Lunchtime Talks

29th May 2012
TBD
22nd May 2012
TBD
15th May 2012
TBD
8th May 2012
TBD
1st May 2012
TBD
24th Apr 2012
TBD
17th Apr 2012
Clare Parnell (Solar Group - St Andrews)
10th Apr 2012
Pasquale Galianni (St Andrews)
Testing modified gravity in the Solar System
3rd Apr 2012
TBD
13th Mar 2012
Thomas Neukirch (Solar Group - St Andrews)
6th Mar 2012
TBD
28th Feb 2012
Duncan Mackay (Solar Group - St Andrews)
21st Feb 2012
Jeremy Barber (St Andrews)
Stirring N-body systems: Universality in end states
16th Feb 2012
Sean Matt
14th Feb 2012
Vivienne Wild (St Andrews)
7th Feb 2012
Jack OMalley-James (St Andrews)
Diverse Microbial Life on Earth: What can this tell us about exoplanet habitability?
2nd Feb 2012
(Thursday)
Isabelle Boisse
Stellar Variability: Impact on the detection and characterization of exoplanets
31st Jan 2012
Room 301
Andras Zsom
Sedimentation driven coagulation of dust particles in the protoplanetary disk & A microphysical cloud model for Earth-like exoplanets
17th Jan 2012
Violeta Gonzalez-Perez
Massive and red galaxies at z>1
13th Dec 2011
Joe Llama (St Andrews)
Using Kepler transit observations to measure stellar spot belt migration rates
6th Dec 2011
William Lucas (St Andrews)
The formation of massive stars in the parsec around Sagittarius A*
29th Nov 2011
Wayne Holland
SCUBA-2: A 10,000 pixel bolometer camera operating on the James Clerk Maxwell telescope
22nd Nov 2011
Markus Hundertmarkt (St Andrews)
Characterising the information content of microlensing light curves
15th Nov 2011
Baojiu Li
Dark Universe Research with High-resolution simulations, Analytical methods and Map-making
8th Nov 2011
Room 301
Christiane Helling (St Andrews)
LEAP - charge processes in planetary atmospheres
1st Nov 2011
Rim Fares (St Andrews)
Magnetism, activity and magnetospheric interactions in close-in planetary systems
25th Oct 2011
Martin Dominik (St Andrews)
Exploration rather than speculation - Assembling the puzzle of potential life beyond Earth
4th Oct 2011
Andrew Collier Cameron (St Andrews)
Stellar Pulsations Excited by Planetary Tides in WASP-33
27th Sep 2011
Craig Stark
On the surface extraction of electrons in a pulsar
20th Sep 2011
Peter Woitke
DiscAnalysis - a European success story
15th Sep 2011
Stephen Marsden
The origins of Magnetic Dynamos in Young Suns
30th Aug 2011
Sergei Ipatov
Migration of small bodies and dust in the solar system
16th Aug 2011
Tue, 1pm Rm 222
Sedigheh Sajadian
Optimally using lucky-imaging cameras for inferring microlensing populations statistics below Earth mass
11th Aug 2011
Thu, 1pm Rm 222
Kelly Denney
Measuring Black Hole Masses in AGNs
4th Aug 2011
Thu, 2pm Rm 222
Quentin Parker
PN and other remnants
7th Jun 2011
Tue, 1 pm Rm 222
HongSheng Zhao
From Electromagnetism to Gravitation
31st May 2011
Tue, Rm 222
Jack Oh-Malley James
Life & Light: Exotic Photosynthesis in Binary and Multiple Star Systems
24th May 2011
Tue, 1pm Rm 301
Neil Parley
Overview of the Qatar Exoplanet Survey (QES)
17th May 2011
Tue, 1pm Rm 301
Andrew Sheinis
Observationally Constraining the Nature of QSO Host Galaxies and Their Relationship to Merger‐Driven Galaxy Evolution
6th Apr 2011
Wed, 1pm Rm 222
Mike McCulloch
Can the Inertia of Highly-Accelerated Particles Be Modified Electromagnetically?
