Previous years' seminars
Here is a list of previous seminars hosted by the Warwick Astronomy Group.
The current schedule may be found on the main seminars page.
Astronomy seminar series 2023/2024
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location
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04 Oct 2023 |
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| 11 Oct 2023 | Warwick Astro | Warwick Astro Jamboree | In-person, A0.28 |
| 18 Oct 2023 | Thomas Wilson | Peering into the interiors of Earth-like planets | In-person, A0.28 |
| 25 Oct 2023 | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| 01 Nov 2023 | Paola Pinilla | First steps of planet formation in the ALMA and JWST era | In-person, A0.28 |
| Monday 06 Nov 2023 | Martina Veresvarska | Aperiodic and Quasi-periodic variability in Accreting White Dwarfs | WD meeting, 11am, A0.28 |
| 08 Nov 2023 | Vincent Bourrier | From the desert into the savannah: a trek across the exo-Neptunes landscape | In-person, A0.28 |
| 15 Nov 2023 |
Jakob van den Eijnden (Warwick Prize Fellow) |
Massive star interactions from binary to cluster scales: Building on a revolution in radio astronomy on the path to SKA |
In person, A0.28 |
| 22 Nov 2023 | Annelies Mortier | Understanding the stars in our search for an Earth twin | In person, A0.28 |
| 29 Nov 2023 | Suhail Dhawan | Strongly lensed supernovae: New cosmological and astrophysical probes in the time-domain era | In-person, A0.28 |
| 06 Dec 2023 *NB: VENUE* | Richard Parker | The origin of short-lived radioisotopes in the Solar System | In-person, L5 Lecture Theatre |
| ------------ | ------------------- | ----- TERM BREAK ------ | ----------------- |
| 10 Jan 2024 | Physics Staff Meeting | No Seminar | ---- |
| 17 Jan 2024 | ---- | ---- | A0.28 |
| 24 Jan 2024 | Tutku Kolcu |
Cosmic Carousel of Gas Inflows to the Galactic Nuclei |
A0.28 |
| 31 Jan 2024 | Oscar Barragán |
Unveiling the nature of young exoplanets: A benchmark to test planet evolution theories and stellar signal modelling techniques |
A0.28 Note: Astro Offers Open Day |
| 07 Feb 2024 | Holly Preece |
The evolution of stellar multiplicity for massive stars |
A0.28 |
| 14 Feb 2024 | Toby Rodel | Predicting long-period planet yields from TESS and more | A0.28 |
| 21 Feb 2024 | ---- | ---- | A0.28 |
| 28 Feb 2024 | ---- | ---- | L5 Lecture Theatre |
| 06 Mar 2024 | Aayush Saxena | Inching closer towards cosmic dawn and reionization with JWST | A0.28 |
| 13 Mar 2024 | Cristiano Longarini | Kinematics and dynamics of self-gravitating discs | A0.28 |
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| 17 Apr 2024 | Jo Ann Egger | Unveiling the internal structure and formation history of an observed planetary system | A0.28 |
| 24 Apr 2024 | Luca Matrà | Exocomets around nearby stars | A0.28 |
| 01 May 2024 | --- | --- | A0.28 |
| 08 May 2024 | Charlotte Angus | Cosmic sneezes, hiccups and burps | A0.28 |
| 15 May 2024 | No Seminar | No Seminar (2nd Year Poster Presentations) | ---- |
| Monday 20 May 2024 | Kelly Gourdji | Gravitational wave merger events on milliarcsecond scales with VLBI (NB Monday seminar) | A0.28 |
| 29 May 2024 | Rebecca Bowler | The evolution of galaxies in the cosmic reionization era with JWST, ALMA and Euclid | A0.28 |
| 05 Jun 2024 | **Cancelled** | **Cancelled** | A0.28 |
| 12 Jun 2024 10am Seminar | Alison Wain (Remote speaker) | A tale of two (radio) telescopes |
A0.28, 10:00 |
| 19 Jun 2024 | Sebastian Marino | Unveiling the structure of exoKuiper belts with ALMA | A0.28 |
| 26 Jun 2024 | Michelle Kunimoto | Exploring Exoplanet Demographics with Kepler, TESS, and Beyond | A0.28 |
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2022/2023 Seminars
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location
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| 7 Sept 2022 | Jeremy Smallwood | Accretion Disc Dynamics Around Binary Star Systems | In-person (A0.28, MH) |
| 5 Oct 2022 | Shigeru Ida | Moon formation of rocky/icy planets by a giant impact | In-person (A1.27) |
| 12 Oct 2022 | ---- | Warwick Astro Jamboree (2:30PM in PS 1.28, Physical Sciences Building) | In-person (PS 1.28) |
| 19 Oct 2022 | Vinesh Maguire Rajpaul | Correlated noise, Gaussian processes, and the quest to discover "Earth 2.0" | In-person (A0.28) |
| 26 Oct 2022 | Tim Pearce | Debris Discs as Probes of Planetary Systems | In-person (A0.28) |
| 02 Nov 2022 | Gavin Morley | Levitating nanodiamond experiments: towards a test of the quantum nature of gravity | In-person (A0.28) |
| 09 Nov 2022 | Nathan Steinle | The Bardeen-Petterson effect, disk breaking, and the spin orientations of supermassive black-hole binaries | In-person (A0.28) |
| 16 Nov 2022 | Fabo Feng | Explore the boundary between planet and star formation with a 3D selection of 167 substellar companions | Virtual |
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***Thursday*** 1 Dec 2022 |
Megan Mansfield | Finding Atmospheres on M Dwarf Terrestrial Planets with JWST (Thursday 3pm) | Virtual, 3pm |
| 25 Jan 2023 | Theron Carmichael | Transiting brown dwarfs: Bringing the past forward with Gaia and TESS | In-person A0.28 |
| 01 Feb 2023 | ** Warwick Astro Undergraduate Open Day ** | ||
