010-02-16 20:00: Getting started in deep sky observing (Dr Stewart Moore, BAA)

2010-02-23 20:00: Mars (Dr Richard McKim, BAA)

2010-03-10 17:50: Taking the Twinkle out of Starlight: High-Resolution Imaging in the Visible on Large Ground-Based Telescopes (Professor Craig Mackay, IoA)

2010-10-21 20:00: Hunting for Meteorites in Antartica and Australia (Dr Gretchen Benedix, Natural History Musuem, London)

2010-10-28 20:00: Jupiter and its Climatic Cycles (Dr John Rogers, Director of Jupiter Section, BAA)

2010-11-04 20:00: Measuring Stellar Radial Velocities (Prof. Roger Griffin, IoA)

2010-11-11 20:00: Ancient Astronomy in South America (Prof. Clive Ruggles, University of Leicester)

2010-11-18 20:00: Imaging the Deep Sky (Nik Szymanek)

2010-11-25 20:00: Hunting for Meteorites in Antarctica and Australia (Dr Gretchen Benedix)

2011-01-27 20:00: Magellan looks at Venus (Prof Dan McKenzie, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-10 20:00: The Remains of Recent Exploding Stars in our Galaxy (Dr Dave Green, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-02-17 20:00: Cosmic Inflation for Beginners (Dr Mike Hobson, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-03-03 20:00: A Journey Around Saturn, its Rings and Moons (Dr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy)

2011-03-10 20:00: Active Galaxies and the Amateur (Dr Nick Hewitt, British Astronomical Association)

2011-10-18 20:00: The search for the highest redshift quasars (Prof Paul Hewett , University of Cambridge)

2011-10-25 20:00: The Geology of Meteorites (Prof Monica Grady , Open University)

2011-11-01 20:00: Red Sprites : film night (Prof Peter McLeish , Montreal)

2011-11-08 20:00: The Hubbles space telescope and Supernovae (Prof Stephen Smartt , Queen's University Belfast)

2011-11-15 20:00: Recent Results from Cassini (Prof Andrew Coates , UCL)

2011-11-22 20:00: Gravitational lensing (Dr Sarah Bridle , UCL)

2011-11-29 20:00: Galactic Archeology (Dr Chris Lintott , University of Oxford)

2012-01-17 20:00: The Fermi Paradox (Mr Ducan Lunan of Astronomers of the Future Ltd)

2012-01-24 20:00: T.W. Webb, his Society, and Double Stars (Mr Bob Argyle , University of Cambridge)

2012-02-14 20:00: Evolution applied to extraterrestrials (Prof Simon Conway Morris , University of Cambridge)

2012-02-21 20:00: Asteroid Deflection (Dr Max Vasile - University of Strathclyde)

2012-02-28 20:00: The Hershel Program (Prof Matt Griffin , Cardiff University)

2012-10-09 20:00: The UK Space Agency (Dr Nick Cox, UK Space Agency)

2012-10-16 20:00: "Great Moments in Astronomy No.74: defending your mother against witchcraft charges" - So you think /modern/ astronomy is weird? (Prof. Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2012-10-23 20:00: Is there or was there Life on Mars: Exploring Mars (Professor Mark Sims, University of Leicester )

2012-10-30 20:00: Cambridge: Sundials and Time (Dr Frank King, The Computer Laboratory, Cambridge )

2012-11-06 20:00: Diffraction-Limited Imaging in the Visible on Large Ground Based Telescopes (Professor Craig Mackay, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2012-11-13 20:00: Stars in the Headlines: what makes astronomy newsworthy (Dr Steven Miller, UCL )

2012-11-20 20:00: Protoplanetary Discs (Dr Meng Xiang-Gruess, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2012-11-27 20:00: The Higgs and the Cosmological Constant (Professor David Tong, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2013-01-22 20:00: An astronomer in Antarctica (Dr Jon Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey)

2013-01-29 20:00: A few minutes of microgravity with the BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos (Jonathan Amos, BBC)

2013-02-05 20:00: AGN Feedback: How a central black hole can control a galaxy (Professor Andy Fabian, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2013-02-08 13:00: Tim Peake: ESA Astronaut (European Space Agency)

