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 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 14:00 on Wednesdays, usually in room PS1.28 of the Physical Sciences building, 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 Nicola Gentile Fusillo or Tom Louden.

Information for visiting seminar speakers

2018/2019 astronomy seminar series

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
5 Sep 2018	Rosemary Mardling	Relaxation of resonant two-planet systems and their TTVs	PS1.28
26 Sep 2018	Fabio Antonini	Nuclear clusters and (supermassive) black holes	PS0.17
3 Oct 2018	Meghan Gray	Witnessing cluster assembly and galaxy preprocessing beyond the viral radius	PS1.28
10 Oct 2018	Warwick Astro	New group members welcome/ Jamboree	PS1.28
17 Oct 2018	Tim Harries	Gaps, rings and spirals: Imaging and modelling of structures in protoplanetary discs	PS1.28
24 Oct 2018	Maria Monguio Montells	Galactic plane surveys: IPHAS, UVEX and SCIP	PS1.28
31 Oct 2018	Jorick Vink	The heaviest stars and black holes in the Universe	PS1.28
7 Nov 2018	Patricia Schady	Inferring the progenitor mass of explosive transients through their environment	PS1.28
14 Nov 2018	Pierre Bergeron	White Dwarfs in Gaia: a Personal Venture	PS1.28
21 Nov 2018	Romain Tartese	Origin(s) of water in inner Solar System rocky bodies	PS1.28
28 Nov 2018	Ken Rice	RESCHEDULED	PS1.28
5 Dec 2018	Sarah Casewell	Irradiated brown dwarfs	PS1.28
9 Jan 2019	--	--	PS1.28
16 Jan 2019	Klass Wiersema (Warwick)	Polarimetry as a tool to understand extreme transients	PS1.28
23 Jan 2019			PS1.28
30 Jan 2019	Ken Rice	TBC	PS1.28
6 Feb 2019	Paul Chote/James Blake (Warwick)	Warwick Space Debris Projects	PS1.28
27 Feb 2019	Benjamin Drummond	The climate of hot exoplanets with coupled fluid dynamics, radiative transfer and chemistry	PS1.28
6 Mar 2019	Simon Jeffery	Helium Stars, Heavy Metals, High Velocities and Explosions	PS1.28
13 Mar 2019	Matthew Kenworthy	The hunt for circumplanetary rings around Beta Pictoris b and other exoplanets: the bRing project	PS1.28
20 Mar 2019	Catherine Walsh	The chemistry of planet-forming disks in the era of ALMA	PS1.28
24 Apr 2019			PS1.28
1 May 2019	Steven Parsons	Post common envelope binaries: Laboratories for binary and stellar physics	PS1.28
8 May2019	Charlotte Angus	The Diversity of Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey	PS1.28
15 May 2019	Rene Breton	Spider Binary Pulsars and Extreme Physics	PS1.28
22 May2019	Maria Teresa Belmonte Sainz-Ezquerra	What can laboratory spectroscopy do for astronomers? An overview of methods and capabilities.	PS1.28
29 May 2019	Christian Knigge	Accreting white dwarfs as universal accretion laboratories	PS1.28
5 Jun 2019	Rebecca Nealon	Misaligned black hole accretion discs	PS1.28
12 Jun 2019	Richard Booth	Dust dynamics and evolution in planet-forming discs	PS1.28
19 Jun 2019	Zephyr Penoyre	The pursuit of perfect literacy of exoplanet light curves	PS1.28
26 Jun 2019	Jincheng Guo	RESCHEDULED	PS1.28
10 July 2019	Matthias Schreiber	Cold planet evaporated by hot white dwarfs.	PS0.17