| 08 Feb 2023 | Vivien Raymond | Gravitational Waves Observations by LIGO-Virgo-Kagra: latest results and future directions | In-person A0.28 |
| 15 Feb 2023 | ** Warwick Astro Group Meeting ** | ||
| 22 Feb 2023 | ** Warwick Astro Undergraduate Open Day ** | ||
| 01 Mar 2023 | Laura Rogers | An observational perspective on white dwarf planetary systems | In-person |
| 08 Mar 2023 | ---- | ---- |
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| 26 Apr 2023 | Jan Eldridge | The Ecology of Compact Objects in Stellar Populations | In-person, A0.28 |
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03 May 2023 |
Eduardo Cristo | Exploring Exoplanet Atmospheres and Stellar Surfaces with the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect | In-person, A0.28 |
| 10 May 2023 | Wendy Williams | The radio AGN population revealed by LOFAR | In-person, A0.28 |
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17 May 2023 |
Alison Young | The physical and observable properties of warped protoplanetary discs | In-person, A0.28 |
| 24 May 2023 | Mamadou N'Diaye |
ZELDA: a Link to exoplanet imaging with current and future observatories
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Virtual |
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31 May 2023 (Starts at 15.30) |
Ingrid Pelisoli (Warwick Prize Fellow) |
What happens when stars can’t keep apart: observing the effects of binary evolution | In-person, A0.28 (Starts at 15.30) |
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**Thursday** 01 Jun 2023 |
Various |
Asst. Prof. Candidate Talks (09:45-12:35)
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In-person, A0.28 |
| 07 Jun 2023 | Shri Kulkarni | The Far Ultraviolet diffuse background | In-person, A0.28 |
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14 Jun 2023 |
Mark Magee (Warwick Prize Fellow) |
Supernovae as astrophysical probes: From large scales to small | In-person, A0.28 |
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**Monday** 19 Jun 2023 |
Ralph Pudritz | Connecting exoplanet properties to planet formation: A new paradigm emerges | In-person, A0.28 (Monday Seminar) |
2021/2022 Seminars
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location
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| 13 Oct 2021 | ---- | Warwick Astronomy Jambouree | Virtual |
| 20 Oct 2021 | Amy Steele | Modeling the composition of exo-planetary material around white dwarf stars | Virtual |
| 27 Oct 2021 | John Ilee | Astronomy seminar: John Ilee, Mapping the chemistry of (exo)planet formation | Virtual |
| 3 Nov 2021 | Kazumasa Ohno |
Exoplanetary Aerosols: Microphysics and its Impact on Transmission Spectroscopy |
Virtual (3 pm) |
| 10 Nov 2021 | María Camisassa | Ultramassive White Dwarfs | Virtual (3 pm) |
| 17 Nov 2021 | Adam Carnall | The Origins of Massive Galaxies | Virtual |
| 24 Nov 2021 | Paola Marigo | The relationship between initial and final mass of white dwarfs: breaking a paradigm and new constraints on stellar evolution | Virtual |
| 1 Dec 2021 | Gavin Lamb | Gamma-ray Bursts, their Afterglows, and Gravitational Waves | Virtual |
| 8 Dec 2021 | James Kirk |
Exoplanet atmospheres at low and high resolution
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Virtual |
| 12 Jan 2022 | Mike Frost | A Warwickshire Eclipse | Virtual |
| 26 Jan 2022 | Vicky Fawcett | How are red and blue quasars different? | Virtual |
| 9 Feb 2022 | Maria Zamyatina | Transport-induced quenching shapes transmission spectra of warm and hot Jupiters | Virtual |
| 16 Feb 2022 | ---- | PhD Student Interviews | ---- |
| 23 Feb 2022 | ---- | Warwick Astrophysics Open Day | ---- |
| 2 Mar 2022 | Belinda Nicholson | Gaussian Processes and Physical stellar properties |
Hybrid |
| 9 Mar 2022 | Christoph Mordasini | Four classes of planetary system architectures and a link to the radius valley | Virtual |
| 16 Mar 2022 | Ben Davies | The progenitors of type-II supernovae | Virtual |
| 6 Apr 2022 | Valeriya Korol | Galactic double white dwarfs in the LISA era | Virtual |
| 13 Apr 2022 | Beate Stelzer | Probing the active lives of stars with space missions | Virtual |
| 20 Apr 2022 | ---- | ** Reschedule ** | Virtual |
| 27 Apr 2022 | Nicola Gentile Fusillo | White dwarfs after Gaia: data mining and applications for 359000 stars | Hybrid |
| 18 May 2022 | James Rogers | Exoplanets and the Road to the Radius Gap | Virtual |
| 25 May 2022 |
Tjarda Boekholt
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Jacobi captures: close encounters in astrophysical disks | Hybrid (PS1.28+Teams) |
| 1 Jun 2022 | Anais Möller | Time-domain science in the Rubin era | Virtual |
| 8 Jun 2022 | Alex Hall | Fundamental physics from galaxy shapes | In-person |
| 15 Jun 2022 | Michael Line | Characterizing Extrasolar Atmospheres with Ground Based High Resolution Transit Spectroscopy | In-person |
| 22 Jun 2022 | Philip Wiseman | Explosive Environmentalists: the critical connection between Type Ia supernovae and their host galaxies | In-person |
| 06 July 2022 | Kat Ross | Looking Through Rainbow Coloured Glasses: A New Era of Radio Variability Surveys | Virtual |
| 13 July 2022 | ---------- | ** National Astronomy Meeting 2022 ** | ---------- |
Seminar series (2020/21)
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location