2013-02-12 20:00: High energy particles and atmospheric electricity (Professor Giles Harrison, University of Reading)

2013-02-26 20:00: Magnetars, the most extreme neutron stars. Multiwavelenght emissions (Dr Silvia Zane, University College London)

2013-03-05 20:00: TBC (Dr Stephen Serjeant, Open University)

2013-03-12 20:00: The British Interplanetary Society and the UK Space Industry (Alistair Scott, President of the British Interplanetary Society)

2013-10-29 19:30: Gaia: ESA's next big astrophysics mission (Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2013-11-05 18:00: The Fireworks Universe: a Brief History of the Big Bang Theories (Dr Simon Mitton, Vice President Royal Astronomical Society, St Edmund's College)

2013-11-14 19:30: "The Night Sky Two Million Years Ago: Did Homo erectus witness a huge flare from a supermassive black hole?" (Dr Greg Madsen (IoA, Cambridge))

2013-11-26 19:30: Comets - Omens of Doom (Jonathan Shanklin, Director of the BAA and SPA Comet Sections)

2014-02-18 19:00: Fingerprints of the Early Universe (Dr Hiranya Peiris (UCL))

2014-02-25 19:30: New Evidence for Modified Gravity (Indranil Banik)

2014-03-06 19:30: The Puzzling Diversity of Exoplanets (Prof Didier Queloz (University of Cambridge))

2014-10-14 19:30: Night Vision: exploring the infrared universe (Prof Michael Rowan-Robinson, Imperial College London)

2014-10-21 19:30: Planets, asteroids and dust around nearby stars (Dr Mark Wyatt, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-10-28 19:30: How to simulate our Universe? (Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-11-04 19:30: 50 Years of X-ray Astronomy (Dr Stephen Walker, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-11-10 19:30: Asteroseismology (Title TBA) (Prof Donald Kurtz, University of Central Lancashire)

2014-11-18 19:30: Cosmology (Title TBA) (Dr Anthony Challinor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) & Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-11-25 19:30: Weighing the Universe with the Lightest Elements (Prof Max Pettini, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-12-02 19:30: Is the All-There-Is all there is? Intimations of our place in the cosmos (Dr Roberto Trotta, Imperial College London)

2015-01-20 19:30: The Hidden Universe Revealed (Prof Robert C. Kennicutt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-27 19:30: Chemical Compositions of Extrasolar Planets (Dr Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-24 19:30: How cold is dark matter? (Prof Martin Haehnelt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-03 19:30: Measuring the Universe with a 10^26 inch ruler (Prof Alan Heavens, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London)

2016-10-11 19:30: Jupiter and JUNO (Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy))

2016-10-18 19:30: The satellites of the Milky Way (Gabriel Torrealba (Institute of Astronomy))

2016-10-25 19:30: Cosmology after the first 5 minutes (Sarah Bosman (Institute of Astronomy))

2016-11-03 19:30: Black Holes: The most extreme physics laboratories in the Universe (Dr Matt Middleton (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton))

2016-11-08 19:30: Is the Milky Way Special? (Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford))

2016-11-14 18:30: An Evening with Michael Foale (Michael Foale)

2016-11-15 19:30: Characterising Exoplanets with a Twinkle satellite, researchers and school students. (Dr Laura McKemmish)

2016-11-22 19:30: Neutron stars: beyond-ordinary stellar objects (Dr Arnau Rios)

2016-11-29 19:30: When black holes collide - The dawn of gravitational wave astronomy (Dr Michalis Agathos)

2017-01-24 19:45: A Comet's Tale (Jonathan Shanklin)

2017-01-31 19:45: Stars and the Origin of the Elements (Professor Christopher Tout (IOA))

2017-02-07 19:45: Observing and simulating the reionization period of the Universe. (Dr Jonathan Chardin (IOA))

2017-02-21 19:45: Planets, comets, dust.. or aliens… around KIC8462852 (Professor Mark Wyatt (IoA))

2017-02-28 19:45: The Plurality of Worlds (Dr Amaury Triaud (IoA))

2017-03-07 19:45: Gaia - one billion objects in 3+ dimensions (Professor Gerry Gilmore (IOA))

2017-03-14 19:45: Our Dynamic Sun (Dr Helen Mason (DAMTP))