5th Apr 2011
Tue, Rm 222
Christine Liebig
Towards a Morphology of Microlensing Light Curves
29th Mar 2011
Tue, Rm 222
Pauline Lang
Radio Emission on Low Mass Stars
22nd Mar 2011
Tue, Rm 222
John MacLachlan
Panchromatic Modeling of Low Surface Brightness Spirals and the Stability of the Cold ISM
15th Mar 2011
Tue, Rm 222
Alan Penny
SETI with SKA
8th Mar 2011
Tue, Rm 222
Kresimir Pavlovski
Spectral disentangling of close binary stars in theory and application
4th Mar 2011
Fri, Rm 222
Jean-Philippe Bruneton
Relativistic theories of MOND; an introduction to modern theories
2nd Mar 2011
Wed, Rm 222
Dan Thomas
Beyond Einstein: Cosmological tests of model independent modified gravity
22nd Feb 2011
Tue, Rm 222
David Brown
Falling planets: tidal interactions in the WASP-18 and WASP-19 systems
15th Feb 2011
Tue, Rm 222
Ewan Cameron
On the Estimation of Confidence Intervals for Binomial Population Proportions
7th Dec 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Maite Beltran
A quest for disks in young O-type stars
2nd Dec 2010
Thu, Rm 222
Pasquale Galianni
Dark Matter in galaxies (Dark Matter Awarness Week)
1st Dec 2010
Wed, Rm 233
Xufen Wu
NMAGIC
23rd Nov 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Kenny Wood
TBD
16th Nov 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Dalia Chakrabarty
TBD
2nd Nov 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Duncan Forgan
Angular Momentum Transport in Self-Gravitating Protostellar Discs
25th Oct 2010
Mon, Rm 222
Luca Fossati
HST observations of the transiting exoplanet WASP-12b: deepening into a complex system
19th Oct 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Grant Miller/ Colin Johnstone
2nd year talks
14th Oct 2010
Thu, Rm 222
Mike Falarski
The Las Cumbres Global Telescope Network
12th Oct 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Lee Kelvin/ Paul Browne
2nd year talks
5th Oct 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Aaron Robotham + All
Introduction to the Astronomy Group
13th Jul 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Mark Clampin
Exoplanet Science with JWST
15th Jun 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Aline Vidotto
Radio emission from close-in giant planets around young stars
8th Jun 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Chris Conselice
A Near Infrared view of Massive Galaxy Formation at z > 1
1st Jun 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Phillippe Delorme
Stellar rotation in the Hyades and Praesepe: gyrochronology and braking timescale
26th May 2010
Wed, Rm 222
Dave Clements
Latest results from Herschel
18th May 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Muhammad Yusaf
MOND and TeVeS Modified Gravity: Testing the Theories
11th May 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Ian Bonnell
Star formation in spiral arms and feedback from supernovae
27th Apr 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Arnaud Cassan
Probing the atmosphere of Bulge stars through gravitational microlensing
20th Apr 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Simon Driver
The GAMA Survey and the Cosmic Spectral Energy Distribution
7th Apr 2010
Wed, Rm 222
Ettore Pedretti
The longest eclipse imaged is 2000 light-years away
6th Apr 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Morag Scrimgeour
Simulating the Baryonic Tully-Fisher Relation
30th Mar 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Carsten Weidner
Top-heavy IMFs in starbursts
16th Mar 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Jane Greaves
Is theory sexier than observation? - the case of HL Tau
2nd Mar 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Lee Kelvin
The GAMA Structural Decomposition Pipeline
16th Feb 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Marina Vika
The near-IR supermassive black hole mass-spheroid luminosity correlation
9th Feb 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Dan Bramich
DanDIA : Difference imaging with a numerical kernel - Results and future developments
19th Jan 2010
Tue, Rm 222
Steve Wilkins
Studies of the High-z Universe with WFC3 / Extragalactic Constraints on the IMF
1st Dec 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Tom Lloyd Evans
Post-AGB Stars: The binary/disc/pulsation connection
26th Nov 2009
Tue, Theatre B
Colin Johnstone
The morphology of flares in the ONC
19th Nov 2009
Thu, Rm 222
Jim Dale
Ionization Feedback: Blowing Bubbles and Triggering Star Formation
16th Nov 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Rowan Smith
The simultaneous formation of massive stars and stellar clusters
3rd Nov 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Grant Miller
The Doppler Shadow of WASP-3b
29th Oct 2009
Thr, Rm 233, 3pm
Stephanie Bush
Exploring Outer Disk Star Formation with SPH Simulations
20th Oct 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Martin Feix