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| 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 | |||
| 04 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 | |||
| 02 Dec 2020 | Jan Eldridge | Some of the things binary stars do... | Virtual | |||
| 09 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 | |||
| 03 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 | |||
| 03 Mar 2021 | Kareem El-Badry | Emission-line stars, binary mass transfer, and the search for dormant stellar mass black holes - **3pm Seminar** | Virtual (3PM) | |||
| 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 | |||
| 05 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 | |||
| 02 Jun 2021 | Yun Zhang | The role of cohesion in small body evolution: from 'Oumuamua to Bennu | Virtual | |||
| 09 Jun 2021 | -- | -- | Virtual | |||
| 16 Jun 2021 | Zhaohuan Zhu | Protoplanetary Disk Structure and Young Planet Population - **4pm seminar** | Virtual (4PM) | |||
| 23 Jun 2021 | Sebastian Marino | Studying ExoKuiper belts through ALMA observations | Virtual | |||
| 30 Jun 2021 | Siyi Xu | Siyi Xu Planetesimals and Planets around White Dwarfs - **9am seminar** | Virtual (9AM) |
2019/2020 seminar series
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location
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| 9 Oct 2019 | Subu Mohanty | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 16 Oct 2019 | -- | Warwick astronomy jamboree (Will be held at 4pm) | PS 1.28 | |||
| 23 Oct 2019 | JJ Zanazzi | Orbital Circularization of Binaries with Resonance Locking from Stellar Evolution | PS 1.28 | |||
| 30 Oct 2019 | Laura Pirovano | Observing and Cataloguing Space Debris | PS 1.28 | |||
| 6 Nov 2019 | Marco Lam | White Dwarf Luminosity Function and Ultracool White Dwarfs | PS 1.28 | |||
| 13 Nov 2019 | Richard Parker |
The influence of the star-forming environment on planetary systems
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PS 1.28 | |||
| 20 Nov 2019 | Ben Pepper | Mining the Effect of more recent Reaction Rates using White Dwarfs | PS 1.28 | |||
| 27 Nov 2019 | Rhaana Starling (TBC) |
Gamma-ray bursts: the emerging class of ultra longs (and other highlights)
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PS 1.28 | |||
| 4 Dec 2019 | Claudia Belardi | A Search for Eclipsing Companions to White Dwarf Stars | PS 1.28 | |||
| 15 Jan 2020 | Hugh Hudson | Waiting Times of Solar Flares | PS 1.28 | |||
| 22 Jan 2020 | Tim Harries | The Gemini-LIGHTS Survey: scattered light imaging of protoplanetary disc structure | PS 1.28 | |||
| 5 Feb 2020 | Subu Mohanty | Habitability of Terrestrial-Mass Planets in the Habitable Zone of M Dwarfs | PS 1.28 | |||
| 12 Feb 2020 | Graham Lee | Please put on your 3D glasses now - Developing dynamics, cloud formation and radiative-transfer modelling techniques for exoplanet atmospheres in 3D | PS 1.28 | |||
| 19 Feb 2020 | Stefano Bagnulo | A high-precision survey of magnetic fields in white dwarfs within 20 parsec from the Sun | PS 1.28 | |||
| 26 Feb 2020 | Kevin Heng | A Tasting Menu of Research Problems in Exoplanetary Atmospheres | PS 1.28 | |||
| 4 Mar 2020 | N/A | PhD interviews | ---- | |||
| 11 Mar 2020 | Alex Mustill | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 22 Apr 2020 | Min-Kai Lin | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 29 Apr 2020 | Silvia Toonen | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 6 May 2020 | Beth Biller | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 13 May 2020 | Kamen Todorov | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 20 May 2020 | Carole Mundell (TBC) | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 27 May 2020 | René Kiefer | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 | |||
| 3 Jun 2020 | **POSTPONED** | |||||
| 10 Jun 2020 | **POSTPONED** | |||||
| 17 Jun 2020 | Konstantin Batygin | **POSTPONED** | PS 1.28 |
2018/2019 seminar series
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Location
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5 Sep 2018 |
Rosemary Mardling | Relaxation of resonant two-planet systems and their TTVs | PS1.28 |
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26 Sep 2018 |
Fabio Antonini | Nuclear clusters and (supermassive) black holes | PS0.17 |
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3 Oct 2018 |
Meghan Gray | Witnessing cluster assembly and galaxy preprocessing beyond the viral radius | PS1.28 |
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10 Oct 2018 |
Warwick Astro | New group members welcome/ Jamboree | PS1.28 |
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17 Oct 2018 |
Tim Harries | Gaps, rings and spirals: Imaging and modelling of structures in protoplanetary discs | PS1.28 |
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24 Oct 2018 |
Maria Monguio Montells | Galactic plane surveys: IPHAS, UVEX and SCIP | PS1.28 |
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31 Oct 2018 |
Jorick Vink | The heaviest stars and black holes in the Universe | PS1.28 |
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7 Nov 2018 |
Patricia Schady |
Inferring the progenitor mass of explosive transients through their environment |
PS1.28 |
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14 Nov 2018 |