2017-10-10 19:45: From Mars to Multiverse (Lord Martin Rees, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS)

2017-10-24 19:45: The Beauty and Science of Nebulae (Dr Carolin Crawford)

2017-10-31 19:45: The Magnetic Sun (Professor Michael Proctor)

2017-11-07 19:45: The Discovery of Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsars (Dr Dom Walton)

2017-11-14 19:45: A random walk through accreting black holes (Dr William Alston, IoA Cambridge)

2017-11-21 19:45: Big space telescopes to search for life on other planets (Dr Ian Parry)

2017-11-28 19:45: Exoplanets and the Quest of "Universal Life"  (Prof Didier Queloz)

2018-01-23 19:45: Observations of the solar corona: a journey from the past to the future (Dr Giulio Del-Zanna)

2018-01-30 19:45: Title to be confirmed (Professor Anne Davis)

2018-02-06 19:45: How supermassive black holes talk to their host galaxies (Dr Martin Bourne)

2018-02-20 19:45: How to make planets: physical and chemical processes in protoplanetary discs (Dr John Ilee)

2018-02-27 19:45: Quasars – a key component of galaxy evolution and the way to determine when the Universe reionised (Professor Paul Hewett)

2018-03-07 19:45: From the Dynamics of Spacetime to the Formation of Heavy Elements: Learning About the Universe with Gravitational Waves. (Dr Nathan Johnson-McDaniel)

2018-03-13 19:45: The Fullness of Space: discerning cosmic thermal evolution from the intergalactic medium (Dr Girish Kulkarni)

2018-10-09 19:30: Everything from nothing: how our universe was made (Carlos Frenk)

2018-10-16 19:30: How to hunt for dark matter: telescopes, lab experiments, colliders, and putting it all together. (Dr Pat Scott)

2018-10-23 19:30: Listening to the Universe – LISA Pathfinder and LISA (Professor Timothy Sumner)

2018-10-30 19:30: How to find an exoplanet from your sofa (Professor Chris Lintott)

2018-11-06 19:30: ‘How to make a bigger supernova’ and ‘Optical interferometry: Because sometimes a 40-meter telescope just isn’t big enough’.  (Andrew Sellek and Dan Mortimer)

2018-11-13 19:30: Asteroseismology as a tool for astrophysics: from the deep interiors of stars to the evolution of the Milky Way (Andrea Miglio)

2018-11-20 19:30: Cassini-Huygens: Odyssey to Saturn and Titan (Professor David Southwood)

2019-01-22 19:30: Gaia - the Milky way census (Professor Gerry Gilmore)

2019-01-29 19:30: Characterising Exoplanet Atmospheres (Ryan MacDonald)

2019-02-05 19:30: Leading the New Space Age  (Claire Barcham)

2019-02-12 19:30: Exploring the early Universe with super radio-telescopes: HERA and SKA (Nicolas Fagnoni)

2019-02-19 19:30: A job out of this world: my research and journey as a space scientist (Dr Ghina Halabi)

2019-02-26 19:30: The geology of Mercury and the BepiColombo mission (Professor David Rothery)

2019-03-05 19:30: Infrared Astronomy at NASA Ames Research Centre in the late 1980s, KAO to SOFIA (Paul Mulvaney)

2019-03-12 19:30: Catching Comets by their Tails (Professor Geraint Jones)

2019-10-15 19:30: Dark Matter and Dark Energy - the hunt for the missing 95 per cent (Brian Clegg)

2019-10-22 19:30: Searching for exoplanets with PLATO (Dr Dominic Ford)

2019-10-29 19:30: Clusters of Galaxies (Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy))

2019-11-05 20:00: Active Galactic Nuclei: the powerful cores of the most luminous galaxies (Amy Rankine)

2019-11-12 19:30: Apollo at 50 - and the next giant leap for human kind (Dr Christopher Riley)

2019-11-19 19:30: Exozodiacal clouds - the local environment of habitable planets (Professor Mark Wyatt)

2019-11-26 19:30: Discovering Cosmic Reionisation (James Kent)

2019-12-03 19:30: Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets (Laura Rogers)

2020-01-21 19:30: The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars (Sanjeev Gupta)

2020-01-28 19:30: Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space (Dave Wealthy)