The straight arc of A2390 in TeVeS-like theories of gravity
13th Oct 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Subhanjoy Mohanty
Disk Accretion in Young Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Multipole Magnetic Fields
6th Oct 2009
Tue, Rm 222
David Hill
GAMA
22nd Sep 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Becky Enoch
SuperWASP: Latest Results
8th Sep 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Misty Bentz
New Reverberation Mapping Results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project
18th Aug 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Remco de Kok
Clouds and Haze in the stratosphere of Titan
14th Jul 2009
Tue, Rm 222
John Young / Laura Churcher
Prospects for model-independent mas-scale imaging with the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer / Modelling Resolved Images of Debris Disks
30th Jun 2009
Tue, Rm 222
Soeren Witte
TBD
18th Jun 2009
Thu, Rm 222
Rosie Wyse
Baryons and Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
2nd Jun 2009
Alison Craigon (Strathclyde)
Consequences of a precessing YSO in bright-rimmed cloud B35A
26th May 2009
Quentin Parker
Perspectives on Macquarie University astronomical research and prospects for collaboration and student co-supervision
19th May 2009
Paul Clarke & Robi Banerjee (Heidelberg)
IMF and Metallicity // Formation of Molecular Clouds
18th May 2009
Mon, 3rd floor SUPA Rm
Rosie Wyse (CANCELLED)
Baryons and Dark Matter in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
12th May 2009
Alicia Aarnio (Vanderbilt)
A Search for Star-Disk Interaction Among the Strongest X-ray Flaring Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster
7th May 2009
Thu, Rm 301
Deb Shepherd (NRAO)
ALMA, eVLA and SKA - the next generation of world-class radio telescopes
28th Apr 2009
Katy Lancaster (Bristol)
First results from two new SZ experiments: OCRA and AMiBA
21st Apr 2009
Alison Craigon (Strathclyde)
CANCELLED
14th Apr 2009
Aleks Scholz
Observations of planemos: Exploring the bottom of the IMF
7th Apr 2009
SPRING BREAK
No seminar
31st Mar 2009
SPRING BREAK
No seminar
24th Mar 2009
Beate Stelzer
X-ray emission from FUOr-objects and pre-main sequence jets: the case of ZCMa
17th Mar 2009
Alan Penny
It was right in front of me
12th Mar 2009
(Thursday)
Vivianne Wild (Paris)
Galaxy Populations at low and high redshift
3rd Mar 2009
Chris Sheehan
Debris Discs Around Thick Disc Stars
24th Feb 2009
Jim Dale
Feedback from massive stars and triggered star formation
17th Feb 2009
Andrew Collier-Cameron
When worlds collide (with their host stars)
10th Feb 2009
Aaron Robotham
Galaxy Groups and Clusters: The Shape of Things
3rd Feb 2009
Chris Sheehan
CANCELED
29th Jan 2009
Philippe Delorme
Looking for cool brown dwarfs in wide field surveys
27th Jan 2009
SUPA students
Contemporary Astrophysics Talks
13th Jan 2009
Rowan Smith
A Multitude of Clumps: Tracing the Earliest Fragmentation in Molecular Clouds to Stars
9th Dec 2008
Markus Hundertmark (Georg-August-Universitat)
Detecting debris disks via gravitational microlensing
11th Dec 2008
Thursday
Ettore Pedretti
Detection of non--radial pulsation and/or faint companion in the symbiotic star CH Cyg
2nd Dec 2008
Nick Cross (Edinburgh)
Opening up the time domain: how to find variable objects in the WFCAM and VISTA Science Archives
25th Nov 2008
Marina Vika
The MGC: The supermassive black hole mass function via M_bh - L_bulge relation
18th Nov 2008
Becky Enoch
Comparison of Exoplanet Transit Search Algorithms
17th Nov 2008
Monday
Christine Chen (STSCI)
A possible icy kuiper belt around HD 181327
11th Nov 2008
David Hill
The MGC-UKIDSS Near-IR luminosity functions
4th Nov 2008
Neil Parley
THE SUPERWASP ASTEROID LIGHT CURVE AND PHASE CURVE
28th Oct 2008
Ewan Cameron
Exploring the Origin of the Colour-Structure Bimodality via Bulge-Disc Decomposition
21st Oct 2008
Simon Driver
Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)
14th Oct 2008
SUPA Rm
Neal J. Evans II (Austin)
Star Formation: From Cores to Disks
7th Oct 2008
Antje Kohnle
Ten interesting ways to enhance your astronomy teaching
30th Sep 2008
NO TALK
23rd Sep 2008
NO TALK
16th Sep 2008
Nick (Boulder)
Massive protostellar disks: cluster interactions and binary formation
5th Aug 2008
Duy Cuong Nguyen (Toronto)
17th Jul 2008
(Thu 4pm)
Francoise Combes
Some phenomena of galaxy dynamics:problems of the standard model and comparison with MOND
8th Jul 2008
Soeren Witte, (Hamburg)
The DRIFT-PHOENIX Model Grid
29th May 2008
(Thu 11:30)
Carsten van de Bruck (Sheffield)
Dark energy and new interactions in cosmology (CANCELED)
27th May 2008
Carsten Weidner (new St A postdoc)
The Stellar Initial Mass Function of Galaxies and the Formation of Star-Clusters
20th May 2008
Xufen Wu
Is the LMC on a bound orbit around the Milky Way?