Pierre Bergeron | White Dwarfs in Gaia: a Personal Venture | PS1.28 |
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21 Nov 2018 |
Romain Tartese | Origin(s) of water in inner Solar System rocky bodies | PS1.28 |
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28 Nov 2018 |
Ken Rice | RESCHEDULED | PS1.28 |
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5 Dec 2018 |
Sarah Casewell | Irradiated brown dwarfs | PS1.28 |
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9 Jan 2019 |
-- | -- | PS1.28 |
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16 Jan 2019 |
Klass Wiersema (Warwick) | Polarimetry as a tool to understand extreme transients | PS1.28 |
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23 Jan 2019 |
PS1.28 | ||
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30 Jan 2019 |
Ken Rice | TBC | PS1.28 |
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6 Feb 2019 |
Paul Chote/James Blake (Warwick) | Warwick Space Debris Projects | PS1.28 |
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27 Feb 2019 |
Benjamin Drummond | The climate of hot exoplanets with coupled fluid dynamics, radiative transfer and chemistry | PS1.28 |
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6 Mar 2019 |
Simon Jeffery | Helium Stars, Heavy Metals, High Velocities and Explosions | PS1.28 |
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13 Mar 2019 |
Matthew Kenworthy | The hunt for circumplanetary rings around Beta Pictoris b and other exoplanets: the bRing project | PS1.28 |
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20 Mar 2019 |
Catherine Walsh | The chemistry of planet-forming disks in the era of ALMA | PS1.28 |
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24 Apr 2019 |
PS1.28 | ||
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1 May 2019 |
Steven Parsons | Post common envelope binaries: Laboratories for binary and stellar physics | PS1.28 |
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8 May2019 |
Charlotte Angus | The Diversity of Superluminous Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey | PS1.28 |
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15 May 2019 |
Rene Breton | Spider Binary Pulsars and Extreme Physics | PS1.28 |
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22 May2019 |
Maria Teresa Belmonte Sainz-Ezquerra |
What can laboratory spectroscopy do for astronomers? An overview of methods and capabilities. |
PS1.28 |
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29 May 2019 |
Christian Knigge | Accreting white dwarfs as universal accretion laboratories | PS1.28 |
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5 Jun 2019 |
Rebecca Nealon | Misaligned black hole accretion discs | PS1.28 |
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12 Jun 2019 |
Richard Booth |
Dust dynamics and evolution in planet-forming discs |
PS1.28 |
| 19 Jun 2019 |
Zephyr Penoyre
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The pursuit of perfect literacy of exoplanet light curves | PS1.28 |
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26 Jun 2019 |
Jincheng Guo | RESCHEDULED | PS1.28 |
| 10 July 2019 |
Matthias Schreiber
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Cold planet evaporated by hot white dwarfs. |
PS0.17 |
2017/2018 seminar series
| 11 October 2017 | Michael Shara (Columbia University) | Novae and Supernovae: Intimate Connections |
| 25 October 2017 | Katja Poppenhaeger (Queens University Belfast) | News from the exoplanet zoo: transits, stellar activity, and other strange beasts |
| 27 October 2017 | Andrés E. Piatti (University of Cordoba) | The real size of the star cluster population in the Magellanic System |
| 1 November 2017 | Kate Maguire (Queens University Belfast) | Type Ia supernovae: From explosions to cosmology |
| 15 November 2017 | James Owen (UCL) | Clues towards a 21st century understanding of planet formation |
| 22 November 2017 | Daniel Perley (Liverpool) | TBC |
| 29 November 2017 | Amaury Triaud (Birmingham) | The plurality of Worlds |
| 6 December 2017 | Rebecca Bowler (Oxford) | Unveiling the properties of bright galaxies in the first billion years |
| 24 January 2018 | Richard Alexander (Leicester) | Building Planetary Systems |
| 31 January 2018 | Rik van Lieshout (Cambridge) | Exoplanet recycling around white dwarfs |
| 7 Febuary 2018 | Rosita Kokotanekova (Max Planck Institute) | Lightcurves of comets and Kuiper belt objects as probes of the Solar system past |
| 7 March 2018 | Mark Kennedy (Manchester) | The changing geometries of FO Aquarii and PSR J1023+0038 |
| 2 May 2018 | Nathan Mayne | Exoplanet Climatology: a flexible modeling framework based around the UM |
| 9 May 2018 | Ian Braker | Variability of White Dwarfs in the Kepler 2 fields |
| 16 May 2018 | Jens Chluba | Future steps in Cosmology with CMB spectral distortions |
| 23 May 2018 | Jay Farihi | Carbon stars on the main-sequence, enigmatic visitors from the halo |
| 30 May 2018 | Joanna Barstow | Unveiling Cloudy Exoplanets: Hubble, JWST and ARIEL |
| 13 Jun 2018 | Cass Hall | Gravitational instability and substructure in protoplanetary discs |
| 20 Jun 2018 | Guy Davies | Stellar ages from asteroseismology: The Galactic thick disk |
| 27 Jun 2018 | Andrew Cooper | Galactic Stellar Halos |