2020-02-04 19:30: New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO (Nicholas Walton)

2020-02-11 19:30: The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past (Gareth Collins)

2020-02-19 20:00: (Nobel Laureate Lecture - CUAS & CUPS Joint Talk): The Exoplanet Revolution (Prof. Didier Queloz)

2020-02-25 19:30: Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes (Sarah Bosman)

2020-03-03 19:30: Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory  - the history of star formation in the Universe (Stephen Eales)

2020-03-10 19:30: Sounds of Space (Nigel Meredith)

2020-10-13 19:30: Phosphine and Photochemistry on Venus (Dr Paul Rimmer)

2020-10-20 19:30: Influence of observations of total solar eclipses on cultures in old times (Dr Alexander Prokofiev)

2020-10-27 19:30: Why do galaxies die? (James Trussler)

2020-11-10 19:30: The effect of impacts by small bodies on the ancient atmosphere of Earth (Catriona Sinclair)

2020-11-24 19:30: The Dawn of a new Era: Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves (Dr Ulrich Sperhake)

2020-12-01 19:30: Formation and evolution of galaxies across the cosmic epochs (Professor Roberto Maiolino)

2021-10-12 19:30: Simulating Cosmic Dawn (Dr. Harley Katz, University of Oxford)

2021-10-19 19:30: Neutrino physics: Ghostly particles whose behaviour has cosmic consequences (Dr. Patrick Dunne, Imperial College London)

2021-10-26 19:30: Black holes, Einstein's gravity and rocket science! (Professor	Chris Done, Durham University)

2021-11-02 19:30: How rare is our Solar System? Probing the formation and evolution of planetary systems (Dr. Joshua Lovell, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-09 19:30: Watching Stars Explode: Observing Supernova Neutrinos with Hyper-Kamiokande & SNEWS 2.0 (Dr. Jost Migenda, King’s College London)

2021-11-16 19:30: Severe Space Weather (Professor	Richard Horne FRS, British Antarctic Survey)

2021-11-23 19:30: The First Images of a Black Hole from the Event Horizon Telescope: Past, Present, and Future (Dr. Ziri Younsi, University College London)

2021-11-24 19:30: The evolution, diversity and habitability of planetary systems (Dr Edward Gillen, Queen Mary University of London)

2021-11-30 19:30: Tales of gravity from few-body interactions (Dr. Hongsheng Zhao, University of St Andrews)

2022-01-25 19:30: Black holes, galaxies and the Nobel Prize (Professor	Roger Davies, University of Oxford)

2022-02-01 19:30: A celebration of women in astronomy (Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Dundee)

2022-02-08 19:30: Celestial Incantations (Dr. Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-02-15 19:30: Merging neutron stars, kilonovae and the origin of the heavy chemical elements (Professor	Nial Tanvir, University of Leicester)

2022-02-22 19:30: Supernovae: origin, extremes and a future bursting with potential! (Dr. Cosimo Inserra, Cardiff University)

2022-03-01 19:30: The Surprising Universe (Professor Chris Lintott, University of Oxford)

2022-03-08 19:30: Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts (Dr. Anastasia Fialkov, University of Sussex)

2022-03-15 19:30: Relativistic jets from black holes: connections to gravitational waves and neutrinos (Professor Rob Fender, University of Oxford)

2025-10-14 19:00: The X-ray Astrophysics of the Hot and Violent Universe (Prof. Andrew Fabian FRS, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2025-10-21 19:00: How Fast is the Universe Expanding? (Dr. Matthew Bothwell, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2025-10-28 19:00: Astrophysical discs: from Saturn's rings to black holes (Gordon Ogilvie, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics)

2025-11-18 19:00: Exploring the early universe with the James Webb Space Telescope (Roberto Maiolino (University of Cambridge))

2026-02-24 19:00: Asteroids, comets and dust around other stars (Professor Mark Wyatt, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2026-02-24 19:00: Asteroids, comets and dust around other stars (Mark Wyatt)

2026-03-04 19:00: How to find aliens (Oliver Shorttle (University of Cambridge))

2026-03-10 19:00: The Exoplanet Revolution and Life in the Universe (Professor Didier Queloz ( Cavendish Laboratory))