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 Tom Louden or Elena Cukanovaite.

Information for visiting seminar speakers

2019/2020 astronomy seminar series

Date	Speaker	Title	Location
14 Oct 2020	----	Warwick Astronomy Jambouree	Virtual
21 Oct 2020	Alex Mustill	**POSTPONED**	Virtual
28 Oct 2020	Min-Kai Lin	Making planets from small grains and big data	Virtual
4 Nov 2020	Conor Byrne	Atomic Diffusion & Pulsation in Post-common-envelope Binary Stars	Virtual
11 Nov 2020	----	**POSTPONED**	Virtual
18 Nov 2020	----	**POSTPONED**	Virtual
25 Nov 2020	Simon Blouin	Not so simple after all: White dwarf evolution in the era of Gaia	Virtual
2 Dec 2020	Jan Eldridge	Some of the things binary stars do...	Virtual
9 Dec 2020	Tim Flohrer & Vitali Braun	Understanding the space debris environment around Earth	Virtual
13 Jan 2021	Chris Copperwheat	Time Domain Astrophysics with the Liverpool Telescope and the New Robotic Telescope	Virtual
20 Jan 2021	Claudia Maraston	**POSTPONED**	Virtual
27 Jan 2021	Stijn Wuyts	A multi-tracer view on galaxies since cosmic noon: census, scaling relations and evolution	Virtual
3 Feb 2021	----	**POSTPONED**	Virtual
10 Feb 2021	Daniel Perley	A Complete Survey of the Catastrophic Universe	Virtual
17 Feb 2021	Sarah Rugheimer	The Origins of Life on Earth and the Search for Life on Exoplanets	Virtual
24 Feb 2021	Beth Biller	The Power of the Time Domain: Variability as a 3-d probe of Brown Dwarf and Exoplanet Atmospheres	Virtual
3 Mar 2021	Kareem El-Badry	Emission-line stars, binary mass transfer, and the search for dormant stellar mass black holes - **3pm Seminar**	Virtual
10 Mar 2021	Simone Scaringi	Eavesdropping on accretion disks: the timing properties of accreting white dwarfs as revealed by Kepler and TESS	Virtual
17 Mar 2021	Silvia Toonen	Stellar interactions and transients	Virtual
28 Apr 2021	Evan Bauer	What's going on with white dwarf cooling?	Virtual
5 May 2021	Maddalena Reggiani	Constraints on binary formation models from high-contrast imaging observations of massive stars	Virtual
12 May 2021	Uri Malamud	The study of white dwarfs: a glimpse into our future	Virtual
19 May 2021	--	--	Virtual
26 May 2021	--	--	Virtual
2 June 2021	Yun Zhang	The role of cohesion in small body evolution: from 'Oumuamua to Bennu	Virtual
9 June 2021	--	--	Virtual
16 June 2021	Zhaohuan Zhu	Protoplanetary Disk Structure and Young Planet Population - **4pm seminar**	Virtual
23 June 2021	Sebastian Marino	Studying ExoKuiper belts through ALMA observations	Virtual
30 June 2021	Siyi Xu	Planetesimals and Planets around White Dwarfs - **9am seminar**	Virtual