| 4 Jul 2018 | Daniel Price | Gaps, rings, spirals and holes — signs of newborn planets? |
| 11 Jul 2018 | Alan Jackson | The Solar system is rare: Reconciling the formation pathways of the Solar system and the Kepler systems |
| 23 Jul 2018 | Stephanie Greis | Getting a job in Industry |
| 24 Aug 2018 | Simon Murphy | An exciting haul of planetary, binary and triple systems from pulsation timing |
2016/2017 seminar series
| 12 October 2016 | Tiago Campante (University of Birmingham) | Asteroseismology of Exoplanet-Host Stars in the TESS Era |
| 26 October 2016 | Ed Gillen (Cambridge) | Constraining the early stages of binary star evolution |
| 2 November 2016 | Michael Burton (Armagh Observatory) | Dark Molecular Gas and the Mopra CO Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane - terahertz imaging from Antarctica |
| 9 November 2016 | Saida Caballero-Nieves (University of Sheffield) | A Binary View of Massive Stars |
| 16 November 2016 | Nina Hatch (University of Nottingham) | The formation of galaxy clusters |
| 22 November 2016 | Dave Tsang (Maryland) | Extra seminar: Shedding Light on the Eccentricity Valley: Eccentricity Evolution in Protoplanetary Discs |
| 23 November 2016 | Steve Kawaler (Iowa State) | Connecting highly evolved stars with their younger selves through space-based asteroseismology |
| 30 November 2016 | Soko Matsumura (University of Dundee) | Elemental abundances and formation of terrestrial planets |
| 11 January 2017 | Nicole Reindl (University of Leicester) | The late stages of stellar evolution - exciting, mysterious, and extremely hot |
| 18 January 2017 | Subir Sarkar (Oxford) | Colloquium: Beyond the cosmological standard model |
| 25 January 2017 | Ted von Hippel (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) | The Power of Principle Bayesian Methods in the study of Stellar Evolution. |
| 1 February 2017 | Andy Bunker (Oxford) | Galaxy Evolution in the first billion years with the JWST |
| 8 February 2017 | Chris Nixon (University of Leicester) | Tidal disruption events: self-gravitating pancakes and binary SMBH |
| 1 March 2017 | Melissa Morris (SUNY Cortland) | A review and assessment of currenr models of chondrule formation. |
| 22 March 2017 | Michal Michalowski (University of Edinburgh) | Massive stars formed in atomic hydrogen reservoirs |
| 19 April 2017 | Sjoert van Velzen (Johns Hopkins University) | New ways to study the tidal disruption of stars by supermassive black holes |
| 25 April 2017 | Andrew Shannon (Penn State) | Extra seminar: Primordial Planetesimals of the Solar System |
| 26 April 2017 | Ian Parry (IoA) | Searching for the 763nm Oxygen bio-signature with direct imaging/spectroscopy |
| 3 May 2017 | Evan Keane (Jodrell Bank) | What are Fast Radio Bursts? |
| 10 May 2017 | Giovanna Tinetti (UCL) | |
| 17 May 2017 | Kate Pattle (UCLAN) | The Energetics of Molecular Clouds and Cores |
| 24 May 2017 | Nikku Madhusudhan (IoA Cambridge) | Chemical Characterization of Extrasolar Planets |
| 31 May 2017 | Daisuke Kawata (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) | Impacts of Radial Mixing on the Galactic Thick and Thin Disks and Gaia DR1 |
| 5 June 2017 | Phil Armitage (Colorado) | Extra seminar: Planetary system diversity from early formation dynamics |
| 7 June 2017 | Carole Haswell (Open University) | The Dispersed Matter Planet Project: Radial Velocity Discoveries of Mass-Losing planets |
2015/2016 seminar series
| 21 Sep 2015 | Deanne Coppejans (Radbound University Nijmegen) | Do all accreting white dwarfs launch jets? |
| 28 Sept 2015 | John Spencer (Southwest Research Institute) | The First Close-up Look at the Pluto System |
| 14 Oct 2015 | Warwick astro Jamboree | |
| 21 Oct 2015 | Pratika Dayal (University of Durham) | The first billion years of galaxy formation in cold and warm dark matter cosmologies |
| 28 Oct 2015 | Siegfried Eggl (Observatoire de Paris) | Bad weather on Tatooine? |
| 4 Nov 2015 | Cosimo Inserra (Queen's University Belfast) | The brightest explosions in the Universe |
| 11 Nov 2015 | Richard Townsend (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | MESA & GYRE: Stellar Astrophysics for the People (CANCELLED) |
| 18 Nov 2015 | Donald Hoard (MPIA, Heidelberg) | White Dwarf Suns: Can Dead Stars Support Life in the Current and Future Universe? |
| 25 Nov 2015 | Stephen Lowry (University of Kent) | Imaging Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Rosetta |
| 2 Dec 2015 | Sebastian Hoenig (University Southampton) | Tori, disks, and winds — the AGN dust emission at high angular resolution |
| 9 Dec 2015 | SiYi Xu (ESO Garching) | Disintegration of Asteroids Around White Dwarfs |
| 16 Dec 2015 | Katherine Blundell (Oxford) | Time-resolved spectroscopy from the Global Jet Watch Observatories |
| 13 Jan 2016 | David Sobral (Lancaster University) | Exploring the distant Universe with the largest emission-line surveys |
| 20 Jan 2016 | Leigh Fletcher (University of Leicester) | Exploring the Extreme Climates of Giant Planets |
| 27 Jan 2016 | Duncan Forgan (University of St. Andrews) | Worlds Stranger Than We Can Suppose |
| 3 Feb 2016 | Ernst de Mooij (Queen's University Belfast) | Characterising the atmospheres of exoplanets with ground-based telescopes |
