Astronomy Seminars

Our seminars are an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in broad range of astronomical research areas with specialists in their fields. They are open to all staff and students in the department, and final year undergraduates doing astronomy projects, are particularly welcome to attend. You may also be interested in other seminars in the Department of Physics.

Astronomy seminars are normally held at 13:30 on Wednesdays, usually in room A0.28 in Millburn House, but please refer to the table below for any changes to these details. The seminars are preceded by an informal lunch with the speaker, to which all members of the Astronomy group are welcome.

For further details, or if you are interested in giving a seminar at Warwick, please contact Vedad Kunovac or Cis Lagae.

Information for visiting seminar speakers

Astronomy seminar series 2025/2026

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
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01 Oct 2025	Jiachen Jiang	The Awakening Beasts in our Universe	A0.28
08 Oct 2025	Ben Zuckerman	A 100-year SETI retrospective: what have we learned?	A0.28
15 Oct 2025	Warwick Astro	Warwick Astro Jamboree	A0.28
22 Oct 2025	Licia Ray	Jupiter’s Local-Time Dependent Alfvén Radius (Joint Astro-CFSA seminar)	A0.28
29 Oct 2025	Victor See	How does stellar metallicity affect stellar magnetism and exoplanet atmospheres?	A0.28
05 Nov 2025	Antoine Bedard	How to stay young: a white dwarf perspective	A0.28
Thursday 13 Nov 2025	Souradeep Bhattacharya	Probing chemical enrichment in star-forming emission-line galaxies from direct elemental abundances	WLT (Thursday)
19 Nov 2025	Mariona Badenas Agusti	Characterisation of Polluted White Dwarfs in the Era of Machine Learning	A1.25 and A1.27
26 Nov 2025	Ed Bryant	How do stars influence their planetary systems?	A1.27 and A1.28
03 Dec 2025	Lisa Kelsey	TBC	WLT
10 Dec 2025	Tom Killestein	TBC	A1.27 and A1.28
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14 Jan 2026	-----------------	-----------------	-----------------
21 Jan 2026	-----------------	-----------------	WLT
28 Jan 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A1.25 and A1.27
04 Feb 2026	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
11 Feb 2026	-----------------	-----------------	WLT
18 Feb 2026	-----------------	-----------------	B3.03 ZM
25 Feb 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A1.25 and A1.27
04 Mar 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A1.25 and A1.27
11 Mar 2026	Isobel Hook	TBC	B3.03 ZM
18 Mar 2026	-----------------	-----------------	B3.03 ZM
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29 Apr 2026	Cyrielle Opitom	-----------------	WLT
06 May 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A0.28
13 May 2026	-----------------	-----------------	WLT
20 May 2026	No Seminar	No Seminar	No Seminar
27 May 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A0.28
03 Jun 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A0.28
10 Jun 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A0.28
17 Jun 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A0.28
24 Jun 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A0.28
01 Jul 2026	-----------------	-----------------	A0.28
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