13th May 2008
Dougal Mackey (Edinburgh)
Black holes and core expansion in massive star clusters
8th May 2008
(Thu)
Mark Reid
Measuring the Milky Way
6th May 2008
Michael Albrow (U. of Canterbury, NZ)
New high-resolution spectral models for globular clusters
29th Apr 2008
Moira Jardine
TBC
22nd Apr 2008
Ben Metcalf
Pre-Galactic HI, Gravitational Lensing and Cosmology
15th Apr 2008
Richard Massey
Viewing dark matter with weak gravitational lensing from HST
7th Apr 2008
NO TALK
Spring Break
1st Apr 2008
NO TALK
Spring Break
25th Mar 2008
Simon Driver
Luminous Matter and Luminous Energy
18th Mar 2008
Dougal Mackey (Edinburgh)
Black holes and core expansion in massive star clusters
14th Mar 2008
(Fri)
Victor Debattista (Central Lancashire)
Galaxy Formation
11th Mar 2008
Peter Woitke (Edinburgh)
Bulging Disks
4th Mar 2008
Leslie Hebb
Masses and Radii of low-mass stars at the bottom of the main sequence
26th Feb 2008
Alexis Smith
TBC
19th Feb 2008
Felicitas Mokler (MPE Garching)
Charge-triggered dust growth in protoplanetary disks
12th Feb 2008
Dieter Poelman (new St And postdoc)
Emission characteristics of water in the Universe
5th Feb 2008
Noe Kains
OB07472: gravitational microlensing by a super-Jupiter and its host star
29th Jan 2008
Nathalie Thureau
Discovery of the circumstellar environment of CI Cam with long baseline interferometry.
22nd Jan 2008
Martin Feix
Gravitational lensing by inter-cluster filaments in MOND/TeVeS
15th Jan 2008
Rowan Smith
Clumpy structure in molecular clouds: so what is a clump and why do we care?
8th Jan 2008
Colin Snodgrass (ESO)
Comet photometry
18th Dec 2007
Aleks Scholz
Formation and Evolution of Brown Dwarfs
11th Dec 2007
HongSheng Zhao
Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Puzzles and an Alternative Solution
4th Dec 2007
Kenny Wood
Tiny Dust Grains and Molecules in the Interstellar Medium: Signposts of Massive Star Formation and their Influence on Determining Stellar Properties
27th Nov 2007
NO TALK
NO TALK
20th Nov 2007
Nick Dunstone
The surface magnetic fields and differential rotation of the pre-main sequence binary system HD155555
19th Jun 2007
Christiane Helling
Heavy Weather: Cloud formation in brown dwarfs and giant planets
12th Jun 2007
Dave Clements
The Herschel space telescope
5th Jun 2007
Xiaojun Bi
The Nature of Dark Matter: a particle physicist's perspective
29th May 2007
Katharine Johnston
Massive Star Formation - Protostars on the Main-Sequence (?!)
1st May 2007
Xufen Wu
MOND in the Milky Way and NGC1560
26th Apr 2007
Dijana Dominis
The role of binary stars in searches for extrasolar planets by microlensing and astrometry
24th Apr 2007
Jonathan Irwin (Cambridge)
The Monitor project: eclipsing binaries and rotation in young clusters
11th Apr 2007
Luigi Gallo
X-ray observations of Narrow Line Seyfert I galaxies
10th Apr 2007
R. Keppens
Relativistic MHD simulations of AGN jets
9th Apr 2007
Keith Horne
Conformal Gravity, Higgs Dynamics, and Dark Matter
3rd Apr 2007
Jane Greaves
Planet formation in action around HL Tau?
27th Mar 2007
Ettore Pedretti
Long-baseline stellar interferometry: working on the fringe
20th Mar 2007
Ewan Cameron
Galaxy evolution in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
13th Mar 2007
Scott Gregory
Why are accreting T Tauri stars less luminous in X-rays than non-accretors?
8th Mar 2007
Alan Penny
All-sky imaging from the space telescopes SMEI and STEREO. And observing the lunar eclipse at St. Andrews.
6th Mar 2007
Thomas Robitaille
Interpreting spectral energy distributions from young stellar objects
27th Feb 2007
HongSheng Zhao
Escape from MOND
20th Feb 2007
Nancy Brickhouse
High energy plasma spectroscopy of accreting systems
19th Feb 2007
Andy Szentgyorgyi
Searching for new earths
13th Feb 2007
Eric Stempels
Properties of T-Tauri stars

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