| 10 Feb 2016 | Sandra Greiss (Lyst) | Life post-Warwick |
| 23 Mar 2016 | Yvonne Unruh (Imperial) | Solar and stellar photospheric variability |
| 30 Mar 2016 | Niall Deacon (University of Hertfordshire) | Wide orbit exoplanets and planets in wide binaries |
| 13 Apr 2016 | Beth Biller (University of Edinburgh) | Detecting and Characterising Planets with Direct Imaging |
| 20 Apr 2016 | Sergei Nayakshin (Leicester) | Planet formation theories versus observations |
| 27 Apr 2016 | Seppo Mattila (FINCA) | High angular resolution infrared and radio view of optically dark supernovae in luminous infrared galaxies |
| 4 May 2016 | Sasha Hinkley (University of Exeter) | Exoplanet Imaging: Recent results, and Future Prospects |
| 11 May 2016 | Jorge Casares (IAC) | Galactic Black Holes |
| 18 May 2016 | Federico Marocco (University of Hertfordshire) | Spectroscopic analysis of a large sample of L and T dwarfs. |
| 25 May 2016 | Alessandro Ederoclite (CEFCA) | Narrow band observations with wide field imagers. A scientific perspective. |
| 3 June 2016 | Richard Stancliffe (Bonn) | The need for an intermediate neutron capture process |
2014/2015 seminar series
| 15 Oct 2014 | ZengHua Zhang (IAC) | Towards a comprehensive characterization of L subdwarfs |
| 5 Nov 2014 | Nadia Blagorodnova (Cambridge) | Gaia: switching on the transient detection machine |
| 12 Nov 2014 | Tom Shanks (Durham) | Do all quasars have the same Black Hole Mass? |
| 26 Nov 2014 | Mark Wyatt (Cambridge) | Hot dust around nearby stars |
| 10 Dec 2014 | Farzana Meru (Cambdridge) | The interactions between planets and their parent disc: the impact on planet survivability and disc structures |
| 21 Jan 2015 | Bill Chaplin (Birmingham) | Asteroseismology of solar-type stars with Kepler |
| 4 Feb 20145 | Jeff Wagg (SKA Telescope) | The Road to Phase 1 of the Square Kilometre Array |
| 18 Feb 2015 | Nikolay Nikolov (Exeter) | Atmospheric characterization of hot-Jupiter exoplanets. Results from HST transmission spectral survey |
| 11 Mar 2015 | Nino Cucchiara (NASA Goddard) | Tracing the first metals via GRB-DLAs |
| 15 Apr 2015 | Matthew Payne (CfA) | Unveiling The Structure of the Outer Solar System using Occultations |
| 29 Apr 2015 | Jonathan Pritchard (Imperial) | Mapping reionization with the SKA |
| 13 May 2015 | Neale Gibson (ESO) | Probing exoplanet atmospheres: challenges with observations and data analysis |
| 10 Jun 2015 | Haley Gomez (Cardiff) | An explosive origin for dust |
| 1 Jul 2015 | Andrew King (Leicester) | From quasars to ULXs: how black holes affect their surroundings |
2013/2014 seminar series
| 2 Oct 2013 | Warwick Astronomy Group | New group members welcome/ Jamboree |
| 9 Oct 2013 |
Shri R. Kulkarni (Caltech) |
Booms, Burps & Bangs: The Dynamic Universe |
| 16 Oct 2013 |
Nick Wright (University of Hertfordshire) |
The Dynamics of Star Clusters |
| 30 Oct 2013 | Justyn Maund (Queen's University Belfast) |
The progenitors of core-collapse supernovae (cancelled) |
| 13 Nov 2013 | Pierre Maxted (Keele University) | Stripped red giant stars in eclipsing binary systems |
| 20 Nov 2013 | Justyn Maund (Queen's University Belfast) |
The progenitors of core-collapse supernovae |
| 27 Nov 2013 |
Ignasi Ribas (Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai) |
The CARMENES instrument: finding small planets signals amid astrophysical noise |
| 11 Dec 2013 | Diego Capozzi (University of Portsmouth) | Probing galaxy formation and evolution at different cosmic epochs and in different environments |
| 8 Jan 2014 | Andy Young (Bristol University) | X-ray echoes from active galaxies |
| 22 Jan 2014 | John Barnes (University of Hertfordshire) |
A Radial velocity search for low mass M dwarf planets |
| 5 Feb 2014 |
Donald Kurtz (University of Central Lancashire) |
Asteroseismology: A New Keplerian Revolution |
| 12 Feb 2014 |
Melvyn Davies (University of Lund) |
The dynamics of exo-planet systems |
| 28 Feb 2014 |
Amy Bonsor & Zoe Leinhardt (University of Bristol) |
Is the composition of the Earth skin deep? |
| 2 April 2014 |
Wyn Evans (Cambridge) |
A Ghost Story: The Halo of the Milky Way Galaxy |
| 16 April 2014 |
Emily Freeland (University of Stockholm) |
Intergalactic Gas in Groups of Galaxies: Implications for Dwarf Spheroidal Formation and The Missing Baryons Problem |
| 30 April 2014 |
Simon Goodwin (Sheffield University) |
Is star formation universal? |
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14 May 2014 |
Morgan Fraser (Cambridge) |
A post-mortem for stars: Core-collapse supernovae and their progenitors |
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21 May 2014 |
Robert Izzard (Bonn) |
The Origin of the Elements and the Critical Role of Binary Stars |
| 28 May 2014 | Phillip Podsiadlowski | The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae |
| 11 Jun 2014 |
Mari Cruz Galvez-Ortiz (Centro de Astrobiologia) |
Search for Pleiades T dwarfs |
| 6 Aug 2014 | Joao Bento (Macquarie University) |
The Replicable High-resolution Exoplanets and Asteroseismology (RHEA) spectrograph |
2012/2013 seminar series
| 9 Oct 2012 | Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay (Heidelberg University, Germany) | 3D model atmospheres of white dwarfs |
