Lunchtime Talks

2012

30th Oct 2012

 
Yusei Koyama

 
18th Sep 2012

 
Jelte Harnmeijer
Squeezing Blood from a Stone: environmental constrains on Earths earliest biosphere form the geological record
 
26th Jun 2012

 
Michiel Min (University of Amsterdam)

 
19th Jun 2012

 
Shenghua Yu (Armagh)

 
5th Jun 2012

 
Duncan Mackay (Solar Group - St Andrews)

 
22nd May 2012

 
Leslie Hebb (Vanderbilt University)
Towards understanding the effect of magnetic fields on the global properties of low mass stars: Coincident time series photometry and spectropolarimetry of the M dwarf eclipsing binary, YY Gem
 
15th May 2012

 
Fraser Watson
Sunspot Properties in Solar Cycle 23
 
3rd May 2012
(Thursday)
 
Luis Filipe Alves Teodoro
Improved Spatial Resolution of Martian Water Ice maps
 
25th Apr 2012
(Wednesday)
 
Carsten Weidner
Explaining the systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies
 
24th Apr 2012

 
Joan Centrella
Merging Black Holes
 
17th Apr 2012

 
Clare Parnell (Solar Group - St Andrews)
The distribution of magnetic features on the Suns surface and the consequences for the solar dynamo
 
10th Apr 2012

 
Pasquale Galianni (St Andrews)
Testing modified gravity in the Solar System
 
13th Mar 2012

 
Thomas Neukirch (Solar Group - St Andrews)
Collapsing Magnetic Traps and Solar Flare Particle Acceleration
 
6th Mar 2012

 
Jane Graeves
Submillimetre Surveys of Debris Discs
 
6th Mar 2012

 
Raphaëlle Haywood
Measuring the Suns radial velocity jitter
 
21st Feb 2012

 
Jeremy Barber (St Andrews)
Stirring N-body systems: Universality in end states
 
16th Feb 2012
(Thursday)
 
Sean Matt
Angular Momentum Loss by Stellar Winds
 
14th Feb 2012

 
Vivienne Wild (St Andrews)
Why is one galaxy forming stars and spiral in morphology, when its neighbour is elliptical, red and dead?
 
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
 

2011

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
 

2010

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
 

2009

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
 

2008

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
 

2007

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