| 17 Oct 2012 | Rubens Reis (University of Michigan, USA) | Putting a spin on black holes |
| 14 Nov 2012 | David Levitan (California Institute of Technology, USA) | The search for AMCVn systems in the Palomar Transient Factory |
| 21 Nov 2012 | Ben Davies (Liverpool John Moores University) | The Brightest Stars in the Local Universe |
| 5 Dec 2012 | Maurizio Salaris (Liverpool John Moores University) | White Dwarf Cosmochronology: theory, tests, (some) applications, uncertainties |
| 9 Jan 2013 | Matthew Middleton (University of Amsterdam) | Welcome to the feast: confirming Eddington accretion in ultra-luminous X-ray sources |
| 23 Jan 2013 | Andrea Miglio (University of Birmingham) | Sounding the stars with asteroseismology: new results and challenges in the era of CoRoT and Kepler |
| 6 Feb 2013 | Luca Fossati (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany) | The magnetic field of planet-hosting stars |
| 27 Feb 2013 | Ilya Mandel (University of Birmingham) | GWastrophysics of compact binaries |
| 13 Mar 2013 | Moira Jardine (St. Andrews) | Star spots and flares: living with a delinquent star |
| 24 Apr 2013 |
Gavin Dalton (University of Oxford) |
WEAVE: The next generation wide-field spectroscopy facility for the WHT |
| 8 May 2013 |
David Sing (University of Exeter) |
HST Transiting Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Survey: The Dawn of Comparative Exoplanet Atmospheres |
| 22 May 2013 |
Richard Ellis (Caltech, USA) |
Obesity in the Universe: How Did Early-Type Galaxies Grow in Size? |
| 12 Jun 2013 |
Christopher Harrison (Durham University) |
Searching for observational evidence of AGN suppressing star formation |
| Mon 17 Jun 2013 | Phil Charles (University of Southampton) | The Nature of XRF111111: a nova explosion in a Be binary? |
| 19 Jun 2013 | Jay Holberg (University of Arizona, USA) |
Large Samples and Ground Truth: The 25 Parsec Local White Dwarf Population |
| 10 Jul 2013 | Retha Pretorius (University of Southampton) | Constraints on the space density of CVs and implications for evolution models |
2011/2012 seminar series
| 12 Oct 2011 | New students' welcome | (Warwick Astronomy Group) |
| 19 Oct 2011 | John Eldridge (IoA, Cambridge) | Runaway stars as progenitors of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts |
| 26 Oct 2011 | Rob Hynes (Louisiana State University) | Variable stars in the Galactic Bulge survey |
| 9 Nov 2011 | Sarah Casewell (University of Leicester) | Cluster white dwarfs and expanding our knowledge of the IFMR |
| 23 Nov 2011 | Steven Parsons (University of Warwick) | The X-shooter pipeline |
| 18 Jan 2012 | Claudia Maraston (University of Portsmouth) | Stellar population modelling and clues to galaxy evolution |
| 29 Feb 2012 | Paul Roche (Cardiff University) | Linking astronomy research into STEM education |
| 14 Mar 2012 | Sabhanjoy Mohanty (Imperial College London) | Radius-dependent angular momentum evolution in low-mass stars |
| 25 Apr 2012 | Isabelle Baraffe (University of Exeter) | Journey to the Centre of an Exoplanet |
| 2 May 2012 | Stephen Wilkins (University of Oxford) | Exploring the Early Universe with HST/WFC3 |
| 9 May 2012 | Amy Bonsor (IPAG, Grenoble) | Scattering in Planetary Systems |
| 23 May 2012 | Dimitri Veras (University of Cambridge) | The Great Escape from Dying Binary Stars and White Dwarfs |
| 25 July 2012 | Katrien Steenbrugge (Universidad Católica del Norte) | Properties of the AGN wind of Mrk 509 |
2010/2011 seminar series
| 27 Oct 2010 | Kresimir Pavovski (University of Zagreb) | Spectral disentangling of close binary stars |
| 10 Nov 2010 | Andrea Dieball (University of Southampton) | FUV surveys of globular clusters: Exotic stellar population |
| 24 Nov 2010 | Mark Sullivan (Oxford University) | Supernovae: Explosions and dark energy |
| 8 Dec 2010 | Mark Swinbank (University of Durham) | Galaxies Under the Cosmic Microscope |
| 15 Dec 2010 | Puji Irawati (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia) | Population Synthesis of CVs at the Post-CE stage |
| 19 Jan 2011 | Stephen Smartt (Queen's University Belfast) | First results from Pan-STARRS - giant supernovae in dwarf galaxies |
| 9 Feb 2011 | Mandeep Gill (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology) | Learning about Aspects of Clusters and Cosmology from Weak and Strong Gravitational Lensing Approaches |
| 16 Feb 2010 | Paul O'Brien (University of Leicester) | The prompt emission and progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 9 Mar 2011 | Timothy Davis (Oxford University) | Red but not dead! Molecular gas in early-type galaxies |
| 6 Apr 2010 | Malcolm Coe (University of Southampton) | Accretion physics in the Magellanic Clouds |
| 27 Apr 2011 |
Chris Conselice (University of Nottingham) |
The GOODS NICMOS Survey: Watching Galaxy Formation |
| 15 Ju 2011 | Zach Cano (Liverpool John Moores University) | The Gamma-Ray Burst - Supernova Connection |
| 22 Jun 2011 | Haili Hu (University of Cambridge) | Astroseismology |
2009/2010 seminar series
| 4 Nov 2009 | Don Kurtz (University of Central Lancashire) | Asteroseismology |
| 13 Jan 2010 | Joao Bento (Warwick Postgrad) | The SuperWASP detector maps: a key towards a higher level of precision |
| 20 Jan 2010 | Frederic Pont (University of Exeter) | The diversity of extra-solar planets |
| 10 Feb 2010 | Tim Roberts (University of Durham) | Ultraluminous X-ray sources and the ultraluminous state |
| 17 Feb 2010 | Stylianos Pyrzas (Warwick Postgrad) | V455 And - the Cataclysmic Variable that really has it all |
| 3 Mar 2010 | Danielle Fenech (University College London) | The COBRaS e-MERLIN Legacy project: deep radio observations of the Cygnus OB2 association |
| 24 Mar 2010 | Steven Parsons (Warwick Postgrad) | Period Variations in Eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries |
| 26 May 2010 | David Pinfield (University of Hertfordshire) | Understanding substellar populations using wide-field infrared surveys |
| 16 Jun 2010 | Graham Smith (University of Birmingham) | The Local Cluster Substructure Survey |
2008/2009 seminar series
| 22 Oct 2008 | Jay Farihi (University of Leicester) | Minor planet signatures at white dwarfs |
| 19 Nov 2008 | Elizabeth Stanway (University of Bristol) | Probing galaxy formation at z > 5 |
| 3 Dec 2008 | Paul Crowther (University of Sheffield) | Wolf-Rayet stars as core-collapse supernova and GRB progenitors |
| 10 Dec 2008 | Sölen Balman (METU, Turkey) | Spectral characteristics of low-mass X-ray binary dippers |
| 14 Jan 2009 | James Hough (University of Hertfordshire) | High-sensitivity polarimetry: extrasolar planets and Saharan dust |
| 21 Jan 2009 | Karl Svensson (Warwick Postgrad) | The host galaxies of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Core Collapse Supernovae |
| 28 Jan 2009 | Alex Blustin (IoA, Cambridge) | Ionised winds in active galactic nuclei: black hole - galaxy feedback in action? |
| 4 Feb 2009 | Lieke van Spaandonk (Warwick Postgrad) | Ca II spectroscopy of CVs with the same orbital period as GW Lib |
| 11 Feb 2009 | Stu Littlefair (University of Sheffield) | Time-resolved studies of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs |
| 25 Feb 2009 | Richard Hickman (Warwick Postgrad) | The boundary layer of Z Cha |
| 4 Mar 2009 | Keith Horne (University of St Andrews) | Microlens planet searches: a quest for cool Earths |
| 6 May 2009 | Barry Smalley (Keele University) | Accurate stellar parameters with ASTRA |
| 13 May 2009 | Richard Hickman (Warwick Postgrad) | Introduction to SQL programming techniques (1) |
| 20 May 2009 | Richard Hickman (Warwick Postgrad) | Introduction to SQL programming techniques (2) |
| 20 May 2009 | Valery Nakariakov (University of Warwick) | Quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares |
| 3 Jun 2009 | Richard Hickman (Warwick Postgrad) | Introduction to SQL programming techniques (3) |
| 17 Jun 2009 | Steven Bloemen (Warwick Postgrad) | High-speed spectroscopy of intermediate polars |
| 19 Aug 2009 | Ralph Wijers (Astronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek', Amsterdam) | LOFAR |
2007/2008 seminar series
| 10 Oct 2007 | Tom Dwelly (University of Southampton) | Starforming galaxies in deep radio surveys |
| 17 Oct 2007 | Mark Wilkinson (University of Leicester) | Dark matter in Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxies |
| 31 Oct 2007 | Patricia Schady (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) | A multi-wavelength analysis of the local environment of GRBs |
| 14 Nov 2007 | Christian Knigge (University of Southampton) | The evolution of cataclysmic variables |
| 28 Nov 2007 | Carole Haswell (Open University) | Accretion disc precession |
| 9 Jan 2008 | Gijs Nelemans (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL) | The progenitors of Type 1a Supernovae |
| 16 Jan 2008 | Tim Naylor (University of Exeter) | OB Associations in the era of planet formation |
| 30 Jan 2008 | Andrew Norton (Open University) | Neutron star masses in X-ray binaries |
| 12 Mar 2008 | Leslie Hebb (University of St Andrews) | Masses and radii of low-mass stars at the bottom of the main sequence |
| 9 Apr 2008 | Ed Cackett (University of Michigan, USA) | Recent progress on neutron stars |
| 23 Apr 2008 | Nial Tanvir (University of Leicester) | Gamma-ray bursts as probes of the distance universe |
| 7 May 2008 | Nye Evans (Keele University) | Dust production in classical novae |
| 14 May 2008 | Vik Dhillon (University of Sheffield) | ULTRASPEC |
| 4 Jun 2008 | Tom Maccarone (University of Southampton) | Black holes and neutron stars in globular clusters |
2006/2007 seminar series
| 2 Mar 2006 | Peter Kretschmar (European Space Agency) |
An unshrouded view of our lively galactic centre |
| 7 Mar 2006 | Gagik Tovmassian (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) | Detection of precession of white dwarfs in interactive binaries |
| 10 May 2006 | Ulrich Kolb (Open University) | Population synthesis of binary stars |
| 25 May 2006 | Uli Heber (Sternwarte Bamberg, Germany) | Hyper-velocity stars |
| 14 Mar 2007 | Mat Page (Mullard Space Science Laboratory) | Ionised winds and QSO evolution |
| 2 May 2007 | Matt Burleigh (University of Leicester) | White dwarfs, brown dwarfs and planets: adventures in the final stages of stellar evolution |
| 16 May 2007 | Gavin Ramsay (Armagh Observatory) | Ultra-compact binaries |
| 30 May 2007 | Pierre Maxted (Keele University) | SuperWASP - From fixing leaks to finding planets |
| 15 Jun 2007 | Jan-Uwe Ness (Arizona State University, USA) | X-ray spectroscopy of classical novae |